Homelab

With my Raspberry Pi basically being software/service complete, I'm starting to think more about my router and I need to make sure I'm thinking about this right.

As I envision it, my router would run OpenWRT, Pi-Hole and a VPN. Is that correct or have I got this wrong?

My homelab is still in its infancy as I'm at the start of my self-hosting journey. I'm now down the rabbit hole though and where I can self host, I'd like to.

Not long back, I asked for some advice regarding an IFTTT replacement. I only need a tiny subset of the service, in that I want it to check some RSS feeds and send a notification if it finds one. The people of the fediverse are amazing and I got some great recommendations, however some felt like a great fit but didn't pan out. That left me with less and less.

One of the suggestions though was n8n and as I looked into giving it a whirl, I noticed it needed Traefik to be installed.

Now here's the thing, I haven't sorted out my router yet and since nothing I'm doing is facing the net, I'm kinda just chilling without a proper set up. I'm wondering, if I install Traefik along with n8n, will it break my other services? Will I still be able to install my homebrew router with OpenWRT when I finally sort that out and will it impact the IPTV which I'll sort out when I've sorted out the router?

Hiya folks, I am looking for a wifi extender that can serve as a temporary Ethernet solution for my server.

In short; My housing situation is temporary and while I do have access to WiFi, I do not have access to the router. So I thought I'd buy a WiFi extender that my server can connect to, until I move again (need to stay here 5 months). I thought about trying to bridge my connection from my Desktop PC to the Server, but realised that means I need both of them on at all times. So I'd rather buy an extender which I might be able to use long term.

I have been looking at Ubiquiti equipment, but seem a little expensive for me right now. However, this brand does look tempting to invest into in the future (feel free to suggest other brands, if you recommend any others!). But yeah; for now I think a WiFi Extender could do the job, one that has an Ethernet port ofc.

Edit; I could also invest in a cheap network card for the server ofc, might that be a better solution?

Any suggestions are much appreciated 🌻

I'm thinking about moving my laptop into the virtualization age with the power of vfio. I want to install Debian and then pass though my GPU and peripherals. I will manage my wireless connections though openwrt.

The problem is, the VMs don't have a way of seeing the battery level of the host. This results in a short battery life. Is there is any way of passing though a virtual battery. I see a old issue on virtual manager but it seems dead. Shouldn't this just be a matter of passing though the block device?

I would like to create my own router with OpenWRT and there are an overwhelming amount of hardware options by the likes of nanopi, bananapi, etc. Does this community have any recommendations? :)

Here are my requirements:

• 1.5Gbps support
• I plan to connect a total of 3 access points to it (just using spare routers. One of them can support 1.5G)
• either a port to connect a pihole or another way to set it up
• ideally VLAN support but I can also use a guest network for a few smart devices
• no plans to run a homelab off of this setup, so doesn't need to be fancy
• lower cost is preferred.

The drive works in other devices but when I boot I don't see the device with lspci and there isn't any errors in dmesg.

Is there something I'm missing? Why wouldn't a pcie drive work?

Edit: I sent it back Edit 2: I got a new one and it worked with sata

So I'm trying to bridge to physical locations together. At one location I control the firewall and at the other I don't. I would normally use Wireguard but its all dynamic IPs so it would break every so often.

My though was to use I2P to create a bridge between the 2 places. I will use 0 hops on each with encrypted lease sets. Am I crazy or is this a good solution.

Update: don't

I am having trouble deciding between Proxmox and TrueNAS scale for a homelab on my Dell OptiPlex. I am worried that I'll be limited by TrueNAS at some point, so why not just make it a VM? Will there be any significant performance loss if I just make a TrueNAS VM within Proxmox and give it all the resources? I have a total of 4x 8TB HDDs. One isn't functioning but I'm pretty sure I can fix it, although I don't trust it now.

