I AM AWARE that I held up a CFL light bulb and not an LED lol. I had it in the script and then realized that was the only bulb I had on hand and went with it thinking I one would care. I was clearly wrong haha. That being said, I appreciate when people correct me on things. Just figured I would clarify since I’ve gotten so many comments on it. 😂
You have a tech channel, and you thought people wouldn't care. Now that's funny! Anyway, enjoyed the video. I currently use unRaid, but definitely going to have to look in to CasaOS.
@3:35, "That's less than a standard LED light bulb." As he holds up a compact twist CFL bulb Lolz! We'll just call it a "placeholder". Keep up the good work, always informative and entertaining while striking a good balance of techsplaination that allows novice to expert to understand and learn.
Just wanted to thank you for the time and effort you put into when making your videos. I really enjoy watching them and the detail you go into is super helpful.
@@MilesProwerTailsFox That's fair. I think the direction with this was to try and target a wider group[ of people that might be interested in self hosting, as that's a passion of mine. I still have lots of plans to work with inexpensive and old hardware
@@HardwareHaven i love when you take some random trash and turn it into a server that can hold a good server, having an inexpensive board like the one in this video is neat but not really what your content tends to be, is your channel and in mexican TH-cam we have a saying “is my channel and I do whatever the fuck I want” so you know what to do now Whatever the fuck you want lmao
I do love the simple GUI this has, but I still would recommend one of the TrueNAS versions on an old desktop. If you have two drives, they are treated like one and is mirrored all the time. When one inevitably fails, you simply just install a new one and click replace. Your data is safe. While I prefer to mirror drives, TrueNAS does offer the ability to set up a raid array.
Thanks! This video is so good. I've watched it many times while configuring my zimaboard. This should be the official tutorial of the product, and they should pay you for the support they do not provide enough of! Thanks again! 🎉
I'm playing with this on a Pi4/4GB and so far it's looking like a good stepping stone into self-hosting. One tip: want to boot your Pi4 from USB drive? turn off the "automount USB drives" in Casa's settings or it won't work.
I’ve only been following you for a little while but I’ve enjoyed your honest approach to these videos. Tinkering with what you have and buying cool tech to improve our lives has been a lot of fun! Thanks for the content
The way I see this Micro PC is, its the homelabers portable test bed witch is why its soo modular the same way a PC enthusiast uses Primochill Praxis WetBench in the past or EDIY Open Air ATX PC Frame in a portable setting. In your case it fit perfect for you as you review/test hardware components.
Fantastic guide for beginners like me that have little knowledge. I went out and bought a ZimaBoard and managed to get a Jellyfin server up and running from your very comprehensive guide. Be good if you could do more step by step guides like this.
RAID; "redundant array of inexpensive disks"or "redundant array of independent disks" It is useful to discuss the redundancy as well as the price. Collections of disks need not be redundant or independent. Good stuff.
CasaOS really is a game changer! You inspired me to get old desktop pc i had laying around and turn it into a home server with your papermc video! Now I am wondering if I can run CasaOs on the same hardware as my UbuntuServer PC, because it is just incredibly convenient. Maybe I can deploy casaOs in a container, which then itself deploys it's containers, dockerception.
It's more complicated, but I would personally use something like TrueNAS, Scale for the storage side of things (it supports ZFS and RAID), and set up CasaOS or Umbrel as a virtual machine within TrueNAS. The main downside is that it only supports x86-based platforms.
You held up a fluorescent light bulb when you said LED light bulb, big difference in power usage and efficiency. Good video and info for setting up and using a home server.
I went with mini-itx AM4 motherboard and 5700g that is downclocked, install it in the drawer of TV shelf together with one M2 SSD for OS and 4 HDDs for actual storage. Quiet and very capable. ideally you need to prepare raid volume before installing Casaos by using mdadm, so it is already there mounted as a volume.
just yesterday i've bought a set of lenovo thinkcentres, 3 of them for $60 total, they came with i3s and 4gb ram each, definitely gonna give this a try
Definitely an alternative for me when raid support is implemented. I’m using UNRAID at the moment and would like to downsize the rig I’m using. Only thing to figure out is the how well transcoding will work with the hardware you suggested. I can have up to 5 people streaming at a time outside my network.
I went with mini-itx AM4 motherboard and 5700g that is downclocked, install it in the drawer of TV shelf together with one M2 SSD for OS and 4 HDDs for actual storage. Quiet and very capable. ideally you need to prepare raid volume before installing Casaos, so it is already there mounted as a volume.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! you helped me build my own server! I watched videos for like 3 hours straight and this is only one that is easy and user-frendly. THANK YOU SO MUCH!😊
I love the Conner countdown. Is like completing my own project soon. 😊 your voice is clear and straightforward lines. Nice device also. But how I wish instead of PD. Why don't use type c as power supply. So many different type of cables at home already.
Interesting video. It's got me revisiting the idea of having a dedicated home media server again. Many years ago (Getting on for 20 of them) I spent about a week of evenings struggling to try and setup an old Compaq ProLiant as a file/media server using (IIRC) "Fedora core 1" to be used on my predominantly Windows based home network. The most constructive thing I can say about that whole fiasco is that I got an interesting crash course into how Linux networking was handled. It never worked as seamlessly under Fedora as I'd hoped, and eventually it had a spare copy of Windows XP Pro chucked on it just to get the (Almost) aggro free networking I'd hoped to get from Linux. It was also a very power hungry system to have running 24/7, so when you showed how this CasaOS does a fair amount of the setup itself, and said that the ZimaBoard idles at around 6W, you got my full attention. :D
Excellent! Just what I needed. Thank you! If I use OpenVPN or Wireguard on my router, I should be able to connect to the server from my phone right? With vpn app or wireguard app enabled.
