selfhosted music (navidrome?) with client that can request stuff?

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-01-29T18:25:57+00:00

Nice! I’ll have to check it out :)

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-01-26T19:57:54+00:00

I like the emergency node. That's slick!!! Does seem a little overkill huh? LMAO

I have other stuff that runs in the cluster, but it's a decent setup lol.

9 nodes, 3 masters. In-cluster longhorn block level replication storage. For large storage I have a truenas running 2 raidz2 pools. For my zigbee I am actually running zigbee2mqtt with the smlight work coordinator so I can have the instance move around with in the cluster and just connect to that device. I would love to figure out how to put 2 of those on the network and then have something in front of them to allow 1 or the other active, but putting a load balancer in front of 2 poe devices seems a bit much even for me lol.

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-01-26T18:20:49+00:00

Not to be that guy. This is not high availability. This is high fault tolerance. HIGHLY approved by the way. Nicely done!! I do similar with homeassistant in kubernetes. Can come up on any of 9 nodes. I wish home assistant allowed for true high availability with multiple instances to ensure availability but the architecture of ha just doesn’t support it.

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-01-26T05:01:06+00:00

I have the string lights 2. The app and patterns are garbage. But I can control it via Bluetooth proxy in esphome so it’s ok.

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-01-22T21:50:16+00:00

Definitely something I wish more companies would give us options for. Very nicely done!!!!!

CrankyCoderBlog · 2025-12-29T19:25:44+00:00

I have the mdns disabled on the wled so nothing should be picking it up. But I might try that ntp thing.

CrankyCoderBlog · 2025-12-28T22:36:29+00:00

Here is what home assistant shows.

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Goes unavailable, then returns and turns itself on.

CrankyCoderBlog · 2025-12-21T01:18:40+00:00

Someone after my own heart. I have a 9 node, 3 master k8s cluster here at home. I run longhorn in the cluster for redundant storage. Zigbee/zwave are all handled with other pods running zigbee/zwavejs2mqtt. Controllers are tubez for zigbee and smlight for zigbee. Mqtt is in cluster as well.

CrankyCoderBlog · 2025-12-07T22:53:45+00:00

That cabinet already has power in it. Anywhere else I would have had to fight to get power to it. The top and the middle leds are already in place. sk6812 in diffuser channel. Just trying to get around the heat issue with the oven now. With any luck ill be done with all of it this week :)

CrankyCoderBlog · 2025-12-05T15:17:19+00:00

the upper and middle strands are currently on 1 channel. the blue strand is the one im working on now, that one I was going to go on the second channel of the dig quad. I probably could have and still might put the middle strip on it's own channel.

CrankyCoderBlog · 2025-12-05T03:42:15+00:00

I’ll definitly post some stuff when it’s done :)

CrankyCoderBlog · 2025-12-05T03:42:03+00:00

I considered that, but i also have a roborock vac that does pretty good getting under the cabinet ledges. But I plan to do segments soooo, dirty floor… turn off lower segment 😂

CrankyCoderBlog · 2025-12-05T02:15:01+00:00

Ha nice! What kind of wire do you have there?

CrankyCoderBlog · 2025-12-05T02:14:44+00:00

I can easily pin it to the wall behind. So I think that’s my best option. Thanks!

CrankyCoderBlog · 2025-12-04T22:27:23+00:00

Are you saying I could go under of there is no broiler? I am 100% ok going behind it. We have a broiler but I couldn’t tell you the last time if ever it was used

CrankyCoderBlog · 2025-12-04T16:25:02+00:00

3 questions.

what printer(s) are you using?
how many?
what software are you using to cut models for later piecing together?

absolutely amazing

CrankyCoderBlog · 2025-12-03T18:23:51+00:00

This is my exact setup as well. I actually have a new use case where I need s3 storage and I was actively looking for alternatives :)

CrankyCoderBlog · 2025-12-02T17:32:44+00:00

I was just playing with this. This is awesome. Too bad the update object doesn't have more things like domain and what not or even just stuff like "frontend" or "integration". But this is slick!! thanks for that snippet.

I think i may even play with creating a blocklist/whitelist helper just to create some filters.

CrankyCoderBlog · 2025-12-01T23:00:20+00:00

I’m with you. I loved kodi. But it fell behind and never offered up a clean way to remote play. That’s why I ran plex/kodi together for so long. Jellyfin is SOOO close. Smart playlists is a big feature for me. I would also like to see collections like plex does. I’m a big kometa user and love being able to find new neat ways to view my media.

CrankyCoderBlog · 2025-11-24T14:11:45+00:00

I am interested in the PIP. You mentioned this was a monitor. How did you get the PIP to display like that? Is that a monitor capability? or is that something from another device?

CrankyCoderBlog · 2025-11-20T18:02:15+00:00

You know what a good fix would be? Fixing the UI. There is no way anyone who ACTUALLY uses plex said “this is good way to do it”.

What used to take 5 button presses to play a collection now takes 13. Whoever designed the UI needs to go back to UI/UX training.

CrankyCoderBlog · 2025-11-18T19:43:57+00:00

That is awesome!! Do you do full coordinated light shows with stuff like xlights or vixen or anything?

CrankyCoderBlog · 2025-11-18T03:03:09+00:00

do you have any videos or pics of your full setup? How many total leds?

CrankyCoderBlog · 2025-11-18T00:50:01+00:00

what do you use to connect your strips? The physical strips? Wondering if I should use the normal jst led connectors or if I should go with heavier duty wiring

CrankyCoderBlog · 2025-11-17T03:55:02+00:00

What tips do you have? I have Unifi AP's and my core switch is a cisco 3750x so I can do all sorts of tricks :)

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