What's On My Smart HomeLab Server?

surprised you don't use a pi-hole

I'm guessing your VPN connection isn't limited by a 2 Mbps upload speed on your aDSL connection? Can you go into more detail of what you are using Proxmox for, when it seems almost all of your apps are in TrueNAS?

You look like a hod carrier

porn?

Are you using TrueNAS on bare metal or as a VM on Proxmox?
And how do you use Homeassistant Development? Is this a fresh Installation or a copy of the live System?

What an awesome video, I'm planning to start my home lab but I don't know where to start, and your set up seams great. It would be great if you had like a mini series or tutorial on how to setup everything, on which order to set it up and also possible option for hardware. I have an old laptop with an i5 8200u with 16gb of ram you think it will be suitable for such application?

I am curious why you chose Homer over Homepage. What are you using to access Jellyfin from outside of your network? wireguard? I like Jellyfin but I am having a hard time leaving Plex due to Plex Amp.

For Plex on TrueNAS Scale I ended up running Plex as an Ubuntu Server VM as the native server app couldn't access SMB shares. I am aware there are workarounds (unsupported by IX) but part of the homelab fun is pushing your own boundaries, and for me this was a learning experience.

Thanks for the video!
Regarding photos backup you talk about in the video, I'm looking for a reliable way to get android photos backup, and it seems that not all the android apps works fine (asustor, nextcloud, synology...). What is the most reliable SW according to your experience?

I just upgraded my pfSense server to Plus from Community Edition, which is now free, but you have to purchase it for $0.00 from the Netgate store, and you must already have the CE already installed to upgrade it. I'm currently looking into upgrading my homelab to a Proxmox virtualization platform, but I'm not sure what hardware I should be looking for without breaking the bank. I want to have enough cores and memory to run multiple VMs (gaming servers, media server, NAS, and development servers to learn automation, networking, and coding skills).

If you get the VPN VLAN/Subnet layering right and use bridging i key places... nothing at any site in the network will have any idea it's a remote site. They will all just be one big network.

Started down the rabbit hole after watching this with proxmox and truenas, would love to see more in depth videos on a homelab ☺️

82497ee384ewtxgt - the CD key for NFS HP2 from 2002. Yeah I remember oddly specific things too

Thanks Lewis! Question about TrueNAS: do you run them on separate servers, or also in Proxmox?

Which is your PC/server?

Would love a bit more in depth on where you are running this stuff?

Are you running your truenas on one box, proxmox on another? Are you using a containerised version of adguard or opnsense etc

“ISO Organizer” 😂😂☠️

I love PLEX. But I have a plexpass. I haven't found any reason to try anything else. You can customize and remove the things you don't want...

I used to have a oddly great memory for CD Keys back in the days when those still were a thing. I had at least one key for Windows 95b up until Windows XP memorized at all times 😅

I'd love an indepth video on the site to site VPN setup

have you tried streamio for media?

Regarding managing your parents' house, I wonder why there aren't more services for management. Seems like there should be a market for managed HA servers. Maybe a one time setup fee, plus a monthly subscription for updates and maintenance.

regarding TrueNAS, Want a good server solution and still debating whether to use TrueNAS or Unraid (upgrade from my Synology)..... I Want to use Raid10 for my storage, I saw that TN uses Raid Z1/2/3 not Raid10 and on the other hand I heard that Unraid speedis limited to single drive speed....

Currently, I'm running windows 10 pro and Stablebit to manage 6 different sized disks for my media storage. I'm getting more and more interested in Homelab. It's setup as a JBOD that replicates specific folder for redundancy purposes. Most of the storage space isn't redundant. Is TrueNAS a good replacement for Stablebit? If not, is there an app/module that is a good replacement? If I migrated, I'd want it to be a linux core, to save the overhead that Windows creates.

Do you have proxmox backup server installed as a VM on truenas, or on bare metal, or some other way?

Hi. Great video! If using a Unifi dream machine SE as the router, is another firewall (open sense) needed? If so, why, and how would they play together? Thanks!

Great video. I think a tutorial on how to connect 2 home’s networks and send a TV through VPN to other home would be really cool. This way I can watch shows available in my mom’s network for example.

This is not a dashboard. It is a link site.
Dashboard contains live data showing you status of most important measures.

Very nice video. Jellyfin is indeed an app to look into. But, what made me give you the thumbs up, was definitly seeing Still Game in your catalog. Bravo.😂

"Really oddly specific things they have a memory for"

that's called autism mate

REALLY, 97K views and 2.9K thumbs up in 12 Days!!! Sweet, you are the man. Question what was the s/w that you created your network diagram in?

Iso Manager, love it

Thank you. Took me too long to get to watch this but it's inspiring. I hope you get to do some walkthroughs of the setups, mainly Proxmox, Opnsense and TruNAS. Oh, and definitely Homer. Never heard of that kind of dashboard. I am blessed/plagued by the very same memory. Passwords, IPs and product activation codes too. Hence my home is useless to anybody but me. I have a continuous worry about what happens if I am no longer there. From a hardware point of view all switches and controls work like normal if HA goes away, but there is so much more. Really hoping you can do some tutorials. Thank you!

Yes please consider to make an in-depth series of your network config with vpn and how-to make it! I’ve been trying this for a decade without success.

"ISO" nice lol eye eye captain

do you have home assistant on cluster????

What's your site to site speed? Synch or asynch? Failover to remote site has always intrigued me but I've been afraid to try it. Lucky for me I've been in places with robust failsafes on-site, but it's a project that I would like to tackle.

Thx a lot for you video! I'm currently in the middle of renovating my apartment, and it inspired me to create a better "multimedia device box". So, instead of a regular small enclosure for the modem and router, I now have three 19-inch 2U rack boxes :D

I thankfully don't have the Plex issues you do about logging me out. I don't have a plex pass.

I've tried switching to Jellyfin a couple times, but always come back to Plex. Plex just handles playback of more media types better than Jellyfin.

Great overview, thanks! I'd love to see a specific video on your firewall and why for example the firewall provided within a Ubiquity UDM or UDR might not be sufficient for a (power) home user.

wait… you can remember IPv6 addresses!?

Your 514ms processing time in AdGuard is SCARY!! Also you need to be using more lists.. the default AdGuard ones are no good at all..

Why switch everyone to bitwarden if you aren't hosting it yourself? What is the benefit?

i never have that plex problem. maybe you should learn to setup DNS properly. it sounds like your problems with your network are your own incompetence.

What hardware are you using for your homelab??

question why not buy plex pass lifetime? to me its paid off its self and is still a better experience than jellyfin

I just recently switched to Proxmox. Initially it was an absolutely nightmare getting it stable. Between my NIC having a big quirk with a particular kernel version that would crash the server randomly and finding out the Proxmox version that would just work in general, it just wooooorks (now)! 😂 I love it!