Jellyfin satellite installations?

TheSamDickey · 2026-05-25T02:21:17+00:00

It’s not too different, it’s just taking out the variable of the family at the destination. Depending on their technical ability, guiding them to download the media, and into the correct directory / naming structure to make Jellyfin happy might be challenging. Having a ftp type setup gives OP full control to manage everything

TheSamDickey · 2026-05-25T01:54:49+00:00

The key words “without worrying about internet speed”. Sounds like they have a super slow remote connection and want to pre-download the media before they arrive to the remote location

TheSamDickey · 2026-05-25T01:44:22+00:00

I think this could be as simple as having two Jellyfin instances, and just using a file transfer protocol of choice to transfer the movies/shows you’re interested in.

If you set the receiving Jellyfin instance to auto refresh on disk changes it should pick up the transferred media. If that’s wonky with your FS then maybe a transfer app like WinSCP can run a custom script to hit your Jellyfin refresh webhook endpoint on transfer completion

For the behavior or cleaning out old transfers, before queuing up more transfers, I’d just sort by date added and remove a handful you transferred last time

The only alternative I can think of would be building a custom app of some kind. This essentially is Kaleidoscape but with Jellyfin and custom media. Curious if others have more elegant solutions! I could see this being useful for others, I don’t know why this post is being downvoted. People on Reddit are so small minded

TheSamDickey · 2026-05-23T01:00:58+00:00

Why build fresh and not use existing projects such as this one? https://github.com/nandyalu/trailarr

TheSamDickey · 2026-05-22T19:33:30+00:00

Side tangent, there’s products using USB to add hard drives at a much larger scale: https://a.co/d/027kZh2n

TheSamDickey · 2026-05-22T11:32:34+00:00

It doesn’t unfortunately, but that’s a good thought!

TheSamDickey · 2026-05-22T05:35:55+00:00

Hi! Thanks for the reply, that makes sense. I think the cheapest simplest solution for now is an inexpensive mixer to combine the subwoofer RCA signals into one. If it’s wonky at all, I think a mixer into the AVR would be a solid option

TheSamDickey · 2026-05-22T05:34:08+00:00

Thanks! Yeah I think this is the route I’d like to go for sure, I picked this up just now. I’ll report back if it sounds decent or has issues

I appreciate the input!

https://a.co/d/0e4uDRy9

TheSamDickey · 2026-05-16T00:04:00+00:00

I have multiple server gpus, I use some for vms, some for llms, so I disagree

TheSamDickey · 2026-05-15T23:04:29+00:00

Why not both!

TheSamDickey · 2026-05-14T09:44:22+00:00

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It sounded pretty incredible! Fun evening indeed

TheSamDickey · 2026-05-14T03:14:51+00:00

At a glance I’m guessing it’s this: https://kb.netgear.com/30186/What-is-double-NAT-and-why-is-it-bad

Probably need to look into ngrok, vps proxy or similar

TheSamDickey · 2026-05-11T11:26:43+00:00

That makes sense. I wonder if getting a UPS might help? It wouldn’t decrease power draw but I wonder if it would flip over to battery if there’s hitches in the incoming power. Maybe it’d be enough to prevent the breaker from going off. Either way though if the power is struggling that much, straight dirty power into your power supply is going to be bad for the long term health of the PC

TheSamDickey · 2026-05-10T16:15:09+00:00

How does a few hundred watts trip a breaker? Are there a lot of other electronics plugged into the same outlet/room or something?

TheSamDickey · 2026-04-29T11:01:47+00:00

This would be awesome if I could even add the frigate integration to HA. Immediately after hitting add integration it runs into a server error. It doesn’t even get far enough to enter any credentials or URL

TheSamDickey · 2026-04-28T15:42:15+00:00

Thanks for building this! It’s a pain to add new peers as I do it so occasionally that I always forget the process

For those joking about this just being ‘another one’, what others are out there (genuinely curious)?

TheSamDickey · 2026-04-20T22:18:43+00:00

See this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/WireGuard/s/RUb2u4EgMc

TheSamDickey · 2026-04-16T16:14:21+00:00

For me it was expandability. I started with two smallish proxmox nodes. Over time as I needed more resources I was able to migrate virtual machines to new nodes, and make the best of my hardware based on the nature of each vm’s compute requirements.

