Ubiquiti just released its new network controller version 7.3.76 and alongside with the major change of jumping from Java 8 to Java 11, the update had a lot of features and changes under the hood added. Unfortunately Ubiquiti did not release the new controller version via the official apt repositories. In the official patch notes […]
In this quick guide we are going to setup the scalable GlusterFS filesystem for a four node Docker Swarm cluster on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. More precise: we replace an existing persistent NFS storage on the cluster with the new GlusterFS and make it available under the same old mount point as the old NFS. Therefore […]
Most owners of a Unifi Dream Machine (Pro) know about the automatic backup feature Ubiquti offers in their UDM(P) interface. The feature creates automatic backups of all your config settings and stores it locally on the device. So you can manually download it from there before you change something. But what if you forgot about […]
WireGuard is quite a hyped new VPN server that has some pros why you would like to use it. Its part of the Linux kernel now and therefore you can setup a WireGuard VPN server on almost every piece of hardware. But some people might want to run it on their router, and if you […]
Every SmartHome enthusiast loves Home Assistant. And so do I! But, with Home Assistant as your central brain and heart of your SmartHome, downtimes are nothing you want to have or run into. So I thought a lot about what would be the best, yet affordable, hardware setup to make Home Assistant as reliable as […]
Tags: docker, docker swarm, docker-compose, grafana, high-availability, home assistant, influxDB, mariaDB, ssh, terminal, tutorial
This guide will show you how to easily virtualize the new Windows 11 on Proxmox 7 including TPM 2.0. 1. Download the ISOs: We need two ISO files: Windows 11: Go to Microsoft and download the official Windows 11 Installer ISO. virtIO drivers: Go to virtIO GitHub and download the latest ISO version there Once […]
Its very important to keep the order of this guide and not add and setup things prior or later, as this will create errors. Also I tried to keep it as detailed as possible, therefore it is going to be a fairly long article. Use this index to quickly jump to the area you need: […]
In this tutorial we are creating a Proxmox cluster with two physical servers, node1 and node2, and we will add a RaspberryPi as a third Quorum device to make the Proxmox cluster working as intended in High Availability mode with having an odd number of cluster votes. This gives smaller business or a homelab user […]
This project was already build in 2015, but due to a recent reinstall of the MagicMirror software on my mirror, I decided to share the whole build including the up to date software setup process from scratch. Also I can tell that it ran flawless for the past 5 years now, so pretty stable 🙂 […]
Today we install the famous DNS advertisment blocker pihole in a LXC container on a Proxmox server, and set this as our network wide primary DNS server on the Unifi controller. The cool thing is that even as pihole was born as a Raspberry Pi project, it can easily run on most other Debian-based operating […]
In general the Raspberry Pi is great learning tool. One reason is the great default verbose boot and console messages you see when booting or shuting down your raspberry pi. But for some more polished projects, its quite handy to hide all of that and have a nice boot loading animation instead. In this instance […]
From time to time you may want to quickly copy a raspberry pi image from one system to another....but only have a smaller SD card. Or you started your project as a tryout on a crazy 64GB sd card, and realize later that 8GB would be way enough. So what you want to do, is […]
We all know this situation: you are on a fresh setup of Linux remote server or a headleas Raspberry Pi, and somehow the speed is not feeling right. Besides a iperf LAN speedtest for your device you can quickly check your connection speed to the outside with this handy python script command: If you don’t […]
This quick guide shows my standard routine for setting up secure SSH on new fresh installs of Raspbian or Ubuntu VMs. First if you are still using any system default user like "pi" or "root" or "admin", change this and create your own, custom user. Lets start in this example with our new user name […]
I exchanged my Synology server for a 10Gbit capable model, and after deploying it, I wanted to confirm the actual available speed over my network. For this matter I use the tool iperf3. It is a great command line interface (CLI) based tool, that supports all varieties of operating systems: from Windows over MacOS and […]
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This is a quick guide on how to setup your Mac to mount and run Raspbian images for rapid rpi prototyping, testing and tinkering. It enables your Mac to start and simulate a Pi 3 and all its (web)services via the terminal. So you can start tinkering in no-time before deploying on a life rpi. […]
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This is how to turn a Raspberry Pi into a powerful VPN box, that automatically connects to a VPN on boot and keeps itself connected by trying to reconnect when disconnected. If it gets disconnected from the VPN at one point we are ensuring that all traffic gets drop until we are back connected with […]
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Tags: expressvpn, java, jdcrawler, jdownloader, pip, python, raspberrypi, raspbian, script, ssh, terminal, vpn
This is a little helper script that runs all the update commands of the Raspberry Pi in an order. Making it more comfortable to use and also possible to tie to a cronjob for automatic system update schedules. Lets start with creating the script file in our home dir: Paste the following script into the […]
Published by Florian Müller in Development
A couple of month ago I started exploring Synologys so far very undocumented WEB API. I basically started with the authentication and from there experimenting and researching on my own Synology DSM Webinterface. I found out, that a lot of the terminology and paths used in the WEB API are exactly the same as used […]