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Chromecast Radio with Home Assistant and Node-RED

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Telenet, our local cable provider, decided that analog cable radio is dead and everyone should switch to either DAB (Digital Radio over the air) or DVB-C (Digital Radio via coaxial cable). For me, that’s a bit of an issue: DAB radio is fine, but requires good reception. Our house is rather well insulated so radio reception is crap at best DVB-C radio would require buying yet another device...

Using WireGuard on Synology DiskStations

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I used to use Synology VPN on my NAS (in OpenVPN mode) as an entrypoint into my local network when I’m away from home. This worked fine, up to a few weeks ago - at that point I kept getting AUTH FAILED errors, even though nothing had changed.

Telenet and Unifi

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Some months back a friend of mine wanted to switch over to the Unifi platform (which I’ve been using now for about a year), and get it to play nice with his Telenet ISP setup aswell.