Look for the additional storage section under the app settings:

I’d avoid using a domain you dont actually own. Those free DNS places can take the domain back at any time. They are also often very low reputation domains.

I’m guessing they can rip the other end of the lock out of the wall tbh.

But realistically, theifs aren’t that sophisticated, they aren’t going to waste time trying to find and destroy the DVR, the will grab whatever valuables they can carry and pawn and leave as fast as possible.

The cameras are really just a deterant, they will move on to an easier house instead of risking it with mine.

Home security first of all, with cameras to deter thiefs. That alone mostly solves the problem, but I’m in a relatively safe area.

My “lab” is just a switch, nuc and unifi cloud key, and while they are warm in their closet, its not super hot.

I have a Kensington lock on the security camera box, but someone could theoretically yank that out of the wall.

The rest really isnt worth breaking in to steal.

When I used to have SSH on a nonstandard port, I got login failures from bots. It really depends on the bot and how aggressive they have set it up.

Bummer. You could get a cheap IoT light bulb/smart plug and ping it in a script, when it times out, start the shutdown. Could be a fun project.

Some (most?) UPSs have a way for them to communicate to the PC so that the PC can automatically cleanly shutdown. You should look into that if its available on your UPS.

Whats your goal? Your current network works presumably, what are you trying to achieve by upgrading? Faster network? Reliability? Expansion options?

If you go down the “Little Free Library” + Lemmy community route, you can easily attach NFC stickers to the books, that point to a thread.

You can buy a bunch of NFC stickers for a few dollars and program them with your phone (make sure you write protect them once written). Alternatively, you could print QR codes onto stickers.

Would be pretty cool, please share the community when you have it setup.

How are you going to weather protect the books?

You could easily create QR code (or NFC tags) that linked to a post in a lemmy community.

As for posting opinions without a login, that is a little harder to pull off. Firstly, anonymous internet opinions are usually garbage, so you wouldnt want it to be truely anonymous. You’d be wading through spam in no time.

If there was a way to encode creds into the QR code, such that it autologged into an account, that would be kinda cool, and it might last a little while until the creds were leaked.

A basic (no-auth) guestbook site could be knocked up fairly easily by anyone (give me a week or so and I’ll give you something if you want, you’ll have to host it though), but getting the auth part right is nontrivial.

As you’ve described it, and from what I have read, its very similar to how tailscale negotiates its connections.

Does seem to be unique to Plex though.

I get how that could work, but what services actually do that? Homeassistant can, but that needs to be setup explicitly for it to work.

How does that work? Do they do something like what tailscale does to negotiate the connection? Can you point me to any doco for how that works?

I dont know that that is true. With cloudflare tunnels, their server.x.y.z will resolve to a cloudlfare IP address, which then tunnels it to their server? The traffic has to hit the cloudflare server, it can’t short circuit that connection? Am I missing something?

I would assume yes, it goes out to cloudflare and back in. You want to setup an internal DNS server on your network, and resolve your servers address to its local one. That way when your outside your network, you use the tunnel, and inside it goes direct.

1. You can’t receive those emails anymore.

2. Someone else can.

And self hosting option: https://github.com/storopoli/dead-man-switch

https://www.deadmansswitch.net/ < this looks like it fits the bill

Actually, (and I wasn’t aware of this until you mentioned it, so thank you), it does support serverless connections:

https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/wiki/FAQ#i-only-use-rustdesk-for-a-few-devices-on-my-local-network-with-no-internet-connectivity-can-i-still-use-rustdesk-with-direct-ip-access

So I think between cloud server, self hosted server and direct IP, OP should be covered.

RustDesk (rustdesk.com) is open source, and similar to TeamViewer, and has paid plans, including a paid self hosted option.