This week I’ve been playing with Espresence, which for anyone that doesn’t know, is a program that runs on an ESP32 and tracks Bluetooth. It then has a guess where you are based upon the strength of the signal....
I’ve been in the HA world since the time the government placed the world under house arrest. Since then I’ve seen all sorts of amazing things people can do with an esp32 device....
Yeah I played a little with the breadboard when I first got the pi but didn’t do anything spectacular. I need to have a look but I feel like I may have a camera module in my bag of tricks so I guess I could theoretically knock up a camera doorbell or something with some tinkering.
Soldering looks like it’s a whole thing but I feel like if I bought an iron I’d get the hang of it really easily.
But then I feel like I’ll just be soldering everything and my family will get exasperated with me.
My energy supplier (Octopus UK) rolled out these beta test monitoring gadgets that sit on the network and connects to my smart meter, super convenient, hooks straight in to HA with an add-on someone made.
Before I got one of those I was looking at the clamps Myself
I’ve got a friend that I’ve basically lost over the last couple of years because he bought an Ender 3 in lockdown and now he’s fat and pasty white because he just stays home making things with his printer.
Don’t buy it and don’t look into robotics, you don’t need to make a automated robot that can kill other robots Luke.
I’m struggling to find the easiest solution to connect a set of active speakers that have BT/Optical (Toslink)/Coax. I currently use a tablet to stream Deezer via BT, but I want to be able to use them in Music Assistant. I tried Bubblepnp on the tablet, but it’s too slow for that, it wasn’t reliable....
Ok someone has mentioned Logitech Media Player. There is Raspotify too.
Both of these options are Pi compatible and I run both myself.
So here’s the use cases for me:
LMS or Squeezebox is a full blown audio media server. I have pulled the music off and old iPod and put it on a server that LMS can “see” and I can play via speakers and Bluetooth.
There’s plugins for LMS and Spotify is one of them. Another that I use is the Chromecast Bridge that allows LMS to connect to Google devices. There’s an Apple Bridge, a UPNP bridge and a DLNA bridge too. Meaning you can connect all sorts of shit to this server and play your own music, Tidal, Spotify, SoundCloud, YouTube, etc.
It’s far more involved in it’s set up but if you have a pi lying around it’s a great option.
Raspotify is also known as Spotify Connect. You can install this in Home Assistant but your HA device will need speakers. You can also install it on any pi and it just shows up as a connection in Spotify.
I see you’re talking about a tablet you have. I run Fully Kiosk on a tablet myself and recently noticed that it shows in HA as a media player. I haven’t tried to play media through it yet but maybe a quick and easy option for you.
Edit: I just tried using the Fully Kiosk Browser media player on my tablet and it worked just fine. No idea how to get Spotify in there but there you go.
I have a trusty UnRaid server that has been running great for almost 3 years now, with some kinks and headaches here and there, but mostly very stable. Now I’m entertaining the idea of setting that box up with ProxMox, and running UnRaid virtualized. The reason being that I want to use UnRaid exclusively as a NAS and then run...
If you want to move to Proxmox then I say give it a go.
Maybe just keep what you have running and set up another machine to have a play. If you like it, then stick it on your main machine and work out how to replace everything, could be a fun project for you.
I use Proxmox and have Open Media Vault as my NAS. I use SMB/CIFS to share the drives and have a share that Proxmox can use for daily backups, as well as having backups on the main SSD every week. I need to off-site backups but I haven’t researched that yet.
I have a Debian VM that runs Docker and have everything running on that except OMV and Home Assistant. I have another Debian VM that I spin up to try things out.
RAM-wise I’m hitting about 12gb so if you have something with 16 lying around you can easily try out most of what you have running already, and if you don’t have anything to run it on you’re talking under £100 for a mini PC.
Give it a go, I’m sure you can come up with something to run on a mini pc anyway
Hey, I’m always searching a home server (already post here lemmy.ml/post/15083947), I was thinking about a Lenovo P500, but maybe the PSU is a bit too special… My budget around $140, will buy used parts and one of the most important thing is the power efficiency (don’t care about the peak wattage but want to stay around...
It seems like the only two options to get tabs nowadays are gtabs and songsterr. I prefer songsterr out of the two, but constantly get harassed to buy the premium version and certain important features are paywalled....
Pirating by being better at the instrument. Love it.
I’ve been able to play by ear for years but it’s not effortless, it’s much easier to see a chord progression first at least.
So I’m still stuck in the Tab world a bit, except I look up chords to songs then play around with the chords until I have something cool, but that is the beauty of playing finger style, it can sound cool in different ways depending on the strings you play
Jellyfin is very unreliable with live tv in my experience. It takes ages to reload a playlist and sometimes the old channels still appear in library. Is there a better alternative?
In all seriousness it was only a few weeks ago that I heard about a teacher in Bangladesh that did actually shoot one of his students in the leg. He apparently always brought a loaded gun into class with him in his bag.
I saw an appreciation post for Gluetun on here in the last couple of weeks. I’d set it up before my server died and I had to reinstall everything, but then gone for the easy method when I was reinstalling....
Thanks for that, yeah it’s kinda integral to an appreciation post, what is it exactly.
So what Gluetun has done has replaced all the messing around with VPNs for me. Rather than having a specific VM for VPN tasks running using Mullvads app, I can now run the VPN stuff in my VM that was previously just for clearnet things at the same time as those things, without the additional app.
I’ve just deleted the app and containers in the VPN VM and am repurposing it for trying out new things in Docker. Current project is Nextcloud AIO, which I’m failing at for now.
