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If you are the owner of an avm router, you can setup a dynamic DNS service with the fritzbox.
Recently my current dyndns provider no-ip had an outage, and it took me around one hour to detect the root cause of the problem. The service guys of no-ip responded fast, I have to admit. But it took one complete day till the service was finally back.
So I was looking for another solution. And was successful with the service of avm.
I will explain the necessary steps setting up the service.
First you have to configure the MyFritz account by opening your fritzbox and going to „Internet/MyFritz! Konto“.
There you enter the credentials as requested and show in the screen shots:
You can also configure specific users only accessing the fritzbox from the internet and you can configure an SSL certificate using LetsEncrypt (recommended.
Then you configure the port forwarding from the MyFritz!Konto IP address to the device behind your fritzbox, in my case a raspberryPi3:
After that is all done, you are ready to set the domain forwarding at your domain provider. The interface may vary based on your domain provider management GUI.
Another advantage is also that you don’t have an outage of your site when your IP address is changed by the ISP, as the router immediately recognizes that and reconfigures the entries in the MyFritz!-Account data base.
The MyFritz! Account is a very good solution for a dynamic DNS service with a fritzbox.
Recently I had some problems with the fritz service. Either there were outages for a few hours or I had to disconnect from the service and reconnect again. So I was going for a backup solution.
And I found a very good free service dyndns.de that is running now for some time without any problems.
This means I have setup now two Dynamic DNS services to connect to.
For switching between these two services I just have to change the CNAME entry in the DNS service of my hosting provider as shown above.
What is the effect of the US embargo against Huawei?
They are even faster developing and delivering their own Android based mobil operating system called Huawei Hongmeng OS. And they are developing it further, of course. The first comparisons between Android and Hongmeng OS are in preparation and starting.
Of course they will not rely any longer on any deliveries from the US and try to get more and more independent from any US based parts.
They already have delivered one million devices with this new operating system.
To gain some time and also that the US companies still can make some business, they are implementing workarounds.
The users will know how to deal with the new Huawei Hongmeng OS, for sure.
After some time of investigation and reseach, I think I have found and implemented a quite nice solution in my IT home network in respect to a multiroom sound and media solution.
I have compiled a few static pages on my home page explaining the details.
In total the complete environment including the web server consists now of three Raspberry Pi 3 B+ devices and one very cute Raspberry Pi Zero W device.
The software is based mainly on max2play.
Check out the details of my multiroom sound and media solution and let me know if I can help you with any setup or recommandation on your side.
It’s not so easy to compile a multiroom sound setup. Let’s go through a few options that are currently available.
Furthermore we will also discuss the use case of moving the setup to an outdoor environment, e. g. for a party.
If you wanna connect multiple speakers via Bluetooth, you have to be aware that the physical connection works mostly only to a distance of up to 10m.
Second, the devices you wanna control the Bluetooth loudspeakers very often allow only a point to point connection based on Bluetooth.
The Samsung galaxy S8 allows 2 Bluetooth connections at the same time, but this is not a big help for setting up multiple rooms.
With WLAN you obviously have also some constraints in the reach, but this can be solved with wlan repeaters.
You can use either directly a (w)lan speaker or you attach a (w)lan to voice conversion device to every speaker.
The following options I have found so far for such a device :
All the solutions are not so cheap.
A multiroom sound setup depends first on the hardware. Independant software solutions without requiring specific hardware are not easy to find.
What looks quite promising are two free software solutions:
There are plenty of bluetooth enabled speakers avalailable on the market. It depends more on the other use cases (outdoor, indoor, sound quality, fixed or movable) which speaker is the best solution for you.
Also there are plenty of speakers now available with built in WLAN capabilities.
For going outdoor you should select speakers that can handle water, like e.g. the Sony SRS-XB31.
Also setting up a WLAN including a router and connecting the speakers is not so easy to handle.
In this case it maybe makes more sense to restrict oneself to a bluetooth party chain solution only. This is some offering by Sony.
Some people, of course, have an already existing environment and want to upgrade or extend it.
A very good description how this can be done is given by Euronics.
A very good overview for commercial and complete proprietary solutions is given by Conrad.
If you are fine with using the Mac or a windows machine as a server, Airfoil is a quite nice solution.
You can stream any application running on your server synchronously to plenty of devices, including multiple bluetooth devices.
I’m going for the max2play solution now.
Yes, it’s more costly as you have to have multiple Raspberry clients running. But you are more flexible as well.
And it makes more fun playing around with the Raspis 😉
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