Selfhosting Sunday - What's up?
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.
Was using realvnc to vnc from remote, it was easy and cloud driven.
Fully swapped to tailscale and normal VNC sever now.
Performance is good and works great for the troubleshooting and small GUI stuff I need to do.
Finished my migration from Plex to Jellyfin
I've been fending off AI bots the last week or so; wrote about it here:
https://gerowen.substack.com/p/the-ai-data-scraping-is-getting-out
Interesting writeup, thanks! I thought maybe dropping connections with those user agents would be the best but idk. My sites have not been targeted yet fortunately.
So far I haven't seen any attempts to change their user agents. I've seen one or two other bots poking around, but nothing to write home about so I've left them alone.
I have heard however that changing user agents is a tactic they do indeed employ, especially Claude, so it may be that I'll eventually have to adapt my defenses.
I've setup Nextcloud on Hetzner, and have ordered a mini PC to run Immich and experiment with.
Still trying to decide on a good cheap email host that I can also move my family on to eventually.
I recently moved from Gmail to mailbox.org with my own domain. Works as it should so far. And for 2.5€ per month I can't complain about the price either.
And switching email addresses has actually been less painful than I expected. Most services let you change the associated Mail easily.
Finally starting my self hosted journey. I have everything I need I'm setting up a 6tb nas for linux iso's photos and files. And I recently got a "broken" laptop that works perfectly fine that I will use for running all my applications in proxmox such as immich, jellyfin and nextcloud. And probably many others in the near future.
A catalog for organizing various Roms you have. It can pull metadata from a number of sources and properly add all the details, cover art, and platform information to each game. It’s smart enough to auto-generate collections based on game series, and embed YouTube videos for gameplay of each one without even any configuration.
The best part? It has Ruffle and EmulatorJS built in so you can play any games supported by EmulatorJS in your browser. I tested games up to N64 and they all ran smooth as butter right in the browser with gamepad configurations built in. They even support local multiplayer.
Found out that docker volumes are important after restarting my server 🙃
That’s a mistake you only make once!
Meh, made it a few times.
Some images treat volumes differently .
Looking at you, nextcloud.
Am I mistaken that docker creates temporary volumes with a nondescript name and you can potentially dig up the volumes that were being used in /var/lib/docker/volumes?
I added a cheap PCI 4 slot NVMe expansion card and a couple of SSDs for a new pool and then migrated all the database-heavy stuff over to it. Required some use of local ZFS send/receive which I didn't know was possible, but it has gone smooth so far. Very happy with it! It no longer sounds like my HDD pool is trying to escape from hell and some of the services are much snappier, especially Bitmagnet. I'd highly recommend it as an upgrade for anyone still running purely HDDs. I thought I could get away with it but ZFS speeds are no faster than single drives and the amount of stuff I had was hammering it non-stop.
I also bought my own domain finally to escape the free-tier dynamic DNS woes and I can finally feel good about sharing links with other people. I slapped a file share container with disabled registrations on a sub domain. I put it all behind free tier Cloudflare to hide my server's IP, it took a little bit of learning what the different records are but so far much easier than I thought. Although I have yet to do the hardest part of setting up dynamic IP for my DNS records. I see a bunch of scripts floating around, but none seem that easy or well-maintained...
Oh, and the PI I've had running Pi-Hole v5 for god knows how long with no maintenance couldn't run Tailscale, so I wiped the entire thing to start fresh and got it up and running with Pi-Hole v6, Tailscale, and Unbound. I like having these separated from my other services as they are more critical to have at all times and I have had 100% uptime with my Pi so far. Although I chose Dietpi for my OS on a whim because it looked interesting and am not sold on it. I like that it has easy software installs with sane defaults so I probably saved time overall, but the amount of time I spent debugging the weird choices Dietpi made for basic shit like networking options really threw me off.
I set up my own Lemmy server, mastodon, and matrix. Finally making the move off centralized social media and communication platforms
Do you just do this for your own personal use, a few friends or just anyone from the internet?I'm just curious what the point is and how much effort is involved in connecting with other instances.
Nice! Hosting your own Fedi stuff feels great.
Shoutout to @Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com for helping me appreciate the joy of docker compose. I got to set up Navidrome and it's been great!
With that said, I have a security-related question: at what point in self-hosting am I exposed to the outside internet that warrants things like reverse proxies and other security measures? I'm currently typing router IPs (e.g. 192.168.x.x) to access the services, so is my machine exposed if the only people intending to connect are local on our wireless network?
There's nothing wrong with making a reverse proxy only for use inside your homelab. It's one way to resolve internal DNS queries and give addresses to your services. It's perhaps the best, because it's the only way I know that doesn't necessitate remembering port numbers.
E.g. You are hosting something at 192.168.1.20 on port 3310. Even if you set a local DNS record for pihole.itjust.donn to resolve to 192.168.1.20, you'll still have to type pihole.itjust.donn:3310 to access it. The same isn't true with a reverse proxy.
To expose your stuff to the outside internet, you need to actively set port forward in your internet router, you won't do that by accident.
What a relief, thanks for the clarity! I have vague memories of doing that as a teenager to play various games with friends, which sounds like something risky a teenager would do 😅
I'm moving to Podman quadlets for self hosting infrastructure (Forgejo and Woodpecker CI) and Kubernetes for the actual services. I also still need to figure out were I'm going to do SSL terminations.
Nextcloud will be moved to Nextcloud AIO
Recently been working on setting up forgejo to migrate away from GitHub. My open source stuff I’ve actually put onto codeberg and I’ve set up a handful of pull mirrors on my local instance for redundancy. This weekend I’ve been testing out woodpecker-ci for automating pushing files to s3 for some static websites for repos on codeberg as well as my forgejo instance. Today will tell if that is successful!
Got my jetKVM in the mail yesterday. Really sleek build and software. Liking it a lot so far.
Migrated my network to a router running openwrt this past week as well. Having issues with avahi-daemon crash looping, so I haven't been able to get mdns working in between networks 🤷
Finally switched from plex to jellyfin, seems to be ok so far. Needed to make some small scripts for metadata management but it's running smoothly. Finally decided I'm hosting enough software with user accounts that I've made an authentik instance for SSO with each (ofc jellyfin first)
Hey, we're also thinking about setting up authentik. Could you answer the following, where I haven't found answers to yet: does introducing SSO impede logging into Jellyfin on a TV / phone app at all?
Ann reason you choose authenik? There are a nmber of options and I'm not sure why to choose one over the other.
I did no research whatsoever and picked the one I'd seen the name of more often. I figured if it didn't work for me I'd try something else, same as when plex wasn't working for me so I switched to jellyfin. I have no idea how it compares to the other options but it feels pretty solid so far
I'm not the person you're replying to, but Authentik:
I haven't tried Keycloak but I hear it's pretty good, albeit a heavier app to deploy.
I have tried Authelia, and it's much less powerful than Authentik. Authelia requires you to manually modify config files rather than using a web UI. It also only supports OIDC (which is in beta) and proxying. Proxying is not recommended and has several issues since it's not "true" single sign-on.
Doing that switch soon.
Plex doesn't do hw accel well, which kind of defeats the purpose.
Setting up HW accel on Jellyfin was a bit more manual than a single checkbox. You have to tell it which codecs it should HW decode and encode. I had some issues with it so left it off for now
I've finally powered on a 15 year old machine to run a bot I've been writing. The thing is slow as dirt and stuck behind a flakey power line network, but it's working. I got to write my first systemd service definition, which is kind of cool.
The computer I'm using currently, I set the BIOS in 2012. WHen I built it, I stuffed every last piece of cutting edge tech of the time into it. Dual CPU, SLI, started with 64gb ram then later on maxed the board out at 128gb. It's still a workhorse tho. It's one of the three I use all the time for music production, selfhosting etc.
I've just set up Wireguard, so I can access my home network from everywhere, but the old laptop that I wanted to use as a server has just quit. So now I have to find a different machine
Any way to do this on Android when also connected to another commercial VPN? I want both, but where only 10.X traffic goes to my personal network and the rest goes out through commercial VPN/Tor.
Finally installed jellyfin when I realized I could use rclone to mount 10G of free disk space from box (with client side encryption using rclone) on my server.
Very easy to install on Debian, but the plugins are a security nightmare. Jellyfin devs are kinda dumb.
A LOT of plugins in many projects are a huge concern. I say this as someone who ran security for an OS for a while. It's just people making bad decisions for everyone and then hand-waving the risks when questioned.
I dont mean the plugins themselves but the fact that there's no way to safely download a plugin.
Even if the plugin really is benign, jellyfin will happily download something inauthentic and malicious befuarse there's no cryptographic signature checks
Debatting with myself and to a lesser degree what to do in terms of our homeserver situation. While the proxmox node has more than enough CPU and RAM capacity left, the NAS, an older Synology, is full to the brim, EOL and needs replacement.And sadly being a mini PC the proxmox node is unable to get the HDs connected.
So something new is needed and I would rather have my setup streamlined and combine the two.
But that is... More difficult than anticipated. I really would like something power saving with ECC ram that can take at least two PCI-e (SFP+ and a potential graphic card for AI later on). That can take 4,better 6 HDs. And at least one,better two NVMe. ...that basically means self building which I am happy with, but all current builds I calculate come out somewhere south of 2000€ (including two new HDs, as two old ones need to go). And that's sadly out of the financial possibility at the moment.
If only the fucking Ugreen (DXP6800)would support ECC. While not ideal in terms of PCI-e it would be enough to do the trick.
I use a little mini PC with a DAS connected via USB. So you don't need to go full server to expand the storage.
That's a bit below the level of reliability I need,sadly - before doing that I could also go for a non ECC solution.
I'm switching my immich instance to an SSD one and switching my VPN from zerotier to tailscale.
Hopefully that means my Immich will be a little more reactive.
If at all possible see if you can do wireguard yourself. Tailscale is basically inserting a third party company for no reason as its just wireguard with their servers involved. For example if you can run opnsense its easy to get running via the GUI. Very rewarding!
Any resources you'd recommend?
Absolutely. I used Tailscale for a bit because I didn't want to get a VPS (I'm behind CGNAT), but I needed to expose a handful of services and use my own domain name, and I couldn't figure that out w/ Tailscale. So I bought a cheap VPS and configured WireGuard on it to get into my LAN and I'm much happier.
My ISP blocks all outgoing ports. Maybe I'm not trying hard enough but anything I try port forwarding ends up getting blocked.
Minecraft and port 80 are the 2 I've tried and they've been unresponsive
Last week got my new epyc server with GPU running ollama and all the trimmings.
This week linked my 2 home bases with wire guard, all the subnets mesh and the wifi isolation is solid. Performance is surprisingly good considering they're 9 time zones apart on different hemispheres.
Migrating plex to jellyfin to get hw accel working.
Also trying to get my second base multiple statics and 10gb if possible, rural fiber in Europe is unbelievably aweome, hope to drop Comcast business back home if it works.
Got someone to work with on a new company, so that's part of this, though my day job relies on this too.
I had to reboot my Proxmox server after applying powertop --auto-tune. All was fine with every advised tweak but touching the Lan interfaces was not a great idea
I’m trying to figure out a basic CRM for my local sports club. I use docker to self host a voting platform called RALLLY that we use a lot and enjoy. If people can recommend a CRM I’d give it a go today. I tried a platform called twenty yesterday but couldn’t get it off the ground
Consider reviewing odoo, I last looked at them when they were known as openERP, I know one guy that runs it and is happy. It might be a bit much if you just want a CRM...
