30Oct 2020 by jun

Back on-line no CGNAT can stop me!

Networking
This blog have been offline for about a month or two. My telco suddenly deployed CGNAT to their subscribers and my router could no longer get Public IP. What is CGNAT? Carrier Grade NAT or CGNAT is a mechanism deployed by internet providers to prevent exhaustion of IP address. The pandemic caused most people to just stay at home; work from home; online class; and the number of internet subscriptions increased. As a result, my telco just decided to implement CGNAT without informing the subscribers of the change. Before CGNAT was implemented my assigned Public IP is the same as my WAN IP. My Public IP Address My WAN IP Address As of this writing my WAN and Public IP is different, this prevents me from using DDNS and all…
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21Mar 2020 by jun

mBot: Learning robotics the easy way.

Events
OMG! Still the first 3 months of 2020 and the world moves almost to a halt. The Corona Virus stretched it legs and caused many inconveniences during the later part of 2019 and now going to the first quarter of 2020 causing a pandemic which affected the world. I lived in the Philippines and most provinces is in a state of calamity and community quarantine. In Cebu (where I live) we are requested just to stay at home to avoid spreading the virus. School was stopped and suddenly my kid have a lot of time and nothing to do. Her plan is just o binge watch on Netflix for the whole duration of the quarantine. I really don't like that plan and decided on something to have her occupied. Analysis,…
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12Mar 2020 by jun

Docker: Dock and Control

Networking
My Home Assistant have been running on HassOS. I have understood that this also runs its own Docker Environment for the plugins. The key plugins that I am using is as follows: Nginx proxy managerSSH terminalmotionEyeConfiguratorPiHole The Nginx proxy manager takes care of forwarding external requests going to my network. One of the downsides of having it run inside HassOS is the addon will also restart when HassOS is restarted. Most of the time (without considering carefully) restart my HassOS and then loss the proxy manager and access to my network. So I decided to change my configuration. Docker on Raspbian Docker CE have been a long time preference for rapid application development. It may sound like a Virtual machine but it is entirely different in most ways. Let us…
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10Mar 2020 by jun

The move to Docker and more

Networking
HassOS have been a docker container in some ways for its add-ons. Recently I have decided to move Control to Raspbian and have the Raspberry Pi run its own docker. The following blogs that start with "Docker" is the walk through for each configured service.
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18Feb 2020 by jun

Turn off the lights …

Smart Home
Light switches are located at the entrance of each room.. Normally when you get inside you turn on the lights, and going out turn off the lights. Problem is when you are binge watching while in bed. I would be too lazy to stand up and turn off the lights. This was not a problem when stayed in Japan, the ceiling light of my room have a remote which was really conventient for me. I was thinking to implement some sort of remote control circuit to address my problems. Considering also that so called Smart Home system is flooding the market, I decided to take a look at the off the self options. App controlled LED bulb that uses standard wireless connections Easy to install and most are E24s, so…
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