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KSaccullo01

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Just upgraded from and isy 994 to eisy. The overall upgrade went well, keeping I mind I tend to void warranties and open boxes that say no user serviceable parts inside 😊.

Before doing the upgrade, I removed the zwave devices from the ISY. Then I did a backup. The backup sans Zwave devices is what I used on eisy. My reason is I only have a few zwave devices and I wanted to include them with S2 security (no current migration path from S0 to S2 without removing and reinstalling). The only issued I encountered was with one of two Schlage locks. Lock on house worked fine. The one on a detached garage did not. The one on the detached garage worked fine with the ISY at S0, i think. But it would not work with the EISY at S2 (yes. it is a new model that is S2 compliant). I could only make it work with all the garage door open (no metal blocking the signal). Adding a module in between did not help.

Suggestion:

1)      Allow the ability to choose (force) S0 security. S0 was grayed out. I could only do S2 or none. I tried with and without “Use secure inclusion” check box and with and without S2 on the inclusion pop-up box. The none option on all the variations I tried only showed an “entry” none and no controls (lock, unlock , etc) in the admin panel.

2)      Can an easy way be made to store the eisy backup configuration on the internal nvme drive? And back up from it? No samba with mapings…

Question:

1)      Why does the SSH console always stay at admin / admin even when changing the login user and password? I’m guessing for UD to be able to troubleshoot, but it still sems odd. Just needs a master reset.

2)      I see eisy is running ver 13.1-RELEASE-p7. Can I apply any patches or upgrade to 13.2 without problems? Looks like eisy maybe running a custom kernel. I don’t want to trash eisy if a generic kernel wont work (as tempting as it is, I won’t ask what is customized).

Main reason for question 2, I installed a jail. Playing with minidlna for a simple music server. 1)     Normally I run Emby with dlna on my full sized freebsd box but want to play. Side note the jail is on a nvme drive installed in the eisy unit.

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21 hours ago, KSaccullo01 said:

1)      Why does the SSH console always stay at admin / admin even when changing the login user and password? I’m guessing for UD to be able to troubleshoot, but it still sems odd. Just needs a master reset.

you're free to change the password, just log in via ssh and type passwd at a prompt and follow the prompt.  You'll still be using the admin account tho, you can create other users also, but i'm not certain you need to unless you want to run something isolated.

21 hours ago, KSaccullo01 said:

2)      I see eisy is running ver 13.1-RELEASE-p7. Can I apply any patches or upgrade to 13.2 without problems? Looks like eisy maybe running a custom kernel. I don’t want to trash eisy if a generic kernel wont work (as tempting as it is, I won’t ask what is customized).

Probably not advisable.  although things should be backward compatible you should probably let UD handle updates.

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For brians:

A jail is similar to a Linux container or a very light weight vm (not entirely accurate but close enough for a starting point). It is a good way to separate out services and application from the main system.

On my primary freebsd server, nothing, zero, nada on on the main system. I have a samba share, Emby server, Nextcloud server all running in there own jails on the main system.

Makes maintenance easy. Keeping a copy of a working service is easy, especially if single jail port upgrade goes bad.

Only rule on jails I bend is use of a single shared ZFS raid for the emby and Samba share via nullfs. On the shared media directory I used a chflags to minimize mistakes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD_jail

 

Mr Bill:

Thanks for the ssh login change. I was being lazy and just figured the main UI console would do it.

I'll take your advice and let UD do the updates. System is working.

I kept a copy of 13.1 base and port files. Those will work for the jail, as a jail must be the same or lower version of the host.

 

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