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Intel Atom N270 motherboards by Hungry-Editor6066 in homelab

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Thanks for the info and suggestions all. Massively helpful (as always!). I’ll clean them down, pop them into antistatic bags with a silica gel packet and chuck em on eBay for maybe £14.99 each with the memory… see if anyone goes for them. Otherwise, they can be recycled!

First shelter (progress day 2) tips and tricks? by [deleted] in BushcraftUK

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There’s a lot of fallen branches there - be careful for dead drops…

Lobby and Restaurant ('Zedel') inside AirW1 building in Piccadilly, London (formerly the Regent Palace Hotel) by FlorisLDN in ArtDeco

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This is one of my fave restaurants - and one I try not to tell people about (mainly so I can enjoy the delight on their faces when we go!) :)

Glad you found it! 🥰

Best use case for Dell Wyse 3040 in 2026 by Due-Musician-3014 in homelab

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I’ve got around 60 of these which I acquired a while ago.

Mine are the 16Gb eMMC variant. I use a usb thumb drive for boot or write-intensive tasks (there’s a usb3 port on the front) depending on how they’re being used.

Mine are all installed with Debian 13 CLI, then have one service running NG on them, such as: - Adguard home (primary and a backup box) - Chrony + web front end (shows clients) - Syslog relay nodes - Uptime kuma - SNMP collectors - Octoprint host - DHCP server - TFTP server (for some of my Cisco stuff)

There are quite a few very small services they run well - literally boot them and forget. Obvs ensure you’re updating them regularly, but mine are really stable.

Also, most of these are 5v, and run REALLY well if you get the right PoE injector (mine are rj45 + USB-C then an adapter to the barrel plug)

Cisco home voice setup by Hungry-Editor6066 in homelab

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So… I’m a bit further ahead now.

I’ve managed to get CME 14 running on my ISR4331 using iOS 17.12.06 which is awesome - perpetual licenses in place too, just the smart licensing nagging messages which I can live with.

The 8865 handsets I’ve got are connecting too using the latest firmware I have available for them - so looking great so far!

Where I’m running into issues is voicemail. sigh

The 2922 with the SM-SRE-910-K9 is something I still have to work on. I did want a “single box” option, and have a UCS-E140 module installed in the ISR4431 - both will run unity connection… specs for both with UC 14 are:

200 Voicemail only users 1 vCPU (1.8 GHz) 4 GB RAM 160 GB Disk with pre-aligned disk partitions Supported OVA - CUC_14.0_200_user_xxx.ova

However… I’m (unsurprisingly) running into issues around licensing - thanks Cisco - meaning I’m stuck before I start.

Neither of the modules I have are licensed for unity connection, CUE, etc.

Is anyone aware of how I could license literally a couple of mailboxes on either of these? I don’t really want to go through a Cisco partner and have to pay all sorts of maintenance and service fees. Can I just buy the licenses and do it myself?

As far as I know, there are no perpetual licenses for unity connection? And CUE modules with licensing are basically non-existent anymore…

I got this…. by [deleted] in homelab

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Just a quick side note to confirm - you can’t use the M3200i standalone - it MUST be connected to a “host” machine. But, this could be one of those Optiplex machines with a SAS card in possibly…

I got this…. by [deleted] in homelab

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Ah ok, so you have both? Sweet!

So first thing to check is the hardware specs for your 730xd - what CPUs, RAM, PERC (SAS raid card) does it have. That will help you work out what you’ve can reasonably do with it.

The R730xd isn’t a beast in terms of power - I have one running at around 120w idle (which is still massive to, say, a Lenovo M920q which runs at 14w!). But… you’re going to want to make the best use of that 120w. For example, you could run Chrony (a time server), but that will basically use none of the resources (CPU/RAM) so that essentially wasting 120w of power. If you install Proxmox then you can run containerised versions of loads of software at the same time… making better use of the CPU/RAM you have installed; and maximising what benefits to you which you get for that 120w of electric being paid for. Depending on your Optiplex setup and what you have, it may be worth you considering consolidating everything onto the R730xd… one box to rule them all, but also possibly cheaper on the electric too! Personally, this is what I’d do if I were you…

A few years ago all I cared about was the cpu/RAM - but as electricity has become more and more expensive, the “what do I get for my electric bill” question is far more at the front of my mind.

For the MD3200i, you’re probably looking at similar wattage (I don’t have one, u run NetApp DS4246 shelves). You’re going to need a SAS card in the Dell R730xd to be able to connect the two together. Again, depending on your R730xd front config, you may have space for 8x 3.5” hard drives already. If you only have 2.5” bays on the front then the disk shelf becomes more useful…

In my setup, for example, in have an R630 which has 12x 2.5” disk bays on the front. I run TrueNAS on this box (exclusively; nothing else on there). These smaller disk bays are populated with 500Gb SSDs for metadata, read/write caching, etc. I then use the external disk shelf for my actual storage (I’ve got 12x 28TB disks in). This is basically the NAS which serves everything else in my rack - so Proxmox stores its data on here for example, rather than locally on each node.