Or perhaps Proxmox is unnecessary for my use case? Please let me know what you think! I intend to run the following:

PiHole with Unbound DNS Jellyfin Home Assistant with smart devices on separate VLAN Playing around with webhosting, maybe even a small personal Lemmy server. Miniflux RSS Personal documentation solution such as Logseq

I also have a few spare Raspberry Pis and I'm wondering if they could be made into Proxmox nodes...

I want to make sure that my network share mounts before podman starts jellyfin. Right now I have a simple delay setup to wait to start the podman VM but its a very ugly solution.

Edit: the solution is systemd

I am tired of Reddit reposts

Hi. I have an Eaton 3S 850B UPS which abruptly shuts down my PC. The UPS itself doesn't shut down, and nor does it shut down other devices connected to the mains side panel of the UPS. Only the PC is connected to the battery panel. When this happens, the PC cannot be turned on. Not until I remove the plug from the socket and put it into another socket outlet on the battery panel of the UPS can the PC be turned on. What could be the cause of this?

Apologies if this isn't the correct location to post this. But I figured, this would the likely people to use consumer UPS and would likely help me solve the issue.

I have a Asus z590-p and want to pair a 1050ti and a rx550 in the x16 slots, the board has no extra board delivery socket lile some high and boards. Will every card be able to pull 75w or is the 75w shared, also is the power delivery with a 11900k enough? The PSU won't be the problem, 1200w titanium. I just want that the GPUs don't choke on power.

Hello guys. First of all, I'm sorry if sometimes I speak broken English as it is not my first language. I am a 18 year old from Spain and I am currently studding a middle grade in computing and networking (Grado Medio en Sistemas Microinformáticos y Redes, in case another Spaniard is reading) to hopefully become a sysadmin. I have been building a homelab for the past 2 years approximately and this is my current setup. Bare in mind that I have never had a job and all of this was bought with my allowance.

Current homelab under the desk

In the top right we have a HP 260 G2 mini, running a i5-6200U, 8gb ram and a cheapo 120gb sata ssd. This is my main server as it's low power and runs the most critical services. It runs Windows Server 2019 and hosts though Hyper-V a vm with my openvpn instance for remote access, as well as a Ubuntu Server 22.04 vm for general testing. This is the machine I use to manage all of the rest and remote through RDP from class to mess around when in bored in lessons.

The server to its left its the first server i built. Its running an i5 3rd gen (cant remember the specific model rn) 8gb of ram and 4x1tb hdds. This machine is running truenas core and has those 4 drives in a zfs pool running raidz-5. This are second hand hard drives and this redundancy has already saved my ass once. I don't run this server 24/7 due to the electricity prices in Spain right now and I'm not accessing files enough to justify the cost.

The server at the right consist of an i5-4460, 16gb of ram and another cheapo 120 ssd. I run Windows Server 2019 in it and mainly hosts my test vms and heavier workloads the hp cant handle. I again can't run this 24/7 due to the cost it has.

Below all of this is my tp-link gigabit switch. It ain't fancy that's for sure but i got a great deal on it. I would also show you my router but it's in the living room and its just a isp provided s***box. Maybe looking to test build a opensense router just for fun, as i cant convince my parents to change it permanently. For those interested, I have a gigabit fiber internet connection with the spanish isp Digi. If any other homelaber has Digi you know the pain in the ass it is their stupid CG-NAT system. At least I can say its cheap, 20€ a month for gigabit, so cant really complain.

I am currently looking to setup WOL so i can power all of the machines remotely through the hp, that runs 24/7 because of its low power.

Any feedback or ideas for improvement or really any comments are more than welcome.

like idk, I got R620 and wanted to upgrade so I got dual E5-2690 v4 and wanted to get a new one and I have no idea which one shall I go for; Processor will be swapped to the new one.

