Classic network port suggestion

[LilMT]

Hey engineers,
Just curious id there are any plans to provide POE on the network port or better yet, provide a built in wireless?

Just an idea, I know I can use the ethernet bridge and it works fine, but then I have the inverter conversion to 110 and then convert back down down to the power supply voltage and every conversion costs efficiency

And besides, it means one more breaker I have to leave on when I am gone for the week.

Thanks,
LilMT

[boB]

Hello LilMT

Well, the Classic itself will not be having POE but there will be a Bluetooth dongle for it sometime as we have been working on one...  Slow progress though 

There may be POE in our future as far as new product comm-boxes ?  I'm not positive of that though.

Sorry I cannot give you more positive information at the moment 

[LilMT]

Bob,
Bluetooth will be cool.  I may be able to make something work with that as well.

Right now I am just trying to figure out how to do remote monitoring on my system which is fairly off grid.

As I have investigated how to connect, at first I thought it was straight forward plug and play(with a couple tweaks), and on a typical network it looks like it would be.

The bad news for me is that I am on Hughes Net Gen 5 (apparently it is a full IPV6 stack) and my thought processes just got thrown out the window.

I know that DDNS providers such as Dynu do provided DDNS for IPV6 but the end terminal needs to be IPV6.

I might have to try to build a PI that can be outward facing IPV6 with inward facing IPV4 because it does not appear that the Hughes Net router does that.

I will keep playing and see what I can come up with.

Thanks for the notification about Bluetooth though, that will be cool.

Thanks,
LilMT

[boB]

I would look into the newer Star Link  system from Spacex since it is low latency low earth orbit and not geosynchronous like the Hughes network is.

I don't know how easy that is to do though since everybody and their brother is getting it.  Maybe.

[LilMT]

Bob,
All signed up and just waiting now. 
Supposedly in a couple of months they will send me the box.  fingers crossed.

Thanks,
LilMT

[boB]

Bob,
All signed up and just waiting now. 
Supposedly in a couple of months they will send me the box.  fingers crossed.

Thanks,
LilMT

That is GREAT !    I will be very interested in hearing how it works.  I know it will be much better if it is in the cards for you to get it.

The reviews I have seen are spectacular !

[ClassicCrazy]

Bob,
Bluetooth will be cool.  I may be able to make something work with that as well.

Right now I am just trying to figure out how to do remote monitoring on my system which is fairly off grid.

As I have investigated how to connect, at first I thought it was straight forward plug and play(with a couple tweaks), and on a typical network it looks like it would be.

The bad news for me is that I am on Hughes Net Gen 5 (apparently it is a full IPV6 stack) and my thought processes just got thrown out the window.

I know that DDNS providers such as Dynu do provided DDNS for IPV6 but the end terminal needs to be IPV6.

I might have to try to build a PI that can be outward facing IPV6 with inward facing IPV4 because it does not appear that the Hughes Net router does that.

I will keep playing and see what I can come up with.

Thanks for the notification about Bluetooth though, that will be cool.

Thanks,
LilMT

Have you looked in the open source software section of the group ? There is a pi project there that works well and doesn't need any ports opened up to work as it uses MQTT .
https://github.com/ClassicDIY/ClassicMQTT/wiki

Larry