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Think it worked out at about £125 from Aliexpress, then stung for about £17 for taxes when it arrived (of which £12 was Royal Mail charging me for holding to pay the taxes on).
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
I had one of these arrive over lockdown to have a play with. Would make an excellent little theatre PC, as it plays 4K but I’ve a nVidia Shield and Apple TV under the TV, so it’s not needed there. The fan can be a bit loud but it’s small, so I was sort of expecting that.
If I hadn’t have bought the new Synology, this would have become my new server. However, it’s going to go to my cadet unit when we reopen, as it’s perfectly fine to use with MS Teams and the office suite. :good:
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
I think I’ve been running since 2016? (I found a blog post from Jan 2017, showing I’d at least written about it then!)
Agreed – it makes life much nicer on the network, as it applies to both my Android and iOS devices. I browsed to a site yesterday on my work wifi and was amazed at the number of adverts on the site (I could barely see the article I was trying to read with all the adverts on the screen!)
New NAS is running the Pi Hole fine now via Docker, so shouldn’t need a seperate Pi for it. :good: I’ve not investigated running it over a VPN but apparently it’s possible so you have ad blocking anywhere.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
I recently shucked a WD Elements drive and used that in my NAS, as it was cheaper than a Seagate. I’ve got the data backed up so if it goes, it goes. I’ll be saving for the Ironwolf next time round!
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
I don’t think using a VPN would change that, as the ISP would still be able to detect the amount of traffic going through the network connection.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
It’ll clear cookies when you close the tab, so next time you open, you’ll have to sign in. It also stops saving any history as well.
Instructions for the Chrome (Android, PC and iOS) are here.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
This seems to be a running theme at the minute.
Why not just access the web using Incognito mode? Will log you out when out when you close the session. No need to worry about each websites ability to logout. :good:
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
I hope the Philips Hue bulbs I bought get that amount of use from them with what I paid for them!
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Just checked now.
There’s no option to sign out (just delete account) and you can’t set a passcode or similar. Not sure if it’s different on iOS.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Afternoon messing with the network causing us to lose internet for an extended period ಠ_ಠ
Was setting up a second gateway (my Huawei router, with Three SIM) to act as the gateway for the NAS, and then get the Pi Hole sorted.
Somewhere along the lines, something went tits up and the ADSL router was unreachable. Not sure how or why, but the IP address wasn’t showing on the router. Not sure if was because the upstairs equipment is accessing the rest of the house and downstairs via a wireless access point. Either way, managed to now fix my error by getting the original router up and running, I’ve set the DHCP server on that and have it pointing the DNS to my Synology.
I think the issue occuring around the time I tried to make the PiHole on the Synology the DHCP server. Anyhow, I’m now getting the DNS blocking from the Pi Hole, the Synology has port forwarding setup again, so I can access it outside the house (no thanks to Origin Broadband blocking port forwarding unless I pay an extra £2.50 a month!) and the network seems to be fine, so that’s a win finally!
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
I’ve not needed it to date – no need for transcoding, as the nVidia Shield does that for me when it plays (using Kodi) but looks like Plex to use with Sonos, as it wont use the Synlogy DLNA server ಠ_ಠ
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
It turns out I needed to change the minimum Samba protocol to v1
That does not sound very sensible of Sonos. Samba v1 is from the days of DOS and is now known to be highly insecure.
I dug out this article which says so. Looks like it doesn’t work with Synology DLNA server either. So it looks like Plex may finally make it on my NAS!
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
I’m still getting my head around it – I’m yet to try another in anger as I’m not sure I’ve got much need for anything else that Synology doesn’t already provide!
There’s a lot of piracy related ones (Sickbeard, Sonarr etc) but these can also be downloaded from Synocommunity as apps if that’s preferred (Synocommunity also offer a lot of other, decent, non piracy related items!). I guess the perks of docker is quicker updates.
Managed to resolve my issues with my Sonos yesterday. Sonos wanted me to edit the registry to allow me to connect a music library. It turns out I needed to change the minimum Samba protocol to v1, which isn’t noted on the Sonos site at all when you get the error. :negative:
When I hooked it up to the network switch and was transferring data to it, was going at ~111MBps, so I was happy with that. Beat the 30MBps I was getting over wifi. Maybe at some point I’ll wire the house, but for now, it’ll do with wifi access now that everything is on the drive.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
I don’t have an android to hand, but from memory, you have to click the icon for the account in the top left (usually a a letter or the outlook icon) and and then click the cog in the bottom left to bring up the account list.
Question is, why would you want to log out?
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
I got used to using the GUI on the Pi, as I’d often remote in from the iPad to use apps that didn’t run on the iPad itself. Also saves booting up a PC to do a quick task.
At the minute, debating if I need to set up a VM – did try Debain server using the netinstall disc last night and that worked a treat, but Pi Hole is working in docker, with a lower overhead.
It’s there to play with anyhow. :good:
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Generally the base unit is a router, so to avoid the dreaded double NAT you need a proper VDSL modem like the Vigor 130 that basically converts the VDSL into Ethernet.
I had a look at routers the other day, and there generally seemed to be a far greater range of standalone routers these days, rather than the combined modem/router models that seemed to be a greater range when I bought my Nighthawk a few years ago.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Pi Hole looks to be up and running within minutes using Docker. Followed the instructions here and was up and running very quickly. I assume it works, but I haven’t switched my DNS and DHCP servers to it yet, but the web portal is working.
Spent ages trying to get it working with the virtual machine. Downloaded Raspberry Pi OS, as I quite like it on the desktop but after install, it wouldn’t boot to a GUI (Or to a terminal in fairness!) I could have tried another distro but I’m up and going – will try moving it across later.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Curses!
220+ doesn’t recognise the 4GB DDR I’ve installed. Not sure if it’s related to the fact that the RAM I’ve added is DDR4 2400MHz – a bit of digging suggests it’s 2600MHz installed by default, so I’ve grabbed myself a Crucial stick online to try (it’s £16). Don’t want to pay the £95 for the Synology RAM really! :wacko:
First drive is being checked currently and will the start the data transfer. :yahoo:
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Thinking about it, it cant be just the Resilio issue, as I use a mapped drive for my shared folder, and it doesn’t pick up TV or films that are added. Maybe I’ve turned out daily indexing – I’ll have to check, but as the 116 is now on eBay, I’ll just make sure the 220+ has it setup!
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
I think it was mainly as not taking the screenshots in PNG meant that it ended up breaking my photo filing automation, as I would have software running to check for JPG and PNG uploads and then move them to different folders – one in to my photos folder and the other in to screenshots, as that was often the only reason I had PNG files on my phone!
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
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