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NAS / NAS + server? Unraid, Proxmox, Intel, AMD? Looking for guidance.
  • I've gone the TrueNAS SCALE route myself, with TN running on bare metal. All my containers/apps are set up through it, and I've also spun up Windows and Linux VMs without major issues, including GPU and USB passthrough.

    I do enjoy the security it gives me, will all my apps being versioned/snapshotted regularly and before every update, as well as the rest of my data. Since TN is only using ZFS and not something like MergerFS (which I believe is used by Unraid), the upgrade path is a bit mote restricted. So you should definitely look into your options up-front. For example, you won't be able to expand a vdev (virtual ZFS disk) later on, you'll have to create a new one. And you can only use equivalent vdevs to form pools. That means if you start with 3 drives in a vdev for your main storage pool, you can only expand that pool by adding anothet 3 drives with the same capacity as a secons vdev. So make sure you can stomach these costs, or go for fewer and cheaper drives, with a large case.

    As for apps, you can set up docker apps easily, and there are a large number of officially or community-maintained apps, where any breaking changes and migrations are handled for you, so updating is a breeze. But you don't have a much flexibility as with a custom setup. TN has been becoming more generic in that regard though, switching from k3s to regular docker, so you could probably play around with stuff via the CLI without major issues.

    Oh and one more thing: you should probably use a separate, dedicated device for Home Assistant. Use a Raspberry Pi or one of their official boards, and you'll have better support, more features, redundancy, and can still create backups on your NAS via SMB.
    Such a second device that is also connected via Tailscale doesn't hurt either, just in case.

  • I Made My Smart Home Presence Sensor Even Better! - YouTube
  • Yeah that seems to be why the EPL supports a bunch of sensors, it's a tradeoff between different features for each sensor. Some do X/Y position tracking (default one). Some do fall detection. Some can measure heart rate. But seems like no sensor can do it all, at least not in that price range.

  • Tempo – An open source music client for Subsonic built natively for Android, with Android Auto support and synchronized lyrics and it's available on F-Droid
  • Hmm, my goal with the app is to not require an external documentation, I'd like to make it straight-forward enough to use as it is.

    The only thing we really need would be developer documentation, but I'm not sure if you can help with that, especially since you don't know the codebase.

    If you can think of something else to contribute, or if you want to add a basic GitHub wiki for the most common functionality and issues, I'm happy to discuss things further!

  • Tempo – An open source music client for Subsonic built natively for Android, with Android Auto support and synchronized lyrics and it's available on F-Droid
  • That's great to hear! Just make sure you have all the lyrics set up in Jellyfin before you start the road trip, Finamp only fetches from the server and not from any other websites :)

    There will probably come some changes to the lyrics interaction, I'm also not a fan of the current setup. Toggling between lyrics or the cover seems doable.

    Customizations for the lyrics, like hiding the timestamp and centering, is definitely planned. Maybe I can even fit it into the next update!

    And yes, I'm the current maintainer of Finamp, since the original creator is currently busy with uni. They're still around though, and there also are some awesome contributors helping out with a ton of stuff!

    If you have any other questions, feel free to reach out. I'll try to reply in less than two days xD

  • [Jellyfin] Announcing Finamp's Redesign Beta (v0.9.2-beta)
  • Hey, is this still an issue in the beta? There are reports from others that have problems with their large playlists because it takes too long to queue them up, so I don't think the shuffle is limited to a certain number of items.
    Or are you talking about the round shuffle button on the songs/tracks tab?

  • Is there a Google Timeline alternative with feature parity?
  • Home Assistant can record the position of a device tracker (e.g. a phone with GPS) and does reverse geocoding (coordinates to addresses). There's also a "premises" attribute, but I'm not sure if that includes the types of places you're looking for.
    Here's some more info: https://companion.home-assistant.io/docs/core/sensors#geocoded-location-sensor

    I'm not aware of a nice way to browse these locations though, but at least the data would be there.

