Zone Based Firewall A Candid Discussion Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-10-12 | Thanks to Tom Lawrence of Lawrence Systems for clarifying an issue that I ran into on yesterday's tutorial. I am leaving it live, however I have updated the show notes. This is an ad-hoc discussion about the Zone Based Firewall.------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
Unifi Zone Based Firewall FAIL (FIXED NOW!) Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-10-12 | The Unifi Zone Based Firewall (ZBF) is a very powerful, but simplified mechanism for managing firewall rules on Unifi Gateways. Sadly, ZBF policies are not always properly executed. BIG GLARING NOTE: BE SURE TO READ THE SHOW NOTES. I WAS IN ERROR AND THANKS TO TOM LAWRENCE OF LAWRENCE SYSTEMS FOR POINTING OUT THE PROPER ZBF CONFIGURATION.Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/unifi-zone-based-firewall-fail/690------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
My Take on AI Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-10-08 | Just a few comments on my take on the AI revolution.------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
Link Aggregation for Bandwidth & Resilience Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-09-26 | Link aggregation allows combining multiple network interfaces into one. In this tutorial we learn how to link aggregate the bridge0 device introduced in "Incus Containers Step by Step". Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/link-aggregation-lacp-for-bandwidth-resilience/686------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
Remote Assistance Tools for the Home Lab - MeshCentral Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-09-19 | I use Apache Guacamole, Remotely, and Rustdesk for open source self hosted remote assistance tools. This time I show how to install and configure MeshCentral for the Home Lab and for remote assistance.Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/remote-assistance-tools-for-the-home-lab-meshcentral/683------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
Run Tails OS in Incus Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-09-13 | This tutorial uses Tails OS as an example of booting via Legacy ROM Bios using the Open Source SeaBIOS with the new Incus 6.16 CD Rom emulation.Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/running-tails-os-in-an-incus-virtual-machine/681------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
Using Incus Profiles for VLANs Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-09-09 | Your Incus server is normally hosted on your main LAN. This tutorial shows how to host containers on different VLANs.Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/using-incus-profiles-for-vlans/680-----------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
Super Easy Windows 11 Install in an Incus VM Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-09-06 | The new Incus 6.16 release supports CD-ROM handling for VM's. This means that Distrobuilder is no longer required to create an Incus Windows 11 Virtual Machine.Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/super-easy-windows-11-install-in-an-incus-vm/679------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
What are VLANs? (and how to use them) Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-09-04 | In this video we learn how to configure VLAN Adapters in Windows 11, Ubuntu 24.04, and in an Incus container. Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/what-are-vlans-and-how-to-use-them/677------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
TrueNAS Storage Driver for Incus Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-08-31 | Incus 6.16 Introduces a new TrueNAS Storage Driver which allows block oriented Incus storage pools to be created and used from a TrueNAS dataset. Since TrueNAS backend storage is zfs, this is particularly well suited for Incus. The TrueNAS Storage driver for Incus accesses the TrueNAS storage via iSCSI.Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/truenas-storage-driver-for-incus/676------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
Incus Server Exception Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-08-16 | My Incus server refused to log me in via ssh or allow sudo commands. This is a tutorial on isolating the problem and finding a solution. The show notes go into more detail.Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/incus-server-exception-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-bomb/674------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
Minisforum N5 Pro NAS Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-08-12 | The Minisforum N5 Pro is of the first AI NAS's. What does that even mean? Do you need an AI NAS?------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
Self Hosted Unifi OS Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-08-06 | The new self hosted Unifi OS is a game changer that allows managing one or more non-cloud Unifi Gateways from one location. This is added value for Managed Service Providers (MSP) who deploy Unifi infrastructure to their customers. This is the first guide to installing Unifi OS to a container.Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/self-hosted-unifi-os-in-an-incus-container/673------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
Swap a Drive Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-07-31 | This is a step by step tutorial on how to replace a smaller drive with a larger drive on an Ubuntu server. I also include the steps to enlarging an Incus Virtual Storage pool.Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/swap-a-drive-in-an-ubuntu-server-for-a-larger-drive/671-----------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
Self Hosted Image & Video Converter Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-07-23 | ConvertX is a self-hosted image/video Converter that allows you to convert images and video files to other formats. By self-hosting this application, you won’t have to upload your files to online utilities in order to convert them, thus increasing your personal privacy.Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/convertx-self-hosted-image-video-converter/663------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
Run a CATT Server Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-07-19 | Google Chromecast devices were introduced in 2013 and provide a means to "cast" content to any Chromecast compatible device. In this tutorial, we discuss the Cast All The Things (CATT) utility to "cast" content under program control.Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/run-a-cast-all-the-things-catt-server/659------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
Jellyfin with Live TV Guide Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-07-13 | Jellyfin is a great Open source media server. In this tutorial we learn how to install Jellyfin and configure an HDHomeRun tuner for live TV with TV Guide data from Schedules Direct that automatically stays up to date.Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/jellyfin-with-live-tv-guide/657------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
