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Tech Board Homelabbers Thread
Posted on 2/5/24 at 2:32 pm
Posted on 2/5/24 at 2:32 pm
Just wanted to hear what some of y'all are running at home and to show off what you got. I'm always looking for more stuff to do in my lab 
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Posted on 2/5/24 at 2:41 pm to bluebarracuda
Whenever I moved into my home, I made no attempt at cleaning up my lab so it got to a pretty bad spot...
But I recently spent a weekend getting that cleaned up and in a smaller rack
Edit: From top to bottom in the rack...
1) Dell R210ii running opnsense (Xeon E3 1230v2, 32gb RAM, 25gb SSD)
2) Some Dell EMC RSA appliance that's running TrueNAS bare metal. It is currently my dedicated back up to my main TrueNAS storage (Xeon E3 1225 and 16gb DDR3 RAM, 256gb boot SSD with a single 18tb HDD for now)
3) Supermicro 6048r 36 Bay 4U server (2x Xeon E5 2697 v3, 256gb DDR4, 1tb SSD, 56tb HDD, and a Tesla P4 for Plex transcoding) - Currently my Proxmox host running a bunch of VMs.
I also have a Brocade ICX-6610 on the top backside of my rack as a core switch and another one of those jankly mounted to the wall as my access switch. Both 24 gig POE+ ports eight 10gb ports and four 40g breakout ports
But I recently spent a weekend getting that cleaned up and in a smaller rack
Edit: From top to bottom in the rack...
1) Dell R210ii running opnsense (Xeon E3 1230v2, 32gb RAM, 25gb SSD)
2) Some Dell EMC RSA appliance that's running TrueNAS bare metal. It is currently my dedicated back up to my main TrueNAS storage (Xeon E3 1225 and 16gb DDR3 RAM, 256gb boot SSD with a single 18tb HDD for now)
3) Supermicro 6048r 36 Bay 4U server (2x Xeon E5 2697 v3, 256gb DDR4, 1tb SSD, 56tb HDD, and a Tesla P4 for Plex transcoding) - Currently my Proxmox host running a bunch of VMs.
I also have a Brocade ICX-6610 on the top backside of my rack as a core switch and another one of those jankly mounted to the wall as my access switch. Both 24 gig POE+ ports eight 10gb ports and four 40g breakout ports
This post was edited on 2/5/24 at 9:03 pm
Posted on 2/5/24 at 7:54 pm to bluebarracuda
I’m super lightweight
1) Unifi Dream Machine Pro is my router and NVR. Distributed into a 48 port POE switch.
2) the “computer room” has a synology 1821+ with a pair of 18 or 20TB drives in RAID1.
3) “main rig” is a intel i5-8500 with a 1660 Super video card and 32gb RAM. It has 3 8tb HDDinside. I made whatever the Windows Storage Space was with them. It corrupted I couldn’t recover it. I was pissed. So now they’re just more or less manually used to back each other up, and I put stuff in multiple places across them. I’m slowly “offloading” its processes to other things, but Plex, Emby, ChannelsDVR all run on here. I have basically every rom available up to the ps2 (but skipping Xbox as that took some learning and I got lazy). They’re stored both on the synology and the drives here. Plays them all quite well. it also runs a Homebridge server that I’m phasing out. I recently bought Streamfab and have been collecting media. I want to start BD/HDR disc capture/collection, but I got sort of annoyed with the process and spend more time watching Sesame Street reruns than HDR, Atmos pictures.
4) Mac mini with m1, 16gb RAM. I do quite a bit of work on this. The voice to text is decent enough for me to dictate patient notes into. My EHR is browser based. I’ve told the story a few times. Dragon Naturally Speaking is a superior product. You can operate your whole OS with your voice with it. The back end of Siri dictation is from Nuance (the Dragon company). Is it perfect or as good? No. Is it good enough considering the medical version of the software is $1000, and the Macs can be had for as little as $500 (though I did get the ‘upgraded’ specs to play with)? Absolutely. My new trick for family photos is a tripod, my Sony a77ii, video, and iMovie. I haven’t bothered with hosting much of anything on here. I bought the Server app for $30, and they killed it like a week later (it had SMB which is still available in the basic OS Which I do take advantage of for one application at my office but also an Open Directory server that I was going to start playing with. For the office I’m actually using synology’s directory server now and very happy with it). Apple is fairly polarizing on the board. It’s certainly not ‘better,’ and the newer Intel and AMD can compete on battery life. But the voice to text is head and shoulders above (which I’m sure will change in another 6-60 months) for my application.