I honestly do not know as I’ve never had it fail, it is a valid concern. I did have you asking about the kill switch while someone else commented to say the kill switch is great so it seems I should get you together lemmy.world/comment/9851407
Honestly I just think it’s my general ability. I couldn’t get the Docker Compose file to work in Portainer. But in all seriousness I don’t think I need NC, I was just interested in what it offers.
I am in the process of setting up a home server, and I am struggling to decide. I have previously used yunohost but in the meantime, freedom box has matured quite a bit. I have also looked at Tipi....
I was actively avoiding Docker too after I tried (and succeeded) getting Home Assistant running in Docker many years ago.
It seemed like a confusing mess when I did it back then and the resulting Home Assistant container ran like a dream for many years until it didn’t and I had no clue how to get it working again.
I ended up just throwing Home Assistant OS on thepi and it was very very simple to set up.
Anyway that was then. This is now.
I bought a mini pc in February and installed Proxmox on it.
Initially I just wanted Home Assistant, Plex and some kind of way of populating Plex with media.
I just ran VMs with bare bones programs installed in Windows. Problem is this took a lot of RAM and was flakey.
Cut to now, where I have a Home Assistant VM, a Linux VM and an OMV VM for my NAS.
The Linux VM has a bunch of Docker containers running that do everything my Windows bare bones VM did, but better.
I can access the containers via Portainer and update them with a button press. I cannot access the VM GUI because I passed through my GPU which knackered the console in Proxmox, and that is absolutely fine, if I need to do anything in the VM I have SSH.
My Linux VM uses less RAM than my Home Assistant VM, which is amazing considering what is running on it.
Docker is where it’s at! Takes a little learning but with Portainer installed it’s all in one GUI instead of SSH in to create text files and folders.
Yesterday I wanted to give Immich a try. So I found a tutorial on YouTube, went into his notes and found his GitHub and in there, his Docker Compose file.
I LITERALLY JUST COPIED IT AND PASTED IT INTO PORTAINER AND PRESSED GO AND HAD IMMICH RUNNING IN MINUTES.
Now the caveat here is that I’ve had a few months of playing with Docker now. I’ve tried to get Immich running a couple times and failed in the past few months. But I watched this guy paste his code in and press go, then start talking about how it works, so I was pretty confident he had taken the time to have a working compose file.
Wall of text to say get acquainted with Portainer and try installing and playing with some stuff. Bear in mind that it probably won’t work to start with and don’t rely on it until you’ve proven it out, but tinker with it until it’s working. Eventually you’ll get a feeling for it and it will become simple to you.
Yeah I don’t see why not. It should be as easy as SSH in to the half top, install Docker and have it run the Portainer client then just bang Portainer on your daily driver and start throwing docker compose files at it.
Have a look at Gluetun for your VPN needs. I’ve basically got all my Arr in the same stack with Gluetun as the networking for the stack, then have other containers running independently that don’t need the VPN, like Adguard and Homarr.
I’ve got a Gluetun appreciation post up that should get you started with it.
Presence/occupancy with a Node Red Binary Sensor, what a revelation!
This week I’ve been playing with Espresence, which for anyone that doesn’t know, is a program that runs on an ESP32 and tracks Bluetooth. It then has a guess where you are based upon the strength of the signal....
With the recent Open Home Foundation announcement I decided to finally buy some ESP32 chips. They're arriving today, what can I do with them?
I’ve been in the HA world since the time the government placed the world under house arrest. Since then I’ve seen all sorts of amazing things people can do with an esp32 device....
Easiest way to create player targets for Music Assistant to connect to an active speaker via SPDIF for <$30 ? Squeezelite seems like a good candidate, but unsure how to connect to SPDIF
I’m struggling to find the easiest solution to connect a set of active speakers that have BT/Optical (Toslink)/Coax. I currently use a tablet to stream Deezer via BT, but I want to be able to use them in Music Assistant. I tried Bubblepnp on the tablet, but it’s too slow for that, it wasn’t reliable....
Move UnRaid from metal to Proxmox (lemmy.ml)
I have a trusty UnRaid server that has been running great for almost 3 years now, with some kinks and headaches here and there, but mostly very stable. Now I’m entertaining the idea of setting that box up with ProxMox, and running UnRaid virtualized. The reason being that I want to use UnRaid exclusively as a NAS and then run...
Need recommandations for a home server
Hey, I’m always searching a home server (already post here lemmy.ml/post/15083947), I was thinking about a Lenovo P500, but maybe the PSU is a bit too special… My budget around $140, will buy used parts and one of the most important thing is the power efficiency (don’t care about the peak wattage but want to stay around...
Pirating guitar and bass tabs?
It seems like the only two options to get tabs nowadays are gtabs and songsterr. I prefer songsterr out of the two, but constantly get harassed to buy the premium version and certain important features are paywalled....
m3u (iptv) server which is not Jellyfin?
Jellyfin is very unreliable with live tv in my experience. It takes ages to reload a playlist and sometimes the old channels still appear in library. Is there a better alternative?
Risk your life with this one easy trick! (slrpnk.net)
Dirt is what is under your fingernails.
Done, what's next? (lemmy.world)
Another Gluetun appreciation post
I saw an appreciation post for Gluetun on here in the last couple of weeks. I’d set it up before my server died and I had to reinstall everything, but then gone for the easy method when I was reinstalling....
What should I run and why?
I am in the process of setting up a home server, and I am struggling to decide. I have previously used yunohost but in the meantime, freedom box has matured quite a bit. I have also looked at Tipi....