Docker compose. I had a plan to ease into docker, I slipped and fell in the fucking pool. So far I have AdGuard Home and Heimdall working. Some WireGuard variant is next, followed by moving grafana and Prometheus over.
So far so good…..internet blogs, videos, etc have been not great, seems things have changed since dropping the version in your yaml file. All in all, I think the direction I’m heading in is good. Time will tell.
Docker compose is great! Good luck!
I've been moving from docker compose to podman, and I think that's the better long term plan for me. However, the wins here are pretty marginal, so I don't recommend it unless you want those marginal wins and everything is already in containers. IMO: Podman > docker compose >>>no containers. Docker compose has way better examples online, so stick with that until you feel like tinkering.
I really like the idea of containers, it def solves my problems of running multiple services in the host OS. I’d like to build my own containers to pull the few “bare metal” services I’ll have outside of docker. Anyway, I’ll keep podman in the back of my head.
One thing I’m already happy I did was create a docker directory and having sub directories keep all of my container volumes separate. Should make backing things up easier as well.
I've been learning bash and working on scripts to automate stuff in my homelab. It's been a lot of fun. I'm currently working on a script that will rename the movies and TV shows I rip from my DVD collection.
The script queries the tmdb api, presents me with a mwnu of matches if there's multiple matches, renames the media files according to jellyfin spec, and then places them in the proper folders to be indexed by Jellyfin and Kodi.
Would you mind sharing the code?
Bash variable manipulation is really, really fun.
automate stuff in my homelab.
Love me some homelab automation. It puts a smile on my face when I get a little ding from telegram giving me a summary of this morning's email, what the weather will be for the day along with a summary of established connections to my servers 'cause I'm paranoid like that. LOL fun stuff
I fixed DNS
(My DNS queries were blocked by my ISP's modem, I flashed OpenWRT on an old WiFi Repeater, and set up a DoH proxy)
Finally got around to trying what @chaospatterns@lemmy.world recommended me to troubleshoot my scanner sending to FTP. And I got it working! Thanks chaospatterns!
Oh, I've just been tinkering around with LangFlow specifically as a news aggregator.
The flow: https://i.imgur.com/5HqznQm.png
Then asking AI to go get me some news: https://i.imgur.com/ltZPBwC.png
Still needs a little tinkering and as the final step, to send said news stories to my Telegram. I really have a blast with automation platforms like N8N, Flowise, Gotify, DopplerTask, & Kestra.
Afterwards, I smoked a small bowl and worked on a couple songs I have in the works.
HBU?
I am currently arguing what to do with my gaming rig and home theater. Either get a long cable which would need a DP-to-HDMI adapter or get a used mini PC (which is currently cheaper than a Raspberry Pi?) and setup Sunshine and Moonlight (but over WiFi and not LAN) to be more flexible when I eventually move the two into separate rooms. Does anyone have some experience with that? Maybe also latency over wireless network?
I use sunshine and moonlight using a pi 5 running Android TV as the client. It works perfectly for the occasional video stream but latency for games is a bit rough. You'll probably be fine playing something relaxed like Stardew Valley but platformers (I've tried Ultimate Chicken Horse) and racing games (Mario Kart Wii running in Dolphin) are just bad enough to be unplayable. This is with both devices connected over Ethernet (albeit through a powerline adapter and my router is fairly cheap) so WiFi will probably be worse.
Not sure if sunshine and moonlight just have loads of overhead or if there's a part of my setup causing the latency.
I don’t have the quantitative metrics, but I will say that I had the flu last year and I just laid on the couch with my steam deck and streamed cyberpunk using Moonlight. The latency was imperceptible to my flu brain, and it was a much better experience than playing for an hour at a much lower quality natively on the deck. I have a friend who also streams his desktop to his Apple TV (hardwired desktop, wireless Apple TV) and he beat metal gear solid V like that.
i run coolify and I have to make my own solutions so I'm learning a lot about docker.
