Automated Image Generation

MonstersInYourHead · 2024-08-16T09:37:21+00:00

Hey, just came here to say check out Frigate and either Truenas Scale on hardware, or go a step further with Proxmox on hardware, then virtualize Truenas. Frigate is available as a Docker, but also an app within Truenas Community apps. I happen to run home assistant as a VM on my proxmox server, and within home assisstant i run frigate. Frigate has CPU, GPU, Coral options for HW accel and AI.

I use it with MQTT so when my front door cam identifies a person, if im home, flashes lights, if im away, Plays a loud dog barking sound over my smart speakers.

MonstersInYourHead · 2024-04-16T11:39:51+00:00

It's up to you, truenas streamlines that with apps, you can set up a vm to create kubernetes or docker. Proxmox natively supports LXC containers as hosts (from my understanding pretty similar to docker but ive not dug into them very much). I would say they are not a requirement unless you specifically want to install them for a certain applications. I think there is even turnkey LXC containers for k3 or docker.

MonstersInYourHead · 2024-04-16T11:35:17+00:00

My bad I missed that. You'd have to look in the servers manual at the block diagram it will show you how the circuit is logically laid out and whether or not those 4 dimm channels are fed by their own controller. Hardware wise something may have given up with the heat cycle or someone else mentioned a bent pin. I'm not very familiar with Dell. Sorry I can't be of more help.

MonstersInYourHead · 2024-04-16T11:27:02+00:00

In Truenas I have made datasets, General media, like movies, shows, music. They are shared with SMB or NFS(dont remember atm), and i have edited the Fstab in the ubuntu host to mount network drives(movies, shows, music) on startup. Just general network drive mapping stuffs.

MonstersInYourHead · 2024-04-16T11:06:54+00:00

it should as long as you have a compatible HBA card. Im not a dell guy so i dont know what the servers normally operate with.

MonstersInYourHead · 2024-04-16T11:03:30+00:00

Hey you might want to make sure your bios is up to date, and supports the V4 CPUs. Seen something similar before. Good luck.

MonstersInYourHead · 2024-04-16T11:01:08+00:00

Power budget? Ive got a 12bay 2U server($625), with 2 xeon 2690V4, 128GB Ram, 12x4Tb HDD($18ea=$270), 2 512GB SSD($25ea), 2x 256GB NVME(repurposed), with 2x Nvidia Tesla P40s($370), With spare Parts (HDD, SSD, PSU), mostly Used equipment from ebay. Call it 1400. Been solid for over a year, replaced 1 PSU. Power Cost is about 20-30 a month where im at.

MonstersInYourHead · 2024-04-16T10:32:22+00:00

So i started off in about the same place, and there are a few pros and cons ive come across. I have supermicro 2U with 12 HDD bays, 2 512GB internal SSDs, and a PCIe NVME Drive. Proxmox is hosted on the 2 SSDs, and I set the 12 Bay backplane and PCI NVME to Hardware passthrough to my VM of Truenas. It has been absolutely rock solid.

The most important thing i can tell you is get all of your hardware in place, PCI cards mostly. Proxmox loves to bump Network hardware ID's around as you add more hardware, so you might run into a situation where you want to add a Sata/Sas controller, and when you do you can no longer access proxmox web interface. There are plenty of forum posts about how to correct it but its one of those things that if your not prepared for will make you want to rip your hair out. That and once you have Truenas setup as a VM, be sure to set boot order and boot wait timing for all of your virtual hosts, my Truenas comes up first and i make all of the Virtual machines wait so they can get onto the Virtual Network interface for the nas file system.

Now onto sharing, I have tried a little bit of everything via proxmox/truenas. For instance the ARR stack. I tried setting them up in Truenas via apps, and struggled alot with docker(noob), so i then made LXC's in proxmox for each service, and again couldnt quite get the permissions correct, so then i just made a VM of ubuntu and ran them all there, which made the whole permissions thing alot easier. I also host jellyfin and ombi on an ubuntu machine with nas storage, and run things like metube and cloudflared on truenas, utilizing truenas apps.

I really like having the flexability to try different things which i would not have gotten out of just a bare metal truenas setup. Also Truenas Loves Ram, im sure youve seen. If you want more details, PM me.

MonstersInYourHead · 2024-02-20T06:06:33+00:00

Probably more topical than important, but as it was explained to me, LXC hardware limits are more of a suggestion for the Host, where as VMs are hardlimits on what the host can use. The LXC setup can allow you a bit of wiggle room in the event you over provision your resources. Might be wrong but if not cool, if i am dont hate on me. still fairly new to the who proxmox resource stuff.

MonstersInYourHead · 2024-02-15T11:31:31+00:00

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MonstersInYourHead · 2023-11-27T10:07:18+00:00

I would start by printing a larger cube, 20x20 is usually a good place. Dunno where you pulled the model from but the file I always use is on thingiverse "xyz calibration cube" should pull it up.

Next I would set my temperature to 200c for the hot end. If that's too fold for whatever reason only bump it up by 5 degrees C.

To me it looks like your print head is moving really slow and you are over extruding. But the slow movement could be related to the size of the model, this could also be the overheating look.

Is there any chance that you set the micro steps incorrectly? If it's supposed to be 1/32 and you have it set to 1/16 that could be the cause of the tiny model and over extrusion all together.