5) I have a little HP or Dell tiny box with an i7-8700t and 16gb RAM. It runs proxmox + HomeAssistant VM and an Ubuntu VM. My Ubuntu VM now also has a Plex and Emby server pointed to the NAS shares (NFS FTW. Mount your shares to do this. You’ll hate your life if not). There’s also an Adguard Home instance here (which I did add the IP on the host page but am unable to reach from outside the VM sadly). I had an instance of Adguard Home inside of my HA, but anytime HA had an update (which felt like weekly), the Adguard would more or less go into limbo and quit working. I’m probably just too dumb to know why.
These boxes all share a Philips 49” ultra wide with some crummy old Bose speakers that I’ll upgrade when my wife feels like I’ve been nice to her for long enough to get a treat. They’re low on my list, because all the sound gets piped through a Presonus IOstation and can be pumped through either the windows or Mac box (there is a 2-machine KVM, then the proxmox box uses an HDMI cable and separate keyboard/mouse, but there’s no GUI so these sit in a drawer). This goes into a Presonus HP4 and headphones, and I leave a 1/4” plug out. I have a Blue Encore 300 plugged in here and a Yeti on the other side of the desk, so practicing and recording music is pretty nice/easy, and I’ve got the freedom to OS-hop with the hardware (though I have to give OSX the nod for embedded tools here. I actually miss my Ubuntu Studio setup, but I have extremely basic needs. I’m not quitting my day job).
Eventual goals:
1) Move all server functions from the desktop with the GPU to the little box (the Channels server needs to move, and I need to finish migrating away from HomeBridge to HomeAssistant)
2) buy more drives for my Synology, and backup my office Synology to my one at home, though there’s really nothing mission critical on either NAS that isn’t 2 or 3 other places, so the priority is pretty low.
3) I have an HTPC upstairs that is rarely used. I want to set up one of the 10ft interface emulation OS on it and make it a real retro gaming station.
1) Unifi Dream Machine Pro is my router and NVR. Distributed into a 48 port POE switch.
2) the “computer room” has a synology 1821+ with a pair of 18 or 20TB drives in RAID1.
3) “main rig” is a intel i5-8500 with a 1660 Super video card and 32gb RAM. It has 3 8tb HDDinside. I made whatever the Windows Storage Space was with them. It corrupted I couldn’t recover it. I was pissed. So now they’re just more or less manually used to back each other up, and I put stuff in multiple places across them. I’m slowly “offloading” its processes to other things, but Plex, Emby, ChannelsDVR all run on here. I have basically every rom available up to the ps2 (but skipping Xbox as that took some learning and I got lazy). They’re stored both on the synology and the drives here. Plays them all quite well. it also runs a Homebridge server that I’m phasing out. I recently bought Streamfab and have been collecting media. I want to start BD/HDR disc capture/collection, but I got sort of annoyed with the process and spend more time watching Sesame Street reruns than HDR, Atmos pictures.
4) Mac mini with m1, 16gb RAM. I do quite a bit of work on this. The voice to text is decent enough for me to dictate patient notes into. My EHR is browser based. I’ve told the story a few times. Dragon Naturally Speaking is a superior product. You can operate your whole OS with your voice with it. The back end of Siri dictation is from Nuance (the Dragon company). Is it perfect or as good? No. Is it good enough considering the medical version of the software is $1000, and the Macs can be had for as little as $500 (though I did get the ‘upgraded’ specs to play with)? Absolutely. My new trick for family photos is a tripod, my Sony a77ii, video, and iMovie. I haven’t bothered with hosting much of anything on here. I bought the Server app for $30, and they killed it like a week later (it had SMB which is still available in the basic OS Which I do take advantage of for one application at my office but also an Open Directory server that I was going to start playing with. For the office I’m actually using synology’s directory server now and very happy with it). Apple is fairly polarizing on the board. It’s certainly not ‘better,’ and the newer Intel and AMD can compete on battery life. But the voice to text is head and shoulders above (which I’m sure will change in another 6-60 months) for my application.
