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Have you considered adding a manually configured route for each of these networks to find each other?
If the auto-generated routes aren’t able to find it, I would personally manually add the route on both ends (give 192.168.11.0/24 a path to 192.168.10.0/24 and vice versa) to see if that changes anything.
Occasionally, you just have to tell computers what to do.
EDIT: said “path” when I meant “route”
I already have a MagicMirror and Immich set up, and I’m debating trying to fix the tablet I have, or trying to get a new one like the chap who started this thread.
However, I had nearly literally the same plan in mind for it. I have a friend who does woodworking who is open to making a frame for it once I’m done. Throw MagicMirror and MMM-ImmichSlideShow on there and it’s a digital picture frame.
EDIT: Also, if the tablet is too underpowered (like my old one) you can always run MagicMirror on a different machine/vm and just run Electron to load the page from that machine remotely, reducing the overall load on the tablet itself. If I fix my old tablet, this will have to be the solution because it’s too underpowered for MM on it’s own.
This thread is just full of super useful info. Cheers and thanks!
No problem, also look at atzenteol@sh.itjust.works’ comment in reply to mine. They have some info I wasn’t aware of regarding tri-band WiFi routers. I’m living in WiFi 5 land, so I wasn’t aware of this cool trick:
His router is tri-band though meaning it has 2 5ghz transceivers. With an extender usually you use one of them as a backplane for ap->ap communication so it doesn’t interfere with your performance.
So an access point is still a good solution, but it sounds like you can use it as an “extender” without an ethernet cable as long as you can use one of your spare 5ghz bands to communicate with it. Which is super cool and I was totally unaware of.
I’m living in WiFi 5 world so this is new info to me. Neat. Thanks for the heads up.
Neither router you linked to is supported by OpenWRT or DD-WRT.
Plenty of supported TP-Link routers exist, and probably for cheaper.
What you need is a cheap access point.
“Extenders” actually slow down your network since WiFi isn’t full duplex but half duplex. That’s why you can’t have really have more than one.
Run an ethernet cable to an access point and you will be glad you did.
Do you have any input on whether running your Pi-Hole as your DNS service versus how you have it, with pi-hole in front of a standalone DNS server, as to which is functionally “more better?”
I had been toying with making my pi-hole into a full DNS server using Unbound, but I had been debating if it would be better to have that service running seperately.
Wake On LAN maybe?
But that requires a full startup sequence before the file is available.
OpenWRT should have VLAN support out of the gate. Probably has an admin page for it.
Unless you want to go full wireless I would strongly suggest at least one USB ethernet dongle and a cheap managed switch (managed so you can take advangate of VLANs. Unmanaged switches are cheaper if you decide VLANs aren’t for you).
For sure, a fridge is a really bad one to be using on an actual ungrounded GFCI, exactly for the reason of risk of expired food.
I like my homeserver but if something trips and its offline for a while it’s not gonna ruin my day.
The battery can be recharged eventually unless it’s already be discharged many times or it’s left alone and dead long enough to kill any ability to recharge it.
Install GFCI plugs. [1]
Buy a small, appropriately sized UPS.
Profit?
Disclaimer: Am not actually electrician. Just know this about GFCI from electrician friends and pointing to a decent explainer.
GFCI plugs can be installed without a ground wire. https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/225370/i-live-in-an-older-home-without-ground-wiring-is-it-safe-to-install-3-prong-gfc ↩︎
Cloudflare can still go bad, but its usually for high-capacity users who are using way more than the average. I haven’t seen any homeserver users get hit with any trouble, but I’ve seen a couple small businesses have bad situations with Cloudflare, although it honestly seems like the minority.
Cloudflare has issues but for most its probably fine.
Public Libraries are struggling and looking for relevance in the modern world. Libraries brought us the Dewey Decimal System, and early attempt to “categorize all the world’s information and make it useful,” as was Google’s claimed original goal.
A coalition of public libraries and data-scientists seems like the path to me. Libraries are already in the business of categorizing and organizing information, sooooooo.
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/bookworm-the-new-version-of-raspberry-pi-os/
So reading around it looks like Raspberry Pi Foundation now suggests TigerVNC because its optimized for Wayland and the newer version of Raspberry Pi OS (Bookworm) is all Wayland now. RealVNC is not optimized for Wayland and now is pulling this shit on Home users.
I haven’t tested this myself yet, just found it through some quick searching.
How-To Set Up TigerVNC on RPi OS Bookworm: https://picockpit.com/raspberry-pi/tigervnc-and-realvnc-on-raspberry-pi-bookworm-os/
But this How-To seems to recognize the reasons why the changeover is happening and what RPi Foundation suggests to use, so it seems like a good place to start.
TigerVNC also seems to be Open Source and unpaid, so it seems like a valid replacement option for the moment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TigerVNC
It looks like Bookworm is supported all the way back to the Pi 3B+ which is good news for me, specifically. Sounds like its some hoops to jump through in the Raspberry Pi OS Imaging Tool to get it to happen, but it’s there.
I am unsure about TigerVNC support for previous versions of the RPi OS, but its maybe still possible for older models.
I think the main reason this comes as a Fuck You to a lot of folks is that this came with (don’t know if it still does) Raspbian/Raspberry Pi OS as the default VNC software. So a lot of hobbyists might have not thought about this in a long time and are suddenly facing needing to set up SSH suddenly because the VNC they were using is now off the table. (Makes me glad I defaulted to SSH+keys pretty soon after learning how to use it)
It probably should have never been bundled as the default for a hobbyist operating system. I guess we’ve seen the writing on the wall for the Raspberry Pi Foundation making bad moves for a while now.
Oh man it’s been a while, but I used to be super interested in getting an Air Quality Monitor going. There’s definitely ones that can seed their data to public databases.
95% of the time the exact model isn’t super important, nowhere near as important as specifications, but when it comes to the physical build like whether it can run without the battery, it can be useful to know.
Web server for a Smart Mirror?
I run my mirror locally, but you can also pull it from a separate server.
Great suggestion, but I’m not entirely sure it’s 100% possible on all models? Some models are built so that it won’t turn on without a battery installed (much like phones) and that the power has to pass through the battery before it reaches the motherboard.
I believe that scenario would take much more knowledge of electricity plus some soldering skills to bypass the battery. They gave specs, but not make and model. I don’t trust companies like HP to not take the route that requires you to send it in to them for servicing.
Most election data comes from the Associated Press, but I don’t see a place to purchase API access, may only be available to news orgs.
https://developer.ap.org/ap-elections-api/
A reddit poster had some JSONs from New York Times four years ago for 2020 but I’m not sure if you can make them work for 2024.
https://old.reddit.com/r/rstats/comments/jo1yuw/us_election_results_api/gmnxfz3/