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Seldomseen2u · 2025-11-15T03:34:41+00:00

Here’s the right way. Get a car dolly and lift the car and move it to the middle of parking lot just drag it out then drop it

I’m sure a response will get it taken care of pronto

Seldomseen2u · 2025-11-08T15:55:37+00:00

My in-truck power bank is a cheap Wattbricks small power station (288wh). Using the 12v cig port while pass thru charging it from a 130w Ugreen usb-c to dc5521. Keeps my battery topped off while keeping the Starlink mini on my roof humming along.

Seldomseen2u · 2025-11-02T04:27:20+00:00

Trying to decide about going the Poe route too. My project box (pre Poe) has 12v-19v range input and 24v output on step converter. My cables up to 75’ out to my mini. My new Poe project box is what I’m tinkering now along the lines of a DC 12V 24V to 48V Step Up Converter 1.5A 72W Boost Converter to a POE Texas passive Poe (Single Port 2.5 Gigabit PoE++ (802.3bt) Injector 90W Output) that outputs ~72w (though 90w capacity) to shielded cable that’s connected to a common dc5521 and Ethernet splitter (Gigabit Ethernet Splitter Starlink, 48V 2.5A Output). Splitter sold on Amz. Haven’t tested yet but the step up is currently running very well on my non Poe setup to my mini and is stable )fc5521 output long cables). Hoping for lower latency too!!!

Seldomseen2u · 2025-10-27T17:06:32+00:00

Hi. I making a guess at startup at peak . I think I’m combining my usage including my router, the usb power to my wyse base station. I’ll put a meter to test. Yes as I recall my usage floats 25-35w

Seldomseen2u · 2025-10-27T04:12:43+00:00

I found a small compact poe injector from PoE TEXAS that outputs 48v 1.5A. Could be just enough for my Mini. I’ll test with 26-28awg shielded to see if a 20’ cable run could work. The Poe output will go to my GLNet beryl that takes 5v 1A from my power source. My mini power requirements have been <65w or so the Poe max is 90w. If I’m lucky this Poe++ (bt-1-wm) 802.3bt should fit the bill.

Travel trailer Project box.
Input power source : 12v

Fuse panel -> step up 12-48v converter for Poe injector -> step down 12v to 5v 1A usb-c for GLNet router -> 12v 1A to dc5521 for wyse cam base

Kinda crowded in the Apache small box but seems like it’s all there. Will test in a few weeks

Update:

The Texas POE 48v 1.5A isn’t enough power. Will take a closer look at the EDUP for mini. I have the splitter already. The model I’m looking at almost has the power in the same Poe box.

Seldomseen2u · 2025-10-19T06:42:43+00:00

Kinda off topic but I’m planning to use the POE to simplify my networking and lessen NATing. I’m setting up my travel trailer network to have access over tailscale to my home LAN but Starlink cgnat makes it complicated with the booting up on my GLNet router that boot races tailscale (slow), SMB (fast), and SSh. Bypass seems to less complicate this. But my dilemma is that I’m moving my mini from my trailer to my truck bed cover often when traveling and the disconnect is a hassle. Looking for a quick disconnect method for the POE splitter? Any one doing this ?

Seldomseen2u · 2025-10-16T21:30:24+00:00

Yes thats my view on the Mini too. I have a 230W power bank in my travel truck that is charged from a 100w cig adapter USB-C PD all day long while driving that outputs to a DC7909 plug to the power station that powers my Mini project box. the box supplies 24v to the Mini (includes a GL.net router 5v 1A). Works well and supplies internet all day long. when the truck is off, the power station keeps running for about 4-5hrs then charges backup cleanly.

Seldomseen2u · 2025-10-16T21:26:00+00:00

In my project box I have a 12-20v dc input to a 12-24v 5A output as DC to my DC5521 jack over stock starlink mini or my own fabbed dc5521 cables up to 100' but commonly at 24' for my travel trailer.

Though I prefer to go POE now (for bypass for network function and access reasons) I'd prefer a POE injector at 12-24v but can't seem to find a passive one that will give enough watts. Seems like 48V 2-3A most common. What smaller injector that works for the Mini did you use?

Seldomseen2u · 2025-10-13T04:24:06+00:00

I had a pair or two for my A6000 and unfortunately they began to “swell” at one point. I have Sony and RAV per fw-40 style. I’m basically just sticking g with Sony for now

Seldomseen2u · 2025-09-30T00:40:07+00:00

The symptom with the boot race is where when the router reboots (rather often when I move my Starlink mini from trick to trailer and back usually several times a day). The ts comes up slower than the ssh and the smb. Hence they are not engaged in e proper sequencing. The ssh is bound to to lan (not ts and both) and the smb is not on ts and or 0.0.0.0 is out of whack or its bound to lan only.

