DeltaTangoLima @ DeltaTangoLima @reddrefuge.com

Just an Aussie tech guy - home automation, ESP gadgets, networking. Also lo

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I've found the HP iLOs to be really unreliable for viewing across the network. Something I've been meaning to look into...

Yeah, seems about right. I'm planning on buying a 32RU rack in the new year - will fit it out with power monitoring PDUs while I'm at it.

Love it! I'm gonna grab a 32RU rack soon. Got most of my stuff in a small ~14RU wall cabinet right now. I was originally aiming for low power everything - RasPis, etc. But I've since bought a couple DL360s, and you just can't beat the sheer grunt factor, especially when paired with Proxmox.

parts of the country where they haven’t invented clouds yet

Lol - almost made me spit my Christmas beer!

Yep - fair enough. Admittedly, my homelab is as much for professional development as it is home use, but pretty much everything gets used all the time.

Honestly, anything not mission critical (network/internet and home automation, mainly) gets auto-updated by Watchtower. I have Watchtower set to pull latest images of everything on a weekly basis, and specific containers that are set to monitor only. Every Saturday morning, I check the Slack channel for notifications of containers that need controlled updating.

Well, to be fair, I do use my homelab to play with stuff I may or may not want to use at work. I don't need PEAP auth for wireless, with a separate RADIUS server and Postgres database. But I have it. 😉

Lol - Merry Christmas, my anonymous friend. 🎅

There's a lot not worth mentioning, but broadly...

• Home automation
  • Home Assistant
  • esphome
  • Node-RED
  • MQTT
  • Frigate
• Homelab/management
  • 2 x Pi-hole (plus supporting services - Cloudflare tunnel, for example)
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • Shellinabox
  • Forgejo (git)
  • Netbox
  • VScode
• Media/entertainment
  • 2 x Sonarr
  • 3 x Radarr
  • Calibre
  • Piped
  • Minecraft
  • other supporting *arrs
• Data
  • Paperless-ngx
  • Immich
• Social
  • Lemmy
  • Mastodon

Nice - have you got anything setup to monitor power consumption? I've got a few of those "smart" plugs running on Tuya (localised through Home Assistant) but I'm not 100% convinced of their accuracy just yet...

Not sure if it would appeal or not, but I've spent a good chunk of this year listening to How Other Dads Dad by Hamish Blake, here in Australia. Just a semi-light-hearted look at dadding in the 21st century.

Honestly, it's because I like to play. I don't need PEAP auth for my wireless network, but I run a radius server providing MAC and user auth, anyway.

Good question. According to my UPS, I'm pulling about 173Wh for everything except my pair of HP DL360s. Those each have a couple of 480W PSUs in them, but they're nowhere near running at full tilt, so I can't be sure. I really should get some power measurement going...

My starting point (with this incarnation of my homelab) was my Asrock ION330 nettop box. Then I discovered Raspberry Pis. Then I decided I needed a couple of HP DL360s. RIP my power bill.

Nice! There's nothing better than finding new life for old tech.

Mine's not as fancy as it sounds - a couple second hand enterprise boxes and a handful of Raspberry Pis, mostly.

Lol - not quite. It sounds like a lot, but all of this runs on a couple of HP DL360s, a handful of Raspberry Pis, a nettop box, and a couple of consumer NASes.

Lol - I'm on unlimited 1Gbps fibre here. So far, they haven't raised any concerns.

I don't remember that, but it's been many years for me. You could be right.

Ah - I've been meaning to look into Nomad. I have plenty of admiration for Hashicorp's products. How are you finding it?