HPE Proliant DL 360 G9 V4 +Fiber Card 2 Port 10G Free

- Dual processors / intel Xeon processor E5-2650 V4

- Ram 32G – ECC – DDR4

- Raid Controller P440AR 2GB Flash-Backed Write Cache

- Storage 4*3T SAS Enterprise Plus ( Total 12T SAS )

- 4 Port Lan Ethernet 10/100/1000 RJ45

- Dual power supply

Dell Power Edge R730 XD ( 24* 2.5 inch SFF )

- Dual processors processor E5-2620 V3

- Memory 32GB ECC DDR4

- Storage 5*300G SAS

- Dual Power Supply

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Hello I'm running into an issue when trying to reverse proxy my vaultwarden and overseerr services. My domain is in cloudflare with two A records that are updated to accommodate ddns: requests.mydomain.com & vaultwarden.mydomain.com.

Using nginx with SSL(Let's Encrypt) turned off will work. Using it turned ON will give the errors in my browser:

• Firefox: The page isn’t redirecting properly
• Edge: ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS

When using wheregoes.com to check the redirects. It indeed is redirect looping, but only when SSL is turned on.

When using asus's ddns for one of my services with SSL turned ON everything will work as expected. So I'm thinking there is something wrong with how my cloudflare is configured. In my cloudflare I have:

• No redirect rules on
• SSL/TLS in off mode
• HSTS off

What would be the risk of not having SSL turned on for a homelab with public facing services?

I'll be terminating it into a patch panel/keystones in the rack, but unfortunately I can't put the rack closer to a wall. I'm wondering how to handle the "last mile" as it all concentrates into a bundle hanging from the beams above the rack. Should I be using j-hooks? Service loops? Any input or suggestions appreciated.

I just re-upped my VMUG membership to get another year of ESX and vCenter for my home lab. When I went into the catalog to "purchase" another license of vCenter (or ESX, both did the same thing) it said I had exceeded my entitlement and wouldn't let me add it to my cart. Am I missing something? I've been running ESX in my home lab for about 3 years and I REALLY need it to not expire in 15 when it's set to. I'm assuming I just missed something dumb, but I'm worried that with the Broadcom acquisition they'll be trying to squeeze water from rocks and screwing customers in awkward little ways. Thanks for any input on anything I might be missing to get myself back on track!

Hello everyone!

I'm starting to build my homelab and got my hands on two processors: an i5-8500 and an i5-8500T.
I always heard that the T series of processors had no difference in idle power draw to their non-T counterparts so I decided to put it to the test now that I have the oportunity.

I tested both processors with the same exact system:
Fujitsu D538/E85+ case/mobo/psu
32GB(2x16GB) DDR4 2666MHz
500GB Crucial P1 NVMe SSD
1TB Toshiba consumer hard drive
IOCrest 2.5GbE NIC
Running Proxmox VE without any VMs running.

Of course this is not science by any means but I liked testing it and will be useful to determine which one I'll keep/seek to buy in the future. The measurements were made on an Aubess Zigbee 20A EU Smart Plug.

Here you have the results:

i5-8500

i5-8500T

Zoomed out-graph

As you can see, the minimum wattage draw was the same at 13W, but the mean was slightly lower for the T series processor. The mean power draw fluctuated a lot more for the i5-8500, at around 14.5W to 16.5W, against the 14W to 15W for the i5-8500T.
If you want to be very precise to see which is going to be better for you, you should probably account the faster clock speeds of the i5-8500, which would allow it to run at idle for longer, but that really depends on your use case.

Again, this is not science but I think what I found in the tests was pretty cool and wanted to share it.

Have a good one!

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Hello,

Does anybody happen to know of a portable KVM that is in a laptop style form factor? As in a clamshell design, where you flip up the monitor and it has a keyboard, just like a laptop, except it has no real functionality to it.

Instead, it allows you to plug in a server's monitor output/HDMI/USB (for keyboard/mouse), and since the device has it's own built-in battery, you're good to go.

Basically it would be like a laptop (monitor/keyboard) except it's just a dumb display w/keyboard and touchpad.

Any idea if these exist? If so, could you tell me of some? I've tried searching everywhere including Amazon but I couldn't find it and I think I'm searching for possible the wrong keywords.

Thanks!