What’s up, what’s down and what are you not sure about?
Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you found.
I finally finished my first iteration of my Minilab including a very smooth migration from the old server yesterday so I can go to the service side of things again. I plan to get some kind of selfhosters VPN for external access to stuff that’s not exposed to the internet, I’ll have to investigate which one.
I have a question on top of my matrix setup. Has any one integrated VoIP? I am trying to bring all communication in house.
I recently setup a full matrix server. What I am currently worried about is my server. I am currently shopping for a used dual Xeon server. I am hosting close to 40 docker containers on 2 1 liter PCs with very low specs. I would love to bring it all in house to a single server with a separate NAD which I do have currently holding 60 terabytes of storage space.
No new devices, but I migrated my homelab from an intel nuc to an old recycled HP z240 with a p1000 gpu I got for free. I had Nextcloud and jellyfin on it, but jellyfin gets the majority of the use.
I then added a gitea docker container to my server for my personal projects. Then I configured a miniflux container with some of my favorite RSS feeds for a lightweight way to view my feeds on my computer.
I would like to get pihole configured again in a docker container(I have only ever run it on a raspberry pi), but I have small children and a baby and they make it hard to find extra time in the day.
I finally finished setting up my Nebula network! An overlay network, as opposed to a true VPN, but excellent for flexibility and remote access. For anyone wanting maximum control over your network with excellent performance, I highly recommend it.
Check out apalrd’s blog for a great tutorial if you’re interested.
I installed Jitsi Meet on my YUNOhost server and am very impressed. It works really well and needed basically no setting up after installing.
I am re-re-factoring my plans for homelab 3.0 and the migration to it. Hardware budget is non-existant so I am trying to figure out how to do everything with what I already own, while re-organizing to better use what I have to make some room. Adding a few sticks of RAM and replacing some older cat5 are all I will do this year.
Currently in a holding pattern because, while I got RAM & SSD for a new-to-me “1-liter” server before tariffs hit, I don’t have the server itself nor any money to buy one, despite looking for 9th or 10th gen Intel which will cost me only $120 to $150 barebones.
Money to buy one is not coming in because the place where I live has nonstop noise & activity and I don’t have a separate room or any door I can close, which severely limits my ability to work as I have auditory hypersensitivity and an absolute need for solitude in order to recharge enough to think. 🤷🏻
My biggest shortcoming at the moment is my NAS is also my gaming PC. It’s pretty inefficient to have that on all the time. But I haven’t had the time to build a dedicated NAS.
Yeah I had your idea back when I wanted a nas. I didn’t have the time and just bought a synology knowing it wasn’t the best option and was aware of the possibility of enshitification. Now that they’ve enshitified, I can’t really recommend them any longer. So far it’s been good but I’m still looking for options that are quick and easy to set up. Or maybe I’ll grit my teeth and start building one from scratch.
I’m perfectly happen to build my own NAS with NixOS and ZFS on it. I think it’s mostly a matter of getting the right hardware.
Trying to get navidrome routed through Traefik.
I think it’s rejecting it as an untrusted proxy because forwarding the ports locally works.
Also working on getting Traefik up and running on a TuringPi cluster to eventually move my workloads over to it.
I have navidrome running in k8s behind Træfik. Do you want to take a look at my environment variables for navidrome? I haven’t configured anything on Træfik
Sure thank you 🙂
Sorry, I can’t help you. I configured only the TZ and the schedule env vars…
spec: containers: env: - name: TZ value: Europe/Rome - name: ND_SCANSCHEDULE value: 0 * * * * image: deluan/navidrome:latest imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent name: navidrome ports: - containerPort: 4533 hostIP: null hostPort: null name: http protocol: TCP volumeMounts: - mountPath: /data mountPropagation: null name: config-volume - mountPath: /music name: music readOnly: true
Finally got it working just in time for life to implode again so I just powered it down and unplugged everything again.