I have a self-hosted AI system that works pretty well. I can interact with it via my phone, the shell, my IRC server, and I can verbally talk to it.
But I want to get it to remember things, so I need to start working on RAG or something. Eventually I'd like to be able to have it draft emails for me, and schedule appointments.
Same, except the irc, I have a python thing to interface.
Stealing your idea, that sounds awesome.
A new homepage for the business of my wife.
I plan to use Hugo for it, I just wish the documentation would be better.
For the homepage I need a few additional "non-blog" pages and from the documentation I am not sure how to do that the best way.
But to be honest, I have not really looked deeper into that, so it is very possible that I just missed something.
Ive been using Zola for a bit now and love it. Very simplistic. Could be worth a look but simple pages can be html or markdown. Couldnt be much simpler. Super fast to build
I will look into that too, thank you for the suggestion
Scrubbing a little demo project I made featuring a web app behind oauth2-proxy leveraging keycloak as local idp with social login. It also uses a devcontainer config for development. The demo app uses the Litestar framework (fka starlite, in Python) because I was interested, but it's hardly the focus. Still gotta put caddy in front of it all for easy SSL. Oh, and clean up all the default secrets I've strewn about with appropriate secret management.
All of it is via rootless podman and declarative configuration.
Think I might have to create my own Litestar RBAC plugin that leverages the oauth headers provided by the proxy.
It has been a minute since I worked daily in this space, so it has been good to dust off the cobwebs.
More incus:
Next:
I hear about Incus being the next best thing. I've never played around with it. Is it all that and a bag o' chips?
Side question, but where are you hearing this about incus?
I'm wrapping up 9 years of using proxmox and I have very specific reasons for switching to incus, but I this is the third time I'm fielding questions in the last month about incus.
I think so.
It is LXD + KVM, so way more and finer tune control on lxc instances. It can run OCI images as well, so for docker instances with only a few configs and no persistent storage, it is actually quite handy. For docker instances that need pretty complicated compose files, I just run docker inside an lxc for now, until I figure that out.
This week I finally managed to route torrent traffic through a VPS that was sitting around gathering dust. I am behind CGNAT so was taking me 6 weeks to do the kind of traffic I do in a day now. I couldn't be more chuffed.
What ratio are you at with your Linux ISOs wink.
Email... My wife really wants to further de-google, this means moving custom domains off gsute.
Do I move to proton/tuta or go back to self hosting email again like I did for years until about 2010?
If I self host, do I do it at home or on the server that runs my lemmy instance?
Cool your wife is into de googling! My wife thinks I’m a conspiracy nut. I have custom domains on proton and its been great, but with their moves toward AI and crypto who knows. I would probably try tuta if I was setting it up now - but who knows if they will eventually go wonkey then you will wish you self hosted anyway 🤝
Don't go to Proton or Tuta - both are impossible to get out of basically, do not support free standards and Proton is scumy in terms of their marketing.
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Just to name a few.
I self-host my email using Mailcow, and use a VPS for it. I don't trust my home server to be reliable enough, and the VPS providers have nicer equipment (modern AMD EPYC CPUs, enterprise SSDs, datacenter-grade 10Gbps or 40Gbps connections, etc). I use a separate VPS just for my emails - it's the one thing I want to ensure is secure, so I didn't want any other random software (that could potentially have security issues) running on it..
I also use an outbound SMTP relay to avoid having to deal with IP reputation. Very easy to configure this in Mailcow. SMTP2Go has a free plan for sending <1000 emails per month.
It kind of amazes me that, in this day and age, email has turned out to be the lynchpin of security. Email as a 2FA endpoint. Email password reset systems. If email is compromised, everything else falls. They used to tell us not to put anything in email that you wouldn't put on a postcard...how did this happen?
I went with Tuta because it's my backup if everything else goes wrong. If my house burns down or my VPS shuts down my instance (e.g. billing fail, IP block ban, provider goes under, etc), I don't want to lose access to my email.
