I’ve since revoked that access.

A few releases ago they made it so you can DEFAULT new entities NOT to be controlled by the VA… I cleared ALL entities and changed the setting. I only add things one at a time to voice control now.

SO many integrations ad switches it is a high risk to default the VA to have access to all new ones.

In my home lab I have them separate the OPNSense box has full performance on its own HW, only needs to be patched once in a while and is super stable.

I have managed to crash / lockup one of my proxmox hosts at least once while messing around with HW past though or by giving a guest enough cores to slow the whole box down.

Family never gets interrupted playing games or streaming Netflix with my lab separate from the critical internet service.

New versions of OPNsense installed with ZFS support snapshots before upgrading natively sort of taking one of the promox vm tricks out of the pro list making it neutral.

I run Unbound on my opnsense firewall.

The official documentation?

https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/unbound.html#dns-over-tls

There isn’t much to it

The ones I need, otherwise I always prefer core HA elements if possible.

With recently UI improvements in HA I have actually removed several HACS

I get 550Mbps on 5 ghz (80Mhz wide) with my iPhone 13 and I get 800-850Mbps on an iPad pro on 6Ghz (160Mhz wide). When in the same room as the AP. When not in the same room speeds are a bit all over the map.

This is via the speedtest.net app on a 1Gbit fibre connection.

I am using new U7 Pro Wall APs.

He opens the video with “over the years I have used ZHA and Zigbee2mqtt” so I made a little assumption. but that makes it worse if he was already using Zigbee2mqtt when he picked up the Sky Connect and didn’t check compatibility.

If you are using a supported NON experimental adaptor / chipset and you have powered devices with strong connections to it, you should be fine. The only optimization I would do is put your USB stick on an extension cable and get it a little ways away from the computer as when they are jacked directly into a pi/computer the USB port can actually cause a little interference.

To save you going 5 min into the video… He was using an adapter with zigbee2mqtt that was listed as experimental.

It is less about the network adaptor and more that he switches from zha to zigbee2mqtt with the skyconnect / homeassistant adaptor that is still not fully supported in zigbee2mqtt.

Using a coordinator more central to your network can help but as long as a large number of your powered relay devices have a strong connection there isn’t anything wrong with using the USB ones.

The ONLY issue with the USB ones is that it is recommended you put them on an extension cable as the USB port it self can cause interference, and putting a little distance from the antenna helps.

So his solution DOES all that, and is a good solution, but I wouldn’t just go toss your USB stick in the bin…

RAID isn’t backup it is high availability.

40 drives ? Why that is a huge amount of power , what is your space target

RAID 1 ? With 40 drives ? That would be absolutely stupid you want to use RAID 6 or 10 so you don’t waist 50 % of your space with RAID 1. Or some other N+2 disk redundancy.

Have you considered how much power such a large setup will need?

iSCSI is block level storage where NFS/SMB are file level… When you browse a folder with SMB/NFS it is going to ask the remote service for the meta file list then cache the whole thing till it thinks it needs it refreshed… iSCSI is going to go read a set of blocks to read the metadata off the remote file system. iSCSI can be considerably more chatty between the two hosts as it is lower level.

• If having dedicated interfaces / subnets is needed for improved bandwidth
• If you want to have a network segment with jumbo frames (you often don’t want this on the general network interfaces)
• If the network protocol creates substantial network noise iSCSI / block level protocols tend to be very noisy. Vs file level ones like SMB or NFS

I think a variation on the multi community might be a good idea but implemented differently.

Community’s could opt into a meta community (somethings that are the same name arn’t the same thing).

Then on the user client side when you subscribe you can choose to subscribe to the meta community. When your feed is constructed it doesn’t include de-federated etc. when you post it is via your instance to the meta community and a shortcut is posted to all the meta community members, and replies go to your meta post in your instance.

Simple answer would be to attached the pi to the router via the router Ethernet port on the LAN side and learn how DHCP and DNS work.

Pi-hole is primarily a forwarding DNS server that filters DNS requests

Serve the home has a bunch of reviews on really powerful AMD mini PCs now as well.

A camera platform small enough to fit a standard door frame isn’t going to be able to hold serious optics.

We clearly have even smaller optics in smart phones, the limiting factor on doorbells seems to be depending on cheap optics, poor FOV lenses and then cutting the bit rate by only supporting 2.4Ghz vs offering 5Ghz or POE support. There are a number of cameras with good optics or secondary package cameras now to cover the FOV issue. There are even cameras that meet all the clarity requirements I have but are cloud only or are knowing to not work in cold weather at all.

The MAIN job of a doorbell camera should be for the security role of identification. As it will point directly at the face of someone the cheap ones do a bad job of this.

There are some videos showing just how WIDE the quality range is, but sadly very few tick all the boxes.

BEST Wired Video Doorbells 2022 Edition

Ultimate Battery Doorbell Showdown 2022

I am all for local however my biggest issues with video doorbells tends to be the field of view, image quality and operating temperature ranges.

I live in a climate where +30C and -20C will happen at least for a few days a year and quite often I have seen doorbells just go offline below when it gets cold outside or physically degrade in the heat.

I want a highly durable device. These ESPCam devices kinda have crap optics, I want to clearly identify people in the dark.

I feel like posting that I was there 3000 years ago meme lol.

I remember when the roots of those family trees where new.

I started picking up Used Tiny / Mini / Micro systems. I currently have a Lenovo M910q with an i7 7th gen running my frigate dockers. I got it from a local second had PC shop, but you can find them on eBay and Facebook market place often. Asus makes a NUC like box, and there are Aliexpress brands like beelink etc.

A lot of options.