Having a DVD player is so 90’s. Nowadays it’s possible to combine everything into a single home Media Center with one remote to watch streaming internet channels, DTT or Satellite channels, Movistar TV, movies from your DVDs or series, home videos, listen to your music, or browse your photo collection. …
From what I understood, it’s a tool that allows you to package “Linux applications and all their dependencies” into a self-contained virtual container (something like sandboxes). That doesn’t tell us much, but what if I tell you that you can run your Linux applications (thanks to the Docker daemon) always in the same way on any platform? (for example Windows or macOS by using a super lightweight virtual machine, VirtualBox-style). Now that’s cool. …
Proof of concept to extend my home network to a remote site through the internet, from where I could consume Movistar’s IPTV services. I used a pair of Raspberry Pi 2s, connected to each other by a pair of IPSec tunnels. This post is related to Linux Router for Movistar and video on demand with Fullcone NAT on Linux. …
The IPTV video streams used by Movistar come in two types: regular channels (Multicast/UDP) and video on demand (Unicast/UDP). In this post I describe what needs to be done on the Linux router for Movistar to make “Video on Demand” work. They use the RTSP protocol which requires our router to support Full Cone NAT. The set-top boxes request videos via RTSP from their control server, but the video is sent from a different server with an unknown IP, so if we do nothing the video traffic will be dropped. Let’s see how to solve this. …
This post describes what’s behind (at a technical level) the IP service offered by Movistar Fusion FTTH (Fiber) and how to replace the router they install with a GNU/Linux-based machine that will act as a Router (along with an Ethernet Switch) to provide the same Data, Television (IPTV), and Voice (VoIP) services. After reading this post, I recommend continuing with video on demand for Movistar and the lab to extend your local network to a remote site with an Ethernet Bridge. …
In this technical post I’ll describe how to set up a home VPN Server based on OpenVPN, which remains the best solution today despite being more complex to implement. The goal is to have access to the internal services of my home network from the internet. …