Adventures in a Digital Land

As mentioned in my last post I was tinkering with the Optus provided Huawei B525 router features. I've now manged to implement a few commands and MAC filtering via a Python2 API. You can read more here:  https://github.com/jinxo13/HuaweiB525Router So far I'm using it to: Monitor my usage (I have a 500 GB cap) Implement time scheduling for my kids devices Here's my usage display in Grafana. I run OpenHab and persist the data from the Router using the python API into an Influxdb database that Grafana uses. Here's my current Grafana display: The API will work with the following model: B525s-65a And may work with these others: B618s-22d B715s-23c So far I've got MAC filtering implemented and a few API's to get traffic and other information. Currently supported calls: GET Requests ---------- getInfo() => api/device/information getTraffic() => api/monitoring/traffic-statistics getStats() => api/monitoring/month_

Some background, where I try not to gripe about NBN... O NBN!, wherefore art thou NBN! That pretty much sums up my experience over the last year, having relocated from Sydney with a decent NBN connection, to an ADSL1 connection in the Gold Coast. I was then left waiting for either an ADSL2 port to free up (not likely to happen) or NBN to finally arrive. NBN was expected here in Dec-18 and is now due in Dec-19.... So with NBN delayed another year, I was well and truly over my current connection. For the record I had 6 Mbps download and 0.3 Mbps upload. So uploading a picture to facebook would kill my internet. It's hard to believe this can be sold in Australia as an adequate service.... right not griping, moving on. Thankfully this is all behind me with the introduction of Optus's 4G wireless broadband plans, which were released in November 2018 replacing the Vividwireless service. Based on our usage of around 380 GB per month, I selected the the $80 500 GB plan. The