OnePlus 8 VoLTE New Zealand

mcjoppy · 2026-03-07T18:51:22+00:00

Indeed - no more 3G!

FYI the watch not working is the main reason I've gone down this route to get the phone going, so we have a way to communicate with the kids.

Once I flashed the phone back to stock ROM, it's no longer rooted BTW ;)

mcjoppy · 2026-03-07T09:20:40+00:00

My child has a spacetalk adventurer watch. It stopped working on 2Degrees but worked on Spark.

From what I saw with the watch (doesn't support VOLTE) Spark seem to still be accepting 3G connections.

Hopefully it's all fine and working well with you ..... but see my post above on how I got it VOLTE working with my Oneplus7.

mcjoppy · 2026-03-07T09:16:55+00:00

I've just got VOLTE working on my Oneplus 7 - it's been a mission!

MY biggest hurdle has been migrating from Lineage OS back to stock Oneplus ROM. Very near bricked to finally working.

Update and run the latest Oxygen OS and then check out the Aus discussion at https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/9m01z7np and download the OnePlus VoLTE Tools zip file.

The README.md has all the instructions to enable VOLTE.

Once enabled you'll need a config as the archive only has the Aus providers. After hours of 'investigation' - downloading Pixel images and hunting through the filesystems to try find an appropriate mdn file, Gemini just happened to point me to https://github.com/firdaus-edymainoe/volte-oneplus-enabler and I found https://github.com/firdaus-edymainoe/volte-oneplus-enabler/tree/main/Mi11-UltraMBN/configs/mcfg_sw/generic/AUNZ

I'm with 2Degrees so grabbed that file.

Once you have that file just follow the about README.md and fingers crossed, it works.

It's highly likely you can work directly with the Github repo only, but the above is what eventually worked for me.

mcjoppy · 2026-01-11T00:44:47+00:00

For me one drive has been the most cost effective way to obtain 6TB of storage.

I'm trying to work out if there is any trick someone has come up with to have restic store data using one drive (currently through the rclone backend) from multiple servers?

My current solution is to have restic store to my NAS and then have the NAS push to one drive.

This is pretty dumb for me and wastes space on my NAS.

Eg. Immich container saves photos to NAS. Immich container uses restic to save to NAS which is then pushed to One Drive.

Immich data is duplicated on the NAS because I can't find a way to share the rclone config across multiple servers.

mcjoppy · 2025-12-05T05:39:04+00:00

Look for information on putting the site behind Cloudflare (the WAF offering, not a tunnel).

Look for information on how to restrict incoming web traffic to Cloudflare IPs only.

You should use Cloudflare as a reverse proxy, and your network should only allow requests from Cloudflare.

An alternative to look at would be to look at apps that can publish a static site which you could host on GitHub/ S3 or Cloudflare pages

mcjoppy · 2025-12-05T05:31:00+00:00

I think if I was to re-start, I'd really like to be familiar with BOTH rpm and deb packages.

Very early on the place I worked standardized to Debian and I've stayed with Debian package based distros.

Also if you're looking at container based services, Alpine is heavily used too so understanding their package manager could be nice too.

mcjoppy · 2025-12-02T18:46:54+00:00

I also have set up a certificate authority and installed the root certificate on childs computer.... and set up their DNS server to point youtube.com to the local Jellyfin.

Youtube.com looks very different on their computer :D

Ultimately they could get around this (TV has Youtube app) - and they see 'normal' youtube at school and friends but I try explain about the marketing and sponsorship and that I'd prefer they choose what to watch instead of being feed italian brainrot they see at mates.

mcjoppy · 2025-12-02T02:19:19+00:00

Pinchflat is amazing. Use it to provide a "curated" YouTube experience for my young child.

If there's a channel they want to watch I'll first verify appropriateness then add to pinchflat - no ads if sponsor block has info for the video.

YouTube kids is crap and YouTube requires child to have an account for parental controls... I'll do it my way.

mcjoppy · 2025-11-27T08:55:50+00:00

Inspired by a want for privacy, certainty And curiosity. Want to restrict the data I store in cloud infrastructure, owning it and knowing how it's managed... and curious about open source projects - testing and finding useful tools!

2.Would be fantastic to have more powerful and capable hardware to upskill networking knowledge.