5) I have a little HP or Dell tiny box with an i7-8700t and 16gb RAM. It runs proxmox + HomeAssistant VM and an Ubuntu VM. My Ubuntu VM now also has a Plex and Emby server pointed to the NAS shares (NFS FTW. Mount your shares to do this. You’ll hate your life if not). There’s also an Adguard Home instance here (which I did add the IP on the host page but am unable to reach from outside the VM sadly). I had an instance of Adguard Home inside of my HA, but anytime HA had an update (which felt like weekly), the Adguard would more or less go into limbo and quit working. I’m probably just too dumb to know why.
These boxes all share a Philips 49” ultra wide with some crummy old Bose speakers that I’ll upgrade when my wife feels like I’ve been nice to her for long enough to get a treat. They’re low on my list, because all the sound gets piped through a Presonus IOstation and can be pumped through either the windows or Mac box (there is a 2-machine KVM, then the proxmox box uses an HDMI cable and separate keyboard/mouse, but there’s no GUI so these sit in a drawer). This goes into a Presonus HP4 and headphones, and I leave a 1/4” plug out. I have a Blue Encore 300 plugged in here and a Yeti on the other side of the desk, so practicing and recording music is pretty nice/easy, and I’ve got the freedom to OS-hop with the hardware (though I have to give OSX the nod for embedded tools here. I actually miss my Ubuntu Studio setup, but I have extremely basic needs. I’m not quitting my day job).
Eventual goals:
1) Move all server functions from the desktop with the GPU to the little box (the Channels server needs to move, and I need to finish migrating away from HomeBridge to HomeAssistant)
2) buy more drives for my Synology, and backup my office Synology to my one at home, though there’s really nothing mission critical on either NAS that isn’t 2 or 3 other places, so the priority is pretty low.
3) I have an HTPC upstairs that is rarely used. I want to set up one of the 10ft interface emulation OS on it and make it a real retro gaming station.
Posted on 2/5/24 at 9:12 pm to Hopeful Doc
I've had a ton of fun messing around with Uptime Kuma. Still working on implementing it into a lot of my lab, but I need to tidy up a lot of the powershell scripting to make it work. So far this is what I have monitored on a Dell Wyse 3040 thin client to have it "semi" bare metal
Pretty soon I'll have it over at my parents house behind the VPN I have setup over there, with a goal of creating another Wyse at my house as HA just in case
Pretty soon I'll have it over at my parents house behind the VPN I have setup over there, with a goal of creating another Wyse at my house as HA just in case
Posted on 2/6/24 at 12:13 pm to bluebarracuda
My current soup sandwich of a homelab.....I've slowed down a little bit obtaining new gear for the rack, updated labeling seems to have fallen off the list as well.
Getting ready to start pulling single mode fiber throughout the house alongside the CAT5/6 runs.
Current Storage;
Synology 1821+ (50T) / 415+ (20T)
TrueNAS Scale (NV1200 12 x 3.5" bay (80T) (general backup)
TrueNAS Scale (8 x 2TB SSD drives) for stupid fast VM / NFS storage
Core network;
Cisco 2960 POE switch 48 ports (most ports are trunked vlans)
TP-link 8 port SFP+ 10G switch (all trunked)
(MikroTik CRS309xxxx died and waiting replacement with a bigger SFP+ switch)
main computing;
2 x 16channel NVR's (32 POE 4K cameras on prem)
3U chassis' filled with purpose specific hardware.
Raspi Pi 4 rack (POE) (Home assistant, redundant PiHole, other assorted goodies)
2 R620's Dual E5-2697 (48 threads) 192G RAM each
3 R610's assorted E5 CPU's and RAM configurations
HP ML-350 G6
More assorted 10 drive bay servers (Dual E5-2697, 64-192G RAM) (i am still hunting a dozen or so of blue drive caddies which seem to have disappeared from the planet)
A couple smaller 1U dual 2697 servers for doing AI stuff requiring tons of threads.
