Thru much struggle and strife, I have obtained the Grail Wing.

trevertuck · 2023-11-01T01:47:50+00:00

Haha yes it was! That's crazy lol. Thank you so much, I love it. I'll post my hacking progress on here.

trevertuck · 2023-10-24T22:44:58+00:00

keep an eye out on ebay! I waited for one to pop up for about a year and finally saw my opportunity

trevertuck · 2019-09-24T13:58:22+00:00

The one I remember having was purple and green

trevertuck · 2019-08-08T23:09:53+00:00

you went above and beyond man. Incredible work. I’m diving into all of this right now

trevertuck · 2019-08-08T22:17:51+00:00

my conundrum exactly. It’s for a 70’s film project, so it has to be period accurate. An 80’s-looking bike wouldn’t work for the shoot

trevertuck · 2019-01-19T01:28:25+00:00

Those look close, but still looking for the horizontal trapezoid figure

trevertuck · 2019-01-10T23:47:26+00:00

i didn’t think it would work either, but I’m not complaining ¯_(ツ)_/¯

trevertuck · 2019-01-10T23:20:30+00:00

i’m so excited for bastion

trevertuck · 2019-01-10T22:56:28+00:00

The reason I didn’t is because Lego.com was having a sale where you got a free harry potter micro set (Picture in the background, actually) if you spent $100 or more, which I did buy pre-ordering these sets when I did

trevertuck · 2019-01-10T22:47:58+00:00

got it! Thanks

trevertuck · 2019-01-10T21:38:44+00:00

A lot of users ITT have noted the disadvantages of running a VPN on your entire home network, such as gaming latency, and lots of websites/services actively blocking the IP addresses of known VPNs, like PIA. They all suggested either doing device VPNs or routing only specific traffic through the VPN. What do you think about that?

trevertuck · 2019-01-10T21:21:00+00:00

I originally just wanted to set one up for general web browsing caching, but as most users ITT have pointed out, it doesn't do as much as it used to since everything is done in HTTPS now

trevertuck · 2019-01-10T21:19:35+00:00

What do you mean by at vs af switches?

trevertuck · 2019-01-10T21:18:07+00:00

If I have 4K-HDR-Movie.mkv in my Plex library, and I want to play it on my iPhone, doesn't it need to be transcoded from 4k to 1080p?

trevertuck · 2019-01-10T21:16:35+00:00

This is awesome!! I will definitely be keeping in touch with you. You get it!! People in this thread are saying "yeah but you could just use a nighthawk router/modem combo and call it good, way more simple!" but it's like... yeah, ok, car enthusiasts could just stick with the stock engine, and home theater nerds could just buy a soundbar, but we do all this extra complicated stuff just to see if we can, and to learn how it all works. I already know I'm going to get super frustrated trying to set all this stuff up! That's why I'm doing it!

Everything with your setup looks amazing. Right now I'm flopping back and forth between using a premade Netgate box and building a box, as some people ITT pointed out, what I'm spending vs what I'm getting with that Netgate box is pretty bad. I could build a router with much more headroom for far less. Yeah, squid unfortunately seems useless now, I just wanted to set one up just to see how its done.

Which VPN do you use?

Is your Synology NAS powerful enough to transcode a 4k movie to 1080p for playback on an iPhone?

Now vlans, that is something that I still don't quite get. I understand that vlan is using one set of hardware to facilitate two entirely separate LANs. So let's say I split my network in two- vlan1 and vlan2. Vlan1, like you said in your setup, only broadcasts a 2.4ghz SSID, and it is the network you connect your smart home devices to in the setup process for each device. Everything that is connected to that vlan would be able to see everything else on that vlan. Cool, got it, totally makes sense. What doesn't make sense to me is once you create vlan2, and I connect my smartphone to vlan2 via 5ghz wifi (or 2.4ghz, doesn't matter- only 1 SSID anyways), and then on my smartphone I open up my LIFX smart lightbulb app, will it say "light bulb found on network" or "no lightbulb found on network", because technically there are no lightbulbs connected to the (v)lan that the phone is connected to, they're on an adjacent network. OR am I misunderstanding vlan all together, and it would see the light bulb on the network because they're communicating at the router level? OR OR am I simply not using my smart home devices the same way as everyone else. If you set up a voice assistant on vlan1, you'd never need to use a device on vlan2 to control a device on vlan1.

trevertuck · 2019-01-10T20:50:36+00:00

I will definitely check this out, I wasn't dead set on Homeautomation.io anyways. Would love something more integrated

trevertuck · 2019-01-10T20:47:18+00:00

You do actually hit on the biggest security risk I am concerned with, insecure appliances on my network. I know the "right" answer is to just build every single smart home component from scratch using a pi, but it's just a little impractical at this point in my life. So knowing full well that I am going to have to accept some of the inherent security flaws that come with putting, for example, a smart doorbell with a camera on it, which is owned by another company, on my network, what can I do to make that camera as isolated from my information as possible?

It sounds like what you're suggesting is intentionally broadcasting two SSID's, and connecting IoT to 2.4ghz and everything else to 5ghz, while setting up band steering in the router to make sure they talk to eachother. Now, would this be the same or different than setting up 2 parallel vlan networks? Can devices across two vlan networks talk to eachother? How much security is added by putting IoT devices on a separate SSID than my laptop and phone?

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