@@charliesretrocomputing oh god, its almost as bad as my PI4. I added proxmox to it, so it becomes a node decider for my cluster. it did not setup memory for lxc/vm storage. So I used my ( slow ) USB and set that up as the storage. It is now running all my VPN stuff....
There is sooo much CasaOS is capable of...but currently it's in it's infancy but it's growing and maturing all the time...hopefully it can grow into a full bore setup similar to the gui/server combo like in TrueNAS or UnRaid, just a bunch of scripting on top of an underlying powerful server distro...
Completely agree with victualing pf-sense and any other thins in this mater. - Why change it if all still works just fine - If i want to try something new, just spin new VM This is a beauty of home-lab / self-hosting. You can try so many things without messing up main services.
I think the difference is that it’s on its own proxmox node. If it were on a node with a ton of other lab VMs sucking power I think it would be clunkier.
I use frigate, but I've found it's missing a lot of things that something like BlueIris has. Talking with the Frigate guys, they are overhauling several things this next update, so I'm excited to see how it turns out.
When you get everything moved over from the old TrueNAS server to the new one, you should setup the old server to be a PBS server to backup your Proxmox VMs and CTs. I have been running that for over a year and have 4x 800GB Intel SSDs in RAID10 and it is plenty storage for me. I also have all of my servers on 10G SFP+ connections on my network to help speed up backups and restores. Also, Replication is your friend with moving stuff over from 1 TrueNAS instance to another!
Thanks for sharing you lab setup! Super relatable and reassuring that I’m not alone postponing all those little tasks. Its great that you aren’t sugar coating anything, because that’s how it is for a lot of us. We need to enjoy what we have, and stay motivated to improve our projects one step at a time.
I run Blue Iris here at the lab. I tried several programs before I settled for it. In my opinion it is well worth the cost. It is easy enough to navigate that my wife can use it to view the 4 "light bulb" cams attached to it.
Nah...his homelab is simple and hodgepodge...just like the bulk of other everyday joe "homelabbers" running on self built hardware...not these donated mega boxes that some other channels try to play off as budget or hand me down hardware....
"Messy, clunky software. This is the last thing a business needs". Obviously never worked in an SME. Lots of software is in the catagory of "Dont touch it. It was written three decades ago. We dont know how it works, and needs specific versions of this ancient OS". All held together with "workarounds" and tape, that never get a redo to make them production ready.
Great video. Thanks for sharing. I tested Frigate, Shinobi, Zoneminder and others. Ended up with Blue Iris. This software is just amazing for a NVR. Another containers that I run: Remotely, Plex (I prefer Plex over Jellyfin), Plex Media Manager, Tautulli, TDARR, Overseer, Syncthing, NPM (Migrating to Traefik), Authentik, Homer (migrating to Homarr), Czkawka, NextCloud, EmulatorJS (for the kids), Vaultwarden, Loki, ZABBIX, Immich and Photoprism (Haven't decided yet which one to keep), Mealie and Netdata. And finally, I've been testing TrueNAS scale, UnRAID and OpenMediaVault for almost a year. But after all that time messing around with all 3, I've choosed UnRAID. It's an All-In-One solution that have it all. And it's very easy to use and maintain. @Jims-Garage is awasome too!!
Don't count that Mac Mini out just yet. Those machines are absolutely epic with running Linux or *BSD. Since 2006 I have been running Mac Mini as "TV-PC's". Switched to a 2012 when they came out. Twelve years later it still runs like a charm (running Debian). And another 2012 is my testing machine. It has been tried with a ton of Linux distro's and all of the BSD's.
Hehe, anyone criticizing running pfSense as a VM honestly doesn't know what they are talking about. pfSense as a VM is VERY convenient. Aside from getting a simple snapshot any time you want, you can spool up the same VM on another machine in a minute and have your network back up and running in case of main machine failure or maintenance. Can even setup failover but I haven't done that.
I came across your videos a few days ago because I'm interested in replacing my single RaspberryPi with a proper Homelab setup. At first I only watched your videos for the information, but now I'm hooked and really enjoy your calm talking voice and video style. I have now subscribed to your Channel and will be binging all your videos over the next few days 😂
Why not run a reverse proxy manager with your own domain for your local services? It’s pretty simple, just point DNS Overrides in like Unbound DNS to the reverse proxy. Reverse proxy should have a cert from your domain provider. If you wanna keep everything local and not expose any ports, DNS Validation is great :)
Been following for a while. Great content. I took some inspiration from you and have built Open Media Vault VM on Ubuntu 24.04 QEMU on a Dell OptiPlex 7050. As I could not find anyone that's shared this configuration, I wanted to share it. It's pretty straight forward until you get to the networking. I learned more about networking over the past couple of days that I ever knew.
As an actual user of Blue Iris i can say it's a very good software, it does not cost much compared to other solutions, it have a very good support and i have never had a problem... i'm using it on a mini pc with an intel N97 and 8gb of ram and it goes flowlessly recording 9 full hd cameras, just make sure you are using substreams for live view so the cpu usage stays low.
I've been struggling with getting TrueNas Scale into Grafana, so these pointers are helpful. It may be too narrow or tight of a focus for you, but I'd love to see a step-by-step of getting TN analytics from start to finish.
