The fact that the ccc uses matrix as their official chat “app” doesn’t imply that it is inherently insecure I would say.

https://github.com/toverainc/willow

They even have a dedicated piece of hardware for it.

Look into vlan.

Basically allows you to have different subnets rubbing on a physical network card.

It is possible what you want to do and not that complicated.

Well, time to post that Tom scott video again I guess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY&t=6

Not OP, but here are my 2 cents. You can’t really go wrong with that degree imho. Even if you only land an entry level job at the beginning, you can quickly advance from there. You just to have keep learning.

If you haven’t done so already, get a raspberry pi, install docker, get used to how it works. Destroy everything, start over. Get another pi, learn kubernetes.

You can stand out and succeed if you can learn and adapt to new technologies. The system doesn’t matter, it’s how you approach it.

Beat of luck to you!

Sorry for the late reply. I just wanted to day Thanks for posting this. I’ll have a look in the next couple of days and see what I can achieve.

Have a good weekend!

Any good ressources you used for the wireguard VPS stuff? Still on my bucket list.

Reolink ist the way to go. I think only the battery powered ones don’t have onvif. Otherwise the poe cameras all support onvif and are generally of very good quality. Plug it in and of you go. EDIT: Forgot to mention: You can configure the camera via the web interface, so no need for an app. I’m using the 820 at the moment, but I’m planning to get the new trackmix camera, these look really good.

Thanks. This definitely goes onto the pile of things I’ll build at the new house.

Not OP, but most people are using load sensors under the bed frame with an esp or raspberry.

there are basically endless possibilities I’d say.

• logitech media server with squeeebox clients
• snapcast
• mpd with mopidy
• moodeaudio
• home assistant with one of the integrations.
• plenty more I’m sure

That being said, I would recommend jellyfin over emby.

Easiest route you could go is setup a systemd timer which runs every 5 mins, pings an ip and write the result into a logfile. that way you have a timestamp for the problem start without going all out with monitoring.

Good luck!

Since you’re not really sure what the issue is, check all the logfiles around the time the problem starts. maybe you’ll see a service stopping or starting.

This might not be applicable to your use case, but maybe it helps.

Couple of years ago I had a problem where ONE windows laptop was unable to access the internet. Sometimes it would work right away, sometimes it took 1 or 2 reboots, sometimes the damn thing wouldn’t budge.

lo and behold, it turns out the windows laptop was assigned a DHCP address that one linksys router had as a static ip. Why that resulted in a sporadic error and not a constant one I’ll never know.

So next time you have this issue, rip out the network cable from the server and try to ping the ip the server is supposed to have.

Other than that, check the journal if something start to pop up around the time you experience the problem.