I use a custom domain for it, so if I ever need to, switching to a different provider should be as simple as swapping some domain configs.
It's relatively inexpensive too at €3/month when paying annually. I wanted two domains (one for personal, one for online stuff) and didn't need any of the other stuff Proton has, so Tuta worked.
I've been testing out immutable distros, in this case openSUSE Aeon (laptop) and openSUSE MicroOS (server).
I set up Forgejo and runners are working, all in podman. I'm about to take the plunge and convert everything on my NAS to podman, which is in preparation for installing MicroOS on it (upgrade from Leap).
I also installed MicroOS on a VPS, which was a pain because my VPS provider doesn't have images for it, and I'd have to go through support to get it added. Instead, I found a workaround, which is pretty amazing that it works:
The nice thing is that cloud-init works, so my keys set up in step 1 still work with the new OS. It's not the most convenient way to set things up, but it's about the same amount of time as asking them for an ISO.
Anyway, now it's the relatively time consuming task of moving everything from my other VPS over, but I'll do it properly this time with podman containers. I had an ulterior motive here as well, I'm moving from x86 to ARM, which reduces cost somewhat and it can also function as a test bed of sorts for ARM versions of things I'm working on.
So far I'm liking it, especially since it forces me to use containers for everything. We'll see in a month or two how I like maintaining it. It's supposed to be super low effort, since updates are installed in the background and applied on reboot.
I tried to update my lemmy instance and it all went so horribly wrong. DB never came up, errors everywhere, searching implied I updated to a dev branch sometime in the past (not a dev, don't think I did) and it'll be console and DB queries for a fix.
Ran out of time and overwhelmed, I restored backups and buried my head in the sand. Nope, not now. Future, yes, but oh not now.
Sometimes we get so engrossed in what we're doing we can't see the problem(s). I do that a lot, so I have take a break. Same with creating music. You get so deaf to what you are trying to write that nothing sounds good no matter what you do. In the words of Snoop Dog, 'I had to back up off of it and sit my cup down. Tanqueray and chronic, yeah, I'm fucked up now.'
Take a break.
A while back, the docker installation instructions just had "lemmy:latest" as which version to pull. The Lemmy devs aren't the brightest, and the beta versions are included as "latest". Now the instructions have you put the specific version to pull, like "0.19.10".
I wonder if that's what happened?
I had that problem once, just had to delete a duplicate db function
Building a simple workflow with AI agent for our community watch group. Also building an open source automation platform, currently working through GUI templates for it.
I've just moved and I'm setting up my machines. NIC died in my DIY router just before the move so I'm upgrading to 2.5/10 Gbps at the same time.
What NIC are you looking at and what OS have you chosen?
It's a complete experiment with cheap network gear from China. I have a HP T730 mini PC that serves as my router. I'm installing a cheap 2.5 Gbps NIC for LAN side. Then there's a switch with 4x2.5 Gbps Ethernet and 2xSFP+ ports. My two main machines (PC and home server) are getting 10 Gbps SFP+ cards that I'll attach with DAC cables.
OS is OpenWRT, because I've been connecting over WiFi to the Internet in both old and new locations. OPNsense just will not work with any wireless adapter I've tried. I will try agan once I route Ethernet to my room.
I'm curious if all of this works with cheap network gear. Today I'm configuring a fresh OpenWRT installation on the router.
Firing up my NAS and Arrs. My Aoostar WTR Pro and all the components arrived, it’s all setup, and I swapped out the fan for a larger one to get more airflow into the nvme drive area since I live in a hot climate.
Spending the day configuring a vpn, sab, and qbit. Already learning a lot!
Are there any AI apps that will index markdown documents with a vector DB, then allow you to run natural language queries using some kind of RAG approach with a local LLM?
Closest I've found is LlamaIndex, but this is still more of a 'foundation' than a turn-key solution and right now I'm too time-poor to do the assembly required...
