Some random notes about using Z-Wave JS on FreeBSD.

The Zooz S2 ZST10 works well on FreeBSD using the uslcom(4) driver.

After creating a brand new AMI from the latest and greatest FreeBSD, we would be remiss if we did not properly test that it boots and can do a basic build.

Currently one of my customers is using the FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE AMIs that are provided by the FreeBSD Release Engineering team. While at first these AMIs made our lives easier, as we have grown there are a couple of problems and opportunities for optimization that have become apparent:

After getting my new MacBook Pro with the new M1 Pro CPU and running the Migration Assistant I started seeing the following error: Error calling protect() Unfortunately I didn’t take a screenshot so this might not be the exact error, but it is pretty close. The solution is kind of silly, but just download the latest version of OpenVPN from their website and reinstall it over the top of the existing install.

One of my customers needs to have builds done on arm64 hosts, but they lack the necessary hardware to do so in house and procuring such hardware can be very difficult due to vendors EoL some hardware without the replacement hardware being ready to ship. Currently they already have Jenkins configured with a couple of amd64 build agents that do most of the building, so we wanted something we could just drop in to their existing infrastructure.

Building a new FreeBSD poudriere jail, sometimes runs into the following error: awk: can't open file /usr/local/poudriere/jails/aarch64/usr/include/sys/param.h source line number 1 This is a bug in poudriere-devel-3.3.99.20210907_1 and it is fixed in main already but not in a package yet.

Vault works well on FreeBSD, but there are a couple of quirks to be aware of. This guide will help take care of those. Installing Vault Follow the normal install method: pkg install vault Settings for use in Jail Using vault in a jail requires the option allow.mlock to be set. Using ezjail and a jail called vault just modify the config file /usr/local/etc/ezjail/vault on the host and set: