The Cyber House

If you had a new house, how would you want to architect its network? What kind of tech would you have? Sorry if it has been asked before. I recently bought a home. It needs a little work. I'm kind of overwhelmed by it as it's more space than I've ever had and the opportunities seem endless. My head is swimming with ideas that I don't entirely know how to implement but want to try: >Home server for media and other functions >self contained "smart" technology that doesn't utilize Alexa or Google soykaff >automated greenhouse, kitchen, possible maker space with 3D printer >secure office space

>technology in my house >present day, present time Technology I would have ( dream house ): - a well, driven by manual labor (hand pump / foot pedal) that can be pre-pressurized this way for later use - a range, of the old iron variety - slate roof, possibly? - homemade forge (just clay in a box, basically) - lathe, drill press - a single solar panel for the lathe+drill press if I can't find a manual way to power them - reloading equipment - fleshing post, bins for tanning, possibly some sort of hide-breaking-contraption if I can think of one

>>11352 > My head is swimming with ideas that I don't entirely know how to implement but want to try Take time to work out logistics: how will you implement these ideas? Can you reasonably sustain them? Are they largely self sustainable or do they need quite a bit of maintenance to continue operating? How much time per week will you delegate to these ideas, and how much will you need to? Be realistic about what you can manage. If you plan properly you can start small and expand if and when needed without being overwhelmed. Document everything in an organized manner. Keep redundant backups. This should be considered a LARP, but to answer your question: > If you had a new house, how would you want to architect its network? Very carefully. - pfSense/OPNsense router with firewall. - Hardline Ethernet for just about everything (save for phones). - Separate networks for personal, business, untrusted, and guest devices. - PiHole for network-wide adblocking and tracker mitigation. - Perhaps some sort of anonymiser via network wide Tor/VPN usage. > What kind of tech would you have? As little as possible, to reduce maintenance. By default: - Home server for media streaming and bulk storage/backups. - Dedicated workstation for personal use. - Dedicated workstation for business use. - Dedicated workstation for when traveling. - Various burner machines for untrusted matters. - Various backup machines if/when something breaks. - Workspace to repair said devices if/when they break. Depending on time and resources: - Perhaps a dedicated piracy server using the *ARR stack and a dedicated VPN hosted on a VPS. - Perhaps a Tor relay/bridge/node, and/or equivalents for I2P and other networks. - Perhaps a Syncthing relay. - Perhaps a static personal website, hosted on a computer on my home network and proxied through a VPS. Further reading: > Networking - https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/infrastructure/ - https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/running-an-open-source-home-area-network/ - https://infrablog.lain.la/lainlav23-diagram > Workstation - https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/12/how-and-why-i-stopped-buying-new-laptops/ - https://infrablog.lain.la/article-for-june (Section on Securing Secrets for International Travel) - https://gwern.net/me#software > Alternative networks - https://letsdecentralize.org/

Here's some things I did and found useful: Raspberry pi, connected to outdoor security camera fed through a hole drilled in the wall, running MotionEye, viewed through remote desktop software. Temperature sensors in various locations to monitor near water pipes when it gets very cold I tried some other stuff like motion sensors and computer controlled LED lights and remote notifications but these systems kept breaking in annoying ways, too much maintenance effort and not actually doing anything useful for me. My advice would be to not attempt premature automations; prioritize your efforts based on what will actually benefit your life and start simple. Probably there are non-electronic things that might take priority over smart home stuff, for instance if you don't already own a caulk gun, silicone caulk, wire brush and applicator, you should get them, and look over the exterior of your home for any cracks or possible leaks. Likewise it could be good to have a pipe cutter, plumber's cloth, and sharkbite end caps so that if there is a plumbing failure you can isolate the damaged pipes yourself and be able to keep the water on until a more permanent fix can be worked out.

>no wifi, RF insulated so no neighbor wifi nor cell signal either if possible >ethernet in every room you would ever want it >server hidden in some closet somewhere, with one or several terminals attached via HDMI/USB ports comming out of the walls. A lot of home automation soykaf can still be soykaf even if you diy it. I don't want my lights to need some server to be up for them to turn off and on. But you could I expect do some neat things. Control vents / lights via sensors for where you are, there's all sorts of silly automated coffee pots I've seen mostly from the 80s it feels like but setting up one of those would be neat. Greenhouses and stuff are real projects by themselves letalone 'automatic' ones, and I expect if you dont rather know what you're doing already you'll be in for a rough time learning both gardening and how to automate it at once. Still, could probably setup some handy features, scheduled watering, make sure the space doesnt freeze etc etc.

