Recent content by ltickett

I'm a Synology advocate. I have a couple of the RS815. I use it as a NVR with my Hikvision IP Cameras too.

Thanks, that fixed the printer but not the Sonos. I have reverted for now.

This broke my printer and Sonos, so i'll be switching it back.

Getting on really well with my Unifi Switchs. You may want to swap your ERX for a USG though so you can see your APs, Switch and Gateway all under one controller.

There was a thread about this a while back you may wish to search for. I ended up going with Synology Surveillance Station. My favourite by far was the Ubiquiti software, but it only supports the ubnt cameras which weren't up to scratch (and a bit pricey/hard to acquire... at least in the UK).

Bingo. There are a bunch of Cat5e around the house (mostly used for cameras and phones), 8 speaker cables for the 7.1 system, a couple of fibre runs currently not connected and a couple of coax runs from the satellite also not currently connected. The cabinet now has sides and glass door on...

combined my AV cupboard and small 6U rack into a new 15U rack; Mains PDU Logitech Harmony Hub MXQ Pro 4K Android Box SuperMicro ESX Host Onkyo TX-NR646 Synology RS815 NAS Ubiquiti Unifi Switch Patch Panel Huweaiu HG612 Ubiquiti Edgerouter Lite

Out of interest why are you guys recommending the Edgeswitch over the unifi switch? I went for the unifi switch, not that there appears to be much difference...

You might be able to set firewall rules to redirect all outbound traffic from the LAN on the DNS port to your preferred DNS server(s).

Well technically, whilst they can't do anything while you're disconnected, there could be something (say a key-logger for example) running/capturing while you're offline which they can then retrieve if/when you plug back in.

I thought it was open source?

I looked into this recently and was pretty disappointed by the lot. The Ubiquiti Unifi Video software is great but will only work with their cameras as far as i'm aware. I ended up settling on Synology Surveillance Station. It's not free and requires Synology hardware to run too, but I...

Flawless. Relatively quiet, low power consumption, nice interface (shame you do need the controller running on another device though). As an alternative you could go for the Edgeswitch, which has the builtin interface. I'm using Unifi APs too, so need the controller for those anyway.

I went down the 10gbe + shared storage (synology rs3614rpxs) route and regretted it, The servers, NICs, NAS & switch were expensive, big, heavy, noisy and power hungry (and performance wasn't near that of local storage). I've now gone with a couple of incredibly low power supermicro shallow...

Ubiquiti Unifi Switch 24 Debating whether to buy the 48 for the office i'm hopefully moving into next month...