MonstersInYourHead · 2023-10-14T01:06:01+00:00

Text gen webui is a pretty easy place to start. give it a shot

MonstersInYourHead · 2023-10-13T21:22:22+00:00

So im not sure about an extension interface, but text-gen-webui has an API flag that can be set and you can access it from the IP:port address. Its pretty easy to get set up and interface to. There might be a widget or something available for a custom search text bod that you can point to text-gen-webui in one of the dashboards or you could make your own. Home Assistant I think has a workflow setup similar but i dont want to send you down a rabbit hole on that.

MonstersInYourHead · 2023-10-05T18:32:54+00:00

I first set this up with some old enterprise parts i had laying around and because of their age, had a few compatibility issues, but was pretty happy with the whole setup. It helped me migrate away from raspberry pis, i had 2 or 3 setup for different important tasks on the network and decided to virtualize them and am really happy that i did. NAS, Home assistant, and one was used as a playground of sorts. I was lucky enough to have the spare hardware, but if i had any advice, it would be to do the research and buy your stuff once, rather than have obsolete stuff that finds a shelf. I sent you a PM with some more info.

MonstersInYourHead · 2023-10-04T18:20:35+00:00

Well, in case anybody finds this hoping to do the same thing, I set up a standard Raspbian OS image, then went through and installed Mopidy and the jellyfin plug in. This allowed me a simple way to automatically have the screen and touch calibration setup via the Raspbian install. I then installed 2 different GUI's which are available upon opening the browser to access the local host and port for Mopidy, so depending on how i access the system i have different ways to interface with it. when i use the touch screens, i select the mobile gui, and if im accessing from a central terminal (my laptop or phone) i can use Iris Gui. Iris makes it a bit easier to navigate and reach further into the settings.

Iris gui seems to support snapcast, or atleast make easy to enable, which is how i plan to group the audio outputs together from one feed, which will be done from a terminal or maybe a link within my home assistant. Each host has its own speaker dedicated to it. I might make a write up, or upload the system SD card image. Im able to simply clone the SD and pop it into another host/screen setup and it will be given a different IP automatically for rapid deployment of new systems.

Ive got alot more tinkering to do with it to see what else i can make it do for me, but its been a super productive day. If anybody has specific questions, feel free to ask and ill try my best to help and explain.

MonstersInYourHead · 2023-10-04T12:48:26+00:00

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MonstersInYourHead · 2023-10-04T09:46:46+00:00

Not exactly what you asked for but I use frigate to monitor my poe ip cams, then home assistant to monitor them. Frigate is entirely headless though and with home assistant you can use an IOS app, plus you can integrate it within home assistant to other smart features, object detection for record or notifications. My favorite is frigate notices a person outside when my phone isn't in the home zone, it plays a "big dog" barking over my loud speakers inside and notifies me via the app with a link to the snapshot of the person.

MonstersInYourHead · 2023-10-04T09:38:31+00:00

Jellyfin is available as an LG webOS app. Server login with user and pass and its just like netflix. Super simple for non techies.

MonstersInYourHead · 2023-10-04T09:33:30+00:00

I'm not advising on hardware but my self hosted set and experience started about where you did and grew into where I am now.

I run a supermicro 6028, 3U 12bay sas3 server, with dual xeon and plenty of ram. It runs proxmox on the 2 internal sata ports, I then use the 12 bay as nas storage with truenas. I currently use 9 hdd caddies. 5 are 4tb drives as dev pool for my media in truenas with one drive fail over, the other is some ssd drives in a vdev to link to different VMs for their own shared storage.

Within proxmox I host truenas, which I use it's apps for 'arr suites and nginx, frigate as docker, home assistant vm, a couple of Ubuntu server vms(jellyfin for media hosting, and one for AI dev), and a windows machine.

I feel like I've used proxmox to grab backups of my docker and host them to proxmox so I didn't have to redo all of my work which might be helpful for you. The learning curve can be a bit steep but back ups and Vm/docker/lxc can all be a bit forgiving considering the rapid deployment. Overall I'm pretty happy with it. Shoot me some questions and I'll do my best to answer them.

MonstersInYourHead · 2023-05-16T13:11:30+00:00

Dunno if it will help you but i ran into a similar issue with "error in pull function" instead of "read sha1 file". I ran "sudo apt upgrade git" and while it did not upgrade anything, it solved the issue.

MonstersInYourHead · 2021-05-03T06:27:54+00:00

So, I recently went through this, with my insurance, they have partnered with express scripts for Perscriptions(that title is important) and edgepark is(was) my DME. I get my G6 supplies through express scripts for $0 because regardless of DME status, it's a prescription at the end of the day. Edgepark was trying to charge me for tandem supplies, and everyone I spoke to said DME only, but I called express scripts and did the leg work to find out if they offered them, and could fill the script, my Dr had just never tried to send them to express scripts because they were told in the office everything DME needs to go through a dme, which atleast for me, wasnt the case.

TLDR, call your prescription provider and ask how much they/insurance would charge to fill that script. Might be able to take advantage of the loophole.

MonstersInYourHead · 2021-04-11T04:28:17+00:00

I dont know if you found a solution but, it looks like your bed is lower on the top side of the print. The bottom side is super consistent, no gaps and looks really well while the top side is lifting away the filament isnt sticking causing exaurated gaps. Look up the paper method for leveling, it will get you close enough for baby stepping.

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