This is a quick post to cover a gotcha I ran into while preparing my new to me Intel NUC DC3217IYE to take over has my primary Home Assistant box. ...

Update 20190819: The public instance of the Staticman API is broken with no clear line-of-sight on when or if it will be repaired. Reference issue #307. I am now running my own Staticman instance in Heroku using the suggestions from VincentTam. I am using the master branch and integrating PR #285. VincentTam did a good write up on all of these things in a few places: Issue #296 & VincentTam’s blog on hosting your own instance of Staticman.. This all takes some piecing together, so I may write an update post on how I am hosting my instance and link it here. If there are any questions feel free to hit me in the comments. ...

I made this quick video as an “Ansible 101” type introduction for some networking friends that just wanted a high-level intro to playbook creation and logic. So, I hope you enjoy it and get something useful from it. Please feel free to comment with any questions you may have! GitHub Repo: Intro to Ansible for Networkers - GitHub Repo

In this post I hope to quickly cover how I use pfSense to provide easily reachable management networks for simulations within VIRL. Below is a list of the technology I use in this lab environment: pfSense SG-1000 running 2.4 BETA Cisco VIRL_ — Core 0.10.29.12_ VMWare ESXi 5.5 Update 1 Generic VLAN Aware Layer 2 Switching I will not go through the entire installation of Cisco VIRL. I am just going to go through what I do in my personal environment to allow the FLAT & FLAT2 networks to be routable to the world. I have the SNAT network setup in a similar fashion, but I do not often use it so I will only mention SNAT this once. ...

Quick Note All of the conclusions below were based off of my individual findings dealing with Vue and my cable provider. But, I used some parts of pfSense that a lot of people talk about and I thought it would be good to put it on paper for others to find. For all of the pfSense examples below I am using pfSense 2.4.0-BETA on an Netgate SG-1000. The Issue When the decision to cut the cord it was with much excitement about the upcoming experimenting with different content providers. Firs we tested hardware and ended up settling on the Amazon FireTV. Then we started a free trial of both Sling and Playstation Vue. While going back and forth between the two I started to notice an issue. Sling was streaming without issue while we kept getting queued up with Vue. ...