Navidrome as an Incus OCI Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-07-06 | Navidrome is a music server that is like having your own private open source self-hosted "Spotify" for your personal music library for music tracks that you own and store locally.Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/navidrome-as-an-incus-oci-container/654------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
Disk Image Tricks 101 Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-06-29 | This time I show how to leverage Incus block oriented custom volumes for applications both inside and outside Incus. Understanding how to leverage Home Lab Intrastructure tools improves your problem solving skills.Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/disk-image-tricks-101-leveraging-incus-custom-volumes/651------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
Windows Users to Linux Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-06-25 | Come October 14, 2025 Windows 10 is at End of Life (EOL) and will no longer receive security patches. This video discusses considerations regarding Home Lab users in moving to Linux at the desktop.------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
My UDM Pro & an Interesting Issue Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-06-21 | Just a few words about Unifi-OS and a recent problem that I experienced.------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
Home Assistant OS in Incus 101 Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-06-17 | Home Assistant Supervised and Home Assistant Core (Python) as well as all 32 bit HA installation types are being deprecated at the end of 2025. In this tutorial, I show how to create an Incus Virtual Machine for HA-OS. BE SURE TO READ THE UPDATED NOTES SINCE THE VIDEO.Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/home-assistant-os-in-incus-101/648------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
Camera Motion Time Lapse Web Server Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-06-12 | In my previous Unifi Protect Camera API video, I showed how to create a proxy web server to generate snapshots from a Unifi Protect Camera. As a part of that, I showed the use of a custom web server to store consecutive snapshots from a camera as a timestamped motion event managed by a Hubitat Elevation hub. In this tutorial we are going to learn how to configure that application.Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/camera-motion-time-lapse-web-server/644------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
Unifi Protect Camera API Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-06-07 | This is an introduction into a use case on how to use the Unifi Protect API to create a Proxy web server to obtain camera still snapshots from Unifi Protect cameras.Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/unifi-protect-camera-api/640------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
Speedtest Tracker Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-06-01 | Speedtest-Tracker is a web based interface designed to analyze the performance of your ISP connections. Speedtests can be run according to a user defined interval or on demand.Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/speedtest-tracker-watch-your-isp-performance-history/633------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
Checkcle for Monitoring Homelabs Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-05-30 | Checkcle is an application to monitor your Homelab service status and to notify you when services are down or your SSL certificates have problems.Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/checkcle-for-monitoring-homelabs/632------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
List My Subnet Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-05-20 | Want a simple Script to discover all of the systems on your network and list then by DNS Name, IP Address, and Mac address?Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/list-my-subnet-a-script-to-discover-active-ips/630------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
VRRP for Failover & Redundancy Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-05-17 | Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) is most commonly used for network gateway redundancy between multiple ISPs, Firewall failover, and failover for key services. In this tutorial I show how to use VRRP for your self-hosted applications.Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/virtual-router-redundancy-protocol-vrrp-for-failover-redundancy/629------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
Its Always DNS in Containers Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-05-14 | In this tutorial we learn how to make local DNS work properly on your incus/LXD containers or even on desktops. Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/its-always-dns-in-containers-or-on-desktops-for-that-matter/627------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
LXConsole in an Incus OCI Container Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-04-24 | Many of you have asked, why do I choose to nest docker applications inside of incus containers rather than using Incus OCI containers? This presentation demonstrates installing LXConsole as an OCI container to see the differences. Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/lxconsole-in-an-incus-oci-container/617------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
Lab Dash Home Lab Dashboard Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-04-14 | Lab Dash is a new Home Lab Dashboard which can be configured completely via the GUI like Heimdall. I look forward to additional features as this project develops.Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/lab-dash-home-lab-dashboard/615------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
Resize an Ubuntu Server and an Incus Storage Pool Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-04-09 | By default an Ubuntu Server creates a root partition using logical volume manager (LVM) that is only 100GB even on a large disk. This is to leave room on the primary disk for other partitions since LVM storage can span multiple partitions and disks. In this tutorial we learn how to expand the root partition of an LVM and also how to enlarge a virtual zfs incus default storage pool to take advantage of the additional space.Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/resize-an-ubuntu-server-and-an-incus-storage-pool/613------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
JetKVM on an Ubuntu Laptop Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-03-26 | Using a JetKVM to perform a laptop configuration is helpful. However, by default the JetKVM will show up as your second display. If you close your laptop lid, the Laptop will go into "suspend" preventing it from being accessed from the JetKVM. Here's a solution.Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/jetkvm-on-an-ubuntu-laptop/611------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