The guide on TrueNAS-Graphite Exporter I linked was super helpful. I might make a video on it at some point! I wouldn't mind doing some shorter, more focused tutorials.
The only service I run right now is Mealie. Has helped my family enjoy interesting dishes a little more often. I want to run paperless-ngx next. Right now it's a higher priority to get a backup system in place.
Video idea : how have you made it easier for your family to manage (or dispose of) your homelab in the event that something happens to you? Thanks for the homelab tour 👍
I run OPNsense and TrueNAS in VMs, and it's been great! No issues, very convenient. Having everything in one box makes the fiancé happy :) OPNSense has a passed-thru network card, and TrueNAS has a passed-thru HBA I also have a separate Debian VM that I run all of my docker containers thru that has an Nvidia GPU passed thru for Plex. My network is segregated with VLANs and different subnets, with OPNsense managing access between them. And being able to easy update VLAN config in software on the VMs has been SUPER handy! I've also considered passing thru a dedicated harddrive to OPNsense so that if something goes weird with the VM host I could technically just boot from the OPNsense drive, but I've had zero issues thus far and haven't been motivated enough to make that change
I've setup frigate on home assistant, with a coral m.2 best self hosted CCTV software I have used if you have a reolink doorbell don't update the firmware it prevents the mic function working in home assistant at the moment.
It was sort of a pain, but I already had it in storage and it fit, haha. For dusting, I have plans to just shut everything down once every few months, pull everything out, and clean it. I keep everything labeled fairly well and have no real need for 24/7 uptime.
Definitely recommend giving Blue Iris a shot. Been using it at home and my business for several years now and recently switched to an all-in-one NVR when we moved to a new warehouse. It hasn't even been a year and I'm scrapping the new system and going back to Blue Iris. The biggest complaints about BI is you need to be a little more techie to be able to setup and configure it and while that might be true, it is much more powerful and a lot faster than the dedicated NVR we tried. I'm about to setup a consolidated home server and move BI from an old i7-6700 SFF w/ 16GB of RAM to a virtual container on that server. Currently I have 9 cameras, most of them 4k, and CPU usage is only 35% so it should easily run in a virtualization on an i9-12900 (thinking about getting the Miniforum MS-01).
My Pfsense Box is also virtualised. Tried to run it bare metal, but having some "unsupported" broadcom nics; running it through a linux bridge actually makes it stable.
great vid, you helped me start my own small server with just a random old home pc. currently just use it to host linux server which has casa os and in casa i have crafty, and pterodactyl for my game servers and file drop as a way to just throw things on it. and pi hole which i have to set up
Having recently jumped through this rabbit hole with my TP-Link switch with Noctua fans, are you sure the PoE isn't working? I thought an orange fan light was fine (I don't use Omada) but it turns out that PoE power was getting temporarily cut every so often by the fan sensor triggering a fault. This interruption was enough to trip my Unifi APs which is what ultimately led me to figuring this out. There are a few guides out there to properly ground the noctua fans and turn that light green -- after doing so my APs have been rock solid.
Up to TWO printers, eh? When you are finally overcome with filament, you will have to start that 3D printing channel... just to clear out your inventory of course :)
Awesome video. I would highly recommend Frigate over Blue Iris. I used Blue Iris for a long time and Frigate is a breath of fresh air and runs in Docker which is great. Their new v14 is also coming out soon. I’m running the Beta and the refreshed UI is great.
Can you make low budget secured cloud storage with alternative for google disk, google photos (maybe Photoprism)? Having jellyfin would be great too... (all secured and accessible from anywhere on almost anything)
CasaOS is meant to run on a VM, not a container. You may be fine but you may encounter issues. Your install doesn't report storage and network status, for instance
Hey quick question, did casa os launched the user profile feature, so other people can use casa os but not edit it Nice setup, from trash to lan till your own home lab, Really appreciate your content. An angel from hardware Haven
Your Proxmox setup is amazingly similar to mine, down to the virtualized PFSense AND the version of Proxmox!! 😁. Makes me feel less guilty for not having updated LOL!
the ARR stack, seems like it would make more sense to setup a vlan with pfsense and connect to your vpn with openvpn module in pfsense and go that route? thats what I do, as an added benefit you can assign a SSID to that vlan for your wireless.
Connect to Tor and then a free VPN, then no subscription fee and no payment details to blow your anonymity. (The only reason VPN is needed is as a UDP over TCP tunnel, Tor doesn't forward UDP, set the VPN to use TCP.) Certainly not going to be the fastest but if you just want to download something every now and then, it works well enough.
We're in the stages of building our future house, I want to have a server closet with a similar layout to yours, was wondering if you had any ideas for airflow/system to install while building. Should I be looking to make a custom AC zone just for that closet? Should I just have a simple outtake fan like in the bathroom? Should I run the air in a loop? Sucked in from the bottom in the wall, pushed in from the ceiling?
This why I walk so slow into web development, because of its complexity, local system are much more flexible and simple, but my next build will be hybrid, something between local and proxmox, but definitely not that complicated.
