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My Underkill Home Network

By @edent · IoT ip cameras network · 6 comments · 400 words · read ~238 times.

A complex graph with dozens of devices connected by a tangle of coloured lines.

There's an absolutely delightfully bonkers post doing the rounds called "My Overkill Home Network" - which is a look into what happens when a computer geek goes feral and stuffs as many Internet connected thingamajigs in a living space. We're talking professional grade, rack mounted, doubly redundant, over-specced, equipment. Overkill is underselling it. I wondered […]

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Adventures in home automation - Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 2

By @edent · gadgets IoT network Smart Home · 13 comments · 600 words · read ~4,498 times.

Screenshot of a website with loads of toggle switches.

They say that The Best Camera Is The One That's With You - the same is true of Raspberries Pi. As much as I'd love a 4B, they seem permanently sold out. So I dug through my scrapheap of old tech and resurrected an ancient Pi2. It's old, outdated, slow, with limited RAM, and has […]

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There's no HTTPS for the Internet of Things

By @edent · IoT NaBloPoMo network security · 16 comments · 600 words · read ~1,361 times.

An error message in the browser warning of an unsafe SSL connection

Me being grumpy and stupid again. I have an IP Camera on my LAN, I want to connect to it via HTTPS. I can't. Why is that? Why do this? I have a username and password to access my IP camera. And my TV. And my lightbulbs. And all my networked gadgets. If I try […]

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