Great video, you cover a lot of things I'm trying to do myself. Like you, I'm a Windows guy. But I've got a decent Intel NUC that I've wiped and want to do exactly this... Docker containers for dev work, as well as for some home automation. Hopefully I can get past the Debian issues I had prior! Thanks for making such a clear and consider video!
Great video! I've been using Open Media Vault. I'll give a try to it. Just a small point: It reads 'caza', not 'cassa'. 'casa' is 'home' in portuguese.
This helps a lot, have a lot of old pcs with i3 or I-5 2-6th gen from my dumpster and i also needed a Nas and server set some up as a Nas but needed a server, my ol pc is a homeassistant server and the others are file servers and minecraft servers
I mean you began the video with “why give your money to big corporation” and immediately started with a sponsor asking people to give their money to them
All I did was present why self hosting can be good. Two of those reasons are to not pay for services if you don’t want to and to not have all your data on servers you don’t own. I didn’t say that you shouldn’t ever do those things. I use all three services mentioned (Netflix, Google, Squarespace)
@@HardwareHaven you said... google and netflix aren't your friends and that you need to use your server. then, why do you need a server at all? sqarespace isn't also a corporation? :)))
Only recently come across your channel and really enjoyed the honest reviews .. This does kind a fill the spot of what I been looking for to finally make a very small lab, and use the equipement I already own (A very capeable QNAP NAS ver 4 box which I have invested in to but too scared to use it as controller) but on a tigher budget and cant afford to spend the bigger boy mini low powered computer as well of the time to be able to learn all the acclinary items (private dns / adguard network protection / tailscale VPN / pfsense router) so I can set up a small 1GB / 2.5GB lan on CAT5E / 6 cabling on a switch, use my cable supplied router in modem mode and stop them spying on me.. (with allowance for expansion - better than 100Mb service and the possibilites of going up 1GB in the future - but too costly and would be waste) This seems a more affordable, suitable and easier to learn option to investmenet in, and not become "a when I get around to it, sit on the shelf project and too scared to set it up becuase I might screw it up and expose my mini lab to the horrible things out there.. (to have unlimited bank funds and the extra over kill processing power that drags us in, but wont really be used) The "better than I have" .. but "not bigger than I want" syndrome lol - Still scary and need to keep reasearching , but its nice to find a solution which is mid level entry, rather than going to ebay for over skilled old reconnitioned solution , or feeling pushed in to go low budget like a TP/Link - smart switch solutions .. that sounds good. but you then start looking deeper and it seems too locked down , and too many flaws (espescially security) or drooling at all the other kit that real time pro / content providors have been sent for review / purchased and have a better understanding of how to setup , before doing it as a "learner" .. Just need to find a UK supplier and wait for an amazon prime day salel ;-) Thank you and great work !
I'm putting this here because I couldn't find direct confirmation anywhere before I bought my 8/32 zima: The external sata ports do support multiple disks via esata enclosures with sata to esata cables. I have 9x 4TB HDDs across the 2 sata ports on mine with 1x mediasonic and 1x syba esata enclosures running ubuntu 24.04 server on the board.
I've been watching your videos for some time now, thanks to you I bought a slim PC AGAIN just to be able to play with it xD Casa makes the fun turn into a real deployment so thank you with all my heart for showing all of this, I got into it seriously which made my your wallet hate you, but I'm having a lot of fun :D
Thank you so much Haven, I learnt quite a lot from this. It took me days to digest all this stuff such as samba shares, media streams, vpn config, etc. I really love that I can access my LAN from outside, but I have noticed that leaving tailscale on all the time on the iPhone, I wasn't getting connected automatically to the internet on data connection. So I toggle it manually now, but it would be nice if it works seamlessly in the future.
Regarding changeing your users password, you don't need to use sudo to change your own users password. You can just use passwd in scope of the user. You only use sudo to change another users password, because that is something only root can do.
I know this is been up a while, But for anyone that has been beating their head against accessing the terminal through casaos you use the user name and password for your underlying linux user. So when you were setting up your linux distro and you set the root pw then you setup a user and pw. use the user and pw to access the terminal through casaos. I just spent the last 4 hours trying to figure this out.
Excellent tutorial, one of the best I've seen. Running CasaOS/Pi-hole on Pi4 (8) with 512GB M2 and 6T HDD. Looking to add Home Assistant with MotionEye add-on. An in-depth tutorial on that would be nice.
Thanks Haven, this is the boost I need to maintain my own server without needing to squeeze my brain to dead when troubleshooting stuff😂(we FINALLY have a UI to fix servers, even my dad told me the professionals have standards on NOT using a UI)
this is by far one of they besssst videos ive come across for home automation and server setting up.. honestly has me ready to completely change my current setup/plans.. and do this..
