Ah yes that makes sense. I was taken aback by my latest install of freepbx. I feel it wasn’t as aggressive during the Digium days but it definitely left a bad taste in my mouth.

I heard good things about free switch, although it seems like a paradigm change. I’ll have to check it out.

Interesting - why avoid asterisk?

I looked into fusion to play with but I’ve been using asterisk casually since like the 00s with no issues.

Ok. Probably echo link then. In short - the repeater uses the internet as another transport. Other repeaters can link up, or you can even use their application to activate repeaters right from your computer.

You can also do similar things with other digital modes (DMR etc) but they require special radios that speak that standard.

What band mode and frequency?

Parks On The Air.

Essentially a spotting/sked network for people operating out of state parks. You can “hunt” stations from home or you can “activate” a park by visiting one with your equipment, setting up and making 10 (IIRC) contacts. It’s a nice way to get out and explore some local parks!

https://docs.pota.app

There’s also SOTA - summits on the air, which is similar but operates from the tops of mountains.

Right on. I’ll keep an eye out for ya!

Congrats! If you haven’t yet, check out pota. Gives a nice little set of goals and community for outdoor operating.

And start studying for your general! The test isn’t much more difficult than Tech but the increase in privileges is night and day!

Excellent! Nice work.

I don’t know what dns rebind is but once DNS A records are pointed to the right place then it’s just a matter of setting up the rest of your stuff.

Is that expected? Otherwise check to make sure DNS settings for the domain are correct (eg ns records dig NS example.com IIRC).

First off - you don’t explicitly say so I just want to double check - you’re not using example.com as the actually domain correct?

If not the next thing to do would be to check out what DNS is doing. You can use the dig command to see what IP address is being returned for the domains you’re trying to hit.

dig +trace may be useful as well.

I like monit. It’s simple to setup and pretty flexible.

https://mmonit.com/monit/

A little bit of a different tack but check out getting into ham radio. There are a lot of kits out there that are reasonably easy to assemble and provide some good documentation on what you’re assembling.

And when you’re done you can talk to people all over the world with what you made!

Not a particularly helpful comment but I struggled with this kinda thing until switching to Node Red. It made complex things much easier to get working.

I did 1300 queries which I think would put it at .007 cents per query. Sounds reasonable to me.

I always fear it comes across that way when I recommend it to people here. I’m just a very happy user and want to see them succeed.

They now have unlimited searches for $10/mo. That’s what got me to try it out.

You are correct though. I really do not like having all of my search history tied to my credit card (and then me). What helps me justify that is that instead of me being the product like google, by paying I’ve become the customer. Hopefully that incentivizes keeping them on the up and up.

I did come across searnxg in this thread. It looks like that can be self hosted so I’m gonna give that a try as well.

Come on over to Kagi! You do have to pay but I use a search engine dozens of times per day so I’m not too bothered by it.

There’s nothing really bad with PiHole but I moved from it to AdGuard, both on proxmox. The UI brought me in, makes management a bit easier. It also supports DoH right out of the box.

Try em both. See what you think.

I don’t know for hosting but if you want to get something running quickly Hugo has theme support:

https://gohugo.io

Otherwise you could whip up a few html pages and use tailwindcss to help make things look a little nicer.

https://tailwindcss.com

Or just do everything manually :)

Can you use json_attributes instead of the state for the value?

Give this a read for some ideas:

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/rest-sensor-state-max-length-is-255-characters/31807/20