What's ACTUALLY running in my Homelab?

32 thoughts on “What's ACTUALLY running in my Homelab?”

• is tp link sg105e good for link aggregation?

• 7:29
  -60w on CPU..? Uh.

• 1:41 I like both your audio and video just fine.
  18:51 Not a lot?! :O You showed us so much!

• What UPS is that?

• Why not run a reverse proxy manager with your own domain for your local services? It’s pretty simple, just point DNS Overrides in like Unbound DNS to the reverse proxy. Reverse proxy should have a cert from your domain provider. If you wanna keep everything local and not expose any ports, DNS Validation is great 🙂

• you should definitively try out NTFY and integrate it in your setup, it can be a lifesaver sometimes

• I'd love an in-depth video on immich!

• If you haven't heard of scrutiny before, its a really cool application/service for monitoring HDD and SSD S.M.A.R.T data.

• Do you just remember all the IPs or do you have a dashboard for all your services/links?

• Is there a service like Jellyfin (or Jellyfin itself) that's good for audiobooks? I have accumulated so many and being able to organize them better than Dropbox folders would be great

• Checkout zone minder for your cameras, it can be run in a docker as well.

• Try nextcloud I run it in my TrueNas and it's a quick and easy way to get your data on your nas. (I have my nas basically putting the data on twice) but since you have two nas's you can just run it on the backup one

• Usenet baby!

• Highly suggest taking a look at opnsense vs pfsense. Also with the size of your lab and reliability in consideration dedicating hardware for your router.

• “Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.” —Russian proverb

• Immich doesn't work yet for cloudflare tunnels till they get chunking working…just fyi

• You just gave me so many ideas for homelab services thank you

• Awesome video. I would highly recommend Frigate over Blue Iris. I used Blue Iris for a long time and Frigate is a breath of fresh air and runs in Docker which is great. Their new v14 is also coming out soon. I’m running the Beta and the refreshed UI is great.

• I wonder why you're not using Synology more for casual home stuff like Photos, Audio Station etc…? their web/phone integration is fairly decent for trouble-free runtime

• strongly recommend to switch to baremetal on the long term. buy dirt cheap 4x 16gb optane m.2 and use a pair as ZFS for pfsense with a qotom box and keep another pair with some stable backup from the exported config. Basic things like enabling SSL or regenerating certificates from a new CA can brick a hypervisor.

• I run Blue Iris here at the lab. I tried several programs before I settled for it. In my opinion it is well worth the cost. It is easy enough to navigate that my wife can use it to view the 4 "light bulb" cams attached to it.

• Do not Virtualize your Firewall

• Video of how to passthrough AMD iGPU please ❤

• What's your power consumption?

• Wouldnt mind watching how u put your blue ray ripping set up together

• do you have any video about Nextcloud and what you think about it?

• If you’re going to advertise open source, you should promote true FOSS. odoo does not offer free software. Their free app offering is a joke.

• Can you share 2:51 the brand name of the network rack you are using?

• I've been using Dashy's widgets with Glances for my server hardware monitoring. Dashy has some jank and limitations, but the documentation is amazing. It's just a nice way to have a tidy homelab homepage with shortcuts and widgets. I'm not checking backlogs or getting any kind of notifications, but it's great for myself or my friends to check to answer questions like: "Is the whole server down or just one service? Why is the server down? Has modded minecraft eaten all the RAM again?" Some widgets and shortcuts are visible for everyone, some just for me.

• A Backup is a Backup and should be on Bare-Metal. There is an offsite Backup but how is it configured as a Push or a Pull Task? I had an unpleasant experience* with Hackers on work and reconfigured my Backup Solution: It starts up at 8 o'clock so i am most likely already awake and can pull the plug. And it runs as a Pull configuration and has a separat Passwort. So if someone has viruses or anything else there is no Access via Push on the Backup. Here is the Problem by having a Backup as a VM, the Host can be attacked and then the VHD's decrypted. Even a JBOD USB Device is safer as offline Security, if it got a physical Power Switch. As then again the Backup is on Bare Metal. You can even use a fancy Timed Powerswitch, not connected to your network, to start the USB Device and power it down.

  The Hackers got all the mounted and unmounted Backups. Only offline things survived, the whole network went down. They came over a Security Problem with one of the Backup-NAS, which was set in the mode recommended from the manufacturer, as work around of the known Bug, before the older Devices got the Update 2 weeks later. They got the LDAP Hashes and gained over this way Domain Admin access. Three weeks later they tried it again and failed after the security problems were solved. There were others too. They were on several PC which had been cleaned and fresh installed the week, then Admin Passwords changed, but they power cycled the NAS due the Bug and reactivated the standard Admin account and got a fresh Password, while it was still in the LDAP.

• When you report power usage from the Kill-A-Watt, could you report both Watts and VA? It would be helpful if you report both since VA is what you pay for and watts is the power the devices actually use (PF). It would also give us an idea of the efficiency of the device/power supply. Thanks, you have a great channel.

• Love your stuff! Definitely recommend trying out Blue Iris. We use the iOS app over ZeroTier and my wife has no issues using it. I can’t say how the app for android works but I’m sure others can.

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