Anyone running one ? Had two pcs running esxi with 32 gb memory and another pc running xpenology as the shared storage... also had a pc with Windows 2019 server running veeam as the backup for all the vms..... now cut down to one host running vms with local ssd storage in an attempt to reduce electricity costs.. running a Cisco vWlc with 7 Cisco access points about the house/garage to supply Wi-Fi to every corner of the house/garden.. all connected with HP switches with various vlans... works pretty well I have to say...
Also a couple of raspberry Pis as a music server and Osmc video server...
I look after a lot of shared storage / hypervisor cluster systems at work, many of them installed at customer sites by myself but my stuff at home is a lot more simple. No shared storage or clustering. I have a couple of VMs running under KVM on a Linux host and two independent desktop PCs. Nothing fancy.
Been doing a bit of upgrading the last couple of weeks.. my two ESXi hosts now running ESXi v8 and vcenter also running v8.. got a problem with vmotion which is slow and just floods rest of the vms... dropped packets.. can't seem to get to the bottom of it all.. may roll back to vSphere 7 which worked with no problems..
Also upgraded veeam backup and replication to version 12...
Back to VSphere 7 and everything working as it should can vmotion a windows box in 30-40 secs compared to the 3-4 mins it was taking in VSphere 8...
Grabbed an Hp Elitedesk 800 g2 from eBay...can take up to 64gb memory.. as an upgrade to my existing hp elite 8300 ( only 32gb mem) so installed esxi8 onto an ssd no problem .. more compute power and works great in the homelab.....will need to grab another and buy in some more memory...... don't tell the mrs....
Another g2 grabbed from eBay and more memory.. it's all coming together nicely😀
And then falling apart.. PSoD on my Esxi host..memory allocation I think.. anyway reduced the memory down and appears ok for now.. running on local storage ...need to reconfigure the xpenology shared drive storage a bit then get the additional host up n running
Nice n easy upgrade on my pfsense firewall vm from 2.6 to 2.7.....
Beep errors on some new memory so back it goes...
New 16gb replacement now in place and working fine..still need another couple of 16s to get the host up to the same spec as the working one then will bring it into a new cluster ..
Also setup OpManager on a windows 2022 box to replace my aging solarwinds network monitoring.. easy to setup and looks good and has a nice app as well
Did a veeam patch before heading on hols to get it to latest version so it's now fully compatible with Esxi 8
Will get the last two memory modules when I get home. And may grab another hp elite desk off eBay to replace my shared storage PC as they are very very quiet devices
Memory modules now in place so got two Esxi hosts running with 64gb mem..
Grabbed another elitedesk 800g2 to upgrade my shared storage box..
Also grabbed an Aruba instant AP which I've heard good things about.. if you have a few around the house they can create their own mesh network.... Could be time to ditch my ciscos APs...
The Aruba instant AP arrived today.. a breeze to setup and the speeds with a device attached to it are very impressive .. will grab another couple and see how the mesh network hangs together and behaves.. looking very promising..
Also spun up a TrueNas box as an alternative shared storage box.. again looks good
Woke up to Alexa not working properly wifi goosed...... turns out a disk had died on one of my hosts.. it was really my dhcp box which was on that disk amongst other devices which was causing the problem..
Thank goodness for backups.. veeam instant recovery got the vm up n running and wifi back to normal... then migrated it over to one of my hosts...
The dead disk.. hit very hard with a hammer.. very satisfying..
Ok my two new Esxi hosts now up to latest patch release as is my vcenter.. moved disks around thanks to my failed disk so everything now running on ssd and shared storage on ssd and carved up into a couple of luns..... even created a nested Esxi host so as to check out future Esxi patches on that first.... Lovely ...job done at last.. it's only taken since March..
Next up try and find more Aruba IAP325s...
Grabbed another Aruba IAP325 from eBay..grabbed some newer firmware from the Aruba portal.. this wifi cluster seems to work rather well with impressive speeds..
Now up to three arubas with another on the way.. there's a guy on eBay selling them for £30.. absolute bargain... he's holding another for me which I'll grab after pay day next week...
Now up to 5 arubas and another on the way... one more should do it then it'll be bye bye to the virtual wlan controller and access points..
Absolutely clueless what you are talking about, but a fascinating read :) The only aruba I know is in the Caribbean.