  • Jellyfin Rewind 2023 is here! Review Your Music of 2023

    Hey everyone!

    I'm super excited to announce that Jellyfin Rewind 2023 is finally here! Another year has passed, and it's time to look back at all the music you've listened to!

    In case you don't know, "Jellyfin Rewind" is an open-source version of Spotify Wrapped (& co.) made specifically for Jellyfin, that I initially created last year. This year, I've made some improvements and added a few new features, and tried to make it as enjoyable as possible.

    You can find more info below, but if you just want to see your Rewind, use the links below:

    Links

    Local Network / Self-Hosting

    If your Jellyfin server is only accessible on your local network, you will need to self-host Jellyfin Rewind so that it's also accessible on your local network. Otherwise your browser will block the connection. To do this, check out the GitHub releases page and either download the zip-archive or use the provided Docker image here. The zip-archive will need to be extracted into a folder that is served by a web server, like Apache or Nginx. The Docker image will need a to have port 80 exposed instead.

    HTTP (works for both http and https Jellyfin servers, as long as they are accessible over the internet):

    Make sure your browser shows "insecure" / no lock at the top after opening the link, otherwise connecting to your HTTP-only Jellyfin server might not work!

    <http://jellyfin-rewind-http.chaphasilor.xyz>

    HTTPS (only use this if your Jellyfin server has an https connection and is accessible over the internet, this is the best experience):

    <https://jellyfin-rewind.chaphasilor.xyz>

    Download your Rewind report!

    Please, please, please download your Rewind report at the end!

    Jellyfin's statistics aren't very exhaustive, and any additional data could help offer you more insights during next year's Rewind! Especially if you don't have the Playback Reporting plugin installed, this year's Rewind report might come in very handy, so keep it save!

    If something doesn't work and you can't download the data, I'll be happy to help you resolve the issue.

    Something isn't working!

    I'm sorry to hear that! I spent a lot of time trying to make everything as robust as possible, but everyone has a different server and different media, so it's no easy task. There appear to be some issues on iOS with the browser tab crashing, probably because it's crunching too much data. If it happens to you, please try again on a desktop browser.

    If you have any other issues, please comment below and include:

    1. What isn't working?
    2. Which device are you using to view Jellyfin Rewind?
    3. How are you accessing your server? (local IP, public domain, https yes/no)
    4. A screenshot could be super helpful.
    5. If you are familiar with web development, some logs from your browser's dev tools probably have the highest chance of helping me debug the issue.

    How does it work?

    Glad you asked! Essentially, Jellyfin Rewind loads most of the information about your music from your Jellyfin server, processes it on your device, aggregates some nice statistics, and then shows the result to you!

    Your data never leaves your device; it's very similar to using the Jellyfin app on your phone.

    Sadly the build in statistics of Jellyfin are pretty lackluster as of now, even with the Playback Reporting plugin, so that a lot of data has to be processed on your device. That's why it takes a few seconds to generate your Rewind report.

    For next year, I might release a separate plugin that can use your Jellyfin server in order to crunch the data. This would also solve some of the connection problems that might happen this year. If you're interested in helping me with the plugin, please be sure to reach out!

    Where's the source code?

    You can find the source code on GitHub: <https://github.com/Chaphasilor/jellyfin-rewind>. There you can also find the files needed to self-host your own instance if you feel like it (under "Releases"). Self-hosting might actually enable you to use Jellyfin Rewind if nothing else works, because both Jellyfin Rewind and your Jellyfin server are running locally.

    Can I help out somehow?

    If you know something about web development, are a designer of some sorts, or have experience (or are curious about) developing Jellyfin plugins, I'd love to hear from you! There's so much I want to implement for next year's Jellyfin Rewind, and I need your help to bring all these ideas to life!

    I had many more features planned for this year, but simply didn't have the time. I originally planned to launch back in November, and that obviously didn't work out :)

    Thanks to everyone who uses Jellyfin Rewind, I sincerely hope you enjoyed it as much as I did! See you next year!!! - Chaphasilor

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