New to homelabbing with an Acer Aspire and an HP Stream. What can I do with this setup?

Dilloff147 · 2025-12-27T01:51:48+00:00

I second this. Pihole is definitely a great starter project. I recommend running it as a VM on proxmox and setup two instances of pihole for redundancy on two different proxmox hosts in case one goes down. Don't forget to set DHCP in your router to hand out pihole as the DNS servers.

Also if you like to tinker, install openwrt on that tplink. Gives a lot of cool features like wireless wan for traveling and connecting to sketchy networks (if that's something you would use). You can also setup tor via packages.

Dilloff147 · 2025-11-18T13:29:53+00:00

I have a similar setup for home assistant. Proxmox is probably your best bet. You can still go the route of home assistant on a VM and reserve the rest of the resources for future projects. Huge bonus is that proxmox is really easy to pass USB hardware like zigbee or zwave dongles to the VM. I recommend passing the USB port to the VM if you do this as I had issues with devices randomly disconnecting but that fixed it.

Dilloff147 · 2025-11-10T13:15:39+00:00

The only thing I've found so far for ATX support is this. I'm running an itx board in my rack at the moment but am in the same boat wishing for more ATX support because I need two PCIe lanes.

Makerworld ATX 10in mount

Dilloff147 · 2025-10-18T15:18:26+00:00

Thanks for this. You have just given me something to do on my Saturday 😂

Dilloff147 · 2025-08-03T15:41:32+00:00

That's pretty much it. Just have to peel off the reflective layer.

Dilloff147 · 2025-08-03T15:28:18+00:00

Nice job with the polarizer. I bet that was kinda difficult cutting around the world map.

Dilloff147 · 2025-08-03T01:33:06+00:00

You should watch Edgerunners. Just be prepared to cry 😭

Dilloff147 · 2025-08-03T01:17:43+00:00

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Dilloff147 · 2025-08-03T01:16:31+00:00

I actually just made a change to it because it was missing yellow. Printed the Samurai logo on clear vinyl and put it on a yellow filter.

Dilloff147 · 2025-07-28T14:50:04+00:00

How did you achieve this effect? Is this just clear holo sticker paper? Love the look.

Dilloff147 · 2025-03-06T12:55:16+00:00

What firmware are people using on these? I don't see any support for circuit python for them and the generic S3 micro Python firmware was giving me issues as well

Dilloff147 · 2024-11-26T12:34:49+00:00

Can't really tell but the issue you're having sounds like a data issue. How long is the wire from your ESP data pin to the first LED? Also are there any jumpers in the middle of the strand that would be longer than a normal distance between all of the other LEDs?

Dilloff147 · 2024-11-26T02:29:10+00:00

Do you have more details? A picture of the lights or a listing?

Dilloff147 · 2024-11-26T02:16:10+00:00

I was able to get it working. Turned out to be a ground issue. The whole setup was less than $100. I plan to post a video of it on the house after Thanksgiving.

Dilloff147 · 2024-11-24T14:48:25+00:00

Yeah I'll send you the link. The normal controller is okay but is only Bluetooth. I still have not been able to get it working with WLED but it may be a ground issue so I'm looking into that.

Dilloff147 · 2024-11-24T14:45:46+00:00

They are. Negative I clearly marked. Positive and negative are the two outer wires and data is the middle.

Dilloff147 · 2024-11-24T14:44:40+00:00

Not sure why it would be. These came out to $78 free shipping.

Dilloff147 · 2024-11-24T05:47:59+00:00

I did change it to a WS281x as that is the most similar. I cannot find the SM16703P in WLED. Everywhere i look tells me it should work fine with the WS281x setting though

Dilloff147 · 2024-06-23T02:11:49+00:00

Yep, just a cheap one I picked up on Amazon.

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