Oh no… what’s this…? a relatively inexpensive WiFi-enabled 16A relay switch that can be installed in a pattress box to make any mains socket “smart”? … oh no… https://shellystore.co.uk/product/shelly-plus-1/
Hehe my confusers are named after ancient greek deities Hyperion, VM host Erebus, primary vDC Phanes, secondary vDC Nyx, NAS + third DNS server Aion, planned big NAS Tartarus, gaming PC, kinda broke my rule of renaming a confuser when the CPU socket changed last year Artemis, laptop Takahe and Weka are flighless bird species, just like Tux. Phones and tablets are whatever default names
TIL you can, using the hyper-v default switch, access vms via Code: [hostname].mshome.net as well as/instead of the ip address
Proxmox cluster is go! Yes, I called a host 'gigglebyte', deal with it - it's got a Gigabyte motherboard, so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ . I was also considering 'jigglebyte' and 'gigashyte' I'm planning to upgrade the bejesus out of that host and slap in 128GB RAM and a 16C/32T Xeon CPU. A good chunk of its resources will be allocated to a TrueNAS Scale VM, but there'll be more than enough compute capacity left over to move my current docker host over to it. Right now it's just a bare board lying on a cardboard box, but tomorrow I'm going for a little jaunt to Brum to pick up a case from Mr Crappy (@The_Crapman). So long as I can figure out device passthrough in Proxmox I should be able to migrate the array off my Microserver this weekend Side note: ZFS portability is freakin' awesome. Just slap the disks in a new host and import the existing pool(s) - job done!
showoff I have to shut down my solitary VM bc it saps too much resources making doing other things painful.
The Dell is an Optiplex 5040 SFF with an i5-6500 (4 core/4 thread) and 16GB RAM, and the gigglebyte is an i7-5820K (6 core/12 thread) also with 16GB RAM. For the Gigabyte system, I've recently ordered 64GB ECC registered RAM and a Xeon E5-2680 v4 (14 core/28 thread). More than enough capacity to run the workload of my current Docker host as well as my TrueNAS Scale instance. I think I'm going to turn the Optiplex 5040 machine into a router - my current router is MiniITX thin, which limits my ability to install dedicated LAN cards.
my ambition outstrips my ability and my wallet... but trying to virtualise even a homeassistence docker container on my pc is no bueno... i jelly and/or envious
It could have been a bad attempt at Brian. I had a ton of relatives born before the '50s with misspelled names.
So… I’m on a mailing list/community group set up by the local police. There was a bulletin on there recently warning about increased vehicle crime in the area, and it got me thinking about the CCTV camera over my driveway that isn’t currently recording anywhere… So I started looking at NVR options and came across Frigate, it’s designed around object detection and tight Home Assistant integration. Intriguing. It relies on either a Google Coral TPU or a GPU to do the object detection. But I don’t have a beefy enough GPU spare, and initially I could only find the USB version of the Coral TPU for £SpendyMoney (£80). Back to the drawing board. I poked around the Coral site and found that they also do an M.2 A+E key version, designed to slot into the same connector used by WiFi cards in laptops & mini desktops. Further poking for UK distributors revealed that RS in the UK have it for £25 (plus shipping). The spare HP 260 Mini desktop has a PCIe M.2 slot of the same type. Result. Two PoE cameras, a PoE switch, and the aforementioned accelerator are now on their way to me. I already have a USB Zigbee dongle, networked storage, a powerline network link to the shed, and a spare PC to run it all. So I guess I’m getting back into Home Assistant then…
You're on a police list, eh? As for HA, as i said, my home is dumber than I am so aside from a weather forecast widget I can't find a use case for it [for me].
One of many Yeah I’ve used Shinobi in the past. Can be a bit of a pig to configure, and the UI isn’t the best, but it’s a solid system. One of the things I want to do is try and integrate this with Apple HomeKit, and there are a lot more options for that with an NVR that’s tightly integrated into Home Assistant. I’m not so sure about HomeKit Secure Video, but one step at a time
