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Some years ago I played with Home Assistant. I really like the concept of their “bullet proof” design. Since that is what you need for home automation. But it’s still a geeky system, compared to Philips Hue or Apple Home. And that’s fine, but do I want my lights controlled, during 3 weeks holiday abroad, by such a system? My setup uses mostly Hue lights, switches and a sensor. This is controlled by the Philips Hue bridge, which connects to Apple Home through Homekit. I think this is a setup used by many, and the configuration is very simple with the Home app. With thisRead More →

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Modern cryptography is key to modern on line communications. This area of IT looks very complex and daunting to many, so it’s always a good start to get the basics right. I’m not gonna use much words for explaining, others have done that much better. Communicate secretly requires encryption so others cannot read it. Encryption uses some secret or key. Both sides need to have this key. So far, nothing new here. Has been done like that for thousands of years. But wait, what is missing here… Right, knowing who is who or trust. Without trust, I might send a secret message to the wrongRead More →

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The IPv6 prefix I got from my ISP in Denmark did not stick, as explained here. Well, Google revealed that my ISP expects IAID to be 1 (one), when requesting a prefix using DHCPv6. The mechanism around IAID is explained in RFC3633. And guess what, the DHCPv6 client in my Mikrotik router requests a prefix with IAID 2 (two), not 1. This IAID is a number associated with the interface, and in my case WAN interface “ether1” has IAID: 2. You can find your IAID as follows: “:put [/interface find where name=“ether1”]”. I have not found a way to change this mapping in RouterOS. RouterOSRead More →

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In Denmark, FTTH is common. The fiber-providers each have an area that they connect. There is no overlap, unlike in the Netherlands where some households have multiple fibers sticking out of the pavement. These fiber-providers provide services for a few different ISP’s, some regional and some nationwide. These are the broadband options at my location from the “CheckYourNetwork” website, prepared by the Agency for Digitisation (Digitaliseringsstyrelsen). My location is connected by EWII, a local energy company that also provides internet service. You have a “Fiberboks” somewhere in your house that terminates the fiber and provides an ethernet connection. I went with EWII for their internetRead More →