Can you tell I like the 2697 CPU's???
9000kva UPS power total (1x3000, 4 x 1500)
Server configuration is always in flux depending on project needs, if the wife wants to do her Oracle work/training and needs labs for testing, most special projects for work are easier to spin up in my lab first before transferring the office lab environments, lots of room and horsepower for experiments and general learning/playing .. finished converting everything from ESXi to ProxMox for virtualization (because screw you Broadcom)
Right now just a couple hypervisors are running, for day to day things like automation servers, backup services, file workstation file sync, firewalls, and running some automated STIG / penetration testing of some new perspective VM templates.
Apparently the cabinet bottom doubles as housing for dust bunnies of all shapes and sizes, might need to have words with my housekeeping crew pretty sure he's the same guy who drops and leaves screws laying around.
By the way, scour FleaBay a little and you can find similar 1U keyboard/monitor combo's new for $100-200, same for the 16port KVM, they are being pulled as they only use a remote network console requiring very deprecated Java7, so they can be had for cheap as well, but perfect for local console, either don't plug them into the network or accept the risk.
Getting ready to start pulling single mode fiber throughout the house alongside the CAT5/6 runs.
Current Storage;
Synology 1821+ (50T) / 415+ (20T)
TrueNAS Scale (NV1200 12 x 3.5" bay (80T) (general backup)
TrueNAS Scale (8 x 2TB SSD drives) for stupid fast VM / NFS storage
Core network;
Cisco 2960 POE switch 48 ports (most ports are trunked vlans)
TP-link 8 port SFP+ 10G switch (all trunked)
(MikroTik CRS309xxxx died and waiting replacement with a bigger SFP+ switch)
main computing;
2 x 16channel NVR's (32 POE 4K cameras on prem)
3U chassis' filled with purpose specific hardware.
Raspi Pi 4 rack (POE) (Home assistant, redundant PiHole, other assorted goodies)
2 R620's Dual E5-2697 (48 threads) 192G RAM each
3 R610's assorted E5 CPU's and RAM configurations
HP ML-350 G6
More assorted 10 drive bay servers (Dual E5-2697, 64-192G RAM) (i am still hunting a dozen or so of blue drive caddies which seem to have disappeared from the planet)
A couple smaller 1U dual 2697 servers for doing AI stuff requiring tons of threads.
Can you tell I like the 2697 CPU's???
9000kva UPS power total (1x3000, 4 x 1500)
Server configuration is always in flux depending on project needs, if the wife wants to do her Oracle work/training and needs labs for testing, most special projects for work are easier to spin up in my lab first before transferring the office lab environments, lots of room and horsepower for experiments and general learning/playing .. finished converting everything from ESXi to ProxMox for virtualization (because screw you Broadcom)
Right now just a couple hypervisors are running, for day to day things like automation servers, backup services, file workstation file sync, firewalls, and running some automated STIG / penetration testing of some new perspective VM templates.
Apparently the cabinet bottom doubles as housing for dust bunnies of all shapes and sizes, might need to have words with my housekeeping crew pretty sure he's the same guy who drops and leaves screws laying around.
By the way, scour FleaBay a little and you can find similar 1U keyboard/monitor combo's new for $100-200, same for the 16port KVM, they are being pulled as they only use a remote network console requiring very deprecated Java7, so they can be had for cheap as well, but perfect for local console, either don't plug them into the network or accept the risk.
Posted on 2/7/24 at 8:00 am to dakarx
quote:
9000kva UPS
Damn baw, you got that thing hooked up to a substation?
Posted on 2/7/24 at 9:25 am to lostinbr
That's a whole lotta VAs!
Posted on 2/7/24 at 9:47 am to Korkstand
quote:
That's a whole lotta VAs!
75000 amps at 120 volts...
Posted on 2/7/24 at 9:53 am to Lonnie Utah
Yeah that’s 9 megawatts. I assume he meant 9,000va but couldn’t resist.
