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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • I have a bunch of z-wave, too. Z-wave and Zigbee, I think, only broadcast when needed. That’s why they’re much more battery friendly. If they’re plugged in, they do more listening and re-broadcasting to do what you’re talking about.

    Wifi has, relatively, a ton more traffic. DHCP renewals, keep-alive messages, and basically always listening all the time to see if something is looking for it. That being said, these smart switches use very little data overall. Unifi shows them using about 700 bits per second, which is 0.0007 Mbps.


  • Actually now that I think about it, without more than 1 access point, everything will all be on the same channel. I have 3 different channels due to having 3 different access points, all set to individual channels. This reduces conflicts (more than one device trying to use the same channel at the same time, a weakness of wifi).

    As of right now, my “busiest” access point has 23 devices connected to it on 2.4 GHz. The AP is reporting that channel being 23% utilized. Still, I wouldn’t want anywhere near 100% utilization. Things would certainly slow down as it gets higher.

    Newer versions of WiFi reduce this problem, but smart devices use whatever is cheap and effective. 2.4 GHz travels better through walls and has better range compared to 5 GHz, but 5 GHz is faster and has more available channels.


  • I currently have 54 things connected to WiFi in my house. Only 10 of those are connected to 5 Ghz. The rest only support 2.4.

    With one good access point it would probably work no problem. I have 3 access points due to the layout of my house.

    Use channels 1, 6, and/or 11. Those are the only channels that don’t overlap with other channels. If you live in a dense area, 2.4 gets tricky. 5 is easier, because more channels.















  • TLDR; It’s local only by default.

    Your router is what determines what has access to what. By default, things can access the internet on ports 80 (http) and 443 (https). Jellyfin has access to the internet to download metadata, art, etc. If you want to block this activity, I don’t know the answer to that.

    Your router is split between LAN and WAN. Local Area Network (your house) and Wide Area Network (the world). LAN to LAN doesn’t have restrictions by default, which is why you can access Jellyfin on port 8096 while you’re connected to your home network.

    LAN<->WAN has restrictions in place via your firewall. Your router has a default firewall. Some routers allow you to change the firewall rules. Firewalls are very important. Port 8096 is not forwarded to the WAN by default, and you have to change a setting in your router to do that.


  • Docker is great, and I have it running in multiple VM’s. For me to restore everything without VM’s would be a little tedious.

    I’d have to search for Docker install instructions, follow the instructions like importing keys, adding the repository, doing the post-install stuff (adding my user to the docker group), etc. Not a big deal, but it’s something.

    Then I’d start copying data, making sure to keep the same folder structure so my compose files work. Then I start running all the commands to get all the containers back up and running (or in my case, creating 20+ stacks in Portainer).

    This is all a bit tedious for me compared to opening the web interface for Proxmox, clicking on the backup (which is just “there” because it’s on a hard drive (or a ZFS pool in my case)), and clicking “restore”. Once restored it just boots up and my Docker stuff is good to go.