Incus Address Magic Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-03-21 | It is important to have DHCP Address Reservations and local DNS Names for your Incus containers on which you implement your self hosted applications. This short tutorial highlights a helpful script to assist with this.Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/incus-address-magic/603------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
Ubiquiti Unifi Site to Site VPNs Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-03-12 | Unifi Site to Site VPNs are easy to configure and very functional. In this video, I show how to create a site to site VPN between a UDM Pro Max and a "non-cloud" UXG-Max. I also show how to allow a Wireguard client connected to the UDM Pro Max access to all addresses on both sides of the site to site connection.------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
Karakeep (Hoarder)- Web Based Notes Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-03-09 | Karakeep (previously Hoarder)is a web based application that you can self host which is useful to store web page links, screen shots, and textual notes. UPDATE: HOARDER HAS APPS IN THE GOOGLE PLAY STORE & APPLE APP STORE THAT TALK TO THE HOARDER SERVER.Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/hoarder-web-based-notes/558------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
Warp AI Terminal in Ubuntu Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-03-06 | AI Tools are becoming Common. Warp AI Terminal is an AI terminal in which you can type ordinary textual inquires and they are converted into one or more linux commands to accomplish your tasks.Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/warp-ai-terminal-in-ubuntu/549------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
PaperlessNGX Document Management Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-03-02 | PaperlessNGX is an open source web based document management system. In this tutoral, I show how to install PaperlessNGX in an Incus container.Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/paperlessngx-document-management/548------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
Incus Storage 101 Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-02-27 | Incus uses storage pools for containers, virtual machines, images, profiles, and metadata to support container management. In this tutorial we learn how to work with custom volumes and also how to examine the storage utilization of containers and custom volumes.Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/incus-storage-101/547------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
Pingvin: Self Hosted File Transfer (Not WeTransfer) Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-02-24 | WeTransfer is a public cloud hosted service with advertisements and a paywall. In this tutorial we learn how to install and configure Pingvin, a self-hosted, privacy-centric file transfer portal called Pingvin. Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/self-hosted-file-transfer-not-wetransfer/546------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
Incus ZFS Block Storage Pools Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-02-14 | "Incus Containers Step by Step" covered creating the default storage pool as a virtual file system rather than having a dedicated disk for your incus storage pool. This tutorial shows how to migrate a block oriented zfs file system to a larger disk.Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/incus-zfs-block-storage-pools/544------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
Self Hosted Private AI ChatBot Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-02-02 | Learn how to run your own private, self-hosted A! ChatBot similar to ChatGPT.Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/self-hosted-private-ai-chatbot/533------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
Display a Camera Easily Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-01-31 | There are all kinds of apps to display video from cameras. This tutorial shows how to display an RTSP camera stream using FFmpeg. I demonstrate this powerful and easy functionality in both Ubuntu and Windows 11. Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/how-to-display-a-camera-easily/531------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
Ubiquiti Unifi Protect 3rd Party Cameras Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-01-26 | This is a discussion about how to avoid problems with using 3rd party IP cameras on Ubiquiti Unifi Protect when those cameras are on a VLAN.------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
JetKVM Use Case Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-01-18 | This is a follow-on to my "JetKVM is Awesome" video. This time I explore options to control the power on a JetKVM hosted computer.------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
JetKVM is Awesome Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-01-15 | An "IP KVM" is a nice addition to ANY Home Lab. JetKVM is a brand new IP KVM with great features and an unbeatable price. ------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
Self hosted Teleprompter Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-01-11 | This is a web-based Teleprompter program which could be useful to content providers or those who present live speeches. Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/self-hosted-web-based-teleprompter/527------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
Change Detection for Websites Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-01-08 | ChangeDetection is a program that tracks changes to web page content. Home Lab users will find this handy to alert when there is a new version of a self-hosted software package. In addition, it can track price changes and in stock status for retail product offerings.Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/change-detection-for-websites/526------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
Resize a Linux Disk Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2025-01-04 | Upgrading to a larger disk is something we all have to do eventually. In this tutorial we talk about how to expand the partitions and file systems on the new drive to take advantage of the space.Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/resize-a-linux-system-disk/523------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
Custom Rescuezilla Bootable USB Scotti-BYTE Enterprise Consulting Services 2024-12-29 | This video is a teaching moment on configuring a live USB for Rescuezilla for persistent data in order to bake in support for iSCSI backups in Rescuezilla.Show Notes:discussion.scottibyte.com/t/custom-rescuezilla-bootable-usb/516------------Come visit us at: scottibyte.comDiscourse: : discussion.scottibyte.comRocketChat: chat.scottibyte.com