Posted on 2/8/24 at 4:06 pm to bluebarracuda
I'm running a Ruckus 1205 wireless controller with two R750 and one R850 access points. There are four managed switches connected via fiber in separate areas of my house. 10Gbps uplinks. The R750s have 2.5Gbps uplinks. The R850 has 5Gbps. I could probably bake poultry using RF energy alone.
I run a hex-core i7 Mac mini that sits at the heart of the network running several VMs--one Windows and two linux (Plex, other things I occasionally play with). I also run a quad-core i7 device with discrete graphics so I can remotely access using Sunshine/Moonlight Virtual Desktop.
There are six VLANs:
Management VLAN where, predictably, I manage everything. The wireless controller, hypervisor/Mac mini, and firewall live here.
IoT VLAN for cameras, garage door, household management.
Roku VLAN for the streaming devices. My wife also lives on this network along with the HP multifunction device for printing and scanning.
Kid VLAN where their tablets and XBox live along with the TV they watch unsupervised.
Work/Lab VLAN where my work environment lives. My work laptop sits here along with any testing that I need to do on various and sundry work-related devices. They don't touch my home network.
Guest VLAN where visitors can get online.
Each VLAN is available wirelessly, but traffic between devices is isolated on certain VLANs where appropriate. For example, the Roku network and other devices on that network can peer, but guests and IoT devices cannot on their respective VLANs.
The kids vlan uses a Firewalla Gold as a router so I can manage connectivity and monitor traffic specific to them from an app on my phone. I can shut it all down or disable specific devices. They're children. They do not need unfettered access to the Internet.
My primary router is a dedicated Protectli appliance running pfSense. I VPN remotely into the network through this one using OpenVPN in a TAP configuration (for Layer 2 encapsulation). I have 1Gbps fiber from AT&T, so I can stream Plex from wherever I am. I have a secondary ISP cable modem through Charter. Since my wife and I often work from home, not having Internet is not an option. For an additional $40 mo., it's worth not having to worry about it.
There is another Protectli appliance that runs separate instances of pfSense under ProxMox: IoT and the Guest network on one; the Roku network on another. I have headroom for more, but this is all I need for now. I know I don't need to do it this way, but I wanted to get a firm grip on NAT between networks and firewalls on that platform.
I spin up VMs to do different things all the time. I often look at remaindered or refurbished hardware on Amazon and eBay. Now that I'm somewhat familiar with ProxMox as a hypervisor, I may do some more consolidation, but I like not having a single point of failure on the whole thing. Computer hardware is cheap and pfSense/Linux can be run on minimal hardware.
I may build a dedicated NAS at some point, but it would be to learn TrueNAS particulars.
I run a hex-core i7 Mac mini that sits at the heart of the network running several VMs--one Windows and two linux (Plex, other things I occasionally play with). I also run a quad-core i7 device with discrete graphics so I can remotely access using Sunshine/Moonlight Virtual Desktop.
There are six VLANs:
Management VLAN where, predictably, I manage everything. The wireless controller, hypervisor/Mac mini, and firewall live here.
IoT VLAN for cameras, garage door, household management.
Roku VLAN for the streaming devices. My wife also lives on this network along with the HP multifunction device for printing and scanning.
Kid VLAN where their tablets and XBox live along with the TV they watch unsupervised.
Work/Lab VLAN where my work environment lives. My work laptop sits here along with any testing that I need to do on various and sundry work-related devices. They don't touch my home network.
Guest VLAN where visitors can get online.
Each VLAN is available wirelessly, but traffic between devices is isolated on certain VLANs where appropriate. For example, the Roku network and other devices on that network can peer, but guests and IoT devices cannot on their respective VLANs.
The kids vlan uses a Firewalla Gold as a router so I can manage connectivity and monitor traffic specific to them from an app on my phone. I can shut it all down or disable specific devices. They're children. They do not need unfettered access to the Internet.
My primary router is a dedicated Protectli appliance running pfSense. I VPN remotely into the network through this one using OpenVPN in a TAP configuration (for Layer 2 encapsulation). I have 1Gbps fiber from AT&T, so I can stream Plex from wherever I am. I have a secondary ISP cable modem through Charter. Since my wife and I often work from home, not having Internet is not an option. For an additional $40 mo., it's worth not having to worry about it.
