When you get caught up in smart homes you can’t stop and want to automate everything. I started with the second home in the mountains and then got caught up. In this post I want to collect my experiences in managing the second home, specifically with Home Assistant.
The big problem is that the LTE router doesn’t have a public IP address and I have to leverage a VPN to access the second home’s network from the outside.
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Many configuration guides for SSH server suggest eliminating the login with a username/password and replace it with a key. More and more I use this solution in my small home environment. A day on Twitter I have seen this tweet and I have made some tests with mutual TLS (or mTLS).
🇫🇷 Community Contribution 👉 Sécuriser #Traefik avec du mTLS by Romain Boulanger https://t.co/TofOPAYVYC
— Traefik Labs (@traefik) March 26, 2021
I find mTLS really helpful when you cannot use a VPN, for example on an enterprise pc or due to some firewall restriction. So you can protect your services with a certificate installed in a browser. This solution works only for sites that should only accessible for a few users.
Continue readingA letter from Swisscom arrived two years ago and created a problem for the management of the heating of the house in the mountains. Because they informed us of the termination in end of 2020 of the GSM or 2G (old generation telephony) service. The current modem in the control module installed 7 years ago is not compatible with 3G or higher and therefore needed to be replaced. But with what?
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On GitHub you can find a repository with some examples of traefik (version 2.x) configuration. You find the docker-compose and the guide on how to use this.
Feel free to report the issue if something is not working.
I have no trouble saying that I am a bad developer (no problem is not my work). In my home network, I play with some systems. For 2-3 years I experiment with docker and my container number it’s growing every month. Sometimes it is only a test and the container lives for a few hours. But there is a group of services that are important for my home, like:
I’m not much of a site developer and I have no problem admitting that. I just like having a space where I can “crawl” and share what I do.
A website doesn’t create itself and when you get down to it, the problems increase exponentially. You can create it based on freely available platforms (where of course you are the product because they have to make money) like WordPress, Blogger and many others.
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