I have a ASUS Q170S1 and asus Q110s1 mini stx motherboards with i5-7500t, 16gb ddr4 ram, 512 gb nvme, 120 watt ps from a deskmini and 2x 8tb 3.5 inch hard drives running Linux mint. Great low cost and low power small motherboard with quick sync encoding. The bad there is no case I have found uses an mini stx motherboard with 2x 3.5 hard drives. Been watching Casa Os videos for a few months now and going to have to try it out now.
Totally Happy to see how far you have come since i started looking at your channel last year. I though I was subscribed, but I wasn’t. I am now. Congratulations!!!
Thanks for this. I have a Truenas server running but I've been thinking about a small footprint / low power 2nd server for additional backups and docker.
I'm probaby not going to be running CasaOS any time soon, but this video solved my tailscale exit node and subnet problems. It now works as advertised (pun intended). Thanks for that.
As much as I think the zimaboard is great, I think you could do a lot more with an older optiplex tower and installing CasaOS in that instead... but thanks for the comprehensive tutorial, appreciate you taking the time and being so thorough
I'm in IT and im currently running a small form factor dell with proxmox installed and 2x msata ssds. Currently in the learning phase of promox. What do you recommend casaos or proxmox? I dont need allot of fancy features just want to run a file share/ home assistant and maybe some streaming to my TV in the future. Thanks and keep up the good videos!
I have just installed in a virtual machine with Debian 12.1 xfce, a version not at par with debian gnome, even some bash commands were not in the $PATH, which I think it is unacceptable. But CasaOS has nothing to do with debian xfce, I just use this distro to be quicker to install in a VM. CasaOS installed flawlessly and it ran ok for the short time I used it. I am not a fan of personal cloud systems for two reasons - you need a computer running 24/7, which degrades the hardware, you spend extra electrical power, and you have to be concerned with security if you want to give access to the internet. Plus, in the case of this very particular CasaOS software, you should be aware that this is a Chinese software, and probably a lot of you personal data will be in this cloud.
You can always make a zfs-SoftRAID in Debian based OS’ses. This CasaOS looks very Debian based. At least you can make snapshots and enjoy redundancy and increased read write speeds, when you configure ZFS.
I had tried CasaOS installed on my QNAP NAS, but when I tried to connect a path from Jellyfin to a shared folder on the NAS I had so much difficulty. In your video, you showed how to set up the path in Jellyfin settings before opening Jellyfin, and that worked. Thank you. I had already wasted a lot of time trying to find the answer on internet searches but no one mentioned your solution.
Yeah one thing with CasaOS is that many things work well if you already have an understanding of containers. If not, you often end up in a situation like yours, which is frustrating. Hopefully you got it all sorted out!
Should be somewhat similar to Jellyfin install. Not sure about hardware transcoding though. You can probably look up the instructions for hardware transcoding with docker which is what I did when setting up JF.
You are the 2nd person on YT that I've seen using Linux, so let me ask you this. I recently bought another laptop with 16 GB that I wanted to use to study python, and blender. They both have Microsoft Edge but I wanted to change one to Google, but I was blocked. But I've heard that Linux is the best operating system to learn how to code. Either way, do you have any idea on how I can get rid of Bing and put on there Google for right now, and then Linux, bc I imagine there is a learning curve. As I'm typing this, I see another video that mentions Vanilla another distro....I have to learn and decide which distro would be best for me. This is why I think I should get google first, then as I study Linux and the different distros, I can get rid of google and then enjoy linux. Any suggestions?
yep in the 80s we went away from manframes and slow links (modems) and came to our small neat desktop PCs, with adquate local storage, now its going the full circle but with much better hardware - a huge cloud rack is nothing except a bunch of servers using large amounts of energy - do we ever know for sure how many kWHour a server farm can use? back up your phone locally why let others do it, they only sniff your data-life etc
I'm curious to know - can the ZimaBoard run a Minecraft server through the Docker? Nothing extreme but a basic 5-10 player server? What is its performance like?
It's not all that simple and "easy". I think the docker everywhere thing adds another layer of complexity. For instance, Jellyfin server doesn't see USB drives that show up under /media/ so thats kind of annoying. I don't think this is for the casual user.
So I have a question! I have never had a NAS or a home server ever but I am wanting to get into it but have a small budget. This video seems perfect because I’m sick and tired of paying Google for photo and video storage but which is better the Zima Board or the Blade? I would like to run Jellyfin too nothing crazy just streaming to one TV on my network at a time! Also should I use SSD drives or the 3.5 inch drives? Like I said just trying to get started and would like to have a raid if possible so I don’t lose any pictures or videos.