This time I’m probably just gonna huck it out a window or into the trash
mood
Everything is running and I’m not making many changes because work got hectic. I have a few projects I’d like to tackle once I get time:
- finish migrating to podman
- get a new drive to test migrating to microos
- get more media to finally eliminate Netflix (SO is still clinging to a few shows)
- find a smaller box for my NAS - currently in a massive ATX box, but I don’t want to pay an arm and a leg just for space savings
Been spending some time with podman, but ran into some issues with denied access on a bind mount. Messed around with acl for 30 minutes or so until I realized selinux is a thing.
So, now I’m learning selinux. I’m a long time ubuntu guy, but just now adding Rocky to my setup.
Immich is UP and even my wife likes it, now I’m slowly adding her 100gb library to immich. Kinda fun going through all those old pictures.
Proxmox Backup Server is DOWN. I’ve got a synology that boots at 11pm for my backup to use it as NFS share, but PBS won’t auto mount that darn NFS. Works fine with PVE backup.
Have the same problem with PBS and NFS. Have to turn off the PBS container, delete the .lock file in the NFS directory, then boot up PBS. Thinking I’m just going to use a local directory instead of NFS
Weirdness: My Authentik instance had a PostgreSQL upgrade prerequisite in order to update it.
I’d followed instructions 3-4 times completely unsuccessfully and had to keep reverting to backup.
So, I gave up for a couple weeks and left it be in order to get over my frustration.
Yesterday, I followed the instructions again. As far as I can tell, I did nothing different than I’d tried previously and it worked first try and then I was also able to upgrade Authentik.
NOTE: The instructions aren’t exactly difficult! So, I don’t see how I’d have gotten it wrong!
NOTE: The instructions aren’t exactly difficult! So, I don’t see how I’d have gotten it wrong!
Dude, don’t feel pregnant. It took me an embarrassingly long time to wrap my noodle around Caddy. Seriously, I just couldn’t grasp what was going on in the Caddyfile. Then, after extensive trial and error, I happened upon one tutorial that changed everything. Now it’s so simple for me, but at the time, I felt like a complete dumbfuck.
It’s always crazy how that happens sometimes and after weeks of banging your head, everything just ‘clicks’ when you’re exposed to the information in the way that works best for you!
Dude, don’t feel pregnant.
Context clues, I assumed this autocorrect was some variation of crazy/bad/dumb? :-D
was some variation of crazy/bad/dumb?
No, no, no. I wouldn’t call you crazy or dumb. It was meant as ‘don’t feel singled out’ or ‘don’t feel like you’re the only one’.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to insinuate you were being insulting!
“Don’t feel crazy/bad/dumb, I’ve had the same thing happen to me!” is a pretty common phrasing in my region to show sympathy and understanding and I thought that’s what you had meant (and it sounds like for your area, ‘pregnant’ serves the same general purpose!).
“Don’t feel crazy/bad/dumb, I’ve had the same thing happen to me!”
There you go. As far as ‘my area’ I didn’t grow up in the US or any particular area. I grew up around the world and multiculturaly, so there is no telling where I picked that up at. LOL
I’m currently trying to figure out why my email server got blocked by Proofpoint and they refuse to talk to me. Really about ready to give up on email after self-hosting it for a decade with few problems.
There is still the relay through the cloud route (SES, but also at least Scaleway)
Oh that sucks! One would think that after that long, it’d be somewhat established.
Latest thing is my server was hard locking up randomly every couple days. Finally thought to check IPMI and it was triggering a correctable ECC error on a specific stick of RAM.
I figured maybe the first couple errors were correctable by the ECC RAM but then they just got worse and caused the lock up.
Pulled the 2 sticks in that pair and so far so good. I’ll survive just fine with the remaining 192GB of RAM lol.
Also switched from my old Dell box with Opnsense to a Linksys MX4300 running OpenWRT, saves me about 20W and its fun to try something different.