Am I sensing some more automation being setup soon?? 🙂 Wake On lan to power up backup NAS and after some verification run the replication task ooooh and maybe a shutdown task? Oooh I am excited now to have a look at what I can do with my setup. 🤘 Thanks for the awesome video and that idea.
When you report power usage from the Kill-A-Watt, could you report both Watts and VA? It would be helpful if you report both since VA is what you pay for and watts is the power the devices actually use (PF). It would also give us an idea of the efficiency of the device/power supply. Thanks, you have a great channel.
If not doing so yes, you should have a serious look at Proxmox Backup server, the compression rate is crazy cool, i made my switch just a few weeks ago, and i have to say im amazed by how much storage im saving just because of that.
Great video again! I appreciate you sharing your current setup. Have you thought about keeping the Synology NAS and giving it to your parents instead of the current TrueNAS server they currently have? It should be easier to manage for the other person and most likely cheaper to run as it is a lower powered device then the TrueNAS server currently running at your parents.
strongly recommend to switch to baremetal on the long term. buy dirt cheap 4x 16gb optane m.2 and use a pair as ZFS for pfsense with a qotom box and keep another pair with some stable backup from the exported config. Basic things like enabling SSL or regenerating certificates from a new CA can brick a hypervisor.
I'd love to have camera outside but I can't make hole in the wall to get PoE cable and I have flat roof so no space to have cable (and it stops at the wall, it don't go further) so I can't put camera 😭😩
5:31 As a guy who used to run a backup server at his parents' house......... just pay for cloud storage. It's like $3 a month for 750GB at B2 for backups right from TrueNAS.
I find virtualizing your router perfectly fine, especially if you use it to separate routing-related services. Logically, that device is your router, nothing else. It also does DNS and VPN, just inside a container but outside the actual router-software. Arguably that's cleaner and more flexible than having a "monolithic" bare-metal router, and running these services either not at all or on different system. What wouldn't be ideal is running non-related services on there, too. Like jellyfin or something. I think the people criticizing you for this really haven't understood WHY this is generally not recommended and just mindlessly repeat what they "learned". Again, perfectly fine and modern use of virtualization and still proper system separation. Don't listen to the nay-sayers.
@@okanerdem depends on the type, but generally it's not a concern. Proxmox in a setup like this isn't exposed to the Internet any more than it would be when just connected by network. The only vulnerability of additional concern in theory would be one where escape from the vm-"sandbox" is possible. For it to be a threat, an attached would have needed to have accessed/hacked into the firewall first (pfsense in his case), to then "escape" into proxmox. Not happening. This isn't a scenario I would even think about in a home setup.
After seeing your recent vid about the Lenovo Think Station, I'm thinking about picking one up to start my home lab. Are there any good places to go for resources on setting them up correctly. Proxmox Truenas PCI pass through, etc etc
Please make a video about your UPSs. Are there any UPSs which have a data port to connect/control it via a server? Do any of these UPSs come without fans?
you have stuff going on - personally i'd like to see you go dual wan with opnsense HA and also get more into enterprise servers (refurb) a couple 10 core or 16 core server boxes with lots of memory could be fun additions if you can find a place to put them. you are going dual nas basically - that is great but i would like to see you boost the network a bit more - connect your ws to dual nas with a dual port 25g card - you can do it over cat8 - maybe even get 56g cards and run 40gbe. so those are my only requests go a bit more enterprise/upscale but still use budget refurb parts and make sure to write them off - who knows it could even drop you down a tax bracket - double win
Here’s a big question: a lot of your services run on databases what do you use for database in the container or how do you manage databases for the services?
I think all the services I'm running which require a DB are running in portainer stacks (docker-compose), so the DB is running in a container inside the stack.
@@HardwareHaven interesting I guess that means I should switch to that I’ve been using unraid and finding my containers are starting to grow because so many DBs lol guess I’m hosting portainer 😂
Hey there! Amazing video, thank you for sharing your setup. One question; Why run two instances of proxmox on 2 different devices? Couldn't you just use 1 instance of it, where you would have pihole, pfsense, etc, and all your VMs? Is it security related? Was thinking of having a more buff PC for this use case. Thanks!
One of them runs PFSense and other network related services, and I being able to keep all of that online if I ever need to shutdown or work on the other system.
Would also love to see an Immich setup! Google photos worked great for my wife and I to be able to easily see each others pics of the kids and such without constantly sharing or texting pictures back and forth (we just logged into the same shared google account on our phones and let it do the photo back up). Only problem was that I ran out of cloud storage. I don’t wanna pay for more when I’ve got hard drives, sitting unused in my Home server. Would love to see you set it up, move pictures off the phones and setup a library that can be viewed by my whole household.
A comparison of Nextcloud photos and Immich would be pretty cool, including the mobile app integration (I certainly can’t be the only one tired of paying Apple for 2TB of iCloud storage each month 🥵)
Obico doesn't work with bambulabs printers out of the box, you can either run octoprint to bridge it but it's way more resource intensive than necessary, but there's a home assistant HACS integration that gives you sensors and limited control, then another that bridges that camera entity to an obico instance. If you google "BambuLabs Home assistant" and "Bambulabs spaghetti detection" both githubs should come up. Works flawlessly.