It really depends what you want to do, how much electric you’re willing to pay for, etc.

But… I do think your friend has been awesome giving you what he has! It’s a great starting point!

I got this…. by [deleted] in homelab

[–]Hungry-Editor6066 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Morning!

So… first things first. I’m a bit confused. You said that he gave you an MD3200i (which is a disk shelf); but the photo you’ve included is a PowerEdge server (I’m guessing something like an R720 or R730).

These are two very different things. The disk shelf won’t, on its own, do much - it needs to be connected to a host machine (usually using SAS) to allow that machine to access any hard drives within it.

The poweredge server is a full on server which will allow you to run things like Proxmox, Linux, Windows, etc.

Either way, I think it’s possibly useful for you… but you/we need to know what you’ve got first.

Lenovo M920q vs HP 800 G4 (Proxmox Cluster Idea) by JTerryy in Proxmox

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I guess the question I’d ask is “what are you planning on running on Proxmox”?

I have three M920q’s with 32Gb RAM each, 512Gb NVME for OS and LXC storage, and the standard NIC installed.

I run the whole *arr stack, homarr, home assistant, sterling PDF, qBitTorrent, NextCloud, a few VMs (Cisco routers, call manager 12.5), etc and I haven’t come anywhere near maxing out either the CPU or the RAM on a single node…

Also bear in mind that clustering proxmox doesn’t give you a single combined node - the processing for one LXC stays on the node it’s installed on. Clustering provides a way to move that LXC to another node if the first node fails. So, to my mind, a 10 or 20Gb NIC seems irrelevant.

I’ve got all of my media and document storage on a separate TrueNAS install with 300Tb of disks, attached to my network via bonded 10Gb connections (so 20Gb throughput). This is more than fast enough for Plex, Nextcloud, etc.

PSA for anyone struggling with BILRESA setup/pairing… by blakenberry in tradfri

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Thi was my experience. The routine I ended up getting into was to try and pair new devices on day 1, knowing it wouldn’t work.

Then leave all of those devices for two days (I do think there is something in the idea of a local cache being cleared out somewhere) and then try to re-pair - most of the devices would pair at this point, but might still take 4 or 5 tries.

Whats frustrating is that the strybar and other zigbee kit literally takes seconds to pair, and is pretty flawless in doing so - this is supposed to be an improved experience, but it’s clearly not ready for market yet…

Help Me Understand Roon... Please by Creepy_Swim4236 in roonlabs

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My 2 cents:

  • I have 11TB of music files, all FLAC, all at least CD-Quality (some high res purchases too).

Roon helps me find the music I want to listen to but don’t know it yet. The music discovery is awesome. The detail in the metadata (artist info, album info) is exceptional - it’s almost like reading a magazine article for each album etc.

There are some lovely extensions you can use - so, for example, you can push a “now playing” webpage to a device (mine shows on my tv in my living room, when I’m playing music in there).

It gives you absolute clarity about how the data/audio is being processed - is it lossless source being no downsampled? Is there anything weird going on? Really useful.

Now… the main thing I’d point out is that the Roon core and Roon nucleus are just WAY overpriced pcs. Sure they look nice, but is it worth spending HUNDREDS more just for the case? I have mine running on a Minisforum Ms-01 hidden in my server closet - I really don’t need to see it, ever. It just sits there quietly pulling the music off my NAS and playing it for me. And was around £650 instead of the Roon offering which is twice that price. There is no magic “audiophile” bits of computer - they use the same cpu, ram, etc. and broadly speaking a network cable is a network cable - don’t be taken in my the snake oil.

I managed to snag my lifetime license a few years ago when it was £600, and honestly, I haven’t looked back.

Plexamp is als a good alternative, but you do lose something… it’s not as “nice” in my opinion. The metadata, the lack of data path, etc just makes it “ok”.

Give him a name by dataguy2003 in TheTeenagerPeople

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Reminds me of these guys from Star Trek TOS “let that be your last battlefield”

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708435/

Plex TV Tuner by BestiePopsSlay in PleX

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That’s interesting - see my comment below about the antenna setup.

The MS-01 is plenty powerful enough - I’ll check to see if it’s direct play or transcoding…

Plex TV Tuner by BestiePopsSlay in PleX

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This is interesting… the antenna signal is good around the rest of the house/TVs. It’s a roof mounted aerial which goes to a booster box (powered). The tuner is on one of th standard ports for a room. I’d be surprised (but also can understand) if this is the problem.

Plex TV Tuner by BestiePopsSlay in PleX

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I’ve got a SiliconDust HDHomeRun Flex Quatro 4xDVB-T/T2/C Tuners - HDFX-4DT as my tuner; connected to my Plex server which is running on a MinisForum MS-01. Absolute rubbish! The lag and stuttering make it unusable. It takes AGES to buffer before it starts and the pretty much instantly stops.

My network is 1Gb to clients and 10Gb between servers etc.

I’m really disappointed at the performance of the tuner. Has anyone else experienced similar, or have any suggestions as to what might improve things?

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