LifeBandit666 @ Lifebandit666 @feddit.uk

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I have recently been buying cables. I've come to the conclusion that a Man's purpose in life is to collect them and put them in a drawer.

Anyway these cables are usb 3.0 to 3.5" HDD cables with a power supply.

This has allowed me to mount 3 old HDDs I had gathering dust. These are the main storage for my NAS which is OMV through Proxmox.

They work fine, I'm able to watch Plex and also have a friend that watches my Plex.

They were all of £15 each.

I have a domain I own and access through Cloudflare, but there's also DuckDNS or Nabu Casa.

Or as someone else has pointed out, Tailscale, which is awesome, and free.

That's to access from outside.

As for NAS, I'm currently happily using Open Media Vault.

won't proxmox add a layer of complexity with Coral/Frigate/a Zigbee dongle?

Nah, just pass it through

Honestly I wouldn't worry too much, I mean yeah get one with a fan but it's not integral to getting it running.

Install Home Assistant Operating System on an SSD when you can, SD cards aren't made for the read/write you'll get from HAOS but again, it's not integral.

So yeah do those things, but boot it without a case and SSD for now and just play with it. Get the Google drive backup add-on for it. When you upgrade to an SSD just pull the backup from there and you're golden.

Funny isn't it? I got a poll card through the door the other day and all I've scrolled past since is news about how I shouldn't bother voting because Labour have this in the fucking bag.

DO NOT BE FOOLED BY THE HEADLINES, VOTE

Par for the course with Endo. Took my wife a good decade to get diagnosed. Then they did surgery and that made it worse, then another Dr actually did some research and found that surgery for deep rooted Endo makes it worse. But late now like.

Horrible disease that nobody gives a fuck about because it only effects women.

I tried to spin up a Homarr docker container the other day after seeing it on YouTube, but because it's located in ghcr it just wouldn't install.

I even added ghcr to my resources in docker using my password and an API key, but still no dice.

I'm missing something obvious, but I'm not sure what, any pointers?

Edit: I've just tried again and this time it hasn't failed with an error message, just hanging in Portainer stacks deployment instead

Edit 2: I left it hanging and checked while I was out and about (love Tailscale)and it's working now!

I just added Jellyseerr to this setup last night and it's amazing.

Bet the people on the "Think Tank" aren't on minimum wage. Fucking think tanks can fuck off.

I'm currently running 3.5 inch HDDs via usb3.0 to sata. Working ok so far (time will tell) but I do need a plug socket for every one of them

I agree to a certain extent and I'm actively using Docker.

What I've done is made an Ubuntu VM, put Docker on it and booted a Portainer client container on it, then made that into a container template, so I can just give it an IP address and boot it up, then add it to Portainer in 3 clicks.

It's great for just having a go on something and seeing if I wanna pursue it.

But so far I've tried to boot and run Arr and Plex, and more recently Logitech Media Server and it's just been hard work.

I've found I'm making more VMs than I thought I would and just putting things together in them, rather than trying to run stacks of Docker together.

That said, it looks like it is awesome when you know what you're doing.

I'm not sure what a backplane is, but my HDDs are connected via usb3 cables with power chords. I'm sure there's speed constraints but it's what I've done.

I can, but as I say, the way I've done it doesn't work. On windows at least, it works on my phone.

While I agree, I do run a Windows gaming PC so Samba is the best thing for it. I've passed FTP through hoping for better speeds but, while I can see my stuff I can't interact with them.

Also, that's just like, your opinion man.

I'm sure there will be some kind of rack you can get that is cheaper than $1200

Edit like this https://amzn.eu/d/a75EKlh

I have an old phone as a bedside clock with Home Assistant as the Dash

Thanks, I've saved this comment for next time I try to do this

Nothing as of yet, just a stack of disks on top of a pc

Logitech Media Server aka Squeezebox. It works mostly on plugins. The server runs on almost anything and connects to a client software on a pi in my bedroom and 3 Google Home Minis I have dotted around my house.

It's a work in progress at the moment. I have it connected to YouTube and Spotify but I'm working on pulling all the music off my old iPod I have in the car, sorting it from the mess Apple made of the files and putting them on my NAS.

Last night I was trying to get LMS to see that music. But alas I couldn't work out how to mount a Samba share to the container so today I'm gonna be trying FTP instead.

LMS is great but it takes a lot of tinkering to customise to what you want.

https://feddit.uk/comment/7847340

I got a Dell Optiplex for £68 on eBay to replace my pi4b Home Assistant.

It's running Home Assistant plus a Windows machine Arr stack with Plex and transcoding, a music server, a NAS storage and Adguard at the moment and I still have ram to spare.