I bought one of these, and tried to run plex on it. Adding external drives is a nightmare and requires editing very base level Linux files to recognize anything like exFAT drives. On top of that, the dumb thing comes with a very limited 32 gig boot drive. This filled up quickly with junk files on cache etc and ended up causing massive headaches very quickly after running plex for even a week. It’s pure junk. Trying to run more than One of the casa apps that are done with a docker like environment become a nightmare as they overrun the resources on the board. Then there is the issue with updates to plex. When they release an update, the updated “container” is not available for CasaOS for weeks. I ended up chucking this POs and running plex as a service on my iMac pro
Lol. 15 minutes ago I definitely replaced this one with Fujitsu Q956, although it may find some use. ZB216 has nice 2.5W idle power consumption and 7.5W compiling Linux kernel including verbatim sata ssd disk. I found that this does not have too much power to handle https connection via nginx reverse proxy and for generating thumbnail on nextcloud at the same time, but I have to admit that (just like Raspberry PI) it's fine for many tasks. Fujitsu USFF PC consumes 5.5W idle, 8W with usb wifi and 37W at full load having i5-6500t processor which is quite powerful. What I've done with Zimaboard is that I've installed OpenSuse Leap on SATA SSD with docker+docker-compose. I left debian there basically for the system rescue mostly intact. For month it was running NextCloud, nginx-proxy-manager, two instances of mariadb and optionally OpenBox+tint2 as desktop via xrdp. In the end, I'm sacrificing additional 5.5W of idle power for having four to five times more performance and got both for pretty much the same price. Additional cost to zimaboard was SSD and display cable, with Fujitsu it got worse: USB wifi dongle, 1TB NVMe, 32GB of RAM (cca 135 eur for PC, 135 for ram and ssd, 23 for dongle). But it's surprisingly good desktop PC consuming fraction of what Ryzen5900x consumes. Ofc, it's another huge step in performance.
If it used just to stream movies then its just easier to buy a NAS with some HDD or setup a old PC to work as a media center. The reason people pay for cloud services is because its way too costly to have double or triple HDD redundancy and ISP fixed IP services. A 8TB 7200rpm HDD cost about USD$280 at my place. if triple redundancy setting, it will cost me $840 for 3 HDD, and replacing the 3 HDD every 3-5 years is a huge cost. For home users, paying google or apple for the extra cloud space is way cheaper to store important stuff like photos with love ones etc.
Hi Haven, I found your video, and it was really helpful. Thank you. However, I have a question for you: I tried changing the PWD for the terminal inside of the casaos, and now I can't log in to the terminal. Do you have any suggestions on how to do it, such as force reset, etc. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Nice video! I am searching whether I can change the default app directory from the internal mmc to one of the connected sata drives but haven't found anything yet. Does anyone know? I don't want to change the container all the time just to change a path when I really want a default apps installation path on a specific folder. Any comments are appreciated.
I know software raid isn't supported, but what about hardware RAID? I have the Geekworm dual 2.5" drive enclosure for the pi 4 and I can't get Jellyfin to see the 2 raided SSDs.
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I AM AWARE that I held up a CFL light bulb and not an LED lol. I had it in the script and then realized that was the only bulb I had on hand and went with it thinking I one would care. I was clearly wrong haha. That being said, I appreciate when people correct me on things. Just figured I would clarify since I’ve gotten so many comments on it. 😂
Ah the old: "Standard LED light bulb, while holding a CFL bulb" trick. I pulled that one on a buddy, just the other day. Nice one!
I have some LED bulbs that are shaped like CFL.
You have a tech channel, and you thought people wouldn't care. Now that's funny! Anyway, enjoyed the video. I currently use unRaid, but definitely going to have to look in to CasaOS.
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@@edgarkondrakov9834 same lol so I legit didn't notice until reading the comments 😅
I'm using a PC with clean OpenMediaVault Instalation and after that,installed CasaOS and Portainer for management,its PERFECT
No need to use sudo for passwd, unless you're changing other users' passwords. If you type just "passwd" it'll just assume you want the current user
Yep, good catch. Thanks!
@3:35, "That's less than a standard LED light bulb." As he holds up a compact twist CFL bulb Lolz!
We'll just call it a "placeholder". Keep up the good work, always informative and entertaining while striking a good balance of techsplaination that allows novice to expert to understand and learn.
Just wanted to thank you for the time and effort you put into when making your videos. I really enjoy watching them and the detail you go into is super helpful.
That means a lot. Glad you like them!
Your production skills are top notch, bud. I like the direction the channel is going.
Thanks Darth!
100k when???
Agreed ;)
i don'r really like how this is going, kinda expensive and not "look at this random thing that some would trow to the trash bin"
@@MilesProwerTailsFox That's fair. I think the direction with this was to try and target a wider group[ of people that might be interested in self hosting, as that's a passion of mine. I still have lots of plans to work with inexpensive and old hardware
@@HardwareHaven i love when you take some random trash and turn it into a server that can hold a good server, having an inexpensive board like the one in this video is neat but not really what your content tends to be, is your channel and in mexican TH-cam we have a saying “is my channel and I do whatever the fuck I want” so you know what to do now
Whatever the fuck you want lmao
I do love the simple GUI this has, but I still would recommend one of the TrueNAS versions on an old desktop. If you have two drives, they are treated like one and is mirrored all the time. When one inevitably fails, you simply just install a new one and click replace. Your data is safe.
While I prefer to mirror drives, TrueNAS does offer the ability to set up a raid array.
Thanks! This video is so good. I've watched it many times while configuring my zimaboard. This should be the official tutorial of the product, and they should pay you for the support they do not provide enough of! Thanks again! 🎉
I'm playing with this on a Pi4/4GB and so far it's looking like a good stepping stone into self-hosting. One tip: want to boot your Pi4 from USB drive? turn off the "automount USB drives" in Casa's settings or it won't work.
I am using OMV on a laptop with a few attached external HDDs and learning a lot of new tricks watching this video. Niiice!
I’ve only been following you for a little while but I’ve enjoyed your honest approach to these videos. Tinkering with what you have and buying cool tech to improve our lives has been a lot of fun! Thanks for the content
Glad to hear it!
