You don’t pay for a VPN, HDDs, Usenet, etc?

They’re not facilitating anything other than media organization and playback. What you’re suggesting is akin to Ford being investigated for ‘facilitating bank robbery’ because some robbers used a Mustang as a getaway vehicle.

My server is also running an Intel chip so maybe I’ll play around with using that instead. How is your performance? I have six cameras running but frigate only sees the lower bitrate streams as I have a standalone NVR in the mix already. All I use it for is object detection so that I can get notifications when someone approaches the house via Home Assistant.

I decided to try the LXC route as I also have Immich running in a separate LXC and wanted to share the Coral with both and AFAIK you can’t share resources between multiple VMs (though I’m pretty green with Proxmox/Linux based systems)

Edit: actually you commented on that post of mine, so that’s funny!

“Rock solid” may have been a bit premature 🤣

I restored from a backup from months ago when I’m sure it was still working and didnt have any luck, but thinking about it now this may have been before I had solved the issue with the Coral not being found. I’ll try that again tonight when I get back to the server.

I tried different levels of reboots from frigate to portainer to the LXC and finally the host running Proxmox as part of the troubleshooting with the Coral then again once I got it connected and still didn’t have any luck.

My NAS is in the case with my server (its just a desktop case with tons of drive slots). I’m not a fan of pre-built NAS as they’re insanely expensive and can’t be expanded without buying a whole other NAS. Plus now I don’t have to worry about network issues causing my files to be unavailable nor tons of traffic over the LAN for reads/writes

I haven’t really been in the music game for a long time either with streaming being so easy and most torrent sites not offering much, but I did try SoulSeek out and it was super nice for acquiring new music. I have not tried the integration with Lidarr, but I think that would make it excellent.

You should be able to find tutorials on YouTube or follow the TRaSH guide. You don’t need to expose this stuff to the internet, only your download client like Qbittorrent. For movies and TV, all you’d need is a download client + VPN, sonarr (TV), radarr (movies), Prowlarr (handles indexers/trackers), and possibly Jellyseer for requests from you or those you share with in a single UI. There are other *arrs for music (Lidarr), books, porn, etc too. Lidarr can integrate with SoulSeek if thats what you’re using to fill content for Navidrome, but you would use Jellyfin as the media player.

Yes they’ll integrate well with Plex, Emby, and Jellyfin. You just paste API keys from one to another to allow them to communicate.

Also WD Elements and WD EasyStore. They’re all the same drives inside.

I checked my receipts and the used 14TB WD Ultrastars I’ve been buying from ServerPartDeals are about $100 more per drive than when I bought them last year. My number was around $12/TB for those and all the shucked WD Elements drives I’d been buying in the years prior.

Probably much more involved with the OP5T, but when I looked into running my Note 4 as a display without a battery, I discovered that you just needed to show a couple pins a 3.7V signal and it’d think there was a battery installed. This can be accomplished with a dime-sized voltage converter connected to the input power.

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Ersatz actually does allow you to do this. Its kinda neat to find old 80s and 90s commercials and mix them in with your 80s and 90s TV shows.

I ran it for a while and it was a little confusing to set up but worked well in the end. I did have some major issues with trying to use it alongside my HDHomeRun (local antenna channels) in Plex. xTeve allows you to combine the two programming schedules into one since Plex only allows for one at a time, but for whatever reason the output would come out all scrambled with shows being tied to the wrong channel. It seemed to work fine in Emby, so it should work fine in Jellyfin, and you likely wouldn’t even encounter this since most people don’t have live TV setup anyways.

To help combat this I’ve created numerous collections in Plex based on commonly shared traits like genre, actors, directors, release decade, holidays and placed these collections at the top of my library. You can even find artwork for all this stuff on The Poster DB. I also make sure to put sequels into their own collections and separate animated TV/movies from all the live action stuff (four separate libraries) to further reduce the wall of choices.

I think Jellyseer gives you the ability to watch trailers or see external links (imdb, tvdb, etc) for the show/movie.

Like others have said, this stuff is really about building a collection not streaming something the moment the idea to watch it pops in your mind. It can replace Netflix but you’d want to build it up first (with plenty of HDD space to do so). Mine is also shared with family and friends so it supplements their watching too.

I also have frigate on proxmox with a Google coral but mine has been rock solid. The only difference is that I use an LXC instead of a VM. I recall there being more issues passing hardware to VMs in Proxmox since they don’t like to share.

Note this only works if your CPU has on-board graphics like most Intel chips (non KF variant) or AMD’s G series processors.

I’d definitely skip this in favor of something consumer-grade. You can find used Dell Optiplexes all over the place cheap and stick a large drive inside/outside of it and use it for a couple of years.

A big old server is just going to drain your wallet on both power and parts with equal or worse performance and a lot more complexity for what 99% of home users will use it for.

It sounds like your main goal is probably a media server and an Optiplex will give you an i5 or i7 with QuickSync which works excellent for processing video. RAID isnt really necessary here because you can just download more Linux ISOs if these one are lost, though it can be great later if you buy a bunch more drives and expand into other areas where data is less replaceable.

Can’t say on access behind CG-NAT, as I haven’t ever dealt with it, but Tailscale might work as a free third-party option though that’s just a guess.

I did this with ESPHome on an ESP8266 connected to an IR led for some rope lights that had IR control. The hard part is finding the codes for each control, but there’s a surprising amount of info out there.