Deployed the new arubas.. working great..... think that's me pretty much done now with the hardware upgrades for this year.. this little setup should be good for quite a while...
Powered down the Cisco wireless controller VM. will hang onto it just in case but the Aruba IAPs are great.. also found a nice little hack from GitHub to increase the camera licences on synology (xpenology) surveillance station from the default 2 cameras.. now got all my cameras running off one device so another VMware powered down....
Installed Uptime Kuma onto a spare raspberry pi... an open source network monitoring tool..... just what I need.. a nice lightweight software that gives nice easy to read stats without the bloat... so I can get rid of a Windows VM that had been running Opmanager
Also did an upgrade on my pfsense VM which wiped out my radius server for some reason.. bit annoying but easy to fix...
Slack notification now setup from uptime kuma to phone...
An update to my Veeam backup platform to the latest release 12.1... all went smoothly with a couple of test backups which rattled along nicely.. my little windows 11 torrent box.. 40 gb backed up in 6 mins... that'll do...
Been looking for a little project to do with my spare raspberry pi and came across an internet speed monitor that used ookla Speedtest ,influxdb and grafana.. now I'm no Linux expert and the step by step that I found on the piupmylife website looked pretty straight forward but being the Linux thicko that I am it's taken me about a week to get it up n running properly but I have to say it's pretty good.. will need to look at grafana a bit more to make the ping/download/jitter/upload graph a bit more pleasing to the eye... but for starters it's not bad
Also an update to my vcsa which got it up to latest version.. nice n easy
Quote from: Fishy on December 23, 2023, 01:49:28 AMBeen looking for a little project to do with my spare raspberry pi and came across an internet speed monitor that used ookla Speedtest ,influxdb and grafana.. now I'm no Linux expert and the step by step that I found on the piupmylife website looked pretty straight forward but being the Linux thicko that I am it's taken me about a week to get it up n running properly but I have to say it's pretty good.. will need to look at grafana a bit more to make the ping/download/jitter/upload graph a bit more pleasing to the eye... but for starters it's not bad
Noticed the stats coming back weren't accurate as the Pi 3 only has a 100M Ethernet connection on it.. so built an Ubuntu vm with Speedtest .. influxdb and grafana.. much better
Quote from: Fishy on December 26, 2023, 08:30:59 PMQuote from: Fishy on December 23, 2023, 01:49:28 AMBeen looking for a little project to do with my spare raspberry pi and came across an internet speed monitor that used ookla Speedtest ,influxdb and grafana.. now I'm no Linux expert and the step by step that I found on the piupmylife website looked pretty straight forward but being the Linux thicko that I am it's taken me about a week to get it up n running properly but I have to say it's pretty good.. will need to look at grafana a bit more to make the ping/download/jitter/upload graph a bit more pleasing to the eye... but for starters it's not bad
Noticed the stats coming back weren't accurate as the Pi 3 only has a 100M Ethernet connection on it.. so built an Ubuntu vm with Speedtest .. influxdb and grafana.. much better
Moved it to a Debian vm.. once I got sudo installed..... was getting an annoying repository error on Ubuntu...
Quote from: Fishy on December 23, 2023, 01:49:28 AMBeen looking for a little project to do with my spare raspberry pi and came across an internet speed monitor that used ookla Speedtest ,influxdb and grafana.. now I'm no Linux expert and the step by step that I found on the piupmylife website looked pretty straight forward but being the Linux thicko that I am it's taken me about a week to get it up n running properly but I have to say it's pretty good.. will need to look at grafana a bit more to make the ping/download/jitter/upload graph a bit more pleasing to the eye... but for starters it's not bad
A neat little app called DSLStats runs sweetly on a Raspberry pi3. It's to monitor a DSL connection - if you have one of course. I have that and my reverse proxy, Caddy v2 server, running on a pi3. That leaves my other pi, a 4b, to run my Airsonic music server.
https://forum.kitz.co.uk/index.php/topic,21323.0.html
https://caddyserver.com/docs/
I've been meaning to run pihole too, just not got round to it yet. I love these little cheap Raspberry Pis - great for learning on too.