6:21 upgrading proxmox is super easy, even if you fck it up, just backup vms and cts, copy backup to other pc and do w/e you want, worst case you would need to reinstall proxmox and copy vms and cts back to it and restore them from backup. I was afraid of it the first time, but its like 30min job at worst.
Out of curiosity, who is your ISP? I see people with 2.5gb ports, and 10gb ports but most ISPs offer 1700mbs max, so I’m not sure where they get their speeds… sorry I’m a bit new to all the home lab stuff 😅
I doubt he has a multi-gig connection to the internet. The value of fast switches in a home lab is so the machines can talk to each other faster, not necessarily to the internet. If he does a massive DVD rip dump into his primary NAS, having a fast connection to the secondary will greatly reduce the amount of time it takes to back up, for example.
As someone who is still feshly new to Homelabs this vid is great. Currently I have a Ubuntu Server running on my Proxmox Server (Mini PC) and running docker with docker compose und portainer. I backup my vm to my NAS und on a daily bases. Are there any big advantages of using Linux Containers over docker. I know there is some helperscripts for lazy people or people that don't want to worry about error messages but what is your thoughts about that. Also I wanted to use pihole again or adgurad home however I can aceess the web gui even after changing the internal ports as well as redeploying. I might use a LXC Container for this one
19:00 not really a recommendation, more like a question, but how about HA, i do run two Adguard and unbound instances (its not really HA, just primary and secondary dns server and both forward requests to both unbound instances) but im kinda struggling to implement like two docker hosts that will be copies of each other and will run like my wireguard vpn, so even if one of them goes down i still can connect, i did try docker swarm and keepalived but it was not really working as intended.
@@HardwareHaven i was not expecting a direct answer, you are youtuber not my personal it support :D but im a bit surprised that none of tech youtubers i watch have HA setup ( or i did not saw any video where they are explaining how they have it done )
I'm excited about truenas 24.10, I plan on running a single server solution for all storage, media streaming and home lab services with it, full docker compose support makes it a no brainer to me. Any plans to consolidate like this or are you a proxmox junkie?😂
Any plans to set up your proxmox machines in a cluster? You could set it so the router VM is able to migrate between the hosts while maintaining the wan/lan with either vlans or separate switches.
"...services I haven't moved over..." "...I will eventually get rid of that..." There is no solution more permanent than a temporary one.
**cough cough** my raspberry pi 4 nas...
@@charliesretrocomputing oh god, its almost as bad as my PI4.
I added proxmox to it, so it becomes a node decider for my cluster. it did not setup memory for lxc/vm storage. So I used my ( slow ) USB and set that up as the storage. It is now running all my VPN stuff....
Thanks for the mention, really appreciate it. Great setup and video btw, I'm still to play with CasaOS. This has spurred me on!
Absolutely, it was a great video!
There is sooo much CasaOS is capable of...but currently it's in it's infancy but it's growing and maturing all the time...hopefully it can grow into a full bore setup similar to the gui/server combo like in TrueNAS or UnRaid, just a bunch of scripting on top of an underlying powerful server distro...
@@haydenc2742 I'm keen to see how it compares to something like kasm
Completely agree with victualing pf-sense and any other thins in this mater.
- Why change it if all still works just fine
- If i want to try something new, just spin new VM
This is a beauty of home-lab / self-hosting. You can try so many things without messing up main services.
Plus you can snapshot the VM before making a change, and revert if it breaks something.
I think the difference is that it’s on its own proxmox node. If it were on a node with a ton of other lab VMs sucking power I think it would be clunkier.
Frigate is your answer for webcams. Great home assistant integration.
Not entirely. It's super cool but lacking features, hence why i didn't make the switch from Synology.
@@HardwareHaven hmm wonder what features are you missing?
@@HardwareHaven have you checked out 0.14 yet? The new interface is really nice and brings it a lot closer to something like scrypted nvr
Was going to say the same. I use Frigate (with home assistant) for my home security and love it. Using a google coral for object detection.
I use frigate, but I've found it's missing a lot of things that something like BlueIris has. Talking with the Frigate guys, they are overhauling several things this next update, so I'm excited to see how it turns out.
When you get everything moved over from the old TrueNAS server to the new one, you should setup the old server to be a PBS server to backup your Proxmox VMs and CTs. I have been running that for over a year and have 4x 800GB Intel SSDs in RAID10 and it is plenty storage for me. I also have all of my servers on 10G SFP+ connections on my network to help speed up backups and restores. Also, Replication is your friend with moving stuff over from 1 TrueNAS instance to another!
Thanks for sharing you lab setup! Super relatable and reassuring that I’m not alone postponing all those little tasks. Its great that you aren’t sugar coating anything, because that’s how it is for a lot of us. We need to enjoy what we have, and stay motivated to improve our projects one step at a time.
I run Blue Iris here at the lab. I tried several programs before I settled for it. In my opinion it is well worth the cost. It is easy enough to navigate that my wife can use it to view the 4 "light bulb" cams attached to it.
Hardware Haven is running magic in his homelab. That's how the videos are so good.
Nah...his homelab is simple and hodgepodge...just like the bulk of other everyday joe "homelabbers" running on self built hardware...not these donated mega boxes that some other channels try to play off as budget or hand me down hardware....
