[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

I'm not sure what's new here.

They have multi-geo already... we've been using it for months

[-] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

MythTV - as others have already mentioned. It's designed to work with the 10' interface

Even records TV programs (presuming you have tuner hardware of course) - which I don't think the others can do?

We don't stream Netflix, but we do watch other various streams (ie BBC iPlayer), yoochoob, etc - all works fine, inc... video files from various sources, and music...

We use it with a Logitech K400 wireless keyboard and it works great for us.

I have played with a more traditional looking TV wand remote in the past, but you still need a keyboard to type in program websites, names, etc. so the K400 became our defacto remote.

MythTV used to come with Ubuntu as Mythbuntu back in the day, but most of the pre-installed distros have fallen away, so you'd need to pick a distro and install it yourself.

It's a very mature application, so you won't need to keep updating every time you want to watch anything.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, managed to work with the weather for once... pressure washing the green slime off the patio when it was raining, starting to paint the shed when it was dry... some small(ish) jobs and the garden just looks fresh again.

Found some old 8mm film... might take that to the photo shop in town to both help him keep the shop open and get the unknown films onto ~~VHS~~ ~~DVD~~ USB

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

My opinion: pfSense - IMHO, if you're moving from a domestic router this is your best bet.

DHCP reservations which ties into local DNS, (external) DNS caching with DoT / DoH, firewalling, detailed logs, etc...

There's also OPNSense, and OpenWrt

I've not used OPNSense and OpenWrt was originally for lower powet devices, so I just don't know if it handles >1Gb - or how good it's FW functions are.

For pfSense you can install it on your own hardware, or buy something from Netgate, so the wifi capabilities are whatever you have / buy

Mesh is just a wireless standard for multiple antennaes, so shouldn't be a biggie - I used an old WAP with OpenWrt and that worked for me until I changed the APs to some old 2nd hand Ruckus APs...

Look at the additional packages after installation, ie pfBlockerNG, VPNs, etc and you'll be pleasantly surprised... pkus there's loads of yoochoob videos (search for Tom Lawrence)

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago
[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Yes. And No.

I have a home made (arch btw) NAS that stores all our files - mostly via syncthing, even from remote family.

That was it.

Then I installed Immich so that we could see the photos... so... it's technically just a NAS, but it does now have a web application running on it...

Videos & Music are on a completely separate MythTV box which existed before the NAS - I saw no point in moving ~3TB of data to a separate box that would need to be powered when I want to watch / listen to something... my NAS powers itself up & down throughout the day to save electricity (and it was interesting to learn how to make it know when it was / wasn't being used)

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

TBH, until I read this, I didn't even know about it.

I need to get out more, I know.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Download with yt-dlp. All of it. Even into a single folder if that's easier.

Then run it all through Picard and that'll do everything else for you - albumart, metadata, folders, filenames, the lot.

Anything that Picard doesn't know about, enter it into the MusicBrainz db to give back to the community.

Done.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

We use VNC as we can record the sessions easily for later priof / discussion with our customers.

It's in a VPN tunnel of course.

But of course, we also don't use Google, AWS, etc as they're not secure enough for us and we have our own SOCs

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

You've reminded me of a slightly off-topic point...

I tried to put Linux on an old laptop for a friend so their kids could use it... it had some weird (Realtek?) chip that was a combination of things (ie video and networking?) and Linux just couldn't drive it, so I had to give up.

That's the only Linux failure I've had and it was also the one where I told them it would definitely work...

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

If you're looking for a different approach, I moved from Nextcloud to Radicale for my family calendars, which includes ToDo functionality.

From an app point, for Android I'm using Fossify Calendar (which I think you're using?) and Tasks.Org ToDo - and this definitely handles recurring tasks (inc. with different types of schedules)

From a remote access point of view, I have HA Proxy to convert the internal HTTP traffic into external HTTPS traffic (with Lets Encrypt certificate)

(Yes, I also have a VPN for other things... just focusing here for the calendar / todo)

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submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I have a few VMs and PMs around the house that I'd setup over time and I'd now like to rebuild some, not to mention just simplify the whole lot.

How the hell do I get from a working system to an equivalent ansible playbook without many (MANY) iterations of trial & error - and potentially destroying the running system??

Ducking around didn't really show much so I'm either missing a concept / keyword, or, no-one does this.

Pointers?

TIA

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I'm 99% happy with Logseq.

The one thing that I struggle with is keepng an eye on ToDos.

Is there a better way of looking at them without looking at a ToDo page or an advanced query slowing down my journal template?

