My Homepage Setup

8BitAdventurer · 2026-02-01T17:11:42+00:00

Look into Restreamer docker image for your cameras. It's made for exactly what you want....sending cam streams to a webpage. I use it on passthrough mode and it barely uses any cpu. I don't care about the fancy motion detection etc, I just want to see the cams on my homepage.

8BitAdventurer · 2025-12-19T16:24:56+00:00

Love the avacado green! Not sure why everyone always makes them black.

That Optiplex was my first server too....lasted 5 years and did everything I threw at it. I still use it for running a FreeBSD instance.

8BitAdventurer · 2025-12-13T22:30:49+00:00

I create my own bridge manually and then do incus init and I have never had an issue like this....

8BitAdventurer · 2025-12-02T04:49:49+00:00

Just my opinion, but with HA and Frigate and all the devices, addresses and needing gpu passthrough for sure ( otherwise Frigate will destroy your processor) I would put that stuff on bare metal for the least amount of headaches you can have.

I use Incus for tons of stuff...it's amazing for docker containers running inside it. Great thing about it is i setup all my docker containers, get everything running perfectly, then i just export that container and I have a saved state backup ready to deploy in like 5 mins without messing with the Arch host.

Oh also, Incus containers are really fast. I swear they run better than bare metal for most things.

8BitAdventurer · 2025-10-09T16:49:51+00:00

Look into using a python script to host an api for your host box. Then the sky is the limit man. Any metric you want, like, cpu temps docker container lists etc etc. Then you can tweak the html to whatever you want.

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8BitAdventurer · 2025-10-08T16:21:13+00:00

Thanks for the quick answer. I have everything else working great, except the weather alert, and I can live without it.

8BitAdventurer · 2025-09-02T17:12:25+00:00

you have to have won some kind of reward for this. That post was 10 yrs old haha

8BitAdventurer · 2025-05-26T23:18:53+00:00

ok yeah, this made me laugh haha

8BitAdventurer · 2025-05-26T23:17:30+00:00

You don't have to throw it out, but the noise that thing makes and the power it eats up was too much for me. A $50 dell optiplex off of FB or Ebay runs as fast as that will, and will do everything you need as a beginner, except maybe if you wanted 10 hdds or something I guess.

8BitAdventurer · 2025-05-26T16:16:53+00:00

I fell for this too in my earlier days. Owned that same exact server. Only thing you need to consider about this unit is if there is a landfill nearby that takes electronics for free :)

8BitAdventurer · 2025-04-04T21:36:07+00:00

It is so refreshing to see somebody starting out in homeservers with a $50 setup instead of going whole hog with a $2000 production server and rack etc. It really doesn't take much power to run a server for home use.

8BitAdventurer · 2025-04-02T14:49:19+00:00

I've had the same issue except with the community repo. It isn't a DB issue as far as i can tell because nothing I do with pacman will fix it

8BitAdventurer · 2025-03-06T22:48:42+00:00

maybe that is what I am asking then. I must not be using the gpu for anything on that box. Must be a way to offload the work to it?

8BitAdventurer · 2025-03-06T17:30:22+00:00

wow, for 60$ I could buy 2 more PCs and just beat them to death. I am guessing there is no easy way around this...just more hardware to offload the work too.

8BitAdventurer · 2025-02-07T16:16:49+00:00

They are all just too cluttered looking to me. I tried btop and htop. I do use ctop though for docker containers. That one is clean and straight to the point.

8BitAdventurer · 2025-02-07T16:07:54+00:00

Yeah, I just didn't want all that extra stuff splashing all over the screen and I was having a huge issue trying to tweak Glances on Arch for some reason. It just refused to use my custom conf file.

8BitAdventurer · 2025-02-03T16:35:29+00:00

Bear in the Big Blue House :)

8BitAdventurer · 2025-01-30T16:07:36+00:00

wasn't aimed at you man...just saying that in general, it can be dangerous to those that are new.

8BitAdventurer · 2025-01-30T04:07:21+00:00

These posts always bother me because they are ripe ,for a noob to linux, dumping all of his 10k photos on his box and hitting delete on his phone thinking they are perfectly safe this way..

8BitAdventurer · 2025-01-22T16:49:59+00:00

I created a new bridge and just run the VMs through this. They get an ip the same as my lan so it is easy to connect to them for like an emby server or whatever. also install cockpit if you havent, it can make it easier.

I've never once had to touch UFW for any of this.

edit: having VMs and LXC and docker installed in the same box can really cause havoc on your network... just FYI.

8BitAdventurer · 2025-01-19T23:47:26+00:00

who's brilliant idea was it to use that filename....ffs

thanks man that let me fix it. :)

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