Raspberry Pi Powered Outdoor Speaker Instability
Last Summer I built an airplay enabled outdoor speaker using a Raspberry Pi. It worked pretty well, and it was nice that I could stream music outside …
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Inadvertently Caused the Amcrest Doorbell Video Stream to have a Green Tint when Using an Amcrest NVR
I recently bought the Amcrest video doorbell (affiliate link) since I like my other Amcrest IP cameras, and I wanted a doorbell that was less cloud …
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Inadvertently Opened SSH Remote Access
In my network, I created an alias for all of the ports I have open on my server so that I can create firewall rules to allow several of my VLANs to …
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Inadvertently Blocked Access to Cable Modem Web Interface
A few months ago, I switched to using my own cable modem instead of using the ISP provided modem/router, and I wanted to access the web interface for …
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Enabling Rocket Loader on Cloudflare Interfered with the Nextcloud web login page
When setting up Cloudflare for this website, I decided to try it out on some sites that I had setup on my home network. In particular, my Nextcloud …
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Enabling IPv6 Broke Functionality to My IP Security Cameras
After the long journey of learning more about IPv6 and how to enable it on my home network (see my page for detailed info), I discovered that I broke …
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Restricting Ports too much with Port Isolation on Network Switch
For security reasons, I decided to put my IoT devices on their own network using VLANs. I also had a desire to restrict certain devices to only have …
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Streaming Live TV on Plex Media Server Issues with OPNsense Intrusion Detection Blocking Enabled
On my home network, I host the Plex Media Server software on my server and make use of its Live TV and DVR capabilities. It actually works quite well. …
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