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ChrisD. said:
I have, yeah. Still a few missing features compared to regular image hosting sites, ie, you can now upload multiple images but there's no copy bbcode for all button etc. But the dev is quite responsive, and I've raised a few issues which he's fixed. I'll get around to raising a few more feature requests and no doubt they'll be implemented.
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What 'setup' are you using for security, or just exposing slink to the outside world with signups turned off? ANd which VM type are you using, I've got an older free oracle account so could spin up a VM as well.

I'm running it self hosted (alongside immich public proxy as a secondary method) through a cloudflare tunnel and using cloudflare to limit access to everything but the 'image' sub folder.. but for hosted in a VM in the cloud that might be overkill!
 
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What 'setup' are you using for security, or just exposing slink to the outside world with signups turned off? ANd which VM type are you using, I've got an older free oracle account so could spin up a VM as well.

I'm running it self hosted (alongside immich public proxy as a secondary method) through a cloudflare tunnel and using cloudflare to limit access to everything but the 'image' sub folder.. but for hosted in a VM in the cloud that might be overkill!
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App wise, signups are disabled (actually need to double check that). I might redirect the signup URL to a page not found, on the to do list. I then have it proxied through Cloudflare, so the 'real' public IP is not exposed. I then use an explicit allow rule for port 443 allowing traffic from Cloudflare's IPs only, plus an additional allow rule for port 22 from my home IP for management.

I'm using the Ampere instance which is forever free, running Ubuntu. It's extremely quick, and I've run my blog and a couple of forums from other VMs there for several years without issue. I did once screw something up and I wasn't able to redeploy due to free tier limitations they sometimes enforce, I just upgraded to a paid account which removes those restrictions but if you stay within their free tier limits you'll never pay a penny and I haven't yet.

Running it from home is an option, but free fast cloud? Why not? And it completely removes any security risk.
 
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it logs you out every few months though and i have no idea is the problem..
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I would make sure the Protect app is set to 'unrestricted' for battery optimisation and similarly, if your variant of Android supports it, whitelist the app to prevent background sleeping.

Although a quick Google shows others complaining of the same issue and it appears to be a token/session timeout issue rather than the Android OS itself.
 
ChrisD. said:
App wise, signups are disabled (actually need to double check that). I might redirect the signup URL to a page not found, on the to do list. I then have it proxied through Cloudflare, so the 'real' public IP is not exposed. I then use an explicit allow rule for port 443 allowing traffic from Cloudflare's IPs only, plus an additional allow rule for port 22 from my home IP for management.

I'm using the Ampere instance which is forever free, running Ubuntu. It's extremely quick, and I've run my blog and a couple of forums from other VMs there for several years without issue. I did once screw something up and I wasn't able to redeploy due to free tier limitations they sometimes enforce, I just upgraded to a paid account which removes those restrictions but if you stay within their free tier limits you'll never pay a penny and I haven't yet.

Running it from home is an option, but free fast cloud? Why not? And it completely removes any security risk.
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Thanks..
I tried to spin up an Ampere VM, but it kept saying there aren't enough host resources.. I wasn't sure if that was because I had a terminated old VM from a while back still showing or as it suggests, the servers I'm allocated don't have capacity..

But it would let me spin up a basic arm core VM with the following:
- Docker
- DockGE Container
- Cloudlfared Container
- Slink Container

All went well, I'm using cloudflare zero trust access to limit access to the webUI's and bypassing for the /image subdirectory of slink for public access to images.

Is there any downside to the Ampere, it does say it has 3000 compute hours and bandwidth limits, but not sure if that would affect me..

[edit] I cleared all my old VMs, everything 'terminated' and can't create an Ampere one at the moment due to host capacity.. I'll wait, although the single arm core was pretty good at running slink, I just thought I might as well run other stuff behind a cloudflare tunnel and take some stuff off my NAS that I don't care about..
 
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Demon said:
I tried to spin up an Ampere VM, but it kept saying there aren't enough host resources..
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That's a typical message when you don't have a credit card assigned IIRC. If they're low on resources I guess they impose this, on the chance they get to charge you for something. It's the restriction I mentioned above.
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Is there any downside to the Ampere, it does say it has 3000 compute hours and bandwidth limits, but not sure if that would affect me..
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What shape are you running? I thought Ampere (VM.Standard.A1.Flex) was the only ARM option they have but I haven't dug through it much.
 
ChrisD. said:
That's a typical message when you don't have a credit card assigned IIRC. If they're low on resources I guess they impose this, on the chance they get to charge you for something. It's the restriction I mentioned above.