Great tutorial for a start but not having raid support on casaOS is a pretty big deal so i hope they add it soon
The way I see this Micro PC is, its the homelabers portable test bed witch is why its soo modular the same way a PC enthusiast uses Primochill Praxis WetBench in the past or EDIY Open Air ATX PC Frame in a portable setting. In your case it fit perfect for you as you review/test hardware components.
For sure! I literally called it a “Swiss army knife” in my previous video haha
@@HardwareHavenaaaaa makes sense lol 😆 👍
Great tutorial on securing things and explaining in simple terms
Thanks!
Fantastic guide for beginners like me that have little knowledge. I went out and bought a ZimaBoard and managed to get a Jellyfin server up and running from your very comprehensive guide. Be good if you could do more step by step guides like this.
RAID; "redundant array of inexpensive disks"or "redundant array of independent disks"
It is useful to discuss the redundancy as well as the price. Collections of disks need not be redundant or independent.
Good stuff.
CasaOS really is a game changer! You inspired me to get old desktop pc i had laying around and turn it into a home server with your papermc video! Now I am wondering if I can run CasaOs on the same hardware as my UbuntuServer PC, because it is just incredibly convenient. Maybe I can deploy casaOs in a container, which then itself deploys it's containers, dockerception.
Maybe make it a DomU under xen?
Couldn't you also migrate UbuntuServer to proxmox and then spin up a separate casaos vm?
It's more complicated, but I would personally use something like TrueNAS, Scale for the storage side of things (it supports ZFS and RAID), and set up CasaOS or Umbrel as a virtual machine within TrueNAS. The main downside is that it only supports x86-based platforms.
CasaOS can’t be run as a VM. It’s not an actual OS
You held up a fluorescent light bulb when you said LED light bulb, big difference in power usage and efficiency. Good video and info for setting up and using a home server.
It’s all I had haha
I went with mini-itx AM4 motherboard and 5700g that is downclocked, install it in the drawer of TV shelf together with one M2 SSD for OS and 4 HDDs for actual storage.
Quiet and very capable. ideally you need to prepare raid volume before installing Casaos by using mdadm, so it is already there mounted as a volume.
just yesterday i've bought a set of lenovo thinkcentres, 3 of them for $60 total, they came with i3s and 4gb ram each, definitely gonna give this a try
Definitely an alternative for me when raid support is implemented. I’m using UNRAID at the moment and would like to downsize the rig I’m using. Only thing to figure out is the how well transcoding will work with the hardware you suggested. I can have up to 5 people streaming at a time outside my network.
Oh no😂 Max 1 Person 1080p 2 People ist a Little Bit lagy
There is a pcie expansion port, you could add a gpu
I went with mini-itx AM4 motherboard and 5700g that is downclocked, install it in the drawer of TV shelf together with one M2 SSD for OS and 4 HDDs for actual storage. Quiet and very capable.
ideally you need to prepare raid volume before installing Casaos, so it is already there mounted as a volume.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! you helped me build my own server! I watched videos for like 3 hours straight and this is only one that is easy and user-frendly. THANK YOU SO MUCH!😊
Thanks for letting me know there is no RAID support at the beginning.
this is incredible. Thank you for being so thorough and easy to follow. I have so many ideas for this.
Nice! Feel free to share in the comments. Might be helpful for someone else 👍🏻
I love the Conner countdown. Is like completing my own project soon. 😊 your voice is clear and straightforward lines. Nice device also. But how I wish instead of PD. Why don't use type c as power supply. So many different type of cables at home already.
This was very helpful for my new Zimaboard. A tutorial on setting up Nextcloud would be great. Thank you.
Interesting video. It's got me revisiting the idea of having a dedicated home media server again.
Many years ago (Getting on for 20 of them) I spent about a week of evenings struggling to try and setup an old Compaq ProLiant as a file/media server using (IIRC) "Fedora core 1" to be used on my predominantly Windows based home network. The most constructive thing I can say about that whole fiasco is that I got an interesting crash course into how Linux networking was handled.
It never worked as seamlessly under Fedora as I'd hoped, and eventually it had a spare copy of Windows XP Pro chucked on it just to get the (Almost) aggro free networking I'd hoped to get from Linux. It was also a very power hungry system to have running 24/7, so when you showed how this CasaOS does a fair amount of the setup itself, and said that the ZimaBoard idles at around 6W, you got my full attention. :D
Perfect timing, I m going to do this with my deskmini x300.
BTW I love the intros. They are so chill.
Thanks! And glad we got the timing right haha
Looks nice. I hope that it will also have the choice of BTRFS or ZFS.
Excellent! Just what I needed. Thank you!
If I use OpenVPN or Wireguard on my router, I should be able to connect to the server from my phone right? With vpn app or wireguard app enabled.
Great video, you cover a lot of things I'm trying to do myself. Like you, I'm a Windows guy. But I've got a decent Intel NUC that I've wiped and want to do exactly this... Docker containers for dev work, as well as for some home automation. Hopefully I can get past the Debian issues I had prior! Thanks for making such a clear and consider video!
Same here, got a NUC last week. Debian, Proxmox, LXC with Docker template and Plex/Emby/Jellyfyn is the way to go at my home now
Great video!
I've been using Open Media Vault. I'll give a try to it.
Just a small point:
It reads 'caza', not 'cassa'. 'casa' is 'home' in portuguese.
