Networking at home

 I needed to refresh my aged Zabbix installation and I wanted to use a docker based solution, to keep it isolated from other components in the network. There are some caveats that need some time to resolve.

Beelink MiniMX is an Adnroid TV box, back from 2016, containing S905 system chip, 1 Giga RAM, 8 Giga eMMC, HDMI output, 2 USB 2.0 ports and a Gigabit ethernet. The original Android system which was shipped with the device, was very buggy, but even today you can upgrade the operating system to Linux. In this blog, we will show how you can install Ubuntu based Armbian linux on it, and how to make use of it as a desktop computer.

I have an older Synology NAS at home, and I am planning to replace it with a custom built NAS. To decide which system to put on it, I have setup 5 different NAS solution in a virtual environment and measured how fast they are. There were two prerequisites to the candidates: they should support WSD and SMB Multichannel.

After installing the Tasmota Firmware on my smart socket , it is time to process the measurement results by some application. At home I am using Zabbix, wich has goot graphing possibilities, can be used to set up triggers for specific events, and has a documented API, to retrieve historic data. In this post I will show how to add the energy monitoring measurements to Zabbix.

I have a lot of computers running at home, all connected to the same plug trough a distributor and I wanted to measure the amount of electricity they consume. I could use a $250 manageable PDU for this purpose, but I found it better to buy a $10  Tuya compatible 16A Smart Plug  and flash it with the  Tasmota  Firmware. In this article I describe, how to do it.

Multigigabit is a technology for wired LAN connections where the speed exceeds 1 Gbps. In the recent times a lot of new equipment was announced, supporting this technology, this article tries to summarize what is available today and on what price.

In this post we will measure the performance on the PPPoE multilink over 2 gigabit connection.