I used to watch tech yes city years ago and remember your profile pic from the comments.
Thanks!
Thank you!
Thanks for the inside peek at your setup. I don't have anything half that elaborate or interesting 😅. Thanks for sharing!
"Messy, clunky software. This is the last thing a business needs". Obviously never worked in an SME. Lots of software is in the catagory of "Dont touch it. It was written three decades ago. We dont know how it works, and needs specific versions of this ancient OS". All held together with "workarounds" and tape, that never get a redo to make them production ready.
I work in a giant datacenter that focuses mainly on networking and high performance computing and I confirm that this is indeed very true 😂
At this point I'm convinced this is the case for all tech based businesses if you get intimate enough with their systems.
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
I tested Frigate, Shinobi, Zoneminder and others. Ended up with Blue Iris. This software is just amazing for a NVR.
Another containers that I run: Remotely, Plex (I prefer Plex over Jellyfin), Plex Media Manager, Tautulli, TDARR, Overseer, Syncthing, NPM (Migrating to Traefik), Authentik, Homer (migrating to Homarr), Czkawka, NextCloud, EmulatorJS (for the kids), Vaultwarden, Loki, ZABBIX, Immich and Photoprism (Haven't decided yet which one to keep), Mealie and Netdata.
And finally, I've been testing TrueNAS scale, UnRAID and OpenMediaVault for almost a year. But after all that time messing around with all 3, I've choosed UnRAID. It's an All-In-One solution that have it all. And it's very easy to use and maintain.
@Jims-Garage is awasome too!!
15m26s I was very concerned about your network closet temp until I noticed it was in F. :D
Hahahaha
same 😆 like "solid over 75 degree? holy shit", but well, it's not celsius. would make more sense to keep everything in the same unit, tho
Don't count that Mac Mini out just yet. Those machines are absolutely epic with running Linux or *BSD. Since 2006 I have been running Mac Mini as "TV-PC's". Switched to a 2012 when they came out. Twelve years later it still runs like a charm (running Debian). And another 2012 is my testing machine. It has been tried with a ton of Linux distro's and all of the BSD's.
Hehe, anyone criticizing running pfSense as a VM honestly doesn't know what they are talking about. pfSense as a VM is VERY convenient. Aside from getting a simple snapshot any time you want, you can spool up the same VM on another machine in a minute and have your network back up and running in case of main machine failure or maintenance. Can even setup failover but I haven't done that.
What about security? If there is a vulnerability on proxmox?
@@okanerdem Certainly always a possibility, but how realistic is it? To be frank, if you're that paranoid then pfSense itself probably isn't for you.
I came across your videos a few days ago because I'm interested in replacing my single RaspberryPi with a proper Homelab setup. At first I only watched your videos for the information, but now I'm hooked and really enjoy your calm talking voice and video style. I have now subscribed to your Channel and will be binging all your videos over the next few days 😂
You just gave me so many ideas for homelab services thank you
Another crafty user! I've been running crafty for several years - love (most of) How it works
Thumbs up for having Bluey on your Jellyfin. haha
Yo peter!
Yes, that is the backup for when the internet goes down and we lose disney+ haha. Gotta keep our toddler sane.
Very cool look at the home lab. Thanks for the vid. 👍
Thanks for watching!
Why not run a reverse proxy manager with your own domain for your local services? It’s pretty simple, just point DNS Overrides in like Unbound DNS to the reverse proxy. Reverse proxy should have a cert from your domain provider. If you wanna keep everything local and not expose any ports, DNS Validation is great :)
Been following for a while. Great content. I took some inspiration from you and have built Open Media Vault VM on Ubuntu 24.04 QEMU on a Dell OptiPlex 7050. As I could not find anyone that's shared this configuration, I wanted to share it. It's pretty straight forward until you get to the networking. I learned more about networking over the past couple of days that I ever knew.
As an actual user of Blue Iris i can say it's a very good software, it does not cost much compared to other solutions, it have a very good support and i have never had a problem... i'm using it on a mini pc with an intel N97 and 8gb of ram and it goes flowlessly recording 9 full hd cameras, just make sure you are using substreams for live view so the cpu usage stays low.
Thanks for the tips!
This is good info, Thanks!
I've been struggling with getting TrueNas Scale into Grafana, so these pointers are helpful. It may be too narrow or tight of a focus for you, but I'd love to see a step-by-step of getting TN analytics from start to finish.
The guide on TrueNAS-Graphite Exporter I linked was super helpful. I might make a video on it at some point! I wouldn't mind doing some shorter, more focused tutorials.
@@HardwareHaven I finally got it working - thanks for all the pointers. I hadn't fully integrated the mapping and, of course, that made all the diff.
@@KeithWeston AWESOME! Glad to hear it
The only service I run right now is Mealie. Has helped my family enjoy interesting dishes a little more often.
I want to run paperless-ngx next. Right now it's a higher priority to get a backup system in place.
1:41 I like both your audio and video just fine.
18:51 Not a lot?! :O You showed us so much!
Thank You very much i was waiting for this video way too long after viewing youtube videos of some other hoelaber youtubers.