>>11353 Fpbp Not OP. I have a couple home projects, like a water-powered generator that works with the rainwater that runs off the roof. I am also working on a design for a house with a central water/fire system: a big chimney which works to heat the house on one side and to serve as kitchen fire on the other, while also heating a tank of water that comes from the main supply and provides hot water for the shower and sink if needed.

>a danger room (for hiding in emergencies, like a personal bunker) >a weapons room, with guns, ammo and a 3D printer >a mining room, for mining bitcoin and monero >a work room and a gaming room >many secret passages and hidden doors >a lot of verticality >a few homeservers >many RJ cables for the local network but with green RGB so they look cyberpunk >solar panels for gathering energy >a water well >a green garden space, for relaxing and growing food (or weed) >same idea from OP about a personal smart device, but I would just call it "computer". Like: "Computer! Play my favourite playlist", and he'd answer something like "Yes, master!" Basically a self-sustaining enviroment so I never have to leave. >flood detected

>>11363 Ah, very important also: >built all in concrete in a brutalist style >house surrounded by a garden with trees, tall grass and green plants and leaves >you cannot see where the entrance is from the outside >there is another door after the first before you finally acess the house >offline cameras all around >a Faraday cage like structure all around the house so I'm only conected when I want to >a very powerful antenna for amateur radio, conected to the radio room >two large and well-trained dogs for security >very tall fences with razor wire on top Basically a cyberpunk fortress.

I'd confine the tech to a single room. Maybe a small workshop, next to the study (which would have no electronic devices of any kind). And maybe a TV in some room, but not anywhere near the fireplace/den area. Network would probably be very simple. Big switch in the server rack and ethernet cables running from there into wherever. As for what tech is in the server rack, I'd probably have a basic fileserver/web server and a bunch of funky homemade systems to tinker with. I wouldn't have wifi. Ideally no cell service either. You want to call me, call the IP phone.

>If you had a new house, how would you want to architect its network? No wifi, only ethernet cables. Secure router-modem. >What kind of tech would you have? A water well, a wood stove, an outhouse, a garden, a chicken coop, an electricity generator (wind, solar, hydro, biofuel, whatever). Once those basics are in place, whatever modern conveniences I feel like adding. Someone mentioned a forge. It's actually feasible to smelt your own iron if you have access to bog-iron and know how to build a bloomery.

>>11388 >electricity generator (wind, solar, hydro, biofuel, whatever) >Someone mentioned a forge. It's actually feasible to smelt your own iron if you have access to bog-iron and know how to build a bloomery. Why not build an engine that smelts iron?

>If you had a new house, how would you want to architect its network? One internet connection connected to one computer for the games/shady and one secure computer for what need a clean computer, like personal data and connecting to the bank. Nothing. Else. At all. Anything "smart" must work on a Pi that isn't connected to anything but a captor.

>>11392 The electricity generation I have in mind is small-scale, only enough for a few appliances, maybe some lights, a radio, a battery charger, and whatnot. Smelting iron takes a lot of heat, more than is practical for a small-scale electricity generator. A bloomery requires the least heat of any method for smelting iron that I'm aware of. It does require a lot of pounding the bloom, though, so very labor intensive. If you have access to coal, you can bake it to produce coke, which burns very hot and would make the smelting process quicker and easier. But I'm assuming all I'd have on my property naturally is wood and rocks, and I like to keep things as simple, small-scale, practical, and doable as possible, manageable by one person if need be. And I'm onlyconsidering enough iron for a few small tools: a knife, an axe, a shovel, a pot, etc.

>Weapons Room - Firearms, Crossbows, etc >Library - Books, DVDs, etc >Tech Room - Computers, 1 Petabyte NAS, etc I am otherwise unsure. I won't have a television anywhere except the tech-room or the library, and it won't be a smart TV. I may have a fireplace in the living room, and some shelves+cabinets to the sides like a few houses I've seen, and on the shelves, I would put binders of photos, mostly in 6x4 or 4x6 in size. I could also combine the tech-room and the library, since I wouldn't need *that* much space that I'd want two rooms. The house will be designed to get lighting from windows instead of lights, in fact, I will make sure very little power is actually present within the house except where necessary.