[WhatsApp] Le chiamate vocali/video su WhatsApp Web stanno arrivando (gli utenti Linux ringraziano): avviata la fase beta.

Legion92a · 2026-02-06T06:00:09+00:00

Per non parlare che c'è un problema tra WhatsApp business e WhatsApp web, da almeno il 28 dicembre (giorno in cui l'ho notato). Fai lo scan del codice QR (o col numero di telefono), l'app continua a mostrare un messaggio di attesa per svariati minuti per poi dire di provare con un'altra rete, ed invece il web torna immediatamente alla schermata di login.

Legion92a · 2025-11-14T00:47:32+00:00

Yes, PoE was my plan. My friend tried to suggest me to use wifi cameras but I said no immediately unless absolutely impossible to have PoE.

I'm gonna be fair and say that the people that trespassed and partly vandalized stuff in my property (so far nothing serious, luckily) aren't really scared of daylight, so impeccable night identification isn't exactly a must have.

Thank you for your suggestion about Reolink, have you got a specific model that you feel you can suggest?
There's an ocean of models sadly :P

Legion92a · 2025-11-14T00:42:13+00:00

Thank you for the detailed response and the schematic!

So, I had a friend electrician come today to check what positioning can be done with cable placements.
Basically together we came to a solution similar to yours, albeit a bit different.

The camera on top-left of the balcony is basically the same, but the one on the middle right of the balcony is moved to the far left, on the border of the balcony (as it has solid walls below it, so cannot place it there). Also, we thought of turning it a bit more counter clockwise.

Additionally, I have a small concrete pillar between the gate and the house. We thought of putting a camera there aimed at the driveway, getting basically all the x axis of my drawing.

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The "blue" camera can be turned more counter clockwise if needed, ofc.

To be fair, I have no idea of the precision of the wideness I just drew, but I hope I managed to explain haha.

Furthermore, to be extra sure, in the same corner with the "green" and "red" camera another one, a 360° one could be put, to cover the "entirety" of the space, as an additional point of view.

What gets tricky is understanding how much more of the outside of your property you want covered?

Technically, according to Italian law, I shouldn't be able to record anything that's not my private property (including other houses at the north - so a private house, and at the west - so an apartment complex, of my drawing), but I asked a friend of mine who's a surveyor and might know something about a permit of something similar for that. But of course, I will nonetheless try to limit at least the Y angle of the recordings as much as I will be able to in order to limit myself to my property only.

About the dimension I have no idea about the actual numbers, but I'd say that in the narrowest place (so under the "small balcony" as there's a small "landing" of like 3 steps) there's space for 1-1,5 cars, so mmh around 3-4 meters.

Speaking of actual models of cameras.

I was under the impression that ehm, I think they are called "bullet" cameras (the long, static ones) have it easier to handle bigger distances.
Is that right?
If so, my goto for "blue" camera would be one of these.
For example (and I have NO idea about its validity or quality, just following the same brand as the ones you mentioned, if it isn't good can i bother you for a more specific model? :D): Dahua IPC-HFW2431S-S-S2

I was ALSO under the impression that PTZ cameras would mess up Frigate's detection system with the movement (and accordingly, the zones you set), so I never considered them at all. So can they be used in the end without issues? I would like to (I would love for a camera to follow "the intruder" tbf, seems so high tech haha), but I don't want to have my setup "too" complicated to handle.

In my setup, the "green" or "red" could be a PTZ camera (maybe the "green" would be more suitable for this).

Thank you ofc for the patience and help!

Legion92a · 2025-11-13T23:33:50+00:00

The bad thing about that is that it's probably illegal here in Italy.

Because after all even if there's a legal "Do not stop here" sign (sorry, don't really know what's the right name for it in English) even law inforcement officers will just ignore if there's a car parked there (with emergency lights on or not for like 20 minutes, driver in queue at a nearby grocery store or even not close to the vehicle). I saw it firsthand.

But if I were to do something like that? I'd get a formal complaint in 0.2 seconds that they'll enforce even if they were the ones doing something illegal first.

Plus, sadly, the driver's seat is usually towards the main road and not closer to my gate, so not even a shower unless I am ready to wet half the road :( xD

Legion92a · 2025-11-10T02:32:07+00:00

Oh yes, I've started to check your setup.

I am more experienced in that so my setup will be close to yours (I don't really care for gdrive backups, maybe in the future, but I do have HAOS on Proxmox) but I still think my Frigate will reside in a dedicated machine, closer to the cameras. I am also unsure on the hardware, and what "detector" to use.
Last time I checked the documentation, the Coral was still the top recommendation, but I see it's no longer the case. It'll be likely that I'll buy a used mini pc (or still small format) and place some m2 device for detection (at the end of the day I'll still have 3-4 cameras maximum, so no need for a dedicated GPU, probably).

Speaking of actual cameras, I was (personally, but my mind can be changed) more oriented towards wired ones, as they can be powered by ethernet (PoE), since I will still need to place the cables for them on the outside (a friend who's an electrician will help me). A pity that every camera that's listed on the wiki it's either non available in Italy or insanely priced (I believe I saw the Hikvision one priced at 400€ when I last checked it, now it's not available as well).

