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    VPN required in country that restricts VPNs.

    Amnezia is the way, host it on a cheap Hetzner VPS
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    All things Sunsynk (Deye, Inge, etc...)

    Same thing happened to mine, it turned out the wifi logger board was faulty and pulling the control circuit down. Took it to Deye service centre in Kyalami Park, was fixed 3 days later under warranty
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    Call for Beta Testers: Africa's Fastest VPS Hosting?

    I'll try
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    Home Assistant : Q&A, Tips & Tricks, Your Configs

    thanks everyone, will give it a go
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    Home Assistant : Q&A, Tips & Tricks, Your Configs

    Haven't looked all the way up the thread so maybe this has been discussed before, but anyone got an elegant way to measure water level in a 2000L Jojo style tank? I did some reading online but haven't been able to locate a similar sensor (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005409889313.html)...
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    Recommendation of a WISP

    You can get wireless business broadband on MTN's Tarana network, which has national coverage. We just took a service from Web Squad/Wecom and the performance is fibre-like, reach out to them
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    Home Assistant : Q&A, Tips & Tricks, Your Configs

    i've had some issus with Solar assistant where the IP address changes to a random number in the same subnet but an address outside of the DHCP server scope. I can access the device via it's proxy URL, but functions like MQTT etc stop working. A reboot solves it but it is frustrating because it...
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    e-sim for international travel

    I have been using Vodacom's roaming package on a prepaid eSim. R99/GB for 7 days or R349/5GB, similiar to Airalos pricing and less admin, just load airtime from your internet banking and the bundle automatically activates. Also breaks out in SA so works great in China, Saudi, UAE for VoIP etc
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    Is AbsoluteHosting down?

    I have engaged them about BGP/networking issues a couple of times in the last few days but their seems to be some denial, the response is "our monitoring does not pick up any issue", it's good to see that I'm not insane.
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    Switch Telecom is not up to the hype!

    Switch is amazing, been with them for over 10 years and never a single outage
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    Best VPN/Tunnel Solution for VSAT (Yahsat)

    You can do this with ZeroTier, easiest is with ARM based Mikrotik's like CCR2004 at each end
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    Dual Wan Failover (when hosting webservices)

    not true - cloudflare tunnel is free to use
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    Dual Wan Failover (when hosting webservices)

    a Cloudflare tunnel would also work without the complexity of self hosting a proxy of sorts
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    Pfsense Hardware in South Africa

    You can get similar hardware from CME - https://www.cme.co.za/shop/category/industrial-pc-embedded-computing-firewall-systems-15685
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    VPS beta testers required

    +1
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