LifeBandit666 @ Lifebandit666 @feddit.uk

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Yeah I played a little with the breadboard when I first got the pi but didn't do anything spectacular. I need to have a look but I feel like I may have a camera module in my bag of tricks so I guess I could theoretically knock up a camera doorbell or something with some tinkering.

Soldering looks like it's a whole thing but I feel like if I bought an iron I'd get the hang of it really easily.

But then I feel like I'll just be soldering everything and my family will get exasperated with me.

Ok someone has mentioned Logitech Media Player. There is Raspotify too.

Both of these options are Pi compatible and I run both myself.

So here's the use cases for me:

LMS or Squeezebox is a full blown audio media server. I have pulled the music off and old iPod and put it on a server that LMS can "see" and I can play via speakers and Bluetooth.

There's plugins for LMS and Spotify is one of them. Another that I use is the Chromecast Bridge that allows LMS to connect to Google devices. There's an Apple Bridge, a UPNP bridge and a DLNA bridge too. Meaning you can connect all sorts of shit to this server and play your own music, Tidal, Spotify, SoundCloud, YouTube, etc.

It's far more involved in it's set up but if you have a pi lying around it's a great option.

Raspotify is also known as Spotify Connect. You can install this in Home Assistant but your HA device will need speakers. You can also install it on any pi and it just shows up as a connection in Spotify.

I see you're talking about a tablet you have. I run Fully Kiosk on a tablet myself and recently noticed that it shows in HA as a media player. I haven't tried to play media through it yet but maybe a quick and easy option for you.

Edit: I just tried using the Fully Kiosk Browser media player on my tablet and it worked just fine. No idea how to get Spotify in there but there you go.

If you want to move to Proxmox then I say give it a go.

Maybe just keep what you have running and set up another machine to have a play. If you like it, then stick it on your main machine and work out how to replace everything, could be a fun project for you.

I use Proxmox and have Open Media Vault as my NAS. I use SMB/CIFS to share the drives and have a share that Proxmox can use for daily backups, as well as having backups on the main SSD every week. I need to off-site backups but I haven't researched that yet.

I have a Debian VM that runs Docker and have everything running on that except OMV and Home Assistant. I have another Debian VM that I spin up to try things out.

RAM-wise I'm hitting about 12gb so if you have something with 16 lying around you can easily try out most of what you have running already, and if you don't have anything to run it on you're talking under £100 for a mini PC.

Give it a go, I'm sure you can come up with something to run on a mini pc anyway

Hahaha it's that guy again. I want an Amazon server for a fiver please!

Pirating by being better at the instrument. Love it.

I've been able to play by ear for years but it's not effortless, it's much easier to see a chord progression first at least.

So I'm still stuck in the Tab world a bit, except I look up chords to songs then play around with the chords until I have something cool, but that is the beauty of playing finger style, it can sound cool in different ways depending on the strings you play

Look at fucking Rockefeller!

Honestly I just think it's my general ability. I couldn't get the Docker Compose file to work in Portainer. But in all seriousness I don't think I need NC, I was just interested in what it offers.

Plex. Emby.

In all seriousness it was only a few weeks ago that I heard about a teacher in Bangladesh that did actually shoot one of his students in the leg. He apparently always brought a loaded gun into class with him in his bag.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68490662

Yeah I don't see why not. It should be as easy as SSH in to the half top, install Docker and have it run the Portainer client then just bang Portainer on your daily driver and start throwing docker compose files at it.

Have a look at Gluetun for your VPN needs. I've basically got all my Arr in the same stack with Gluetun as the networking for the stack, then have other containers running independently that don't need the VPN, like Adguard and Homarr.

I've got a Gluetun appreciation post up that should get you started with it.

It's all your fault!

I was actively avoiding Docker too after I tried (and succeeded) getting Home Assistant running in Docker many years ago.

It seemed like a confusing mess when I did it back then and the resulting Home Assistant container ran like a dream for many years until it didn't and I had no clue how to get it working again.

I ended up just throwing Home Assistant OS on thepi and it was very very simple to set up.

Anyway that was then. This is now.

I bought a mini pc in February and installed Proxmox on it.

Initially I just wanted Home Assistant, Plex and some kind of way of populating Plex with media.

I just ran VMs with bare bones programs installed in Windows. Problem is this took a lot of RAM and was flakey.

Cut to now, where I have a Home Assistant VM, a Linux VM and an OMV VM for my NAS.

The Linux VM has a bunch of Docker containers running that do everything my Windows bare bones VM did, but better.

I can access the containers via Portainer and update them with a button press. I cannot access the VM GUI because I passed through my GPU which knackered the console in Proxmox, and that is absolutely fine, if I need to do anything in the VM I have SSH.

My Linux VM uses less RAM than my Home Assistant VM, which is amazing considering what is running on it.

Docker is where it's at! Takes a little learning but with Portainer installed it's all in one GUI instead of SSH in to create text files and folders.

Yesterday I wanted to give Immich a try. So I found a tutorial on YouTube, went into his notes and found his GitHub and in there, his Docker Compose file.

I LITERALLY JUST COPIED IT AND PASTED IT INTO PORTAINER AND PRESSED GO AND HAD IMMICH RUNNING IN MINUTES.

Now the caveat here is that I've had a few months of playing with Docker now. I've tried to get Immich running a couple times and failed in the past few months. But I watched this guy paste his code in and press go, then start talking about how it works, so I was pretty confident he had taken the time to have a working compose file.

Wall of text to say get acquainted with Portainer and try installing and playing with some stuff. Bear in mind that it probably won't work to start with and don't rely on it until you've proven it out, but tinker with it until it's working. Eventually you'll get a feeling for it and it will become simple to you.

Good to hear. I guess the advantage is this way my containers rely upon Gluetun to work, so if it stops working, the whole stack stops working.

I honestly do not know as I've never had it fail, it is a valid concern. I did have you asking about the kill switch while someone else commented to say the kill switch is great so it seems I should get you together https://lemmy.world/comment/9851407

Nice thanks for this, maybe useful when I finally get out of this carpark lol

Thanks for that, yeah it's kinda integral to an appreciation post, what is it exactly.

So what Gluetun has done has replaced all the messing around with VPNs for me. Rather than having a specific VM for VPN tasks running using Mullvads app, I can now run the VPN stuff in my VM that was previously just for clearnet things at the same time as those things, without the additional app.

I've just deleted the app and containers in the VPN VM and am repurposing it for trying out new things in Docker. Current project is Nextcloud AIO, which I'm failing at for now.

I use RDT for Lidarr too. I've had qbt set up in the past and may even do it again but for now it's fine for everything I need.

I took have set up and run Owntracks in the past and found it lacking. I can't remember why, but I do remember thinking it was a bit shit

I've just clicked into the article and no, it's set up the same way as I have, except I set HA as an exit node in the Tailscale console.

I did this a while ago. The useful thing (and I don't know if it's covered in the blog because I didn't read it) is setting it up as an exit node.

This is useful because I have other things on my network that I wanna access, like my server, and with the exit node I can type Lan IP addresses into my browser while I'm outside the house and still access them, not just HA