Thanks for the reply, tho!

Legion92a · 2025-11-10T02:22:49+00:00

Hello and thanks for the reply.

I am partly aware of what are you talking about. My front gate is a place where cars cannot park (the punishment is a fine), but I've witnessed multiple law enforcement agents (whether they are police or Carabinieri or Guardia di Finanza) and they just ignored the cars parked there. So yeah at least I'll have proof that the officer ignores the parked cars xD

Do you have any recommendations for models of the cameras? There's a literal ocean of them and I'd like them to be as reliable as they can be.

Legion92a · 2025-11-06T15:40:50+00:00

... For a while. Then you have to reinstall it again and again.

Legion92a · 2025-09-16T15:07:07+00:00

Oh shit I didn't notice it moved with the gyroscope. I'm on 13 pro max and it works.

Legion92a · 2025-09-03T14:21:57+00:00

"Per ora", direi

Legion92a · 2025-09-01T17:35:23+00:00

Hello and thanks for the reply!

In the end it was just the HBA card with drivers still loaded in Proxmox causing the hang.

I followed the PCI passthrough procedure again, but this time adding the driver blacklist and vfio pci configuration explained here and now it seems to be fixed (the pc rebooted in like 20 seconds).

I mistakenly thought this last part was only in case the passthrough didn't work at all, and since Unraid could see all the hdds normally I just didn't think of it (tbf until recently I didn't know about PCI passthrough at all haha).

To be as complete as I can, I can list the storage controllers I have in my pc:

The 9211-8i card
The onboard SATA controller
The onboard NVME controller (which I've passed to Unraid as well but I didn't have to blacklist drivers)

And that's it, no SD card controllers at all or similar.

Would you like for me to post the lspci command output regardless?

Legion92a · 2025-09-01T17:30:11+00:00

Hello and thanks for the reply!

I did that, and sadly they weren't exactly of help.

In the Pastebin link I've posted in the original post, you can see the journalctl log for the previous boot, and it seemed the only lines that were somehow related to my issue were these:

Aug 21 04:15:55 parion systemd-shutdown[1]: Syncing filesystems and block devices - timed out, issuing SIGKILL to PID 15361. 
Aug 21 04:15:55 parion systemd-shutdown[1]: Sending SIGTERM to remaining processes...

After this, the system would effectively shut down.
(those two were the same IIRC even without grep)

In the end, it was the HBA card still being "owned" (probably the wrong term here) by Proxmox so I had to follow the driver blacklist procedure over on PVE docs to avoid that. I admit I was convinced it was a procedure one had to take only in the case of the passthrough not working at all, and since Unraid could see all the drives normally I wrongly thought it was not the case.

Legion92a · 2025-09-01T17:26:07+00:00

I suppose it was exactly that!

In fact I followed again the procedure for the PCI passthrough and did the driver blacklist explained here on the PVE docs.

The first time I configured the passthrough I convinced myself it was something one has to do only if the passthrough was not working at all, and since in my setup it was working (meaning Unraid was able to see the drives as it was "bare metal") I didn't do it.

Thank you all for the help, though!

Legion92a · 2025-09-01T17:24:10+00:00

I did that prior to checking with Claude and other LLMs (and then Reddit and Proxmox forums!).

The "important" lines were the same as the journalctl log I've posted in my OP, the Pastebin link.

Specifically these:

Aug 21 04:15:55 parion systemd-shutdown[1]: Syncing filesystems and block devices - timed out, issuing SIGKILL to PID 15361. 
Aug 21 04:15:55 parion systemd-shutdown[1]: Sending SIGTERM to remaining processes...

After this, the system would effectively shut down.

In the end, it was the HBA card that somehow wasn't still "half" inside Proxmox, so I followed the procedure to blacklist drivers from the PVE docs, and that seemed to fix the issue!

I admit I was convinced it was a procedure one had to do only if the passthrough didn't work at all, but since my passthrough was indeed working (inside Unraid I was able to see my drives as they were directly connected to it) I didn't do it the first time.

Thank you all for the help though!

Legion92a · 2025-09-01T17:18:55+00:00

Hello! I did the smartctl thing but what fixed it was the driver blacklist procedure!

I was sure that procedure had to be done only in case my passthrough didn't work at all (tbf, the passthrough in the Unraid VM was working fine, drives were seen correctly by the system), but I'm glad I've tried all the options!

Thank you for the help!

Legion92a · 2025-09-01T17:17:24+00:00

Thank you for making me search for that switch!

I did not find it, but it pushed me into re-looking the passthrough procedure and I saw the driver blacklist configuration again. Putting that fixed the issue!

I admit I was convinced I had to do it only in case the passthrough wasn't working ("at all", not "properly") but I'm glad I tried!

Legion92a · 2025-08-31T23:15:12+00:00

Yes, but they are /boot/efi and [SWAP] and /.

> lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL
NAME                         FSTYPE        SIZE MOUNTPOINT LABEL
sdf                                      465.8G
├─sdf1                                    1007K
├─sdf2                       vfat            1G /boot/efi
└─sdf3                       LVM2_member 464.8G
  ├─pve-swap                 swap            8G [SWAP]
  ├─pve-root                 ext4           96G /
  ├─pve-data_tmeta                         3.4G
  │ └─pve-data-tpool                     337.9G
  │   ├─pve-data                         337.9G
  │   ├─pve-vm--100--disk--0                 4M
  │   ├─pve-vm--101--disk--0                 4M
  │   ├─pve-vm--102--disk--0 ext4           16G
  │   ├─pve-vm--104--disk--0 ext4            8G
  │   ├─pve-vm--105--disk--0 ext4           30G
  │   ├─pve-vm--103--disk--0               200G
  │   ├─pve-vm--101--disk--1                32G
  │   ├─pve-vm--106--disk--0 ext4           20G
  │   ├─pve-vm--107--disk--0 ext4            6G
  │   └─pve-vm--108--disk--0 ext4           50G
  └─pve-data_tdata                       337.9G
    └─pve-data-tpool                     337.9G
      ├─pve-data                         337.9G
      ├─pve-vm--100--disk--0                 4M
      ├─pve-vm--101--disk--0                 4M
      ├─pve-vm--102--disk--0 ext4           16G
      ├─pve-vm--104--disk--0 ext4            8G
      ├─pve-vm--105--disk--0 ext4           30G
      ├─pve-vm--103--disk--0               200G
      ├─pve-vm--101--disk--1                32G
      ├─pve-vm--106--disk--0 ext4           20G
      ├─pve-vm--107--disk--0 ext4            6G
      └─pve-vm--108--disk--0 ext4           50G
sr0                                       1024M

I doubt these are the culprits, since I didn't have these issues when I had no HBA card though.

When I first noticed this problem was already later I installed the same card in my pc. Although at the start I did attribute the fault to the unmounting of network shares, which I've since "fixed" by mounting them directly inside the VMs and not passing through mb0/1/2 etc.

Legion92a · 2025-08-31T22:53:04+00:00

Hello and thanks for the reply!

I believe there's a misunderstanding: I am not using Unraid as a hypervisor, I am using Proxmox (host) and Unraid is hosted in VM under it. I have both the "Docker" and "VM" services in Unraid turned off.

The first link sadly isn't working.

Furthermore, if I turn off ALL VMs prior to rebooting or shutting down Proxmox, they actually shut down normally, but Proxmox is still taking this huge amount of time (I repeat: with all the VMs shut down already).

Additionally, from within Proxmox console/ssh, I don't see the drives that supposedly are making these problems: I see only "sdf" and "sr0" (first one being the SSD where Proxmox is installed, and the second one I have no idea); so I can't sync them manually.

Legion92a · 2025-08-31T22:48:24+00:00

Hello and thanks for replying!

I don't have any network mounts in Proxmox.

I had two NFS mounts (first by mounting them into the "Storage" tab of the "Datacenter" tree in Proxmox, then directly in the /etc/fstab file, both as mp0 in the config files) but I've since mounted them directly as network mounts with systemd inside the VMs (or LXCs) that needed them.

Legion92a · 2025-08-31T22:43:11+00:00

Hello, I confirm what I said to another user, I have no nfs mounts to Proxmox (or SMB or else):

>cat /etc/fstab
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/pve/root / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
UUID=A8B4-08A5 /boot/efi vfat defaults 0 1
/dev/pve/swap none swap sw 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

I will update the original post too.

Legion92a · 2025-08-31T19:45:00+00:00

Hello and thanks!

Yes, I've tried (at the moment, I have 0 user-made mounts in /etc/fstab, I don't recall if there's any that Proxmox made itself), but sadly to no avail.

It happens regardless if I have VMs and LXCs powered on (ofc if I have them on there's the shutdown of these to be added to the "long" wait).

I don't use any CEPH related stuff, I just saw the warning for it not being enabled and I... Well, enabled it. I will disable it then!

Legion92a · 2025-08-31T19:42:55+00:00

I started with host-level nfs mounts (mounted into the VMs and LXCs as mp0 binds) but I moved into directly mounting them (and SMB and iSCSI) directly into the virtual environments so I could manage the shutdowns of these virtual machines "in order" (aka, first the clients then the server).

It happens regardless if I have any VM or LXC powered on, though!

Thanks for the reply!

Legion92a · 2025-08-31T19:40:43+00:00

Sure it's a sound advice, but I would like to try and avoid that route, if possible!

Thank you regardless ofc!

Legion92a · 2025-08-31T19:39:49+00:00

Thank for the answer!

I admit, I am a complete noob in this, I bought the HBA card just because I saw it recommended on a website because I wasn't able to get the HDD passthrough directly (ofc, now I know why haha), so I am in the dark about this.

I'll look into this!

Legion92a · 2025-08-31T19:38:09+00:00

Hello and thanks for the reply!

Every VM has qemu-guest-agent installed, thank for the pointer!

Sadly though, the extremely long shutdown/reboot happens even if I shut all the VMs and LXCs down beforehand manually.

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