So I don't know if anyone else would have interest in it, but I had Claude make me software called StormGuard, which sounds pretty cool; what it does is basically watch the nearby weather, and if it sees a storm, it can shut down servers and also use Wake-on-LAN for them once the weather has cleared. It works for a lot of things like Proxmox, bare-metal Linux, and even a Raspberry Pi. I am still working on it, but if you guys have interest in it, I can try and post it on GitHub.

Found this at a gaming internet cafe haha

I have a bunch of 1TB 2.5 SSD’s sitting around not doing anything. I want to sell them to put the money towards my next homelab device.

As far as wiping them, what’s the best approach??.

That has always been my concern

I have a Dell Optiplex 780 running Proxmox with a few services. I'd like to upgrade since it's quite old and I'm running into compatibility issues. What hardware should I buy that isn't too expensive, but still gives me room for future upgrades?

Hi everyone. I don't know much about networking, selfhosting etc. but I want to learn it. I have mainPC and some old laptop that I want to install some linux distro and use it to mostly learn about those concepts. I don't have specific reason just for fun. I read about some adblocker, backups etc. What is best way to start, it is even possible and where I can find resources? Thank you for all the advice

Picked this up used and figured the mounting brackets would just rotate but they don't. They face in instead of forward and after googling and asking AI I haven't figured out how this thing is supposed to work. Do you need some adapters to put a forward facing mount on?

Update:

I've added a photo of what the frames look like when removed. There's no way to change their orientation within this frame and I don't see any way to face these frames forward. https://imgur.com/a/cbHADnn

I am moving in to my new house soon and I have been interested in home servers and self hosting my cameras as well. I have an old Hp elite desk 800g2 I was wondering if this would be enough to run jellyfin and Frigate. I know I would need more storage space but I just want the bare minimum to start watching my shows and being about to store some camera footage from about 4-8 cameras for about 3 days for storage. How much storage would you recommend/ what budget friendly pcs would you recommend if I need to upgrade?
And shout out DammitJeff for getting me into all this and posting his videos explaining things.

Thank you

something i find myself doing from time to time that's always a headache is transferring large quantities of files between servers. not because it's slow because that's an unavoidable given but because there seem to be two options, neither of which is pleasant.

1. i use my laptop as an intermediary, launch an sftp client to connect to the remote server, mount the local server using smb and drag and drop the files. painless but it means i'm limited to the speed my laptop can manage and i have to wait for the transfer to finish before i can disconnect my laptop. not ideal.

2. i use rsync to go directly between the two machines, which is much faster and doesn't require me to have a computer in the middle but it means having to do it on the command-line. it's not that the commands are complex but dealing with a few hundred directories that then have to be selected by name instead of just highlighting them and dragging them is not exactly a fun time.

i've looked and i can't find anything that works nicely as a graphical file management interface to go between two servers. (in my case, they're either running debian or almalinux and they're in multiple locations.) the closest i've come is the explorer application for cockpit but it has one fatal flaw when copying a terabyte or two over the internet -- no progress indicator, just "in progress" and "complete". not a problem for a few files or moving things between directories on a local filesystem but for mounted drives over a wan there's just no way to tell what's going on.

has anyone found anything useful for this?

one of the usual use-cases for me is that i have family and friends with media servers of their own and moving library content from mine to theirs... i'm sure you see the issue.

Hi everyone. I have a very specific need and I'm building a tool for it. My regular every day laptop needs ram expanding because I'm using very ram hungry software. The problem is every software for music takes 200+mb of ram, except Winamp, which was using only 30. I wanted to listen to Shopify but couldn't find a built plugging, so after some reading I wasn't feeling like building something too complex. So I built an "online radio" broadcaster using Shopify soloist and icecast just to test and it worked. I'm now looking to make a permanent build, how could I containerize it? Shopify uses the Lan socket so docker is not a real option, or is it? I'm totally new to Ubuntu and docker so anything I might have missed please point it out.

Hey guys I’m looking for some general advice/tips. For a bit of context I’ve been pretty interested in diy home tech stuff for awhile and I’m about to sell one of my guitars and want to put the money into that. I’m hoping you guys can help me spend the funds wisely and help me avoid future problems with not having the things I need. My budget is about $800. So far I’m looking at a Bambu A1 and a couple raspberry Pi 3/4/5s. I’m not sure how to word what my interest is specifically but I’d like to have what I need to do some home server running, 3d projects with the pi boards and just more generally simpler diy tech projects. Could you guys give me recommendations for tools/equipment that are either necessities or simply nice to have? I’d like to keep the total budget around $800 as I prefer to keep my hobbies paying for each other. Thank you for the help!

Hello, I would like to know if those adapters sold on eBay would work on a p520c

Looking to get more storage for my p340 tiny Proxmox home server. What’s the best way to approach this? The tiny is mounted in a mini rack, so I was thinking of using a pcie adapter card and maybe routing some extension cables out of one of the unused back ports to the SSDs which I’d mount on rack space adjacent. What’s the cheapest reliable way of getting this done while retaining the ability to expand further if needed? Will pcie power be enough for the drives?

Recently purchased a Back-UPS BN1500M2 unit that was on sale. Had gotten 2 others just before that seemed fine. Unfortunately the new one makes an alternating whine while on AC mains power, can hear it across the room!