Casa is home in many different languages, and in most of them the s is pronounced like an s, not like a z, so i think both is okay.
It means home in Spanish too.
It means home in Romanian too.
@@RaduRadonys I was reading about Romania, then I saw this reply. Such coincidence
This helps a lot, have a lot of old pcs with i3 or I-5 2-6th gen from my dumpster and i also needed a Nas and server set some up as a Nas but needed a server, my ol pc is a homeassistant server and the others are file servers and minecraft servers
Nice! 4-6th gen is such a great value these days
I posted seven words for the algorithm.
Nice video, I am hooked on this channel.
I mean you began the video with “why give your money to big corporation” and immediately started with a sponsor asking people to give their money to them
All I did was present why self hosting can be good. Two of those reasons are to not pay for services if you don’t want to and to not have all your data on servers you don’t own. I didn’t say that you shouldn’t ever do those things. I use all three services mentioned (Netflix, Google, Squarespace)
@@HardwareHaven you said... google and netflix aren't your friends and that you need to use your server. then, why do you need a server at all? sqarespace isn't also a corporation? :)))
Only recently come across your channel and really enjoyed the honest reviews .. This does kind a fill the spot of what I been looking for to finally make a very small lab, and use the equipement I already own (A very capeable QNAP NAS ver 4 box which I have invested in to but too scared to use it as controller) but on a tigher budget and cant afford to spend the bigger boy mini low powered computer as well of the time to be able to learn all the acclinary items (private dns / adguard network protection / tailscale VPN / pfsense router) so I can set up a small 1GB / 2.5GB lan on CAT5E / 6 cabling on a switch, use my cable supplied router in modem mode and stop them spying on me.. (with allowance for expansion - better than 100Mb service and the possibilites of going up 1GB in the future - but too costly and would be waste)
This seems a more affordable, suitable and easier to learn option to investmenet in, and not become "a when I get around to it, sit on the shelf project and too scared to set it up becuase I might screw it up and expose my mini lab to the horrible things out there.. (to have unlimited bank funds and the extra over kill processing power that drags us in, but wont really be used)
The "better than I have" .. but "not bigger than I want" syndrome lol - Still scary and need to keep reasearching , but its nice to find a solution which is mid level entry, rather than going to ebay for over skilled old reconnitioned solution , or feeling pushed in to go low budget like a TP/Link - smart switch solutions .. that sounds good. but you then start looking deeper and it seems too locked down , and too many flaws (espescially security) or drooling at all the other kit that real time pro / content providors have been sent for review / purchased and have a better understanding of how to setup , before doing it as a "learner" .. Just need to find a UK supplier and wait for an amazon prime day salel ;-) Thank you and great work !
I'm putting this here because I couldn't find direct confirmation anywhere before I bought my 8/32 zima: The external sata ports do support multiple disks via esata enclosures with sata to esata cables. I have 9x 4TB HDDs across the 2 sata ports on mine with 1x mediasonic and 1x syba esata enclosures running ubuntu 24.04 server on the board.
I've been watching your videos for some time now, thanks to you I bought a slim PC AGAIN just to be able to play with it xD Casa makes the fun turn into a real deployment so thank you with all my heart for showing all of this, I got into it seriously which made my your wallet hate you, but I'm having a lot of fun :D
My bad 😂
Thank you so much Haven, I learnt quite a lot from this. It took me days to digest all this stuff such as samba shares, media streams, vpn config, etc. I really love that I can access my LAN from outside, but I have noticed that leaving tailscale on all the time on the iPhone, I wasn't getting connected automatically to the internet on data connection. So I toggle it manually now, but it would be nice if it works seamlessly in the future.
Your intro is so satisfying.... It reminds me of my dad's old windows xp desktop startup...
Btw it still starts and runs till date
Glad to hear it! Both about the intro and the pc haha
Regarding changeing your users password, you don't need to use sudo to change your own users password. You can just use passwd in scope of the user. You only use sudo to change another users password, because that is something only root can do.
I cant say it enough, I LOVE your intro
Thanks! I’m somewhat proud of it haha
CasaOS IS SO CLEAN I LOVE IT. Installed it on a Proxmox VM
Just discovered your channel today and I'm super impressed. You are well versed in so many different tools.
I know this is been up a while, But for anyone that has been beating their head against accessing the terminal through casaos you use the user name and password for your underlying linux user. So when you were setting up your linux distro and you set the root pw then you setup a user and pw. use the user and pw to access the terminal through casaos.
I just spent the last 4 hours trying to figure this out.
Excellent tutorial, one of the best I've seen. Running CasaOS/Pi-hole on Pi4 (8) with 512GB M2 and 6T HDD. Looking to add Home Assistant with MotionEye add-on. An in-depth tutorial on that would be nice.
Thanks Haven, this is the boost I need to maintain my own server without needing to squeeze my brain to dead when troubleshooting stuff😂(we FINALLY have a UI to fix servers, even my dad told me the professionals have standards on NOT using a UI)
You are amazing and you teach so well, you actually give detailed information and want to help! THANK YOU !
I just got my Zimaboard and this video was very helpful. Thank you!
Instead of /dev/dri for integrated intel, what do you put for an actual GPU? I'm trying to use my GTX 1070 but running into issues.
Good timing, I'm thinking about running a home server right now.
Yes,home servers are pretty cool!!
