I use a Mikrotik router and I have a dedicated network for devices I don’t want to access my main network. They can only access my MQTT server. RouterOS (mikrotik OS) is a bit terse and comes with its own cli interface. I managed to modify the default setup relatively easily via the UI to create the two networks I needed. In the future I may install openWRT but at the moment the current setup works well.
Another think that I did recently that was quite impactful (performance wise) was to add a Omaha controller to make my two access poins work together to expose one single wifi network. Before I had them working on their own. The performance of the network has increased substantially. I’d prefer not having to buy a piece of hardware to do that but I am glad I did.
I recently bought a ds720 from Synology. I upgraded the RAM to 6gb. So far I use it to dump my personal backup (restic). Also my Reolink cameras dump video via FTP. Because the ds720 runs linux and docker I am planning on consolidating a few services in the ds720 (home assistant, grafana and Pinole).
Oh, I also got a UPS system for the main components that provide Internet access. I can be without power and have Internet for 2 hours a half. One thing I want to do is to get an alert when the power goes down. The UPS exposes that via USB.
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I use a Mikrotik router and I have a dedicated network for devices I don’t want to access my main network. They can only access my MQTT server. RouterOS (mikrotik OS) is a bit terse and comes with its own cli interface. I managed to modify the default setup relatively easily via the UI to create the two networks I needed. In the future I may install openWRT but at the moment the current setup works well.
Another think that I did recently that was quite impactful (performance wise) was to add a Omaha controller to make my two access poins work together to expose one single wifi network. Before I had them working on their own. The performance of the network has increased substantially. I’d prefer not having to buy a piece of hardware to do that but I am glad I did.
I recently bought a ds720 from Synology. I upgraded the RAM to 6gb. So far I use it to dump my personal backup (restic). Also my Reolink cameras dump video via FTP. Because the ds720 runs linux and docker I am planning on consolidating a few services in the ds720 (home assistant, grafana and Pinole).
Oh, I also got a UPS system for the main components that provide Internet access. I can be without power and have Internet for 2 hours a half. One thing I want to do is to get an alert when the power goes down. The UPS exposes that via USB.