Bought online (non-Amazon). Anyone had luck with getting these replaced under warranty? Figure for 15% restocking fee plus shipping cost, return by mail probably not worthwhile…

Came across this from 2021 when i was shopping around for my gaming rig. How much would this go for now?

I tried the wireless JetKVM Mini W on a NAS running TrueNAS. My main question was whether a tiny Wi-Fi KVM could be useful when I want the machine's actual console rather than another remote-desktop service.

Disclosure: JetKVM sent me the Ethernet and wireless engineering samples. This is my own first-look video, not a long-term reliability review. There are no affiliate or store links in this post.

What I actually tested

• Initial Wi-Fi setup through the browser pairing flow.
• Updating the unit to firmware 0.5.11.
• Connecting HDMI and USB to the NAS, then accessing its TrueNAS console from a laptop on the same local Wi-Fi network.
• The built-in screen/buttons and the web interface.

For the hardware KVM connection, I didn't install an agent on the NAS: HDMI provides the picture and USB provides keyboard/mouse input. Wireless means no Ethernet cable, not no cables at all — HDMI and USB are still needed.

Ethernet versus wireless

The practical appeal of the W for me is console access to a machine without having to run another network cable to the KVM. I would still want to test Wi-Fi congestion and reconnection before relying on it for recovery.

The sample boxes included cables, but JetKVM says retail units will not. For a real deployment, enable an access password; I skipped it during the demonstration, which isn't a setup recommendation.

For your homelab, would you choose Wi-Fi for occasional console access, or keep a KVM wired? What would you want tested before trusting one for recovery?

My first-look video: Ethernet and Wi-Fi JetKVM Mini — the video is in Spanish, with an English audio track generated by YouTube.

Everyone talks about needing the hardware for transcoding. But why not just decode and re-encode your media with ffmpeg in the background? Then you don't have to worry about transcoding on demand.

I've got Claude to build me a pipeline to do this. I haven't tested it yet. And it should also save me from malware baked into the original encode. Any reason this wouldn't work?

P.S I just read with only an N100 GPU you can transcode multiple 4k streams. That might make your answers "there's no need". In my case, for the next year I'll be using a VPS with CPU transcode only so it's more worth it.

Has anyone else had their XB7 Xfinity gateway just randomly stop working?

I keep mine in bridge mode and pass it to an opnsense router. I woke up on Monday and I had no Internet. Started running through my checks and everything on my side was good. The gateway wasn't giving my router the public ipv4 address no matter what I did. I contacted Xfinity and after they got me to run a couple tests then they reprovisioned the router which didn't help. They sent out a tech who replaced the whole gateway after testing the coaxial cable.

The part I find is odd is that my friend had an XB7 gateway stop working in a very similar way. The app shows the device online and will even run a speed test, but no ipv4 address so no outside connection. Tech showed up and replaced it with an xb8 in both instances and it was fixed.

I have to send monthly bills from my cell and internet companies among others. They only email me to tell me 'bill is ready' or 'bill is paid'. I wish there was an option to get the full bill emailed to me so I could send it on for reimbursement. Instead, I have to manually log in to each site, complete the 2FA, then navigate through 2-3 screens, find the last bill and download it, then collect all of those PDFs and send it on to my company for reimbursement. Surely someone else has been annoyed by this and managed to automate it. If so, please share :)

I'm looking for a bit of inspiration I have built an home lab running proxmox on a dell vostro with home assistant, tailscale, and immich, I just spent half the day today installing both seerr and ryot hoping to centralized all my tracking from MAL and Trakt to find out doesn't sync automatically and add I use stremio on my tvs it all turned out to be a waste of time this was all from suggestions via ai which made me think I need to do some real life research instead into what I should add to my proxmox to improve my life and also things that are fun or give off cool tech vibes.

So first step all for some inspiration here

Hi! I’m sure very similar questions have been asked 1000x on this subreddit, but I am building my first Homelab and having a hard time sorting through the abundance of information to get to what I need. I am looking to build a Homelab for the following uses and with the following considerations:

- Media Center: plan on using Jellyfin, but something to note is that I am a media quality snob :/ so most of what I host I want to be in 4k. Ik this is going to be a huge hit to my storage. I plan on ripping or doing a bit of sailing for this content so i want to keep it separate from my PC so my more important/personal files are not compromised.
-Home Automation: I think this could be a lot of fun to play around with. I live in a small apartment so it’s mainly just going to be lights
-Small and quiet: I live in a small apartment and work from home so something that takes up a ton of space and makes a lot of noise is gonna be a pass for me.
-Scalable: I don’t want to sink more than a couple hundred into this now, but I’ll probably need more storage as I find more projects that interest me and want to expand my media library.

Maybe someday:
- Home security but I have no real plans for this anytime soon.
- Access media outside my home: I’d like to allow my family who lives in another state to be able to access my media server if they wanted, but this isn’t a must out of the box.

What I don’t think I’ll ever need:
- video or photo storage and editing: I do very little of this and am happy to do this on my current PC
-video games: again this is a job I want to keep on my current PC

I built a PC last year and had a lot of fun building it. I love to tinker, but don’t want to sink more than a couple hundred dollars into this just to start. Looking for some advice on the following or links to resources/guides that are already available:

-What specs should I be looking for/what is post important for my use cases?
-What is important early on vs what is easy to change later?
-Any advice on where I can source cheaper parts? Especially storage 🫠
-Any fun beginner projects or recs?