ipfire is a good alternative to opensense because its simpler to use imo.
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exu@feditown.com 1 week ago
Unless you have fiber from your ISP you need a modem to translate from the TV or phone cable to Ethernet.
I’m not a fan of openWRT. I’d recommend you go look at NUC-style x86 mini PCs with multiple network ports instead and install OPNsense. I find the web interface much more intuitive than LuCI
doctorflynt@feddit.org 1 week ago
jjlinux@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
This, some PoE switches, some grand stream APs, and it’s off to fully owning your network and never looking back.
Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I am looking at PoE switches, some PoE Access Points, and cameras actually.
A group near me does hardware auctions and has tons of Extreme Network APs that I think are PoE supported, but they keep dodging my requests.
jjlinux@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Good luck. I hope you can get those on the cheap. I ended up wiring everything I could in the house, including streaming devices, consoles PCs, etc. The APs are basically only handling phones, tablets and some wifi IoT switches (matter over WiFi) to my home Assistant. Everything else is wired. I could not be happier. 11 PoE cameras, my wife almost had a heart attack when she saw that invoice 🤣