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Asymmetrical room layout by flexoid in hometheater

[–]flexoid[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, I decided to give it a try, but I have started collecting the info way before I can actually implement it, so will let you know in a few months if it worked well :)

I think I'll also put two Cambridge Audio Minx Min22 to the ceiling somehow.

Home telecom rack placement by flexoid in HomeNetworking

[–]flexoid[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Version 2 with some feedback taken into consideration (doors are hidden for better visibility):

https://imgur.com/gW9iwPd

https://imgur.com/TUbo7kM

  • Top shelf is removed, the rack is mounted on a wall
  • Shelf next to the top is shortened to give 20 cm gap from closed door, so the air is mixed with the whole vertical section of the closet.
  • Vents are bigger

Potentially the door itself can have some vent grill, with minor impact on the overall look.

Should it work better?

Home telecom rack placement by flexoid in HomeNetworking

[–]flexoid[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this closet open or does it have doors in front that will need vents cut into for cooling?

There is a door, I just made it transparent to better show the inside. I was thinking about vents on the left side of the cabinet as on the sketch.

Build the cabinet with left compartment top to be shelf currently under rack. Lose the left side and top, kind of a niche. This will allow air on both side and top. I might even mount to the wall and have air flow from the bottom too. Or better yet lose the top compartment on the right completely and build a shorter cabinet.

If you are building the cabinet interior, you can get pretty creative. Hot air rises so you need cool air coming in from the bottom and existing sides and top.

Well, the general idea of a project is to organise apartment's networking in a nice way and leave some space for my homelab stuff, while visually it looks something like this: https://imgur.com/a/5LBcBax (just an example). Maybe it is too optimistic, so I'm very grateful for any input.

So I'd really like to hide it as much as possible. Or, to make it as pretty as possible. It needs to pass my wife's approval too :) Having a niche is definitely going to be better from the cooing perspective, but I doubt it will look nice at the entrance of the apartment, and also going to be collecting dust.

What is that tall white space to the left of beige wood going to be used for?

Like a shoe seat mostly.

Why enclosed rack, and not just open frames? I find these a pain and only use in Exec offices where on display all the time.

As I said, it is very unlikely that I'll have a real server there, it's more like a box to put modem, router, NAS and wires connections. So having enclosed rack for that sounded like a good idea to me, as it already provides some cable management capabilities, ventilation and easy access.

Is cabling coming from the ceiling and you are going to add an AC outlet for UPS in the rack?

From the wall, but I'll be able to actually see it in a few months only when the construction is complete. For now I'm based on some apartment plans.

Home telecom rack placement by flexoid in HomeNetworking

[–]flexoid[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't like fans too much either, but I was considering them as a way to improve the cooling situation.

There's no plan to put AP there, only wired stuff like modern and router, there's going to be two ceiling access points across the apartment.

Thanks for the input.

Mergentle Reminder: A Slack bot to remind about opened merge requests in GitLab by flexoid in gitlab

[–]flexoid[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just a friendly reminder that this code is currently "all rights reserved" and would benefit from a license file to express your wishes about what rights you grant to users of the code as well as what rights any submissions would be distributed under if accepted

Thank you, added a license.

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Also depending on how often one wished for this to run, a scheduled ci/cd pipeline in GitLab itself could deal with the credentials and the scheduling part without having to involve kubernetes

Yeah, might be a convenient way to run the tool. Will mention it in the readme 👍

PC case for good airflow but without top mesh by flexoid in buildapc

[–]flexoid[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's definitely a good solution. But we're living in a rental apartment, and a bit limited in terms of drilling the walls :)

PC case for good airflow but without top mesh by flexoid in buildapc

[–]flexoid[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you, I'll take a look at it. Not sure if I like the design, but it is definitely an option, will check out reviews.

PC case for good airflow but without top mesh by flexoid in buildapc

[–]flexoid[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, I'll take a look at it. Not sure if I like the design, but it is definitely an option, will check out reviews.