Tech Guides: A blog about home automation and other random tech.
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How to Secure Wifi For Kids
There are so many hazards on the web for young children, and with kids more and more frequently having access to their own tablets or computers making the internet safe becomes really important. The obvious answer is to not give kids ‘a device’ and then you don’t have a problem, however not only does this…
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HAProxy on Docker
Introduction I have used many other peoples work to put this together, a key reference being the following: https://omarghader.github.io/haproxy-letsencrypt-docker-certbot-certificates/ On my home server I have several applications I want to access outside of the home for example; home-assistant and wordpress. In order to expose these applications to the internet I had forwarded the ports of…
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How fix poor quality audio and video on Zoom when using Global Protect VPN
As of Feb ’25, There appear to be on-going issues with Zoom and GlobalProtect VPN, even when the zoom app is whitelisted and the dns requests for *.zoom.us are correctly setup the VPN client fails to bypass the VPN. This Guide helps work around these issues
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HA – Simple Light Automation
Simple Light Automation, triggered by a motion sensor, managed by automations in HA
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How to setup DuckDNS in Home-Assistant
Out of the box home-assistant comes pre-configured to use http and as a result all communications are insecure. Any hacker “could” intercept and read communications to your home-assistant.
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pfSense Reverse Proxy
Intro Reverse Proxy References https://medium.com/@nathan.c.cole/using-pfsense-as-a-reverse-proxy-c5034c603b10 https://forum.netgate.com/topic/133404/haproxy-reverse-proxy-with-host-headers Components used