Month: January 2023

A little karaoke search, improved

January 10, 2023 by

#coding, #development, #portfolio, #projects, #tech, #WebDesign

My partner occasionally hosts some karaoke, and lately has been using software from OpenKJ, which is pretty nifty. The creator of that project released, some time back, a request service you can pay to use — it lets you upload your song library from the main software, and then lets people search and request songs while you’re hosting.

They also released a little standalone version of this that you can host yourself, which is right up my alley, so I’ve done that. However, it hasn’t been updated since 2018, and while the API hasn’t changed, the interface is a little wonky and not great on mobile. So for a while, I’ve been meaning to fork it and improve it…

Caddy on OpenWrt with access to LuCI

January 3, 2023 by

Adam Piontek

#caddy, #LuCI, #networking, #openwrt, #router, #tech, #webserver

After getting OpenWrt working on my EdgeRouter 4, since I’ve grown accustomed to the flexibility & ease of Caddy in other situations, I wondered if I could use it in this case. Turns out, yes! Especially thanks to Siger Yang’s notes and this cgi-ubus script. I had to make some adjustments on top of what Yang describes, so here’s what worked for me:

OpenWrt on Ubiquiti EdgeRouter 4 (ER-4)

January 3, 2023 by

Adam Piontek

#edgerouter, #networking, #openwrt, #router, #tech, #ubiquiti

Mid-2021 I noticed it seems like Ubiquiti has quietly discontinued their EdgeRouter lines (they’re increasingly sold out, there haven’t been firmware updates in a while), and since I like to keep my devices’ firmware up to date I became a little concerned.

In looking for solutions I eventually found I could extend the life of my EdgeRouter 4, which is otherwise pretty solid hardware, by installing OpenWrt. Luckily I already had a USB-to-serial cable on hand, and with that it was pretty straightforward, following the OpenWrt project’s instructions for EdgeRouter devices.