Is there another application that can parse the logseq .md files so that I'm not getting behind on my work?

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submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I saw a similar post here recently, but this is slightly different.

I'm running MythTV on Arch which is working fine (of course), but when MythTv came out of the main packages and went to the AUR, it was just a little harder to maintain and had some compolation issues due to ffmpeg, etc - to the point: my last update was probably 3 years ago.

The (minor) issues I currently have are:

  • terminator won't start 1st time, but starts fine 2nd time
  • shutdown's take a few minutes due to a systemd issue
  • everything's woefully out of date

So... considering all the changes with audio and video over the last few years do I just pacman -Syuv and crack on... or... start again from scratch?

(Yep, full backup 1st)

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Holiday BBQs (feddit.uk)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

First holiday rental BBQ of the year.

These are always an adventure, broken legs, crumbling gas pipes, spiders and snails in all the crevices...

In this case, it's not too bad, just lit the fire so we'll see if it explodes / melts...

And... just burgers, sausages and halloumi for this one, nothing too adventurous

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submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

It's already 25DegC in my home office.

The best cooling automation I have so far is to turn the fan on when it's 25 for >5mins.

Is there a nice zigbee / ESP32 evaporation cooler that I can enjoying setting up with HA?

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submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Just found my Vivaldi update contained a little more than just bugfixes... it now has Proton VPN built in.

It's actually part of the browser, not an extension, so I'm in two minds whether I like that... or not.

You need either a Vivaldi account or a Proton account, so it's not completely anonymous, but it's a start.

The free-tier of Proton VPN also appears to be bandwidth limited and your exit point is randomised, so... yeah, it's ok...

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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

"On 11th November BBC iPlayer will no longer be available directly on this device."

OK, so, I didn't purchase this particular (Blaupunkt) TV, but as it's my mother's then, well, I'm the one that has to "fix" this.

Personally, I use TVs as a simple screen and watch everything through other devices (Roku, or a Linux PC running MythTV).

I see the BBC website has some links to review sites, but I thought this might be another place to ask for - preferably open source - devices that could be used.

Comments?

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

As a long-term MythTV user, I read all the discussion about Plex vs Jellyfin, but I'm still here... recording Live TV, watching films, listening to "me choonz" all on free, open-source software. What am I missing? Any other MythTV users out there?

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NAS vulnerabilities (www.theregister.com)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Just stumbled across this (overly dramatic?) article and thought I'd just post it here...

It's more to act as a reminder that if you've got a NAS that is serving content to the interwebs, then make sure it's behind a proxy of some kind to prevent weaknesses (ie in the management Web UI) being exposed.

Obvz, this article is pointing to Zyxel, but it could be your DIY home-built NAS with Cockpit: CVE-2024-2947 - just an example, not bashing that project at all.

I've used Squid and HAProxy over the years (mostly on my pfSense box) - but I'd be interested to know if there's other options that I've not heard of

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Before I dive headlong into debugging and throwing bug tickets around, I just needed a sanity check from someone else..

I have an old Lenovo laptop as my daily driver / experimentation box (ie it gets a lot of paclages installed and removed)

Recently I've been using Vivaldi's built-in calendar to use as a CalDAV client for my radicale installation.

It's the only open tab and Vivaldi's using ~20% CPU (according to htop)... actually, I just closed that tab... even with 1 blank tab the CPU's the same.

Is this just my battle weary laptop needing a good clean, or can someone else confirm?

TIA

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

pfSense... Anyone have much experience with the new Kea DHCP server?

I'm using 2.7.2 (Community Edition) on a fairly good Celeron based system that's not heavily loaded, but I have 7 network segments (VLANs and physical interfaces), so I have 7 DHCP pools / configs.

Just adding 1 more static reservation can cause a significant delay when reloading the service and because I register static reservations in DNS, the network loses DNS so I "break the internet" for a short while.

Would Kea fix this?

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

pfSense... Anyone have much experience with the new Kea DHCP server?

I'm using 2.7.2 (Community Edition) on a fairly good Celeron based system that's not heavily loaded, but I have 7 network segments (VLANs and physical interfaces), so I have 7 DHCP pools / configs and just adding 1 more static reservation can cause a significant delay when reloading the service and because I register static reservations in DNS, I can lose comms.

Would Kea fix this?

[-] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago

I think others have generally caught this, but I wanted to simplify the point: the apps on your phone are not controlling your home, a computer is. If you don't use Google's, then you'll need to provide one.

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