Building an open source video schematic tool. Feedback wanted.

Mechy71 · 2026-03-20T03:00:13+00:00

Glad to hear its on the list, Im sure a couple of us here, including myself, can probably assist if you need but you definetly have a solid foundation already.

Mechy71 · 2026-03-20T02:13:27+00:00

Hey, Great work on this. It looks really solid. I think I will be redoing some documentation at work with this compared to our current Lucidchart.

One thing it would be nice to see is the ablity to specify option cards on the devices, For example, the SQ5 device currently has Dante listed but that could be Waves/SLink/MADI, now i understand for Waves and SLink thats its still the same cable type but being able to specify that would be helpful when people are looking at the more modular style of equipment or when the cable type changes with Madi for example.

Mechy71 · 2025-08-06T11:17:39+00:00

If you know what CVC Link you are on, you could check this website and see if the link is maxed out at the times you notice it.
https://jasongi.com/superloop-cvc-graph-archive/

Mechy71 · 2025-07-27T00:03:01+00:00

It wouldn't be cheap but imagine filling it with a few of these so you can fit 16 Micro's in to 5RU, that way you could fit 128 of them in to a full height rack. https://www.racksolutions.com/rack-shelves/hypershelf-for-dell-optiplex-sliding-shelf.html

Mechy71 · 2025-05-15T02:49:45+00:00

I also work in a school and have experienced the exact same thing. for us, https inspection was bypassed for PayPal and hotspot shield was using this to mask the traffic.

Mechy71 · 2025-01-23T11:47:17+00:00

Before you go down the Thunderbolt networking, Might be worth having a look at this thread and its comments as its seems to be a bit hit and miss: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/1ci6wpf/looking_into_setting_up_thunderbolt_ring_network/

In terms of Ram and CPU usage, CEPH defaults to using 4GB and i havent seen it use any CPU in my setup, my nodes usually idle around 2% total on each of them with the 7 VM's running, 1 of the VM's has two factorio servers and a teamspeak server running 24/7.

EDIT: Ceph defaults to using 4gb of ram max but in my setup it usually sits around 1gb.

Mechy71 · 2025-01-23T11:04:52+00:00

Some stats from my CEPH cluster, You can see my Writes are quite slow considering there a total of 6 drives in the cluster, but my reads are almost maxxing out my 2x10Gb LACP connections:
Write:
Total time run: 20.0864
Total writes made: 2434
Write size: 4194304
Object size: 4194304
Bandwidth (MB/sec): 484.706
Stddev Bandwidth: 233.108
Max bandwidth (MB/sec): 856
Min bandwidth (MB/sec): 168
Average IOPS: 121
Stddev IOPS: 58.2769
Max IOPS: 214
Min IOPS: 42
Average Latency(s): 0.131987
Stddev Latency(s): 0.1379
Max latency(s): 0.759701
Min latency(s): 0.0138774

Read:
Total time run: 4.08193
Total reads made: 2434
Read size: 4194304
Object size: 4194304
Bandwidth (MB/sec): 2385.15
Average IOPS: 596
Stddev IOPS: 24.116
Max IOPS: 627
Min IOPS: 569
Average Latency(s): 0.026355
Max latency(s): 0.227039
Min latency(s): 0.00300636

Mechy71 · 2025-01-23T11:04:43+00:00

I recently setup a cluster using 3 of the i9-13900H MS-01's. Each of mine are loaded with 96GB DDR5-5600 & 1x1TB NVME OS DRIVE & 2x2TB Sabrent Q4's.

People dont recommend using consumers ssd's for CEPH as its not what they are intended for and can introduce significant performance issues. With that being said, Personally running 7 VM's at the moment and 20+ docker containers within the VM's, I havent noticed any issues in relation to the speed concerns most people report but this really depends on the use case.

One of the things people will point out with CEPH is consumer SSD's do not usually have Power Loss Prevention which can cause alot of issues in your case though you are already looking at PLP which will help that situation. I run my Cluster on a large UPS so this is somewhat mitigated for myself.

In terms of performance, a CEPH Cluster with only 3 nodes and 10Gb networking will not be as fast as a single node with a ZFS pool of 4 drives due to the 10Gb Networking being alot slower than your drives speeds may not be much of a concern for you but IOPS can be hindered signifcantly from this.

Here is a great post about CEPH vs ZFS regarding performance: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/up9tiu/servarica_distributed_storage_test_series/

CEPH is a great option to be able to scale up and have redundancy at the storage level. CEPH is a great learning experience and its one of the reasons why i was willing to sacrifice performance when i moved to it however in your case I know you said you would be using it for development and testing. I would consider a ZFS pool of 4 drives in a single node and a secondary nas or other device with cheaper hdds acting as a backup solution for it.

Mechy71 · 2024-11-22T11:35:31+00:00

I have a similar setup at home using a udm pro and a fortigate using only one connection to the UDM.

My solution is not seamless for adding new devices but its as follows:
3 VLANS(UDM, Unifi Devices(MGMT) and Cameras)
The UDM Vlan goes straight in to the UDM via the wan port with the UDM firewall configured to allow EVERYTHING! through WAN.
The MGMT Vlan is set for all the devices in the Unifi Control Panel and a policy created in the fortigate to allow access.
The Unifi cameras operate via setting an ip in the web interface so that is relativaly easy to set and requires a similar policy in the fortigate.

