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I am trying to capture costs for starting into homelab/selfhosting.

VPNs, search engines, absolutely everything and anything.

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can, but there are issues. As you travel and change towers, that vpn connection has to tear down and be rebuilt on the next IP. Towers are only a couple miles apart best case so at 60, any realtime ip communication gets bad. She doesn't love running the client full time and just wants to see the ip cameras.

The real solution would be simply stand up an haproxy with https and require a specific certificate to communicate. which i can do... but why when i'd just want to donate to home assistant anyway.

[–] tjoa@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Your last paragraph is explanation enough I agree. But tbh the phone tower thing sounds like an edge case. Yes, if your wife is watching the live feed of the cameras and is sitting on a highspeed train it will happen but that doesn’t sound like a very likely scenario to me. Although I probably underestimate the times you are actually moving while checking the cameras. Cuz idle time on transportation is a good time to do that. Anyways thanks for keeping the lights in the Casa turned on.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

But tbh the phone tower thing sounds like an edge case.

The vpn drops and renegotiates, if you're on a facetime, if you're on a meet, if you're listening to streaming radio.