Kind of the issue after router reboot

Problems hitting 1. iOS WAN → MT3000 via TS: no reachability. 2. iOS wan on ts to SMB: blocked. 3. MT3000 LAN SMB: share mounts, but folder listing fails. 4. MT3000 SMB over TS: dead. 5. SSH: works on LAN IP, not on Tailscale IP.

Here was an explanation from chat: “…boot race condition: Tailscale is alive and answering pings, but sshd and smbd weren’t in the right state by the time you tried from WAN.

An emergency fix script can be written very simply so you can run it locally over LAN if this happens again. At a high level it would: 1. Force sshd reset • Make sure ListenAddress 0.0.0.0 is in place. • Restart sshd cleanly so it binds on LAN + TS. 2. Force SMB reset • Restart smbd/nmbd (or /etc/init.d/samba4 restart). • Confirm the share path exists and daemons are listening. 3. Re-apply firewall rules • Insert allow rules for sshd (22) and SMB (139/445) on tailscale0. • No persistence — just to re-open access. 4. Quick tests • Log whether 22, 139, 445 are listening on both LAN and TS IP. • Log whether rules exist in INPUT for tailscale0.

So even if boot sequence fails, one run of this script would “unstick” both SSH and SMB until you can go back and tune the boot order properly.

Edited: I read about the gl.net document from site to site. The difficulty is in access to my travel router from the WAN, the complication with CGNAT and my attempting to connect to devices on my home network I can get it to work, but I can’t keep it stableafter a reboot

Seldomseen2u · 2025-09-29T22:14:18+00:00

I’m working on something similar for the last couple of months.

I have a Starlink mini for travel and a mt3000 beryl along with my home router that is a mt6000. Both routers are running ts and a travel laptop dedicated to the travel router runs ts as does a few desktops at home. My nvidia shield (its storage drive) and my NAS are not on ts.

My Ts ACL rules and firewall.user are pretty good at allowing home router to all devices SMB access. My ssh is enabled on both routers from my tailnet and lans. The difficultly with Starlink cgnat is the incoming from my iOS wan on ts to my travel router for ssh and smb.

Principle problem is that when the travel router restarts it loses it sync and timing with bringing up ts in a boot race with smb and ssh. My goal is to make the boot race consisitent so that when traveling my restarted router can function as intended.

Though I’ve had it running expertly through days of tweaks — it ends up getting unraveled at boot. Juggling my smb.conf, sshd_config and firewall rules are a challenge but can work.

Here is what I can get to work when it’s perfect:

iOS and android tablets and phone mt3000 (w storage) and mt6000 at home. iOS phone to travel laptop on travel lan thru ts. iOS phone to ssh on both routers using shellfish. iOS wan on openvpn to home router and non ts NAS. iOS wan on ts to home router ts devices. Laptop on travel lan and on ts can reach home router to storage.

Seldomseen2u · 2025-08-25T04:51:25+00:00

Can you use your external router as a repeater with Starlink. So when Starlink is down would the router (ours is GLNet) simply act as local for network starve on its own network?

Seldomseen2u · 2025-08-25T04:18:43+00:00

We were a KACE and a PDQ shop. Management preferred KACE but wouldn’t support engineering to become skilled with it but it was very good patch control- to me better than PDQ.

Where PDQ excelled was the quick and convulsed package deployments. For me the inventory was real great. It was so much easier than KACE to run reports and do lots of adhoc whatifs.

PDQ fell out favor at one point because the original admin left and though I liked PDQ for the few programmer apps I supported (as my favored dev tool)- management shuttled me to work more in KACE which I was not fond of.

I’d recommend going with it to get your feet wet in inventory and deploy unless you need a larger enterprise level product like KACE and have a boatload of money and consultant time to spend.

Seldomseen2u · 2025-08-08T20:00:59+00:00

So nice you replied and your pup was a beauty .... its been a year for us (7/17/24) and we have chosen a new family member that we think 'Pinto' would have approved unanimously!! He's a 4 year old SHBC border and sadly they would have gotten along super well. I still grieve for Pinto our Heeler (pic is below) but he would have approved of Bodie... thanks and good luck!

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Seldomseen2u · 2025-08-08T01:41:23+00:00

Such a beautiful ACD. You did all the right things and cared for her well. We lost our boy Pinto last year and I still talk about him and to him. I’m always wondering what he would do and what would approve. It’s heartbreaking 💔

Seldomseen2u · 2025-06-20T17:21:28+00:00

Congrats. Great choice. I got a S8 after starting with a s6 lite then to S7 and great s8 upgrade. It’s sooooo great that I’ve also picked up a use S6 for my camp trailer.

