Homelabs

Homelabs

Nerd out with self-hosted services and media on your spare computer!

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/homelabs is open to all! Just tap the Become a Member button to join.

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Lets fucking party! Finally got some downtime to update the servers, validators and of course spin up copyparty

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My AWS setup was costing ~$500/month running: 2 EC2 instances – Snapchain node – Mini apps backend (FastAPI, Postgres, Vector DB) I switched to a Raspberry Pi 5 setup: - 16GB RAM - 2TB external SSD (partitioned) - 128GB SD card - $400 one-time cost, no monthly fees - Running on existing home internet + power (no added cost) It a really lightweight setup. If I ever need more compute, I can even add my older Pi 4 to the pool, it wasn’t strong enough to run Snapchain on its own, but it’s perfect for offloading smaller services. Thanks to @vrypan.eth for inspiring me to use compute power I had sitting in the back of my closet.

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Jellyseerr + Sonarr/Radarr is magic 🤯

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Single file 700kb python file web server which has a huge assortment of features, works really fast, and is totally FOSS. Demo: https://a.ocv.me/pub/demo/ Video tour (15:36): below

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Oh perfect, didn't realize there was a channel to put my rants everytime I break my unRAID server

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Wow! This looks pretty incredible! Anyone tried? Might use this as my file explorer for my server https://youtu.be/15_-hgsX2V0

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Been spending way too much time of N8n this weekend, but man is it a blast

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Here’s a question for the homelab experts. Is SSD really necessary for home setups? I have a bunch of HDDs that I’ve used in various situations and they seem fine for home use. https://quantum5.ca/2025/05/11/fast-cheap-bulk-storage-using-lvm-to-cache-hdds-on-ssds/

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Trying to automate the following process. Can be done via the macOS host system or the docker containers. 0. FLAC file enters folder watched by app 1. Musicbrainz metadata and lyrics automatically added 2. A zipped folder of the album is created and moved to my Proton Drive in a set location 3. The FLAC files are converted to ALAC 4. The ALAC files are moved to my music folder which is watched by my Jellyfin server I know that shortcuts plus hazel would likely allow me to do this on the Mac host system, but I don’t know how to do it on docker or whether it’s preferable one way or the other. Also to note: technically step 1 is already done by Jellyfin. Any advice is welcome

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Update, just bought the X9 Pro 2TB. Gonna split out my music onto my existing 500GB Samsung and then use the 2TB for TV and Movies until such time that I need to get another one to split TV and movies. I’ve spent all my budget now so this is the plan for the foreseeable future. Tons of room to scale and a total cost of $540 invested plus my several years old 500gb drive, I’ve got a low energy, silent homelab with 3TB of combined (all SSD) storage and 32GB of ram.

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What should I do? X9 Pro 1TB, X9 2TB, or X9 Pro 2TB? I don't really have the money for a 2TB but the small difference feels like a no brainer? (This is to occupy one of the thunderbolt 3 ports on my 2018 mac mini homelab server)

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2018 mac mini server update: ✅ Docker containered all of the things with Orbstack ✅ Jellyfin, Jellyseerr, Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, and Prowlarr set up (still need further tweaking) ✅ qBittorrent bound to Gluetun using ProtonVPN Wireguard ✅ Tailscale set up so I can access my media from my laptop and phone when not home. ✅ Experimented slighly with Homarr (might use CasaOS, or just not have a dashboard; is it really necessary?)

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Did anyone else have issues with qBittorrent WebUI? No matter what I do, neither the default, nor custom set password in the .conf file is working. Just fully can’t log in for the first time🤔

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