I've had pi hole running on a vm for years .. great
Fish junior was looking to get a new lappy.. budget was £400.. told him to give me his existing one which was pretty decent.. hp pavilion win10 8gb.. intel i3...so I upgraded the os to win11 even tho the software said it wasn't compatible due to the processor but there's always a way round these type of things.. installed onto a bigger SSD disk and bought in additional 8gb mem for just over £20.. install of office 2016.. job done.. these little screws in laptops to get into the guts of them are a real pain tho
Back to raspberry pi.... Had a setup with one running OSMC connected to the big LG TV which allowed me to stream stuff from my local server where I dump TV programmes.. films etc.. it worked well but with apps around on the TV had a look to see if anything else could do the job and free up the pi...
Lg web os recently updated to v5.x.x so I wondered if Jellyfin was now supported.. maybe down to the age of the telly.. it's not that old but no Jellyfin app available.. so gave Plex app a go.... Bit of plex software on the server.. setup your libraries... ip add entered into the TV app and bingo... seems to work well so far...
So the spare raspberry pi 4 is now doing the internet speed monitor as the Debian vm which was doing it before was giving very weird results .. this one looks a lot more stable
A wee update on the pfsense vm firewall.. no probs there...
Just grabbed an elite desk g3 16gb ram off eBay for £30.. that'll do as upgrade to my old hp8300 running veeam backup
Started using DuckDuckGo as my search engine of choice
Quote from: Fishy on February 08, 2024, 11:16:57 AMJust grabbed an elite desk g3 16gb ram off eBay for £30.. that'll do as upgrade to my old hp8300 running veeam backup
Upgrade done.. nice n easy also chucked in an extra 16gb memory module.. also noticed it had an ssd m.2 slot which is nice...
Might see if the 4x8g from the old pc are worth shoving on eBay..
Setup a windows 2022 server vm to run Veeam One which will monitor my virtual infrastructure.. will be interesting to see what it comes back with...
Due to switching my wifi over from Cisco to Aruba .. the Cisco vm has been powered down for a while which freed up a couple of dual nics in each of my Esxi hosts.. so put one host into maintenance mode and moved all running vms over to the other host allowing me to power of the host and remove the nic card.. power up the host and repeat the process for the other host nice n easy and no downtime on the live systems.. I love VMware...
Fired up a new machine running Blue Iris to run my four ip cams which currently work thru Synology Surveillance Station.. have to say blue iris is very very good although the numbers of tweaks you can make on the setup of cams such as recording / motion detection etc is mind boggling.. been checking some YouTube setup vids which last about an hour..
Expanding my Wi-Fi.. grabbed an hp 1920 8 port Poe switch and another Aruba IAP from eBay....
Powered off my veeam one vm server.. my VMware setup is pretty small so not that bothered about the occasional read/write redundancy error ....enterprise wide it might be useful..small homelab it's a bit of needless overkill.. also I think my setup is otherwise in pretty good shape..
I'm just reading through your posts again Fishy and I must have missed the Jellyfin one before. I've got a LG TV running WebOS and I have the Jellyfin client running fine on it. My TV is a C1 OLED from 2021. I've got the Jellyfin server running in a Docker container on one of my Synology NAS - and it sits behind a Reverse Proxy for remote access. I'd prefer to use Tailscale but it's a bit of a sod to install Tailscale on a Fire TV stick, which is all I, and the rest of my family, use for Jellyfin remote access. Works well.
I've dabbled with Plex in the past but I never really liked it (paying for clients and pushing their own stuff as well as lifetime passes to get the full benefit) whereas Jellyfin is totally free (it's a fork of Emby after Emby went behind a pay wall).
Oh yeah I eventually got round to putting Pi-hole on one of my Raspberry Pis - I only regret not doing it before. I may have too much blocked as I dumped a quite a few Adlists on it lol.
My lg telly is a nano I think.. it's now running webos 5.0.x something it did another update last week.. so I tried to hunt for the Jellyfin app but it's a no show... plex is working fine so it's all good...
Quote from: Fishy on March 04, 2024, 09:53:00 PMMy lg telly is a nano I think.. it's now running webos 5.0.x something it did another update last week.. so I tried to hunt for the Jellyfin app but it's a no show... plex is working fine so it's all good...
As you're happy with Plex this may be a waste of time, but Jellyfin will run fine in a browser, which I'm sure WebOS 5.xx certainly will have. Anyway it's something to try if you ever wanted to give Jellyfin another bash.
Quote from: pxr5 on March 05, 2024, 09:50:07 PMQuote from: Fishy on March 04, 2024, 09:53:00 PMMy lg telly is a nano I think.. it's now running webos 5.0.x something it did another update last week.. so I tried to hunt for the Jellyfin app but it's a no show... plex is working fine so it's all good...
