January 2, 2023

Learning Docker on the Pi

Learning Project: Securing Remote Access to Home Network

I had a recent need to update the Raspberry Pi running Cloudflare tunnels to the edge of my home and camera networks. I figured I might as well use the opportunity to run services in containers, and get some hands on experience with Docker.

I also figured that I’d run the Pi-hole DNS black hole and ad blocker too.

I anticipated that I’d learn how to:

September 12, 2021

Zero Trust Access to Cameras

How to Control Access to Your Cameras

Now that you’ve assembled and configured your cameras, you’ll want to be able to view them from the internet. But how to do that?

Some options you have:

Option	Difficulty	Security Considerations
Leave Port(s) open	Easy	Greatest exposure / highest risk
VPN	Medium	Limits exposure to 1 port
Cloudflare Teams	Medium	No open ports

Cloudflare Teams and Tunnel

Cloudflare tunnels is a zero trust service. That’s buzzwordy for you’ll have to authenticate every time you want to connect to view your cameras. Your device isn’t trusted, and there’s no client to trust.

June 30, 2021

motionEyeOS

I chose to use motionEyeOS for my security camera OS because it’s:

purpose built for cameras on the Raspberry Pi
it has all the features that I was looking for in a home-built security camera, including motion detection
there’s also a lot of documenation online that can help with questions you might run into

Installation

I am using a Raspberry Pi Zero W and a NoIR camera, so if you’re using something different, you might have a different experience.

June 30, 2021

Raspberry Pi Security Cameras: the plan

Home Security Cameras with Raspberry Pi Zero

This will be easy.

– me

Raspberry Pi Security Camera

It all began innocently enough. I thought it would be cool to make a little security camera to put in the garage attic to look down on my driveway. I’d get a NoIR so it could work in low light levels. I’d get a Pi Zero so it’d be small. Yeah, that should be easy.

June 28, 2021

Hugo 1

Looks like it’s time to learn Markdown

I’ve been working on some projects that I think are share-worthy so I decided it was time to revamp my site. I wanted something that’s simple and fast to load.

Since I’m already a Cloudflare customer (and stock holder), I thought I’d give Pages a test run. I was able to setup a very quick Jekyll project, but ultimately decided to go with Hugo as the static site generator.

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