YESSS
this is by far one of they besssst videos ive come across for home automation and server setting up..
honestly has me ready to completely change my current setup/plans.. and do this..
you can also hit start and type credential manager.
I have a ASUS Q170S1 and asus Q110s1 mini stx motherboards with i5-7500t, 16gb ddr4 ram, 512 gb nvme, 120 watt ps from a deskmini and 2x 8tb 3.5 inch hard drives running Linux mint. Great low cost and low power small motherboard with quick sync encoding. The bad there is no case I have found uses an mini stx motherboard with 2x 3.5 hard drives. Been watching Casa Os videos for a few months now and going to have to try it out now.
Yeah those sound sweet. Best of luck!
Totally Happy to see how far you have come since i started looking at your channel last year. I though I was subscribed, but I wasn’t. I am now. Congratulations!!!
Thanks!!
finds those movies,buy a parrot,and eye patch and a wooden leg lol
Thanks for this. I have a Truenas server running but I've been thinking about a small footprint / low power 2nd server for additional backups and docker.
I'm probaby not going to be running CasaOS any time soon, but this video solved my tailscale exit node and subnet problems. It now works as advertised (pun intended). Thanks for that.
Boss i love the way that you explain the things I really first time watch that long video on TH-cam love from India ❤
As much as I think the zimaboard is great, I think you could do a lot more with an older optiplex tower and installing CasaOS in that instead... but thanks for the comprehensive tutorial, appreciate you taking the time and being so thorough
I love reusing stuff like that, and thanks for the comment 👍🏻
3:37 - Uh ... that curly thing he's holding is not an LED light bulb. It is called a Compact Fluorescent Lamp - CFL
I'm in IT and im currently running a small form factor dell with proxmox installed and 2x msata ssds.
Currently in the learning phase of promox.
What do you recommend casaos or proxmox? I dont need allot of fancy features just want to run a file share/ home assistant and maybe some streaming to my TV in the future.
Thanks and keep up the good videos!
Late, but if you can get away with CasaOS it's worth keeping it simple. If you don't mind, did you ever start streaming to TV?
@@zombie_pigdragon no still running proxmox and like it so not running casa os or anything.
I have just installed in a virtual machine with Debian 12.1 xfce, a version not at par with debian gnome, even some bash commands were not in the $PATH, which I think it is unacceptable. But CasaOS has nothing to do with debian xfce, I just use this distro to be quicker to install in a VM. CasaOS installed flawlessly and it ran ok for the short time I used it.
I am not a fan of personal cloud systems for two reasons - you need a computer running 24/7, which degrades the hardware, you spend extra electrical power, and you have to be concerned with security if you want to give access to the internet. Plus, in the case of this very particular CasaOS software, you should be aware that this is a Chinese software, and probably a lot of you personal data will be in this cloud.
You can always make a zfs-SoftRAID in Debian based OS’ses. This CasaOS looks very Debian based. At least you can make snapshots and enjoy redundancy and increased read write speeds, when you configure ZFS.
For sure! I actually setup just a simple software raid 1 array with mdadm, but figured something like that was a bit much for this video
And casaOS is literally Debian haha
This is good, dietpi with casaos, using dietpi for supporting old printer and now it can be nas :)
Thank you for the videos! They are so helpful as guides and for discovering new things
This is beautiful, I use openmediavault but im a sucker for beautiful UI
It does look guuud lol
OMV is great though!
Thanks. Very informative. Won't use it because of RAID but good to know this exists. FreeNAS/TrueNAS rules.
Would you suggest using this on a Proxmox hypervisor as well? Or is the CasaOS only something you would use with the Zimaboard specifically?
I had tried CasaOS installed on my QNAP NAS, but when I tried to connect a path from Jellyfin to a shared folder on the NAS I had so much difficulty. In your video, you showed how to set up the path in Jellyfin settings before opening Jellyfin, and that worked. Thank you. I had already wasted a lot of time trying to find the answer on internet searches but no one mentioned your solution.
Yeah one thing with CasaOS is that many things work well if you already have an understanding of containers. If not, you often end up in a situation like yours, which is frustrating. Hopefully you got it all sorted out!
10:56 i just completed the raid setup via the Linux command line. Its working perfectly..
Can you do a video on how to setup plex on here? Thanks!
Should be somewhat similar to Jellyfin install. Not sure about hardware transcoding though. You can probably look up the instructions for hardware transcoding with docker which is what I did when setting up JF.
You are the 2nd person on YT that I've seen using Linux, so let me ask you this. I recently bought another laptop with 16 GB that I wanted to use to study python, and blender. They both have Microsoft Edge but I wanted to change one to Google, but I was blocked. But I've heard that Linux is the best operating system to learn how to code. Either way, do you have any idea on how I can get rid of Bing and put on there Google for right now, and then Linux, bc I imagine there is a learning curve. As I'm typing this, I see another video that mentions Vanilla another distro....I have to learn and decide which distro would be best for me. This is why I think I should get google first, then as I study Linux and the different distros, I can get rid of google and then enjoy linux. Any suggestions?
yep in the 80s we went away from manframes and slow links (modems) and came to our small neat desktop PCs, with adquate local storage, now its going the full circle but with much better hardware - a huge cloud rack is nothing except a bunch of servers using large amounts of energy - do we ever know for sure how many kWHour a server farm can use? back up your phone locally why let others do it, they only sniff your data-life etc
I'm curious to know - can the ZimaBoard run a Minecraft server through the Docker? Nothing extreme but a basic 5-10 player server? What is its performance like?
