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In Meshtastic there are two main variants of the hardware that are used NRF and ESP32 based devices. Each have their own pluses and minuses. The most common devices such as RAK, Seeed Studios etc.. are NRF. The reason they are popular is that they are very low power, which means with the proper power…
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Meshtastic can be used as a simple Mesh between devices but it also can be used for tracking devices through a Grafana Dashboard. The trick is that Grafana doesn’t work with MQTT very well. This can cause an issue for a number of reasons, the first is that MQTT is not designed for long term…
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Meshtastic is a great way to send messages without the need of traditional IP connectivity and can be used in its default mode of sending message to LongFast or other builtin in channels using a public encryption key out of the box. Where this breaks down is that anything you send to your primary channel,…
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Meshtastic is an interesting way to communicate across distances without the need of Wi-Fi or Cellular services. It is fairly localized communication that can span miles if you have line of sight to your transmitters. If they are closer to the ground your distance will suffer, if you put it up in a tree you…
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My primary scripting language is PowerShell. While I’m comfortable writing scripts from scratch, it can be time-consuming to take an idea all the way to a production-ready tool. Recently, I came across Warp IDE an AI powered editor and decided to give it a try to see how far I could push it, and how…
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Microsoft has a tool called pktmon that give you a stripped-down version of NPCAP that can be used to get Packet Captures from Windows machines without having to install a third-party piece of software. It’s not horrible to configure from the command line and you can go that route if you wish but for most…
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LLDP does one thing very well, it will tell you the port on a switch that device is connected to and some information around the switch configuration. Where this comes in handy is if you need to move a port to another VLAN or be able to trace a cable during switch upgrades etc… I…
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This has been tested on the new Dishy Cable in 2025 I was doing some testing on the new Dishy Cable at my house, once testing was done, I was left with a Starlink cable that sent for testing and since I didn’t feel like fishing it back through conduit for reuse I decided to…
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PowerShell (My) Best Practices PowerShell is one of my favorite scripting languages, there are many reasons for this. The first is that it’s the language I know the best, it gets points for that. I like the modules that you can import, how it works with Task Scheduler for automated runs, and the fact that…
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Quickstart Unifi released the Zone Based Firewall a while back and at first it was a little confusing. I have gotten much better with it since its release and wanted to give some tips and tricks as well as some information how to use it. What is a Zone? A Zone is basically a collection…