Ubiquiti VS raspiblitz

Another neat idea is to connect all “smart” equipment to an isolated vlan and separate wifi that can still be seen by your normal network devices.

For example if your wifi was called “Home”, an additional “Home-IoT” is for every device.

The IoT devices can then be set to not sniff your network, or even connect out if you want.

A good example of this is in this EdgeRouter setup guide, which is a pretty decent guide on how to plan a home network for more than just basic home browsing.

https://github.com/mjp66/Ubiquiti/blob/master/Ubiquiti%20Hom...

One extra step I’ve learned to follow is to verify if needed, could the hardware be permanently redirected to a local server, and worst case reflagged with a different firmware or it can be redirected to remain local. The latter is sometimes easier if it’s a Tuya based device, which a lot of these unknown devices are.

https://github.com/make-all/tuya-local

One of the main things these “smart” devices do is use your internet connection. It’s wise to create a dedicated _IoT suffixed wifi which can’t access your network or devices, but at the same time your other devices can ping them.

How?

This is a pretty solid guide of a home network setup here. It can be running a $50 EdgeRouter X or translated to other devices.

https://github.com/mjp66/Ubiquiti

I followed this guy on Youtube and this guide on github to set up an Edge Router X. It was cheap and does all this, but was harder than I thought it would be to set up, even with a video guide.

All you need to do is to flash the image onto your SD card after you’ve verified its keys and migrate your data from Umbrel after you’ve made a backup.

Learn about the Lightning network and look into setting up a node. https://github.com/rootzoll/raspiblitz

I’m checking out Specter Desktop in my Raspiblitz Lightning node for BTC. The node runs Core as well, but the UI is much nicer in Specter, which is for Multi Sig transactions using any hardware wallet. Doesn’t help with any other coin, though. First Pi project ever, and it’s for science… BTC isn’t my favorite crypto, but it deserves respect. I need to see for myself the scaling possibilities of Lightning first hand. You earn small fees for routing so it should at least break even on power. https://github.com/rootzoll/raspiblitz