Video idea : how have you made it easier for your family to manage (or dispose of) your homelab in the event that something happens to you?
Thanks for the homelab tour 👍
Thank you for the video. You got me some ideas that I should include for me setting up my homelab soon.
I run OPNsense and TrueNAS in VMs, and it's been great! No issues, very convenient. Having everything in one box makes the fiancé happy :)
OPNSense has a passed-thru network card, and TrueNAS has a passed-thru HBA
I also have a separate Debian VM that I run all of my docker containers thru that has an Nvidia GPU passed thru for Plex.
My network is segregated with VLANs and different subnets, with OPNsense managing access between them. And being able to easy update VLAN config in software on the VMs has been SUPER handy!
I've also considered passing thru a dedicated harddrive to OPNsense so that if something goes weird with the VM host I could technically just boot from the OPNsense drive, but I've had zero issues thus far and haven't been motivated enough to make that change
Thanks, always good info. -Dino
I've setup frigate on home assistant, with a coral m.2 best self hosted CCTV software I have used if you have a reolink doorbell don't update the firmware it prevents the mic function working in home assistant at the moment.
Can you share some info about the rack at 3:00? And generally, I wonder about cheap racks (
Maybe this one ?
StarTech.com 2-Post 8U Desktop Server Rack
It was sort of a pain, but I already had it in storage and it fit, haha. For dusting, I have plans to just shut everything down once every few months, pull everything out, and clean it. I keep everything labeled fairly well and have no real need for 24/7 uptime.
Can you share 2:51 the brand name of the network rack you are using?
Man, this gave me so many good ideas of projects i can start. My wife is going to be so grumpy. 😂😂
Definitely recommend giving Blue Iris a shot. Been using it at home and my business for several years now and recently switched to an all-in-one NVR when we moved to a new warehouse. It hasn't even been a year and I'm scrapping the new system and going back to Blue Iris. The biggest complaints about BI is you need to be a little more techie to be able to setup and configure it and while that might be true, it is much more powerful and a lot faster than the dedicated NVR we tried. I'm about to setup a consolidated home server and move BI from an old i7-6700 SFF w/ 16GB of RAM to a virtual container on that server. Currently I have 9 cameras, most of them 4k, and CPU usage is only 35% so it should easily run in a virtualization on an i9-12900 (thinking about getting the Miniforum MS-01).
Thank you.
You're welcome.
My Pfsense Box is also virtualised. Tried to run it bare metal, but having some "unsupported" broadcom nics; running it through a linux bridge actually makes it stable.
great vid, you helped me start my own small server with just a random old home pc. currently just use it to host linux server which has casa os and in casa i have crafty, and pterodactyl for my game servers and file drop as a way to just throw things on it. and pi hole which i have to set up
Having recently jumped through this rabbit hole with my TP-Link switch with Noctua fans, are you sure the PoE isn't working?
I thought an orange fan light was fine (I don't use Omada) but it turns out that PoE power was getting temporarily cut every so often by the fan sensor triggering a fault. This interruption was enough to trip my Unifi APs which is what ultimately led me to figuring this out. There are a few guides out there to properly ground the noctua fans and turn that light green -- after doing so my APs have been rock solid.
I was able to confirm it with a multimeter. To be fair, it was a unit that my work was tossing. I imagine POE not working was the reason lol
I have been running shinobi on a Linux dedicated machine for my security cameras and happy with it.
cool man! thanks for sharing with us
If you haven't heard of scrutiny before, its a really cool application/service for monitoring HDD and SSD S.M.A.R.T data.
Great video
Framework spotted, GG
Up to TWO printers, eh? When you are finally overcome with filament, you will have to start that 3D printing channel... just to clear out your inventory of course :)
I run opnsense on my 5 node proxmox cluster for my whole network.
It's the way to do it. Migrate with no downtime at all
Awesome video. I would highly recommend Frigate over Blue Iris. I used Blue Iris for a long time and Frigate is a breath of fresh air and runs in Docker which is great. Their new v14 is also coming out soon. I’m running the Beta and the refreshed UI is great.
Can you make low budget secured cloud storage with alternative for google disk, google photos (maybe Photoprism)? Having jellyfin would be great too... (all secured and accessible from anywhere on almost anything)
6:02 what are you using for the pfSense box?
N8N is so badass I'm going to go check it out rn!
CasaOS is meant to run on a VM, not a container. You may be fine but you may encounter issues. Your install doesn't report storage and network status, for instance
Finally a homelab I can relate to 😃
Hey quick question, did casa os launched the user profile feature, so other people can use casa os but not edit it
Nice setup, from trash to lan till your own home lab,
Really appreciate your content. An angel from hardware Haven
Not sure... I mostly just have it there for really quick containers and for testing
Your Proxmox setup is amazingly similar to mine, down to the virtualized PFSense AND the version of Proxmox!! 😁. Makes me feel less guilty for not having updated LOL!
On thing I would recommend trying out is something like Graylog for centralized log management :)
the ARR stack, seems like it would make more sense to setup a vlan with pfsense and connect to your vpn with openvpn module in pfsense and go that route? thats what I do, as an added benefit you can assign a SSID to that vlan for your wireless.