I realise I'm describing close-to-frontier tech, but is there anything more turn-key (Dockerised) out there yet?
My use-case is pretty 'vanilla' in this space: Having a knowledge base and wanting quick answers to questions like "How should screen X behave if I am not a registered user?".
Thanks for any suggestions!
I think I found my jam! AnythingLLM self-hostable
Ollama + OpenWebUI also can do this.
As we received new network hardware from our ISP, and inevitably are getting a new IP address again with that, I'm looking into setting up a DDNS. I've wanted to check out DuckDNS.
They run their (free) service on AWS EC2 instances, though, and as I am currently also trying to end my reliance on Google and Amazon, I've got some more digging to do. If anyone has a good, European (or heck, federated?) solution, hmu!
I have been very happy with desec.io, they are a nonprofit based in Berlin.
Also very impressed with desec!
I've been using DuckDNS on a multiple platforms for a couple of years and it works great. Never had a problem.
I'm using the Hetzner nameservers, it's not exactly DynDNS but they have a DNS API and I just have a cronjob set up that checks every five minutes if the IP is still correct and updates otherwise.
Using this in the cronjob: https://github.com/FarrowStrange/hetzner-api-dyndns
I really need to figure out how to get Jellyfin to use SSL certs and assigning a domain to the instance.
When in doubt, put it behind nginx
Do you have a revese proxy setup?
Caddy is the way.
Caddy! I am embarrassed to think about how long it took me to figure out caddy. I kept cracking away at it tho, and one day it was like the clouds rolled back, and the sun shone on my face, a alien ship came down and this green little dude gave me the secrets, and it was all so simple. Now I can have caddy up and dishing out certs in about 5 minutes. When I look back, I cringe.
I have my instance running in my k3s cluster. I have its node affinity to only run on my minisforum i9. That way, I can use cert manager to manage the certs.
My radarr instances won't download anything. It will search and find compatible torrents, but then it just spins and spins, nothing ever moves to the queue. If I refresh its like nothing happened at all. I confirmed that qbt is running properly and my Sonarr instances seem to be running ok.
I recently reorganized the root files to separate HD/UHD content so that I can run 2 instances for Overseerr requests, then this issue started. I had to reset the root folders and now there's also a root folder error about collections that I can't resolve either... got me thinking about doing a full reinstall.
The root folder error for collections. I think I know this one. You need to go into every movie and update the filepath to the use the new root folder. Radarr isn't smart enough to do that automatically for you. Though you'd think they'd have $rootfolder as a var, but no.
What's in the radarr log? You have your downloader configured, enabled, and tested I assume?
I'd appreciate some feedback on what I'm looking to do.
I'm wanting to follow the FUTO guide, but I don't want to build a router, to save on some money for now.
So I'm planning on buying a Mikrotik MT RB750Gr3 and putting OpenWrt on it, then using my current TP-Link Archer C6 as a wireless access point. (will buy a dedicated AP in the future).
One thing I wonder is, if there is a Mikrotik model that would be better?
I'm using the rb5009 but im using RouterOS not openwrt. Any reason why you'd want to do that?
I personally think if you're buying a purpose built hardware and then putting your own software on it, you should move to a mini computer with OpnSense.
Besides adding a UPS, how do you deal with power failures? Are you somewhere where they're not much of a problem?
In my experience mini computers don't handle power failures nearly as well as purpose-built hardware.
After several power failures the SSD on my Raspberry Pi became so corrupted it wouldn't boot, and I was 250 miles away at the time and lost access to my home network for weeks. Overlay file systems work but are a PITA to maintain. By contrast my routers have never had a problem even with repeated power failures, so instead of relying on the Pi I've moved my DNS and Wireguard servers to my router.
It looks like the hEX refresh is the same price from that vendor.
RB5009 is better but more expensive. There's a PoE version that can power your WiFi APs in the future.
I also question the decision to put OpenWrt on it. RouterOS is solid. There's a learning curve, but it's worth it if you're a nerd.
