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Definitely trying this. Brought our UPS to the hotel to charge it up.
Update: it worked! We were able to save our sopping filthy clothes. ;-)
Nice :)
LG washing machine sending 3.7GB of data a day
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Re: LG washing machine sending 3.7GB of data a day
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Having a little UPS handy might be useful if you have power outages. You could just plug the machine into it to unlock it. Ridiculous, but an idea.
Definitely trying this. Brought our UPS to the hotel to charge it up.
By the way, you can also get a little 1000-2000 watt inverter on Amazon for less than $200. It can run off your car battery. Great for emergencies, cheaper than a generator for short term usage. I've used mine to run a stick welder and air compressor in the middle of nowhere.
Re: LG washing machine sending 3.7GB of data a day
#253LG washing machines are the bane of my existence today because we have a power outage that will last for quite a while, clothes inside the washer, in water, and a locked lid. So far I haven't any way to open the damn thing without taking a hammer to it.
Having a little UPS handy might be useful if you have power outages. You could just plug the machine into it to unlock it. Ridiculous, but an idea.
Jackery with a solar panel is easy enough to store in the garage
Re: LG washing machine sending 3.7GB of data a day
#2543.7GB seems like a lot, but modern appliances are highly efficient, a lot of those bits just circulate between the laundry and the router to cool down between wash cycles ... people just don't understand how much data they use when hand washing clothes, sloshing gigabytes down the drain... (after https://twitter.com/meekaale/status/1744807035454079079 )
It's probably just retrying constantly because it is being blocked by the pihole. It's probably just trying to send a few kb.
I have found many IoT devices don’t play nice when given nxdomain. Often they will respect high TTLs though. Giving them an address with a high TTL that returns an error often silences them nicely.
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My Ubiquiti UniFi UDM is not good at device identification. It's kind of annoying because I have this big list of devices on the network and it's peppered with devices that I know don't exist. I'd appreciate it if it said something like "Maybe iPad Air", instead of just "iPad Pro 2nd Gen" when I know no such device is on my network.
Do the UniFi products just try to use MAC addrs for this, or do passive/active TCP/IP fingerprinting?
I think it’s fingerprinting - if you look in the logs it gives you certainties of different devices that it thinks it might be