If you're a little more tech savvy, definitely look into a mini PC before you run out and get a ZimaBoard
This is exactly what I've been looking for. Zimaboard should pay you.
It's not all that simple and "easy". I think the docker everywhere thing adds another layer of complexity. For instance, Jellyfin server doesn't see USB drives that show up under /media/ so thats kind of annoying. I don't think this is for the casual user.
Wanna see more advanced storage solutions in the near future that then it will be top tier.
Nice work man! Don't worry about what "other" people find interesting, just do what you want to do,... I find it interesting ;)
How are you running Pfsense in your local setup!? Do you recommend use Zimaboard for it!? Tks! Awesome content bro! 👏🏻
So I have a question! I have never had a NAS or a home server ever but I am wanting to get into it but have a small budget. This video seems perfect because I’m sick and tired of paying Google for photo and video storage but which is better the Zima Board or the Blade? I would like to run Jellyfin too nothing crazy just streaming to one TV on my network at a time! Also should I use SSD drives or the 3.5 inch drives? Like I said just trying to get started and would like to have a raid if possible so I don’t lose any pictures or videos.
The OS is a building...docker is a room in the building
That’s a pretty solid way of putting it
Just the video I was looking for. Great! Would you mind comparing CasaOS to Umbrel or other similar projects?
I'll have to check out Umbrel sometime as it looks pretty awesome as well. I just only have so much time haha
Amazing video, thank you for all the valuable tips!
I bought one of these, and tried to run plex on it. Adding external drives is a nightmare and requires editing very base level Linux files to recognize anything like exFAT drives. On top of that, the dumb thing comes with a very limited 32 gig boot drive. This filled up quickly with junk files on cache etc and ended up causing massive headaches very quickly after running plex for even a week. It’s pure junk. Trying to run more than One of the casa apps that are done with a docker like environment become a nightmare as they overrun the resources on the board. Then there is the issue with updates to plex. When they release an update, the updated “container” is not available for CasaOS for weeks. I ended up chucking this POs and running plex as a service on my iMac pro
Lol. 15 minutes ago I definitely replaced this one with Fujitsu Q956, although it may find some use.
ZB216 has nice 2.5W idle power consumption and 7.5W compiling Linux kernel including verbatim sata ssd disk.
I found that this does not have too much power to handle https connection via nginx reverse proxy and for generating thumbnail on nextcloud at the same time, but I have to admit that (just like Raspberry PI) it's fine for many tasks. Fujitsu USFF PC consumes 5.5W idle, 8W with usb wifi and 37W at full load having i5-6500t processor which is quite powerful.
What I've done with Zimaboard is that I've installed OpenSuse Leap on SATA SSD with docker+docker-compose. I left debian there basically for the system rescue mostly intact. For month it was running NextCloud, nginx-proxy-manager, two instances of mariadb and optionally OpenBox+tint2 as desktop via xrdp.
In the end, I'm sacrificing additional 5.5W of idle power for having four to five times more performance and got both for pretty much the same price. Additional cost to zimaboard was SSD and display cable, with Fujitsu it got worse: USB wifi dongle, 1TB NVMe, 32GB of RAM (cca 135 eur for PC, 135 for ram and ssd, 23 for dongle). But it's surprisingly good desktop PC consuming fraction of what Ryzen5900x consumes. Ofc, it's another huge step in performance.
Good setup tbh
See you in the next video!!
See you then Ramesh!
If it used just to stream movies then its just easier to buy a NAS with some HDD or setup a old PC to work as a media center. The reason people pay for cloud services is because its way too costly to have double or triple HDD redundancy and ISP fixed IP services. A 8TB 7200rpm HDD cost about USD$280 at my place. if triple redundancy setting, it will cost me $840 for 3 HDD, and replacing the 3 HDD every 3-5 years is a huge cost. For home users, paying google or apple for the extra cloud space is way cheaper to store important stuff like photos with love ones etc.
u can also open a terminal and type 'ip addr'
Hi Haven, I found your video, and it was really helpful. Thank you.
However, I have a question for you: I tried changing the PWD for the terminal inside of the casaos, and now I can't log in to the terminal. Do you have any suggestions on how to do it, such as force reset, etc. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Actually having ZimaBoard is much better than having a big machine as server lol
(In terms of size)
If it’s all you need, for sure! Or a variety of other small PCs and auch
wow this looks sleek. what sold me is its docker integration. I might replace my portainer with this.
Awesome video & info! What's your solution for powering & connecting other hard drive 3.5"?
Nice video! I am searching whether I can change the default app directory from the internal mmc to one of the connected sata drives but haven't found anything yet. Does anyone know? I don't want to change the container all the time just to change a path when I really want a default apps installation path on a specific folder. Any comments are appreciated.
great informative ,all my questions are covered in one place great job
Glad it was helpful!
This is amazing, i really love your videos...i have learnt alot from your tutorials, keep it up👏
Thanks!
I know software raid isn't supported, but what about hardware RAID? I have the Geekworm dual 2.5" drive enclosure for the pi 4 and I can't get Jellyfin to see the 2 raided SSDs.
Kodi as a media server works great.