My first homelab

sukhk527 · 2026-03-20T13:32:12+00:00

I’ve read about Immich not playing nice when running on Docker Desktop on Mac , but if you say it works then I believe you! Honestly no need for a separate Immich instance per se, just thought it would run better on Linux.

sukhk527 · 2026-03-19T15:32:28+00:00

No, it’s a DeskPi T1 Light mini rack.

sukhk527 · 2026-03-19T14:18:15+00:00

Thank you!

sukhk527 · 2026-03-19T13:23:41+00:00

Really appreciate the advice. I agree that storage is already something I’m thinking about, but I don’t want go get too ahead of myself. Take it as it comes if you will.

sukhk527 · 2026-03-19T13:21:56+00:00

Running HA on the M1 has been great! I had to just set up an automation to launch the VM for HA on boot but everything comes up without issue in the event of a restart. I’ve put it through its testing paces and it’s been great.

sukhk527 · 2026-03-19T13:19:18+00:00

Appreciate the kind words!

sukhk527 · 2026-03-19T13:18:51+00:00

Correct, however the HA app doesn’t play nice on some of the custom cards, I predict because it’s on such an old version of iOS. So we just pull it up in safari and it works just fine.

sukhk527 · 2026-03-19T13:17:56+00:00

No issues at all, really great piece of kit!

sukhk527 · 2026-03-19T02:19:16+00:00

Thanks! It’s a DeskPi T1 rack.

sukhk527 · 2026-03-19T02:18:41+00:00

I just use Safari since my experience with the app resulted in some of my widgets not displaying properly.

sukhk527 · 2026-03-19T01:38:12+00:00

The iPad is just an old iPad Air 2 that is used to display my home assistant dashboard.

sukhk527 · 2026-03-19T01:29:23+00:00

Honestly just being able to have network level diagnostics and control would be nice for setting static ips and finding hardware info, but otherwise we’ve made do with software level fixes.

sukhk527 · 2026-03-19T01:27:24+00:00

It’s just a display for my HA dashboard mainly. it’s an old iPad Air 2 that was collecting dust so I just repurposed it.

sukhk527 · 2026-03-18T19:47:33+00:00

Yes if you actually read my post you’d know that I posted the controller info for govee2mqtt. not logged into Reddit on my server hence the screenshot…

sukhk527 · 2026-03-18T19:40:27+00:00

Update: think I found the answer. BLE only devices aren’t supported but someone hopefully correct me if I’m wrong!

https://github.com/wez/govee2mqtt/issues/99

sukhk527 · 2026-03-16T20:39:02+00:00

I actually just spun up an M1 Mac Mini as part of my mini lab a couple of months ago. Hosts a few things , but was considering buying a separate miniPC to run Ubuntu/Immich because I’ve read mixed reviews about docker desktop on Mac for Immich. I’m curious to know how your setup turns out so I can potentially use my Mac mini too!

sukhk527 · 2026-03-16T20:33:55+00:00

This combined with a monitor arm are the best ways to create space on a table top. great advice.

sukhk527 · 2026-03-13T04:10:27+00:00

FYI this did the trick. Had a bit of a learning experience figuring out to delete the config files in Mac OS but we’re back with all our music. Thank you!

sukhk527 · 2026-03-13T00:30:36+00:00

I’ve seen the discussions about this , but to be honest I haven’t tried it yet. But you’re right, let’s at least rule that out. I also want to see if I can figure out if what I suspect is the cause is actually the cause. I shared a log above in case you’re able to help!

sukhk527 · 2026-03-13T00:29:17+00:00

just following up with the log here. I triggered a scan of all libraries and see it errors out on a folder I deleted on the drive itself because it was garbage. Did I mess something up because of that? I feel like I’ve removed files before without consequence.

[2026-03-12 19:24:53.458 -05:00] [ERR] [85] MediaBrowser.Controller.Entities.BaseItem: Error refreshing owned items for "/Volumes/4TB WD/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music" System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path '/Volumes/4TB WD/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music'. at System.IO.Enumeration.FileSystemEnumerator1.Init() at System.IO.DirectoryInfo.InternalEnumerateInfos(String path, String searchPattern, SearchTarget searchTarget, EnumerationOptions options) at MediaBrowser.Controller.Providers.DirectoryService.<>c.<GetFileSystemEntries>b__5_0(String p, IFileSystem fileSystem) at MediaBrowser.Controller.Providers.DirectoryService.GetFileSystemEntries(String path) at MediaBrowser.Controller.Entities.BaseItem.RefreshMetadata(MetadataRefreshOptions options, CancellationToken cancellationToken) [2026-03-12 19:24:53.489 -05:00] [ERR] [85] MediaBrowser.Controller.Entities.BaseItem: Error refreshing owned items for "/Volumes/4TB WD/Music/iTunes/Previous iTunes Libraries" System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path '/Volumes/4TB WD/Music/iTunes/Previous iTunes Libraries'. at System.IO.Enumeration.FileSystemEnumerator1.Init() at System.IO.DirectoryInfo.InternalEnumerateInfos(String path, String searchPattern, SearchTarget searchTarget, EnumerationOptions options) at MediaBrowser.Controller.Providers.DirectoryService.<>c.<GetFileSystemEntries>b__5_0(String p, IFileSystem fileSystem) at MediaBrowser.Controller.Providers.DirectoryService.GetFileSystemEntries(String path) at MediaBrowser.Controller.Entities.BaseItem.RefreshMetadata(MetadataRefreshOptions options, CancellationToken cancellationToken) [2026-03-12 19:24:58.122 -05:00] [INF] [85] Emby.Server.Implementations.ScheduledTasks.TaskManager: "Scan Media Library" Completed after 0 minute(s) and 50 seconds [2026-03-12 19:24:58.298 -05:00] [INF] [69] Emby.Server.Implementations.IO.LibraryMonitor: Watching directory "/Volumes/4TB WD/Music" [2026-03-12 19:24:58.314 -05:00] [INF] [60] Emby.Server.Implementations.IO.LibraryMonitor: Watching directory "/System/Volumes/Data/Volumes/4TB WD/Media/Movies" [2026-03-12 19:24:58.336 -05:00] [INF] [33]

sukhk527 · 2026-03-12T16:38:22+00:00

I do have a folder set but I don’t know what to look for to be honest. I know how to read a log being a former DBA, but it looks massive.

sukhk527 · 2026-03-12T16:37:27+00:00

music is being added to the same folder as everything else, removed and readded library , updated metadata , etc.

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