There is another Protectli appliance that runs separate instances of pfSense under ProxMox: IoT and the Guest network on one; the Roku network on another. I have headroom for more, but this is all I need for now. I know I don't need to do it this way, but I wanted to get a firm grip on NAT between networks and firewalls on that platform.
I spin up VMs to do different things all the time. I often look at remaindered or refurbished hardware on Amazon and eBay. Now that I'm somewhat familiar with ProxMox as a hypervisor, I may do some more consolidation, but I like not having a single point of failure on the whole thing. Computer hardware is cheap and pfSense/Linux can be run on minimal hardware.
I may build a dedicated NAS at some point, but it would be to learn TrueNAS particulars.
This post was edited on 2/8/24 at 4:16 pm
Posted on 2/8/24 at 9:04 pm to lostinbr
quote:
9000kva UPS
Hahaha. 9Kva...
I'd need another mortgage to replace batteries for 9000K..
Posted on 2/9/24 at 10:47 am to bluebarracuda
I run light compared to others...
RPI 0w and 02w running Volumio for music streaming
RPI 3B+ running Home Assistant
RPI 4 running LibreElec - just enough OS for Kodi
Dell Wyse 3050 thin client repurposed to run Pi hole on Debian
Mini PC running Open Media Vault for local storage
RPI 0w and 02w running Volumio for music streaming
RPI 3B+ running Home Assistant
RPI 4 running LibreElec - just enough OS for Kodi
Dell Wyse 3050 thin client repurposed to run Pi hole on Debian
Mini PC running Open Media Vault for local storage
Posted on 2/12/24 at 8:31 am to bluebarracuda
I dont have the space, or at least an ideal area for a rack or real rackmount servers, so most enterprise gear is a no go for me. Unfortunate since I would have had numerous opportunities to snag some suff with serious power, but also serious footprint.
I have an ubiquity ERX at the gateway. It does regular wireguard and tailscale. I have a semi managed 24 port PoE switch that powers my 2 unifi APs. I also have a 5 port semi managed switch in another location. I have 2 synology NAS units, 412+ was my original. It does a little bit of VM storage and backup target duty. My main NAS is a 920 that acts as a web proxy, hosts a couple containers (bit/vaultwarden, uptime kuma mostly but sometimes a few other lightweight ones). My main hosts are old desktops running proxmox. I have two I usually have running. Plex, pihole, bookstack, nextcloud, homeassistant are the main VMs plus a docker VM. Containers running changes, but usually a gitea for version control, heimdall dashboard, paperless document archiving suite, recipe manager (currently tandoori).
For backups (might not be as fun, but having good backups is essential) I do some daily stuff from the main nas to the old one. I also have a pi hooked up to a fat HDD at my parents house connected via wireguard ill do monthly backups to. I quarterly backup the entire NAS to another very fat HDD that I keep disconnected when not in use and stored in a fire safe. I also to an extra semi regular backup of just photos to another HDD. Photos are the one thing thats impossible to replace if lost so I take extra steps for those. My backups are slow, and sometimes require a bit of babysitting, but having them is important.
I have an ubiquity ERX at the gateway. It does regular wireguard and tailscale. I have a semi managed 24 port PoE switch that powers my 2 unifi APs. I also have a 5 port semi managed switch in another location. I have 2 synology NAS units, 412+ was my original. It does a little bit of VM storage and backup target duty. My main NAS is a 920 that acts as a web proxy, hosts a couple containers (bit/vaultwarden, uptime kuma mostly but sometimes a few other lightweight ones). My main hosts are old desktops running proxmox. I have two I usually have running. Plex, pihole, bookstack, nextcloud, homeassistant are the main VMs plus a docker VM. Containers running changes, but usually a gitea for version control, heimdall dashboard, paperless document archiving suite, recipe manager (currently tandoori).
For backups (might not be as fun, but having good backups is essential) I do some daily stuff from the main nas to the old one. I also have a pi hooked up to a fat HDD at my parents house connected via wireguard ill do monthly backups to. I quarterly backup the entire NAS to another very fat HDD that I keep disconnected when not in use and stored in a fire safe. I also to an extra semi regular backup of just photos to another HDD. Photos are the one thing thats impossible to replace if lost so I take extra steps for those. My backups are slow, and sometimes require a bit of babysitting, but having them is important.
