For various reasons the IP I use to connect to my home WireGuard VPN changes depending on whether I am in the house or not. WireGuard only does a DNS lookup when you start the tunnel so if the IP changes, the tunnel will stop passing traffic until you manually cycle it.

Me being me, I wanted to automate this so I …

Context

The Bell provided Gigahub allows power users to use PPPoE passthrough to use their own routers, however it can restrict throughput and introduce latency while doing so. Some users may wish to bypass the Gigahub completely using third party devices. One such compatible device is the WAS-110 which has a well …

Background

I recently replaced the batteries in my APC SMT3000RM2U UPS and decided it would be a good idea to update the firmware as I barely got 3 years out of the previous set. I thought maybe APC may have changed the charging algorithm or something and thought it was worth a shot...

After discovering my device was a …

Context

The BM6 battery monitor is an inexpensive BLE battery monitor designed to be installed on a 12v battery such as one commonly found in cars. The intended way to interact with this device is via a smartphone app provided by the manufacturer. This app is invasive and sends data such as phone specifications, …

Update: This seems like this may be related to a bug in libvirt. You can still use the below instructions as a workaround until that gets fixed and the new version of libvirt is available in your distro. You can see the bug details here: https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/issues/631

When using storage pool volumes in …

I've recently moved from VMware to KVM for my home virtualization needs and ran into an issue. When using Cockpit or virt-manager to view a VM console I'd sometimes get the error message "Display output is not active".

This is related to the default video card Cockpit configures for a new VM (virtio). …

After restoring your TrueNAS Scale configuration to a new system you may encounter the following error on the console:

1The web interface could not be accessed.
2Please check network configuration.

This is due to the new system not having the same NIC/MAC address so TrueNAS doesn't know how to map it's existing IP …

Disclaimer

This device has dangerous voltage present when plugged in. Additionally, if the device has been plugged in to AC power, the capacitors on board can potentially hold a lethal voltage for some time. Under no circumstances should you ever operate this device without the case or attempt to flash it while plugged …

When backing up TrueNAS using the Web GUI, you are provided a .tar archive containing freenas-v1.db as well as pwenc_secret if you chose to back up the system seed. While there is no easy way to automate a configuration backup using the Web GUI, you can achieve the same goal using SSH.

Optional prerequisite: Configure …

The Problem

Netgear decided to remove the ability to send SMS messages on the Nighthawk M6. Having SMS sending capability is handy, especially for alerting on events such as Internet outages. This workaround implements a simple HTTP server using Perl that can be used to send messages through the device. Perl was chosen …