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Yeah WOL was one of the first things I looked for in HA because I just didn’t have all that much in the way of Smart stuff.
Anyway nowadays I have an automation you may like. I have set up a little wireless dock for my phone on my desk. It’s the only wireless charger I use, so using the Companion app sensors (namely the charger type) I have set up an automation that turns on my PC when I dock my phone.
Meaning I literally flop down on my chair and put my phone on the charging stand and the PC turns on.
Now when that PC is picked up on the network HA will turn on my monitor (via a smart plug) and my desk lamp.
I also have a program on the PC that detects what I’m doing, and can switch the PC off!
So I can add switching the PC off to my automations, like my Goodnight automation
That was the idea! I came across it looking for something else. I’ve been using a blueprint for a while (since you haven’t even looked yet) that will pull when the alarm is sounding and snoozed and such.
I have moved back to Node Red and made it myself there now though. What I use it for is I set the alarm to ramp up volume after 3 minutes, but the alarm also triggers my lights turning on.
Since the lights usually wake me up I usually have a silent alarm clock, meaning I don’t wake The Wife at 5am when I get up for work.
My son heard about it so now he also wakes up to the lights coming on.
You can use that to start your morning automations if you’re so inclined, so when your alarm goes off and the Kitchen motion sensor is triggered for your morning cup of Joe, you can fire your morning reminders and traffic info
“Dodgy Firestick”
You need to pick a machine (if you only have 1 you don’t lol) to be your web portal, bang a block of code in via ssh or command line (I copy pasted) then you can access Portainer via the web portal.
From there “Stacks” is Docker Compose and you can fiddle with your containers, networking settings and all the other stuff via a UI instead of having to SSH in all the time to look at your compose files.
Then if you wanna use docker on more machines you just bang a block of code into that machine via ssh and it will appear in your Portainer
Far easier imho
I found a lot of the problems I had with Docker were with Docker. Once I moved to using Portainer for Docker it became much more accessible.
This looks like a good shout. I have actually tried it out but it was years ago when I was trying to get a Sonos-like service and ultimately settled on Squeezebox.
Maybe it’s time to try it again, thanks for the idea
It’s a Dell Optiplex 7050
Try a live Proxmox USB, it’s what I did when my machine went unresponsive. Allowed me to look through the logs of the OS when it hadn’t booted to find out what went wrong.
For me it was that I had put my USB HDDs in via Fstab and one had died, which made Proxmox unbootable until I hashtagged the lines out in fstab.
Eh I did all this with a cheap thin client.
Proxmox as the frontend
OMV in a VM with usb passed through
Debian VM for Plex and Docker
Adguard and Nginx and Arr in Docker
Network sharing from the OMV VM
HDDs to USB.
I’ve solved this exact issue and numerous others with samba / CIFS recently. This is how I have my Proxmox on a mini pc with usb mounted HDDs at present:
1 VM Home Assistant OS, not relevant really
1 VM OMV Open Media Vault.
1 VM Debian with Docker installed.
So in my experience over the last few months you want your usb drive to have absolutely nothing to do with Proxmox. Nope.
I had 3 hooked in mounted in Proxmox and when one of them threw a fit Proxmox refused to load.
Better to have a NAS VM installed and have the drive(s, I have 3, 2x1tb and 1x750gb) passed straight through, whole usb, to the NAS VM.
This means if the drive fails Proxmox doesn’t break, and also in my experience with OMV, it’ll still run if a drive breaks
Then what I did was set up the shares and made them samba in OMV then set my other VM, the Debian one, with mount points in the Fstab.
The key for me in this endeavour was to make sure the Fstab entry made sure that the OS wouldn’t fail if it couldn’t find a drive, as happened in Proxmox, so I made sure “nofail” was somewhere in the Fstab config.
For Samba to work in Linux you need to install cifs-utils, then add a line in /etc/fstab. Mine goes:
//omv.local/sharename /mnt/filename cifs credentials=/etc/cifs-credentials,file_mode=0777,dir-mode=0777,auto,nofail,vers=3.0 0 0
You have to create the mount point mkdir /mnt/filename and give it permissions with chmod
You also need to made the cifs-credentials file in /etc/
It needs to contain:
username=yourusername password=yourpassword domain=WORKGROUP
Then what I do for Audiobookshelf and whatnot is mount the mount point as directories in Portainer under the volumes: - /mnt/Downloads:/Downloads
Then in the UI of the service I’m using in Docker I can use the Downloads folder and it’s the mount point.
This is what’s working well for me. If a drive fails I try and fix it in OMV instead of trying to plug a monitor into my mini pc to try and work out from the logs why Proxmox has failed…
Use this comment as a framework for your research and save yourself some heartache. You can mount the CIFS/Samba share to Proxmox and use that, so you can still use the drive in Proxmox for backups and such
I’ve just come back to this comment to get sabnzbd running, thanks again
My budget-friendly solution has been to replace my ISP provided router with a 10 year old Netgear router that handles all the protocols my ISP does off eBay for £25.
I have a 4 storey townhouse so having this on the ground floor is useless when you’re on the top floor.
So I have a power line system installed which I’ve hooked into the modem. I’ve got a wired router in the front room that has all the front room tech worked in.
On the top floor I have an even older Netgear router a friend gave me, with OpenWRT installed plugged into the power line and running as an access point.
In total this whole system has probably cost me £80 to fully install as I was given the older Netgear.
Works beautifully, cost very little, and I’ve got a Guest Mode ap that turns on when I turn guest mode in Home Assistant, a simple “Hey Google turn on Guest mode”
It was one of them 1 week ban and all API tokens revoked things. I just told him to get his hand in his pocket
I gave a mate my username/password and immediately got blocked on Debrid when he used it…
Over the last few months I’ve made a whole bunch of different combinations of VMs, LXC and Docker until now, where I have Home Assistant, a NAS and a Debian server which I deploy docker stacks into.
At one point I had about 15 different machines I could spin up, but now it’s just the 3. The great thing about Proxmox is you can just create and destroy to your hearts content
I went Proxmox when I was in your shoes a few months ago.
It installs like a Linux OS so you already know how to do that.
You get a webui to work from.
From there, YouTube is a massive help. Watch videos on “how to install WHATEVER on Proxmox” and just replace WHATEVER with whatever you want to prod until it works.
My first service was Home Assistant, which I already ran on a Pi. I had that fully migrated in a day giving me a spare Pi.
Next it was Portainer, and used that for Adguard and Uptime Kuma, and then I got fancy and threw secondary servers of those services on my pi and put that on the network as a fail over.
So yeah, just install it and try to do shit, YouTube is your friend.
Holy shit I totally thought I was talking out of my arse lol
So you’re trying to get 2 instances of qbt behind the same Gluetun vpn container?
I don’t use Qbt but I certainly have done in the past. Am I correct in remembering that in the gui you can change the port?
If so, maybe what you could do is set up your stack with 1 instance in, go into the GUI and change the port on the service to 8000 or 8081 or whatever.
Map that port in your Gluetun config and leave the default port open for QBT, and add a second instance to the stack with a different name and addresses for the config files.
Restart the stack and have 2 instances.
I’ve self hosted home assistant for a few years, external access through Cloud flare now because it’s been so stablez but previously used DuckDNS which was a bit shit if I’m honest.
I got into self hosting proper earlier this year, I wanted to make something that I could sail the 7 seas with.
I use Tailscale for everything.
The only open port on my router is for Plex because I’m a socialist and like to share my work with my friends.
Just keep it all local and use it at home. If you wanna take some of your media outside with you, download it onto your phone before you leave