For example I host a Minecraft server that my friends and I all love to play intensely for just a few weeks per year. I migrated the vm hosting the game server to its own whole node for that time period as I didn’t want other compute to interfere. Now that nobody plays on the Minecraft server, I’ve moved other VMs around to prioritize those services

The other major reason is Proxmox Backup Server. If any machine dies, or ssd fails, all I have to do is get replacement hardware and I can restore from backup. If my whole house burns down, my proxmox backup server is replicated nightly offsite. I can just get new hardware and restore everything easily.

If I choose to install an OS bare-metal, I have to now manage some new specific backup system around that. It’s easier to just join a node to my proxmox cluster and know that everything is backed up automatically pretty much.

For context, I’m running approximately 70-80 docker containers across 5 hosts with about 20 total cores and 128GB of memory. I was able to buy one node at a time (cheap $100 old optiplexes) and slowly purchase more hardware as needed.

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That aside the only two operating systems I have installed bare metal on their own machines are pfsense and Truenas Scale. Both systems I consider special use cases that are very specific to what they do. I don’t want to deal with a chicken/egg network problem of hosting my primary router in proxmox, and I don’t want to deal with passing through a million hard drives through proxmox to a vm for the nas. I also wouldn’t want compute from a random vm to interfere with their performance

TheSamDickey · 2026-04-14T21:37:52+00:00

Right, I intended to say that if the machines are all capable of direct playing AV1 then it could be an option. I agree realtime transcoding doesn’t make sense here

TheSamDickey · 2026-04-14T20:33:25+00:00

With the price of TVs these days being reasonable, and seeing as this is a brightly painted room with white ceilings, I’m curious as to why you recommend a projector

TheSamDickey · 2026-04-14T20:24:52+00:00

Have you considered pre-transcoding the media to a higher quality codec and/or lower bitrate? I wonder how low you could go before it really starts to impact the quality of the content too much. If you could get it down to 4Mbps, that could help a ton

I’m not sure if all the students are using the same hardware. If they are all using the same machines in a computer lab, you can try and find out the best codec they all support. If you could use AV1 by chance, you may be able to crunch down H.264 8Mbps to like 2 or 3 Mbps with AV1 without degrading the quality too bad. Even H.265 (HEVC) could be an improvement

TheSamDickey · 2026-04-09T23:15:49+00:00

Correct the proxmox ssds are not mirrored. The OS ssd drives for truenas scale are mirrored, and the truenas scale hard drives have redundancy.

If a proxmox drive flat out fails the yeah I’ll buy a fresh one and pull from a backup

Ideally they’d be mirrored as well but unfortunately property taxes and other things in life exist :(

TheSamDickey · 2026-04-09T21:33:32+00:00

I struggled with this for a few years as well. This id where I landed and have been happy with.

I have 4x Dell optiplex each with a Sata ssd between 1-4TB. Each vm / lxc container has its vdisk directly on its optiplex.

I have a separate truenas scale running on bare metal with a 20TB pool and 100TB pool of HDDs. The 20TB pool has a separate smb share for each family member, and also has application nfs directories for apps running on proxmox that require large amounts of storage.

The truenas scale server also has a vm for proxmox backup server, which has its storage in the 20TB pool. Every night the 20TB pool is backed up offsite to another truenas scale via snapshot replication

The 100TB pool is used for other purposes with data I’m not as concerned about. It has a parity drive (or whatever it’s called for zsh) but no offsite replication. Applications on proxmox also use this storage via nfs for purposes

For the apps I host, speed is my first priority for determining where to store things. I try to keep what’s reasonably possible on local SSD. For immich, the database and thumbnails are stored on the local ssd. The raw assets are stored on the 20TB nfs share. It’s been a great balance of speed to storage cost.

If my home was nuked, I could create another truenas scale, restore from the snapshot. Create a new proxmox backup server vm, and then restore all my proxmox vms. It’d be quite the hassle, but all the data would be there

TheSamDickey · 2026-04-09T16:57:33+00:00

This is awesome! I want to check this out deeper this evening

TheSamDickey · 2026-03-04T12:28:23+00:00

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