Maybe, but it works flawlessly at the moment
Connect to Tor and then a free VPN, then no subscription fee and no payment details to blow your anonymity. (The only reason VPN is needed is as a UDP over TCP tunnel, Tor doesn't forward UDP, set the VPN to use TCP.) Certainly not going to be the fastest but if you just want to download something every now and then, it works well enough.
We're in the stages of building our future house, I want to have a server closet with a similar layout to yours, was wondering if you had any ideas for airflow/system to install while building. Should I be looking to make a custom AC zone just for that closet? Should I just have a simple outtake fan like in the bathroom? Should I run the air in a loop? Sucked in from the bottom in the wall, pushed in from the ceiling?
This why I walk so slow into web development, because of its complexity, local system are much more flexible and simple, but my next build will be hybrid, something between local and proxmox, but definitely not that complicated.
I run CasaOS on a mini pc with MakeMKV and JellyFin for a simi portable disc ripper with a USB DVD drive (gonna upgrade to blueray some time soon)
@sagandavis91 this mini pc ripping machine is a great idea! I'm curious which mini pc you went with?
Am I sensing some more automation being setup soon?? 🙂 Wake On lan to power up backup NAS and after some verification run the replication task ooooh and maybe a shutdown task? Oooh I am excited now to have a look at what I can do with my setup. 🤘 Thanks for the awesome video and that idea.
When you report power usage from the Kill-A-Watt, could you report both Watts and VA? It would be helpful if you report both since VA is what you pay for and watts is the power the devices actually use (PF). It would also give us an idea of the efficiency of the device/power supply. Thanks, you have a great channel.
Why are you running Casa and Portainer? Does each have their sweet spot?
Love to see your thought on the 3d printed nas 6 bay
Nice setup.
My only recommendation is to be mindful of your power draw. Perhaps consider some of thosr mini PC fanless options.
If not doing so yes, you should have a serious look at Proxmox Backup server, the compression rate is crazy cool, i made my switch just a few weeks ago, and i have to say im amazed by how much storage im saving just because of that.
Great video again! I appreciate you sharing your current setup. Have you thought about keeping the Synology NAS and giving it to your parents instead of the current TrueNAS server they currently have? It should be easier to manage for the other person and most likely cheaper to run as it is a lower powered device then the TrueNAS server currently running at your parents.
strongly recommend to switch to baremetal on the long term. buy dirt cheap 4x 16gb optane m.2 and use a pair as ZFS for pfsense with a qotom box and keep another pair with some stable backup from the exported config. Basic things like enabling SSL or regenerating certificates from a new CA can brick a hypervisor.
keep it up, i like your content!!!
I'd love to have camera outside but I can't make hole in the wall to get PoE cable and I have flat roof so no space to have cable (and it stops at the wall, it don't go further) so I can't put camera 😭😩
5:31 As a guy who used to run a backup server at his parents' house......... just pay for cloud storage. It's like $3 a month for 750GB at B2 for backups right from TrueNAS.
I find virtualizing your router perfectly fine, especially if you use it to separate routing-related services. Logically, that device is your router, nothing else. It also does DNS and VPN, just inside a container but outside the actual router-software. Arguably that's cleaner and more flexible than having a "monolithic" bare-metal router, and running these services either not at all or on different system.
What wouldn't be ideal is running non-related services on there, too. Like jellyfin or something. I think the people criticizing you for this really haven't understood WHY this is generally not recommended and just mindlessly repeat what they "learned". Again, perfectly fine and modern use of virtualization and still proper system separation. Don't listen to the nay-sayers.
What about security? If there is a vulnerability on proxmox?
@@okanerdem depends on the type, but generally it's not a concern. Proxmox in a setup like this isn't exposed to the Internet any more than it would be when just connected by network. The only vulnerability of additional concern in theory would be one where escape from the vm-"sandbox" is possible. For it to be a threat, an attached would have needed to have accessed/hacked into the firewall first (pfsense in his case), to then "escape" into proxmox. Not happening.
This isn't a scenario I would even think about in a home setup.
whats the name of that ups?
After seeing your recent vid about the Lenovo Think Station, I'm thinking about picking one up to start my home lab.
Are there any good places to go for resources on setting them up correctly.
Proxmox
Truenas
PCI pass through, etc etc
Nixos true master race
you can say nathan for n8n but n-eight-n works too ^^
Please make a video about your UPSs. Are there any UPSs which have a data port to connect/control it via a server? Do any of these UPSs come without fans?
What is the hardware for the router being used?
you have stuff going on - personally i'd like to see you go dual wan with opnsense HA and also get more into enterprise servers (refurb) a couple 10 core or 16 core server boxes with lots of memory could be fun additions if you can find a place to put them. you are going dual nas basically - that is great but i would like to see you boost the network a bit more - connect your ws to dual nas with a dual port 25g card - you can do it over cat8 - maybe even get 56g cards and run 40gbe. so those are my only requests go a bit more enterprise/upscale but still use budget refurb parts and make sure to write them off - who knows it could even drop you down a tax bracket - double win
Here’s a big question: a lot of your services run on databases what do you use for database in the container or how do you manage databases for the services?
