Recent content by JonW

Over my head with the assembly level stuff, but I love seeing where you're going with this!

I'll echo Pete's sentiment of running it as a VM! Until last week, I had never had an issue with upgrades, but this last one hosed my system and I didn't have time to troubleshoot it before going out of town. Easy peasy, I just reverted the VM and I was back to a stable system. I take a VM...

I've not dug any hole here. I think the issue here is that you guys have not brushed up on the latest offerings from Ubiquiti and you are stuck on how "traditional" VPN's work. The Teleport VPN does use Wireguard for protocol and encryption, but it DOES NOT require any incoming port to be...

Port 51820 is only needed if you use the Unifi router as a Wireguard server. The newer Unifi routers can function as a Wireguard server, Wireguard client, OpenVPN server, OpenVPN client, SDWAN endpoint or a Teleport server, or a combination of multiple VPN's.

Your interpretation of Unifi is very wrong - and also insulting. I work with enterprise class equipment all the time (Cisco, Palo Alto, etc.), so I am quite familiar with networking. Until recently, I preferred the EdgeRouter line (for home use), but the recent Unifi systems have added a lot...

I would personally suggest you look at the Unifi Cloud Gateway routers. You could easily link your primary home and seasonal home networks and manage it as one - even behind a telco/cable router. I have not seen any other routers with the simplicity of VPN setup for end devices or full site to...

Are you looking for notes specific to the Zwave communication portion or the Jandy portion? I have no problem giving you the source code of the program if you want it. When I first wrote it, I ran it on an embedded controller that had two serial ports, one for OPII and one for Jandy. The...

It has to do with text spam. The telco gateways (phone#@xyz.com) were just continuously pumping out spam to their subscribers since it costs spammers nothing to send junk email. Likewise, spammers would use SMS gateways like MessageBird, Twilio, etc. and pump messages through there. Now all...

I don't recall ever seeing protocol docs that were vendor/product specific. Years ago I wanted to create a "black box" device that would emulate how OPII communicates with Zwave devices so I could interface my pool system. I just sniffed the serial back and forth to determine the protocol...

Google the terms "A2P" and "10DLC" and you'll find a lot of info about restrictions that have been placed on applications being able to text in the last couple of years. It has become very difficult for individuals to be able to reliably use texting from programs as we once did.

Hate to say it, but the fiber would be a better choice since you are going to run electrical in the same trench. Running CAT6 cable in parallel to the power will create EM interference in the cable.

Is wireless not an option? That distance could be problematic for wireless cameras, but a wireless bridge with hard-wired cameras would have no issues - as long as there is line of sight.

I recently switched from OpenHAB to HomeAssistant. Setup was pretty easy. You do need to also setup OmniLinkBridge as the broker for the MQTT messages between the OmniPro/Omni IIe and HomeAssistant.

It's a cool little program. I run it in a VM so I can display it on any of my monitors or computers.

@pete_c OLB=OmniLinkBridge. My OpenHAB system was becoming unstable and it was always a pain to manually maintain the OPII interface and my mobile control screen layouts. I either needed to install a new clean OpenHAB system using their latest version or give Home Assistant a try. Either way...