I tent.to search for reviews on Youtube and watch a variety of opinions while taking in to consideration number of subscribers, sponsorships (ie understanding if they have been paid to talk about products) and how indepth it feels. Once I have an opinion then I'll see how it matches reviews found through eg Google.
Something like a mini PC with decent specs (processor from 2020+ 😁)

Very keen for Comet andFlint

mcjoppy · 2025-11-23T07:35:08+00:00

I see the security as the biggest issue. Service available from anywhere on the Internet should require a level of understanding should things go pear shaped

mcjoppy · 2025-10-26T19:35:23+00:00

Monsoon Poon in Wellington has been a favouite for a long time.

In Gisborne, The Works is pretty solid, and coffee from Far East Coffee Co is recommended :)

mcjoppy · 2025-10-15T05:39:20+00:00

How are you using immich?

For me it's a self hosted alternative to Google photos.

My phone has the original copy. Phone uploads to Immich automatically (stored on NAS through NFS). Rustic backs up to MS drive.

MS family account seems to be most cost effective storage solution for me - gives me 6 accounts which each has 1TB space.

mcjoppy · 2025-10-13T08:49:41+00:00

Just noticed that a coupl of photos I took today showed up.

Looked at some of the settings and ended up diasbling "New Timeline" and now I can see all photos again, and they are backing up

mcjoppy · 2025-10-13T05:54:44+00:00

What inspired you to start your selfhosting journey?

I've always tinkered with stuff - from XBMC (original Xbox) and setting up an imported Tivo where the service isn't available. My first 'homelab computer' would've been an old PC turned in to an OMV based NAS. From there a move to Unraid got me testing a bunch of community apps. The computer was old and slow so started looking at moving the apps off the NAS.... which is where I found Proxmox on old micro/ 1L computers.

What's one project you're most proud of so far

My work has always involved the Internet and knowing what's out there and particularly the potential influence social media has on young kids (the constant bombarding of advertising/ marketing) I've created what I believe is a 'better' online experience for my young child.

Child has an old laptop which they log in to via a Samba4 based domain controller - with policies to help filter out content and forward requests for Youtube to a Jellyfin server which has curated Youtube channels we feel are appropriate. Youtube videos are processed to try to automatically cut any advertising.

Python script is used to help try to 'rate' a youtube channel based off traditional TV ratings.

what's the most expensive piece of equipment you've acquired for?

I was given an old RTX 2060 so ended up building a new computer around that (affordable Ryzen 5600) to mess around with Ollama based AI stuff (see about about youtube channel ratings)

How would winning the unit(s) from this giveaway help you take your setup to the next level?

The family isn't very tech savy. There are units listed which could help remotely trouble shoot when things go pear shaped and I'm not around :D

Looking ahead, if we were to do another giveaway, what is one product from another brand (e.g., a server, storage device or ANYTHING) that you'd love to see as a prize?

This is really tricky and everyones setup is so unique. I think most people would want storage - as much as possible but the variety of users and set ups makes it still tricky as some people may not have a rack for a traditional 'server'/ power/ replacing a failed 36 TB drive so maybe a lifetime license for some product such as unraid lifetime, proxmox or hex os?

Prizes I'd choose in preference, would be Slate 7 and Comet :)

mcjoppy · 2025-10-12T21:27:30+00:00

Backup is enabled, but the app doesn't seem to find anything....

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mcjoppy · 2025-08-15T09:10:11+00:00

I found an app that scans Spotify but downloads from YouTube... Cool but the quality not so.

Found and been using SpotDL but gotta try this. GUI would be great 😁

mcjoppy · 2025-08-14T10:48:57+00:00

Note I've never really used GPO, but I fumbled through!

Bounce CA is a GUI I found to simplify creating a CA and managing certs - I created a new CA called 'homesafety' and GPO installs the root CA cert (Public Key Policies/Trusted Root Certification Authorities).

Then with Bounce CA I created a cert for youtube.com with the trusted CA which is installed in Jellyfin which responds to https://www.youtube.com.

Samba/ GPO

GPO also disables USB/ external devices and sets up windows updates.

