Swapping the Ducky Keyboard Guts

📅 June 4, 2022
“Will the Ducky 3 keyboard innards work with the Ducky 2 keyboard case?”

Keyboard internals. Innards. Guts. Disjecta membra. Whatever you want to call it, the Ducky One 2 and Ducky One 3 keyboards are similar in design internally, so can they swap their internal circuit boards with each other?

Yes! “But why would you want to do this?” some might ask. The hot-swappable feature of keyboards is one of the best ideas since Legos. While the Ducky 3 offers that, its case styling seems a tad bit large and echo-y (especially for the space bar). The Ducky One 2 keyboard feels a bit more solid and sound dampened, plus I like its squarish style better.

Why not combine the best of both worlds? Swap the Ducky One 3’s hot-swappable plate into the Ducky One 2’s case. Does this work? Is certainly does, but there are few things to be aware of. Here is my experience.

Pi-Hole and LibreNMS Virtual Fun on the Quieter2Q Mini PC – Part 5: SNMP Install

📅 June 1, 2022
“How can I monitor more devices?”

With the biggie LibreNMS installation complete, we can now add devices to LibreNMS for monitoring. But can we add anything or must some conditions be met?

In order for LibreNMS to monitor a network device like a champ, the device must support SNMP. These devices run SNMP agents that communicate with LibreNMS, the SNMP server.

We have two devices we can add to our monitoring mix: the Quieter2Q host system itself and the VM running Pi-Hole. Right now, neither contains an SNMP agent, but we can fix that! This article will show how to install an SNMP agent in each Ubuntu Server and add it to LibreNMS. Then, we will add a non-SNMP device in order to check its availability.