What shape are you running? I thought Ampere (VM.Standard.A1.Flex) was the only ARM option they have but I haven't dug through it much.
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I've got a credit card assigned, it just says to try 'later' in their FAQ..

You are right though, I totally read it wrong, it's a "VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro" so EPYC.. !

To be fair, running those basic containers, it was pretty quick/responsive, but since you are limited to 2 of those EPYC based VMs or 1 Ampere, considering the performance gains, it sounds like it might be worth trying, I need to figure out how to check containers are ARM compatible to see which may/may not work..

[edit] - Docker Hub shows which targets under 'tags' for each container.. so I'd be good on Arm64.. I might wait and see, or I hear upgrading to PAYG allows free tier selection..
 
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Right, yeah the free ARM instances are more generous than the x86 ones, ie, you get more cores/memory IIRC to use.

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For spinning up a few containers on a VM, you're not going to notice any difference whatsoever, if anything x86 might be more beneficial as not everything is compatible with ARM yet.

If you don't give them your credit card they expect a certain amount of CPU utilisation before they get flagged for removal. I used to run a simple cron job which ran a script to generate CPU and memory load every now and then which got around it, but ended up having to sign up properly as I needed to get something running urgently and they had 'no' capacity. Convenient!

And for folks reading this, you can run UniFi Network Application in OCI, I did it for about a year without issue. Free hosting FTW.
 
ChrisD. said:
Right, yeah the free ARM instances are more generous than the x86 ones, ie, you get more cores/memory IIRC to use.

Always Free Resources

Learn what Always Free resources are available to all Oracle Cloud Infrastructure users.
docs.oracle.com

For spinning up a few containers on a VM, you're not going to notice any difference whatsoever, if anything x86 might be more beneficial as not everything is compatible with ARM yet.

If you don't give them your credit card they expect a certain amount of CPU utilisation before they get flagged for removal. I used to run a simple cron job which ran a script to generate CPU and memory load every now and then which got around it, but ended up having to sign up properly as I needed to get something running urgently and they had 'no' capacity. Convenient!

And for folks reading this, you can run UniFi Network Application in OCI, I did it for about a year without issue. Free hosting FTW.
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Thanks..

I've just upgraded to PAYG to stop any 'idle' issues! A good spot..

Checking docker hub, plenty of containers seem to support Arm, so sounds like a good plan if I can find availability.. 4 x OCPUs and 24gb RAM is the max to keep under the free tier for a single VM..
 
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Less image hosting chat, more Ubiquiti chat.

My U7-Pro-Outdoor arrived today. It's not in the final mounting position yet but it's drastically improved Wi-Fi in the back garden, no surprise really considering it was previously coming from either a U7-Pro that's the wrong side of an RSJ or a U7-Pro above the living room ceiling that's a fair distance away.

There's also a USW-Flex-2.5G-5 waiting to be setup, that'll be going in the TV cabinet to replace a US-8 that no longer accepts PoE power.
 
The Network Video Recorder Instant (Kit).

Does it need a local gateway? Or can I site magic it to my own Unifi account and access it remotely via an internet connection? The reason I ask is I've been asked to install one at a place where I can't access the router, and I'm just trying to work out deployment options.

The FAQ just says
Yes, the Network Video Recorder Instant can operate without external network access. However, a UniFi or third-party gateway, or Layer 3 switch is required to assign IP addresses to the cameras.
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so perhaps as long as I can get out to the big bad web it will work?

Assuming the devices get an IP on the same network, would I be able to:
  • Plug the Instant and cameras into available Ethernet ports
  • Let them obtain an IP via DHCP
  • Adopt them through UniFi Protect Locally or on Site Manager?
And if I can get out I can then access it via site manager as normal, or assuming I can't get out local viewing only would work?
 
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I think they are just saying in a very roundabout way that it's not going to be the DHCP server for cameras in the way that a single-box PoE thing from Reolink would be. Feels like it would be simple functionality for it to have but there you go.
 
Especially since the Instant is designed to power the cameras directly.... I guess they want to ensure they still sell gateways.

Ack I dont want to buy one and then find out it can't get an IP from the third party router.
 
Ok I went to community and unifigpt says its possible:

So assuming I can get an IP address I should be able to connect it to my UI account and manage it remotely!
 
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All that text is saying is it needs some kind of router to dish out IPs.

You don’t need any other unifi products to run any of the other NVRs, I can’t see why should would be different.
 
Because I dont want to walk into an install without knowing it'll work. I could just recommend the NVR but its massively overkill, not to mention expensive.
 
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