I just saw this video re #Starlink, https://youtu.be/izSXVgxgaF8 and I agree, it is pretty cool. And the latency is actually relay good for any satellite system to be honest.

I have it as a backup, but with all backups you have to ensure they are used/tested incase they are not good when you need them.

For me, Starlink is used pretty much 100% for streaming #Stargate and the like on my TV. My router (#FireBrick) has my TV set to always go via Starlink to ensure the backup is being tested.

Here we added the second layer of wool, positioned the brick, and then cut out the propane manifold through the wool.

(OH yes the hash tags)
#class #forge #blacksmithing #diy #helium #FireBrick #ceramicwool #satanite #welding

Cool, I can ping6 my FireBrick from outside via my #Starlink (UK, Wales). Around 30ms response. I have put it in router bypass mode, and indeed, as you would expect, no filtering/firewalling (that is why I have a #FireBrick).

@AlisonW I was once woken up at 06:30 by Royal Mail delivering a #FireBrick from #AAISP!

And one of the libraries I am using has not been touched for years and no longer works with ESP IDF v5.0. Solution is a different library that works (with a few bug fixes). But it is totally different and so my code had to have a lot of changes to work with it. And people wonder why #FireBrick code is written by us from lowest level device drivers upwards.

@Bez78829056 It is just turned on. I have seen RAs for a long time advising DHCPv6, but only recently seen DHCPv6 answer for IA_NA and IA_PD. Currently #FireBrick is not happy with the lack of rapid commit but that will be fixed very soon. But most kit, even just an iPhone, gets an IPv6.

@ben OK, well in this case the broker is my code, hence this coming up at all. #FireBrick

It would be a doddle, obviously, to allow my broker to have a websocket front end connect first then send the raw MQTT packets over web sockets. I may add that anyway.

But to be honest if I managed to do that it will only be a small extra bit of logic to make it send and receive JSON rather than raw MQTT packets.

And that is just way simpler for an app to use with no library needed.

I may do both.

@coopernetes Ha, well, we went further and made our own routers #FireBrick from scratch - coding Ethernet, IP stack, the lot. They are really cool now. But it was hard work, and we have a really good team on it now.

One of these days I'll get the hang of weekends. I have spent this morning making a web socket based MQTT "console" for the #FireBrick web interface. Quite pleased with it so far. Probably needs a few tweaks to be prettier, but will help a lot with people not used to MQTT and not having a handle MQTT command line tool. Alpha release issued.