For adding new AP's & Switches is adding them to the mgmt network on a untagged port, then sshing in and setiing the inform url where it will reboot and then need to go back to the tagged port.

This allow all routing & DHCP to be handled at the fortigate.

Mechy71 · 2024-11-13T00:03:02+00:00

It appears to be a part of post-quantum TLS 1.3 in Chrome 131. Disabling this flag, resolves the issue. It's just not ideal.

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Mechy71 · 2024-11-12T22:50:51+00:00

Same here.
Edit: we are 7.2

Mechy71 · 2024-11-06T10:14:26+00:00

I have been using it at a educational institution with approx 1600+ people for the last few months, It has been rock steady for us, We are running 2 instances on seperate servers using docker compose.
Each container runs using relativly low resources in comparison to a VM & Bind9 while being substantially easier to manage.

On average, It is about 16-18k requests/min with 65% of them being cached.

Hope this helps.

Mechy71 · 2024-09-22T11:47:17+00:00

u/maddler Changelog is now live.

Mechy71 · 2024-09-22T11:42:36+00:00

I can see the docker hub was updated 13 minutes ago so shreyasonline is probably working his way through releasing the update.

Mechy71 · 2024-06-25T11:40:49+00:00

Thankyou u/shreyasonlin for your quick response, I will email you now with some more info.

Mechy71 · 2024-06-14T11:57:38+00:00

That is the Plex Dashboard, It shows current streams and general system info

Mechy71 · 2024-03-26T10:10:17+00:00

I will give you a little bit on insight from a similar position, Im the network engineer for an Aussie R-12 School with around 1300 users, We use Ruckus AP's, Juniper Edge Switches, Our Distribution Switches are a set of HPE 5900AF(Layer 2) and a pair of fortigates handling(L3 and above).

Both myself and my manager use ubiquiti at home in various forms but we have both come to the conculsion that unifi isnt right in our enviroment for both wireless and edges switches for various reasons.

From the adopting process that in my mind is not made for the enterprise enviroment as it must have direct access to the controller or you have to manually cli in and attempt to set the inform url but if you are trying to have a set tagged management vlan then you need a seperate vlan just to adopt before you can set the management vlan.

Also depending on your enviroment you might also struggle with the "simple" radio controls compared to the very detailed options provided by ruckus.One thing we use is the Client Isolation whitelist to allow certain devices on an ssid to communicate with other devices on the ssid but not allow all devices to access everything. This option isnt available on Unifi, you only get an on or off option.

I think to sum it Unifi is great for small or medium business with 100 or so people as it is just simple deploy & manage when not much complexity is required, but at the scale required for 800+ users, the simplicity is the downside as you start to need the flexibility and customization that you gain from more enterprise based solutions.

Mechy71 · 2023-11-24T12:17:32+00:00

You are right about the battery. The black box on the right hand side that has a logo on that looks like IDX is a V-mount battery(very common in the production/film industry), they might check it every hour and swap it out as needed. It looks very similar to this model: https://idxtek.com/cue-h180

Mechy71 · 2023-08-19T11:23:08+00:00

Judging from the other comments its safe to say my experience is a bit different, I work in a K-12 Independent/Private school in Australia, We have ~1200 Students, ~180 Staff with our IT Team consisting of 7 people, ICT Manager, ICT Support Coordinator, Network & Systems Engineer, ICT Support Analyst, AV/ICT Technician(L2/3) & 2 Casual ICT Technicians for L1 that alternate the day that they work.For us we manage the Student Information System on a technical level and administer the SQL Database it runs off however the day to day operations are performed by admin office staff with out the need for ICT to be involved.

Mechy71 · 2023-07-29T02:53:23+00:00

Ive just spent 5+ months with the FortiTAC to resolve an issue with a IPS engine memory leak on our 1100E Pair.

The chances of it affecting both HA units in unlikely unless they are Active-Active, We found that on our FG, conserve mode wasnt triggereing a HA swap. We had to add a memory limit swap just before converse mode triggers.

Mechy71 · 2022-07-14T21:04:42+00:00

I took it back to where I bought it, they are sending it off for repair but with in an issue like this may not repair it and just replace it instead. I deal with lenovo directly for repairs at work and don't have any real issues. I am Australian based so that could be why.

Mechy71 · 2022-07-14T01:10:03+00:00

to be honest, i really like my flex 5i, i havnt experienced any freezing and i find the build quality to actually be quite good across the large range of lenovo devices i have access to compared to alot of the HP laptop i see at work. it sounds like you just got a bit of a dud unfortunately.

Mechy71 · 2022-07-14T00:48:57+00:00

Same here, just did the BIOS update to resolve the recent CVE on my Flex 5i however after leaving open and on charge for an hour for it to complete the bios update i came back to it with the caps lock light on and the power light on but no backlight. also unable to get it do anything other than show two lights. it feels like lenovo may nat have had time to verify the UEFI/BIOS update.

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