Also check out agentdvr for the NVR Blueiris is kinda too clunky imo
I think all the services I'm running which require a DB are running in portainer stacks (docker-compose), so the DB is running in a container inside the stack.
@@HardwareHaven interesting I guess that means I should switch to that I’ve been using unraid and finding my containers are starting to grow because so many DBs lol guess I’m hosting portainer 😂
Hey there! Amazing video, thank you for sharing your setup.
One question; Why run two instances of proxmox on 2 different devices? Couldn't you just use 1 instance of it, where you would have pihole, pfsense, etc, and all your VMs?
Is it security related? Was thinking of having a more buff PC for this use case. Thanks!
One of them runs PFSense and other network related services, and I being able to keep all of that online if I ever need to shutdown or work on the other system.
I Love Immich. Ive switched off completely from my google photos so I would love for you to share your experiance with using Immich
Would also love to see an Immich setup! Google photos worked great for my wife and I to be able to easily see each others pics of the kids and such without constantly sharing or texting pictures back and forth (we just logged into the same shared google account on our phones and let it do the photo back up). Only problem was that I ran out of cloud storage. I don’t wanna pay for more when I’ve got hard drives, sitting unused in my Home server.
Would love to see you set it up, move pictures off the phones and setup a library that can be viewed by my whole household.
Wouldnt mind watching how u put your blue ray ripping set up together
A comparison of Nextcloud photos and Immich would be pretty cool, including the mobile app integration (I certainly can’t be the only one tired of paying Apple for 2TB of iCloud storage each month 🥵)
I bet you could make a great video about setting up Obico to monitor that new 3D printer of yours. Their software is free if you self-host it!
Added it to my idea list! 👍
Obico doesn't work with bambulabs printers out of the box, you can either run octoprint to bridge it but it's way more resource intensive than necessary, but there's a home assistant HACS integration that gives you sensors and limited control, then another that bridges that camera entity to an obico instance. If you google "BambuLabs Home assistant" and "Bambulabs spaghetti detection" both githubs should come up. Works flawlessly.
6:21 upgrading proxmox is super easy, even if you fck it up, just backup vms and cts, copy backup to other pc and do w/e you want, worst case you would need to reinstall proxmox and copy vms and cts back to it and restore them from backup. I was afraid of it the first time, but its like 30min job at worst.
It's less about how easy or how long and more about whether or not I remember to do it when I have the time lol
Do you just remember all the IPs or do you have a dashboard for all your services/links?
Out of curiosity, who is your ISP? I see people with 2.5gb ports, and 10gb ports but most ISPs offer 1700mbs max, so I’m not sure where they get their speeds… sorry I’m a bit new to all the home lab stuff 😅
I doubt he has a multi-gig connection to the internet. The value of fast switches in a home lab is so the machines can talk to each other faster, not necessarily to the internet. If he does a massive DVD rip dump into his primary NAS, having a fast connection to the secondary will greatly reduce the amount of time it takes to back up, for example.
I'd love an in-depth video on immich!
Hi, quick question, why don’t you use synology photos instead of immich ? Thanks
10:19 i think the server its going to is your lxc container itself
Adguard >>> pihole by the way. You can consolidate so much stuff onto two machines
Probably so, but I already have pihole setup, and really it's just for local DNS.
adguard is deffo better than pihole
you should definitively try out NTFY and integrate it in your setup, it can be a lifesaver sometimes
do you have any video about Nextcloud and what you think about it?
As someone who is still feshly new to Homelabs this vid is great. Currently I have a Ubuntu Server running on my Proxmox Server (Mini PC) and running docker with docker compose und portainer. I backup my vm to my NAS und on a daily bases. Are there any big advantages of using Linux Containers over docker. I know there is some helperscripts for lazy people or people that don't want to worry about error messages but what is your thoughts about that. Also I wanted to use pihole again or adgurad home however I can aceess the web gui even after changing the internal ports as well as redeploying. I might use a LXC Container for this one
19:00 not really a recommendation, more like a question, but how about HA, i do run two Adguard and unbound instances (its not really HA, just primary and secondary dns server and both forward requests to both unbound instances) but im kinda struggling to implement like two docker hosts that will be copies of each other and will run like my wireguard vpn, so even if one of them goes down i still can connect, i did try docker swarm and keepalived but it was not really working as intended.
You might be asking the wrong guy... haha
@@HardwareHaven i was not expecting a direct answer, you are youtuber not my personal it support :D but im a bit surprised that none of tech youtubers i watch have HA setup ( or i did not saw any video where they are explaining how they have it done )
I use adguardhome-sync to sync up all the adguard servers
Mostly to watch The Office! 😆 That's like 90% of what my Jellyfin server does too!
"probably should upgrade ... but it's been working" totally agree, why update something that works x)
I'm excited about truenas 24.10, I plan on running a single server solution for all storage, media streaming and home lab services with it, full docker compose support makes it a no brainer to me.
Any plans to consolidate like this or are you a proxmox junkie?😂
Any plans to set up your proxmox machines in a cluster? You could set it so the router VM is able to migrate between the hosts while maintaining the wan/lan with either vlans or separate switches.
Sounds cool (and also like more work than I want to do lol)