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Scan to your own private cloud – automatic upload to Nextcloud (or any other cloud)

The digital, paperless future is coming closer and closer. When I was looking to go digital I ran into one major problem: automatic upload to Nextcloud. The automatic upload from your scanner makes digital copies of your documents available everywhere – but only to you! It turns out that his Read more…

By Oliver, 1 year04.12.2021 ago
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Small powerhouse – extending a Unifi network for cheap with the Flex Mini

Unifi hardware is great for an enthusiast network but can get quite expensive. Fortunately there is a pretty cheap way of extending a Unifi network. The small flex mini switch gives you most of the advantages of the Unifi platform for a small price tag. It also comes in a Read more…

By Oliver, 1 year27.11.2021 ago
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Making services available on the Internet in seconds with Traefik reverse proxy

Hosting your own services is pretty simple with Docker. Making services available everywhere via the web can be tricky. A reverse proxy is a flexible and safe solution for this problem – and Traefik is a reverse proxy build to be used with Docker and docker-compose. Here is how I Read more…

By Oliver, 1 year08.11.2021 ago
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Building a full home server – easy and effectively running 10+ services with Docker and Docker-compose

To host services on your own server you need a simple way of running them. A great combination here is Docker and docker-compose for running your services. After some initial setup this combination is very simple to use, easy to extend and really powerful. This is how I run my Read more…

By Oliver, 1 year25.10.2021 ago
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Building a full home server – creating users and samba shares

Building a home server includes taking care of user management and (network) file shares. This can be a tedious task and chmod and samba shares’ configurations can be tricky to create. I created an Ansible script, including everything I learned about this, to fully automate these tasks. Here is how Read more…

By Oliver, 1 year26.09.2021 ago
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Securing your smarthome devices – using VLANs to secure your home network

Usually any smarthome or IoT device you put on your own network has full access to everything else. Fortunately VLANs are a great way of mitigating this potential security and privacy risk. Creating separate networks for your different devices is a great idea and surprisingly easy using professional network equipment Read more…

By Oliver, 2 years19.07.2021 ago
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Hardware for a professional smart home network – Next level network with Unifi equipment

To make your smart home network more reliable and secure you can build a network based on prosumer components like the Ubiquiti Unifi line. Everything in your smart home relies on a robust network, so I decided to built a new & better network including several Wifi networks, VLANs, a Read more…

By Oliver, 2 years14.06.2021 ago
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