What’s amusing is I’m long time stoner. As such, I have a shit memory. I do not remember writing this comment. Nor do I remember even struggling with this. I do know that I had a bunch of .crypt domains for a while.

So your comment is hilarious because I frequently find my own comments when I’m struggling through that thing I once did that I don’t remember, documenting what I did.

I do it to help others, I call it “leaving breadcrumbs for those further back on the path” but those breadcrumbs are great when a server dies and you have to re set it up.

Kudos for being a great guy and leaving breadcrumbs. Karma likes to remind you that you’re a wonderful person sometimes, so just enjoy it, and don’t let the bastards grind you down.

Rereading my own comment, I do this, I thank people hoping they’re still active at some point. I really do believe in thanking those that help me, even if they may not see it until 10 months later, if at all. You must have been the post that slotted it all into place.

I did it all in Node Red so unfortunately I can’t share the automation, but I can point you at this HACS integration https://github.com/meichthys/uptime_kuma

Set that up and all your nodes will be visible in HA then it’s just a case of “if node X is off for X minutes” - “notify”

I think I’m a step behind you. I use Uptime Kuma for monitoring and it worked really well. Just have it running on a pi separate from my main machine.

I worked out how to get it sending me emails when things are down and up, and now my email inbox is a fucking hot mess of notifications.

So I’ve just this weekend integrated it into Home Assistant and set it to notify me when things are down for 5 minutes or more.

My next step was going to be finding some way of integrating Portainer into Home Assistant so I can restart stopped containers, and maybe Proxmox so I can reboot VMs from HA. Not sure it’s possible yet though.

Ultimately I want to have HA send me a notification with actionable buttons with “reboot container” and “reboot VM” which, when pressed, will sort the issue out.

However this will not help when one of my drives goes down. They’re HDDs plugged in by USB3 which isn’t great and my server is behind the coat rack so sometimes the kids just throw their coats on and it falls onto my server, which then heats up and goes silly.

I’ve just come back to this comment to get sabnzbd running, thanks again

My budget-friendly solution has been to replace my ISP provided router with a 10 year old Netgear router that handles all the protocols my ISP does off eBay for £25.

I have a 4 storey townhouse so having this on the ground floor is useless when you’re on the top floor.

So I have a power line system installed which I’ve hooked into the modem. I’ve got a wired router in the front room that has all the front room tech worked in.

On the top floor I have an even older Netgear router a friend gave me, with OpenWRT installed plugged into the power line and running as an access point.

In total this whole system has probably cost me £80 to fully install as I was given the older Netgear.

Works beautifully, cost very little, and I’ve got a Guest Mode ap that turns on when I turn guest mode in Home Assistant, a simple “Hey Google turn on Guest mode”

Over the last few months I’ve made a whole bunch of different combinations of VMs, LXC and Docker until now, where I have Home Assistant, a NAS and a Debian server which I deploy docker stacks into.

At one point I had about 15 different machines I could spin up, but now it’s just the 3. The great thing about Proxmox is you can just create and destroy to your hearts content

I went Proxmox when I was in your shoes a few months ago.

It installs like a Linux OS so you already know how to do that.

You get a webui to work from.

From there, YouTube is a massive help. Watch videos on “how to install WHATEVER on Proxmox” and just replace WHATEVER with whatever you want to prod until it works.

My first service was Home Assistant, which I already ran on a Pi. I had that fully migrated in a day giving me a spare Pi.

Next it was Portainer, and used that for Adguard and Uptime Kuma, and then I got fancy and threw secondary servers of those services on my pi and put that on the network as a fail over.

So yeah, just install it and try to do shit, YouTube is your friend.

Holy shit I totally thought I was talking out of my arse lol

So you’re trying to get 2 instances of qbt behind the same Gluetun vpn container?

I don’t use Qbt but I certainly have done in the past. Am I correct in remembering that in the gui you can change the port?

If so, maybe what you could do is set up your stack with 1 instance in, go into the GUI and change the port on the service to 8000 or 8081 or whatever.

Map that port in your Gluetun config and leave the default port open for QBT, and add a second instance to the stack with a different name and addresses for the config files.

Restart the stack and have 2 instances.

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!

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.

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.