Tagged “DIY devices”

DIY Devices - The VPN 28 Jul 2021 DIY devices Wireguard VPN

There are times where it's really useful to be on my home network when I'm away. In the past I have achieved this with SSH port forwarding. It works well enough for most things - but it's a bit of a faff changing web proxies and of course it doesn't work easily for everything. I thought it would be......

DIY Devices - Virtualisation 20 Jul 2021 DIY devices Virtualisation

I started a new job in 2016 where I was now using enterprise network servers more - and on a more Unixy stack than my previous Microsoft one. I frequently needed to run virtual servers for development. It was possible to do on my work laptop but that only had 8gb RAM. I was also tinkering with other......

DIY Devices - Media Centre 10 Jul 2021 DIY devices Raspberry Pi Kodi tvheadend

In 2005 I bought a Windows Media Centre - it ran a fanless Pentium mobile processor and worked reliably for about 10 years. But the NIC failed. There was no HDMI port. Windows XP was getting long in the tooth and it wouldn't run Windows 7. So in 2015 I bought a new one; a fanless i5 (4690s) desktop......

DIY Devices - network attached storage 05 Jun 2021 DIY devices NAS ODroid HC2 RAID

How I went from off the shelf RAID devices to single drive Debian. My first NAS was a QNAP TS-201. I can't remember exactly when I bought it but I think it was around 2007. It had two 1TB disks in RAID1. That was a lot of space back then - at least for me. But having lots of storage soon meant that......

DIY Devices - the network 21 May 2021 DIY devices Home router Raspberry Pi

TL;DR - go to the appendix Why? # I had been interested in buying a raspberry pi back in 2015 and conincidentally had been having internet connectivity issues. I had found that my internet connection was actually fine, but the DNS servers that my router was serving up (my ISP's) were flaky. I'd read......

DIY Devices - introduction 15 May 2021 DIY devices Home router Raspberry Pi

I run various media centres, two PVRs, a music server, two NAS devices and various virtualised servers including HomeAssistant and Unifi. I am a software developer in my day job and have a professional interest in having good equipment but I also like to tinker with things and know what’s going on.......