That’s actually awesome! Thank you for sharing this with us. We also have an old iPad Air in the drawer but I hesitated to use it as a HA Display because it does not need to be always on and draw power without anyone looking at it. I was thinking about getting an E-Ink Display, but from what I have read, you managed to remotely trigger the iPad on / off when a presence detector fires? I do not have one yet, but I need to try this.

In another post here you write, that you parse PDFs from your Waste collector to get the schedules… you are probably aware of it, but in HACS, there is an Add-On “Waste Collection Schedule” that has support for the APIs of hundreds of waste collectors around the world. Maybe your area is included: https://github.com/mampfes/hacs_waste_collection_schedule

Edit: If it would be possible to let it render a HA Dashboard, it would actually be able to display everything that HA already can, without the need to implement the functionality within your Add-On. This is just after I started reading the GitHub page and Documentation, so maybe you already do that. I am not asking for interactivity like when opening the HA Website in the Browser (which might or might not work on very old iPads), but just “converting” a specific Dashboard to a picture and show it on the Screen. Let it update every X minutes and we can see everything we can render within HA.

Thank you very much for your reply. So the bottomline is, that when bound to a residential ISP, we most likely have no chance to utilize our own AS and IPv6 Prefix without the help of a 3rd party (ASN peering aside, which is needed of course, no matter what). So it’s usually involving tunnels to get it up and running. That solves the mystery somewhat for me and I think I know in which direction I have to do my research.

I think I will start prototyping with route64 (which you mentioned above), but if I get this up and running, I would appreciate it if you could PM me the LIRs you have on your list. If I can wrap my head around this, if the fees are still in the ballpark you mentioned above, that sounds very reasonable to use this in my Homelab and gather experience with IPv6 and AS.

Thanks again for your help :-)

May I ask how you got this started? Hosting your own ASN, as far as I understand only works if my ISP would actually route traffic to my ASN, right? I am thinking about getting into IPv6 for self-hosting and I could ask my ISP to change my current setup (I only have IPv4, but a public one, without CGNAT) and I do not trust them that they mess this up. So my preferred way would be to not touch anything on the ISP side and host my own ASN and find a Sponsor for a /48 Block. I still cannot wrap my head around this.

Just that I understand you correctly: You got your ASN and /48 block from RIPE (or a Sponsor I assume) and you host your own AS? Or is the AS hosted by someone else? If the latter, I wonder how traffic can find to your home or to your Server locations.

Nothing of this would work without getting in touch with my ISP, and I fear the usual resedential IPs will not care.

I never really used Playlists, so I cannot comment on that, sorry. The only thing I do is subscribing to some channels in Invidious when I am on my PC and I do see them in Kodi. Usually I search for what I am interested in and that works fine for me in Kodi and Invidious. Invidious is still in active development, but you meant the Kodi Plugin maybe? I hope it is not abandoned and just not worked on because it still… works? :-)

I use the Kodi Invidious Plugin and my own Invidious instance.