Posted on 2/13/24 at 8:29 am to dakarx
quote:He probably also ran those cables so you can't close the door that son of a bitch
Apparently the cabinet bottom doubles as housing for dust bunnies of all shapes and sizes, might need to have words with my housekeeping crew pretty sure he's the same guy who drops and leaves screws laying around.
Posted on 2/13/24 at 5:36 pm to ArkLaTexTiger
quote:
I run light compared to others...
RPI 0w and 02w running Volumio for music streaming
RPI 3B+ running Home Assistant
RPI 4 running LibreElec - just enough OS for Kodi
Dell Wyse 3050 thin client repurposed to run Pi hole on Debian
Mini PC running Open Media Vault for local storage
Same. I bought a Beelink S12 with an N100 when it was on sale from Amazon for like 60 bucks shipped. Proxmox with downloader apps and Plex. Draws about 30w which was the big selling point for me.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 9:56 am to LSshoe
quote:Same here, so my lab cabinet is a bit of a mess which is why I won't be sharing any photos.
I dont have the space, or at least an ideal area for a rack or real rackmount servers
Lack of space is a common problem, and that's a shame because a rack really organizes and tidies everything up. I only recently found out that 10" racks and cabinets are a thing so I think I'll be heading that direction next. I might even build my own rack(s) out of 80/20 or similar for flexbility.
I'm really digging this idea of having a few mini IDFs scattered about the house. Instead of having a few dozen cables home run to a place that is really not ideal for all that gear and a full size rack, I think it would be better for my house to have a small rack in the office, another one at the other end of the house, and then a third in the middle where all my shite is presently to serve as the MDF.
Posted on 2/15/24 at 2:10 pm to Korkstand
If the hardware is out of the way, does anyone want to talk about homelab software? Aside from the usual plex/media/*arr/HA/storage/cctv/etc services, is anyone running anything less well-known but useful?
I've learned about bookstack thanks to this thread, that looks neat. I've been perusing awesome-selfhosted lately, and while I've tried a few things from the list there is way too much there to go through it all. Anyone have any favorites? Maybe something that seems boring or innocuous but has a surprisingly useful use-case?
I've learned about bookstack thanks to this thread, that looks neat. I've been perusing awesome-selfhosted lately, and while I've tried a few things from the list there is way too much there to go through it all. Anyone have any favorites? Maybe something that seems boring or innocuous but has a surprisingly useful use-case?
Posted on 2/15/24 at 3:21 pm to Korkstand
I booted up a VM to try and get Shelf running... But that's about as far as I've gotten since I'm being lazy with it
I want something a little nicer/cleaner than my Excel spreadsheet for Trading Card inventory tracking
I want something a little nicer/cleaner than my Excel spreadsheet for Trading Card inventory tracking
Posted on 2/15/24 at 7:24 pm to bluebarracuda
I have just started using Actual Budget and I'm liking it a lot. I used to use Mint but it went to shite a long time ago, now they've rolled it into another shitty product. I hate Intuit with a passion. Anyway, Actual is pretty cool. It's fast, and it looks super simple but it hides a lot of powerful features under the surface. So far I've just been importing csv files that I download from my banks, but I think someone has made a Plaid integration so I may give that a shot soon.
I'm also running the Google Photos clone Immich. It is pretty powerful as well, I think it's better than Google Photos. I'm still in the process of moving my photos over.
I'm also running the Google Photos clone Immich. It is pretty powerful as well, I think it's better than Google Photos. I'm still in the process of moving my photos over.
Posted on 2/15/24 at 9:02 pm to Korkstand
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I have just started using Actual Budget and I'm liking it a lot. I used to use Mint but it went to shite a long time ago, now they've rolled it into another shitty product.
So you have to manually import expenses into it? Having all of our accounts in mint was really nice. We just moved to monarch for the year since it was half off switching from Mint and I'm enjoying it so far. Pretty much the same
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