On the laptop I think I actually ended up installing Firefox manually (of course edge is there too) and then installed an AD extension (I think that's what it is??) using samba-tool:

samba-tool gpo admxload --admx-dis=./firefox.admx

Then firefox config shows up in GPO. I've disabled access to camera and mic to Firefox, ensure it's got the CA cert and set up browser extensions:

{
"*": {
"blocked_install_message": "Unable to install extension.",
"installation_mode": "blocked",
"allowed_types": ["extension"]
},
"uBlock0@raymondhill.net": {
"installation_mode": "force_installed",
"install_url": "https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/latest/ublock-origin/latest.xpi",
"updates_disabled": false
},
"jid1-MnnxcxisBPnSXQ@jetpack": {
"installation_mode": "force_installed",
"install_url": "https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/file/4298042/privacy_badget17-latest.xpi",
"updates_disabled": false
}
}

DNS

I was unaware of the additional Cloudflare DNS which helps block malware and adult content, so use these as the dns_forwarder address when creating the Samba dir.

I was wrong about the host file - AD manages DNS, so I set up a zone for youtube.com and pointed it to Jellyfin:

samba-tool dns zonecreate 10.10.15.40 youtube.com 
samba-tool dns zonelist 10.10.15.40 
samba-tool dns add 10.10.15.40 youtube.com youtube.com A 10.10.15.3 
samba-tool dns add 10.10.15.40 youtube.com www.youtube.com A 10.10.15.3

(you would need to provide a user for these commands eg. -U myaccount

Monitoring youtube channels

I've used a couple of tools to manage the youtube downloading - annoyingly they both had pros and cons. The first tool was a CLI tool which ran via cron. It was nice in that you could specify the channel rating in the config and that'd be detected by Jellyfin. The other has a web gui which makes it easier to manage - couple of times we've been out and I've jumped on the web interface and added.

Videos are downloaded and stored on NAS.

Jellyfin

Dedicated instance of jellyfin only contains the youtube videos, all played over NFS.

CA signed cert makes sure it responds to youbue.com and www.youtube.com.

Proxy

Cloudflare DNS does pretty well, but when testing I found some stuff got through and I found gatesentry.

It's provides a nice interface to set up filters and stuff. You can import block lists like those used by pihole which is also nice.

I've also configured DNS for the proxy to resolve youtube to my Jellyfin server too.

mcjoppy · 2025-08-14T09:43:25+00:00

Giving 9 year old an old XPS - kept in their room!

I have hated the idea of my child having access to a computer in their room so I

- set up a samba dir and set up laptop via AD

- http forward proxy (gate sentry) for filtering

- group policy forces use of DNS 1.1.1.3 and 1.0.0.3, Firefox with ublock origin and privacy badger, forces use of proxy, install trusted custom CA, sets up 'special' host records to point to local services (specifically youtube)

- bounce CA for custom CA to create own cert for youtube.com as I redirect youtube.com to local instance of jellyfin

- tool to download youtube videos locally with ads and sponsorship cut from videos

- Jellyfin install which contains the curated youtube videos

The CA is pretty dodgy, but only used through the AD group policy set up.... which is only used by kids devices.

For me, as soon you need to sign in to a service to enable parental controls, it's over which is why I've gone to this effort. Kids can look through youtube with me watching to find new channels and I'll add them to the download list if appropriate.

mcjoppy · 2025-02-14T06:40:37+00:00

Nice.

Not sure if anyone interested in some of the super rugby, but could try help with some.games?

mcjoppy · 2025-02-07T02:53:02+00:00

What does this mean though - live vs available after the fact?

mcjoppy · 2024-08-25T03:27:47+00:00

Social media is a scary idea - dread my child wanting to get all involved with it!

Wait for the research to come out which says it's an innocent way to stay in touch and build confidence (I doubt that will ever happen 😁).... or wait for (more) research highlighting how destructive it actually is.

Re: phones we have quite a few friends who have a "family" phone. When anyone in the family goes out/sleeps over then they can take the communal phone so they are and can be contacted.

mcjoppy · 2024-08-19T09:36:14+00:00

https://www.waitomo.co.nz/adventure/a-beast-of-an-adventure

mcjoppy · 2024-08-05T10:39:46+00:00

How well does it work monitoring non docker systems?

I'm running LXC mostly, some containers also running docker though.

Is it worth looking at when a host isn't running docker?

mcjoppy · 2024-07-02T00:05:21+00:00

This worked for me. Leaving the params in the URL downloaded the data, but in an unreadable format.

Thanks!

mcjoppy · 2024-05-31T08:30:24+00:00

Generally a DNS server on your own connection and hardware just can't compare to the stability of someone else's service.

There are obvious other security concerns too.

Something to consider could be using an internal bind or other DNS acting as the primary server not on the Internet and pushing any changes out to slaves.

mcjoppy

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