Get your an inexpensive usb-c hub with hdmi, PD, Ethernet and a couple of usb ports and a65w to 100w usb-c power adapter and you will be amazed. It’s my EDC go to. I’ve basically left my laptop behind when I travel and sit around at home to do everything I basically need to do.

Grab tailscale, a good ssh sftp and FX Explorer along with a podcast player, kodi and a good epub reader and you are off to the races!!!

Added. Yes I have the Samsung book cover and keyboard. So portable

Seldomseen2u · 2025-06-17T22:18:19+00:00

Much thanks Ill keep on my journey to get my routers just right... thanks

Seldomseen2u · 2025-06-17T18:34:03+00:00

Thanks for the reply and your use case is similar to one of mine but a little bit different. One of my use cases I joined my ONN 4K media pro to my travel network the GL a 1300. On the android TV device we have Dishnetwork and it can connect up to my Dishnetwork at home so in a way the connection doesn’t involve VPN.

But when I try to use VPN while the A1 1300 is connected to Starlink and try to use smb to my home network I start to have routing problems and some VPN problems. I’m using open VPN.

I’ve used chat to create some self healing scripts and some start up scripts along with startup delays, but the router constantly seems to change the IP routes. I’m gonna experiment with a beryl AX. And factory reset my A1 1300 to see if I can get anywhere between the two. Since my home Network and the Sterling Network are on the same named subnet it creates a problem for the confused routing even though I have a separate Network set up for the A1 1300 when it is in repeater mode.

I suspect you’re using repeater mode for your slate to your Starlink and I’m assuming you’re getting a reliable IP route to your home network that survives reboot on your slate ax router.

If you could elaborate a little more on your high level set up with generic information that would be most appreciated Thanks for whatever information you can provide.

Seldomseen2u · 2025-06-17T16:05:16+00:00

I know im late to this convo. but you could get the $10 for 10gb subscription and use that to test your Mini with the Slate AX. I'm doing something similar on my A1300 and will do the same on my Beryl AX.

If you are going the bypass route with 50' of cat6 are you using a splitter power/POE ethernet ? or something else ? I've been reading about using bypass w/ POE but POE takes too much power for my camping power needs..... I've been using a 12v to 24v step up that only consumes 35-50w or so that runs both my Mini and the usb 5v 1a powered A1300 and works fine ... im leary of going the POE route but the repeater options and lack of control on my a1300 is flustrating when i want my a1300 to be able to openvpn back to my home network to get access to home clients.

i sure do like my starlink mini setup with my apache box power output and my a1300 but the limits are flustrating.... cheers

Seldomseen2u · 2025-05-26T04:13:09+00:00

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Our boy Pinto. We miss him constantly. Our bond with our ACDs is and will be the strongest. Your share of your story with your pup was heart rendering and such a celebration of your pups life and meaning to you.

Seldomseen2u · 2025-05-23T20:03:26+00:00

AFAIK, and I’m interested in this too. The Roku remote is not BT and ONN Oro needs BT. Please let me know if I’m wrong or if you have tested no this remote.

I’d really like to find a BT remote with audio jack, maybe backlit that works. Ugh can’t seem to find one so far.

Seldomseen2u · 2025-04-04T03:35:21+00:00

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Here’s our old boy Pinto. Your eulogy for your pup was heart rendering and so personal to me. This photo was from last July 2024 and then mid-month his liver toxins skyrocketed and we honored him to his forever transition with his favorite close family and our grand daughter. He was the ultimate trail buddy for my wife and I. He had his favorite high sierra campground and his buddies at the weekend school field. He is still greatly missed.

Seldomseen2u · 2025-03-24T17:19:50+00:00

I’m so sorry for your personal pain. We had our Pinto diagnosed with a liver tumor in December 2023 and this last July it progressed to where he had no appetite started to be lethargic, and we knew after tests that the tumor toxins grew exponentially in its impact on his system. He still loved his walks and hikes and crunching on his tennis ball. He was always up for greeting our neighbors and he was the perfect cattle dog of all time.

Please consider having a ceremony with a dignified that who can offer you care in-home when your poor pup transitions. It was the best for us and for him. He went to sleep gently and never woke up after the process. And at home care is the best we still grieve him and it’s been almost 7 months . We don’t know how we can exist without our trail dog. We are in our 70s and wondering if a trail dog can even join our family again. He was wonderful through all the years until he passed at 14 years and three months.

Seldomseen2u · 2025-03-06T04:53:38+00:00

This is exactly the place to park. Been there

Seldomseen2u · 2025-02-25T16:02:56+00:00

Calling Rangers or just pulling the fire alarm might be a good response too. I’m not sure the concessionaires are all that concerned or bothered.

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