They really aren’t that much more expensive than a high end smart TV. I’ve been seeing them at about $10(US) per inch. So a 60 inch TV is roughly $600(US). But I guess it all depends on availability of them in your local market.

If you are looking for a “dumb” TV, check out models that are for “digital signage” like the Samsung BEC-H series. They are as dumb as you can get while still buying new.

I expose quite a few services to the web, so having that extra layer of protection is nice. And it allows me to control what leaves my network from an application perspective, not just TCP/UDP

ZenArmor. It integrates nicely with Opnsense and offers all of the features that I was looking for.

I run a pretty hefty home lab, so my costs are fairly high compared to some.

• Electricity: $70/mo
• Internet: $55/mo (1000x35)
• Cloud backup: $20/mo
• Web firewall/IDS/IPS: $8.30/mo ($99/yr)
• Domain/email: $15/yr
• VPS: $1/mo

Overall: $155/mo

• laughs in Texas *