Initial setup #

• hassio running on VM
  • esphome installed

Network info #

iw dev - will show you all the wireless interface names

Flashing using Tuya Convert #

• pulled image and build as Tuya-convert instructions

• after pull did docker-compose exec tuya bash

  • will enable interaction to the container
  • run it the container and see the screen
    • do screen -ls to see all the screen running
    • do screen -r to attach to the screen to see the info
      • all of this is sitting in the base /usr/bin/tuya-convert/script/*.log file too

• Connect phone to vflash network

• you can leave the power on, and the devices connected

  • put the switch into connecting mode, press and hold
    • i turned off the load/light after if it does come on

• once tasmota web server has been started

  • log in to it, provide it your SSid to your network so you can log on on the computer to upload the ESP firmware

    • special notes - becare if your devices are on different subnet and vlans

  • and upload compiled binary from ESPhome to get the switch to convert over to ESPHome firmware

Flash esphome #

• build the binary file and use the web service from tuya to flash
• if flashing doeesnt work, and its not compatible set option 78 to on - SetOption78 on in tuya esp console - using the web service provided by the switch itself
  • this disables the OTA check - https://github.com/arendst/Tasmota/blob/1e0550e750e259899b81c44aa3d628b1058053aa/tasmota/settings.h#L94

Setting up Unifi Network #

• reset all devices

Home lab setup #

https://mtlynch.io/building-a-vm-homelab/ https://computingforgeeks.com/complete-installation-of-kvmqemu-and-virt-manager-on-arch-linux-and-manjaro/ https://medium.com/@calerogers/gpu-virtualization-with-kvm-qemu-63ca98a6a172 https://davidyat.es/2016/09/08/gpu-passthrough/#part-0-what-you-ll-need

QNAP #

QNAP will always be running to support the network

• OpenVPN

  • Users are able to log into network
  • Use LDAP server for domain users

• data storage for network

• Container apps

  • Unifi Controler - Bridge Mode Interface - 10.1.10.3
  • NodeRed

• VM

  • pfSense

    • PiHole also?

  • HASSIO - Manjaro

    • user: hassio
    • password: hassio

IoT #

• Feit dimmer switches - Wifi

  • Tuya - convert to https://github.com/codetheweb/tuyapi

• Schlage Connect door lock - Z-wave plus

• Ecobee 4 - Wifi

  • Will switch to z-wave

• Homemade doorbell?

  • Using https://www.onshape.com/ to design and print
  • https://github.com/fireflyelectronix/wifidoorbell

TODO Don’t know what this ia #

• ☐ get a overlay network between all the docker hosts

  • this would be between hass and guardian
  • for an overlay network we need docker swarm

• ☐ convert dimmer to using tuya convert

  • need DOCKER and usb wifi

for guacamole https://gist.github.com/nicoulaj/cbf475ea34f227fb650083c711ec8f14 good site to learn more about networking, hass, and tinkering

Setup so far #

Mananger:

• overlay net named traefik-public - run traefik2 - run postgres - run

guacamole Woker1 - hass:

• trying to get to the overlay net - might need to look up multi-hostn

networking - https://docs.docker.com/swarm/multi-host-networking/ solution to swarm-overlay-network with docker-compose

getting traerfik to work on overlay network how to get docker and swarm

getting swarm up and running: - https://docs.docker.com/network/network-tutorial-overlay/ - https://docs.traefik.io/v1.7/user-guide/swarm/ setting static ip to unifi - IS THIS NECESSARY? - containers register itself as static

saving homeassistant configurations #

https://github.com/doismellburning/homeassistant-config

Network Debugging #

traceroute google.com or tracepath google.com: - gives us the path - traceroute is more powerful than tracepath get network map using nmap - not a standard tool on linux nmap -sP 10.1.10.0/24 will get a mapping of the 10.1.10.0-255 network get network map and operating system - it’ll tell you the hostname, and all the open ports nmap -sT -O 10.1.10.0/24

mtr: another good tool ## interfaces ip addr will get you the ip address of your interfaces sudo ifdown <interface name> - bring down your interface sudo ifup <interface name>- bring up your interface ## DNS you can specify the DNS for each interface

  auto eth0
  iface eth0 inet dhcp
  dns-nameservers 94.237.127.9

firewall settings #

sudo iptables -L

• https://sysadmins.co.za/integrating-google-oauth-with-traefik/

• staging servers -https://letsencrypt.org/docs/staging-environment/ - remember to add

• certificate to the browser

• for DNS setting

  • make sure we catch all subdomain coming in!

  • 

  • https://www.linode.com/docs/networking/dns/common-dns-configurations/#use-wildcard-dns-records

• for authorization to work, DNS for wildcard needs to be set like this

  • Oauth.DOMAINNAME.com is needed specifically for the oauth app, this might be changable

    

Docker compose home assistant #

https://github.com/dmpanch/hassio-rpi4-docker-compose

Adding USB remember to add into “dialout” group #

Moving HASSIO from amd64 to Arm-aarch64 #

had to remove all the old add one and install new one (looks like update does it too)

• aarch64 did not work, had to go with armv7
• lights keep turning on and off, due to wrong ip address for MQTT server

Troubleshooting HASS #

Resetting user password #

since we are running in docker with HASSIO to change the password require us to be in the “Operating system terminal” this means direct access to hassio_cli

• docker exec -it hassio_cli /bin/bash
• ha authentication reset --username "user" --password "password"

Network Wired connection running at slow speed #

• path laptop –> usb hub –> cat5e connector –> cat6 cable –> cat5e connector –> wall plate –> cat6 –> patch panel –> switch
• problem comes in with the cat6 cable and two cat5e connectors