As you're happy with Plex this may be a waste of time, but Jellyfin will run fine in a browser, which I'm sure WebOS 5.xx certainly will have. Anyway it's something to try if you ever wanted to give Jellyfin another bash.
Yeah Plex is working fine.. I just need it to stream from a local windows VMware server
which it does no problem.. not interested or need any of the bloat add ons you get with it..use Jellyfin from fire sticks which also just work...
More on Jellyfin on LGTV..found this.. the applet bit is now not free so i'm completely in the dark about how to make it permanent...
It is working tho which is great !!
Install Jellyfin on LG webOS Permanently
Yes you read the title right, It is possible to install Jellyfin permanently on a LG webOS smart TV and that too without rooting your TV.
Although I did make a guide nearly a year back, some new things have come to my attention that no longer require you to install a bulky IDE or have to extend developer mode every 50 hours.
Requirements
Access to a computer (Linux, Windows, Mac whatever)
A LG Developer account. (If you dont have one sign up here)
Setting Up the TV
On your WebOS TV go to the LG content store and download the Developer mode app. Open it up and Sign in.
Then 1) Enable Developer mode and restart your TV.
Upon restart open up developer mode and enable the Key Server. Make note of the TV's ip address and Paraphrase you will need this later.
Configuring it from your PC
Get the latest version of WebOS dev manager from webOS brew from here for your operating system and run it.
From the hand bar click on then add a device option.
When Prompted enter the IP address and paraphrase of TV and click add.
Once the connection has been made, select Available from the top bar and find Jelly fin and click on the install button.
There you go, Jelly fin is now installed.
Making the Install Permanent
The way developer mode works is that it checks LG's servers to see if the time has run out or not. You can extend this by making a call to API.
NOTE: The TV dos not need to be on for this to work.
Thankfull the webOS dev manager fetches the API key for us and all we have to do is call on it once before the 50 hours end. There are many ways to do this, bash scripts, home assistant and IF TTT.
I am going to be using a IF TTT applet. Click on this link and create a account. Then create a new applet setting. Make it daily and select any random time. For the "do" stuff select web hooks.
In WebOS dev manager open the info tab and click on renew automatically from there copy the url and paste it in IF TTT's web hook.
There you go. Now Developer mode will be extended indefinitely and Hopefully should work without a hitch.
The ifttt thing in the instructions above is no longer free but the lg web os application give u a shell script you can run to keep it enabled... once I got it to work using a cron job to schedule it.. I'm shit at Linux
Anyway appears to work so I think I'll be binning plex and using Jellyfin.. loads much quicker initially and less bloat to deal with
Been wanting to get rid of the power line adapters from my main switch out to the small Poe switch in the garage.. been working fine although it does lose. Connection occasionally and a power off/on usually sorts..so just bought an exterior cat 5e cable to run between the two..out thru an air brick along the wall to the garage and in.. has been allowed by the mrs..
Ok not as easy as I thought so it'll be under the floorboards and out thru the air brick
A few years back I was using Powerline adapters but kept getting issues, so I bit the bullet and wired my house with Cat6. My router/BT socket is in the middle of my house so I had to run 2 feeds around the inside of my living room then out through an air brick, around the outside wall of my house then drilled 2 holes (one down and one upstairs) and fed the cables through those. I've got my own termination kit so did all the RJ45s myself. It made it easier with my CCTV system too which is in my loft as I just had a feed out and down through a soffit and through the hole in the wall to a switch. The only wifi devices I have are phones, alexas and internal cameras.
Wish I could terminate cables..I'm just useless at it...
Quote from: Fishy on April 14, 2024, 06:12:35 PMOk not as easy as I thought so it'll be under the floorboards and out thru the air brick
God that was a pain..the crawl space under the floorboards is pretty small.. anyway cable laid and tested still working.. just in case I snagged on something... so just requires some pinning to exterior wall and garage and connected up and it's bye bye power line adapters
Quote from: Fishy on April 16, 2024, 07:36:26 PMQuote from: Fishy on April 14, 2024, 06:12:35 PMOk not as easy as I thought so it'll be under the floorboards and out thru the air brick
God that was a pain..the crawl space under the floorboards is pretty small.. anyway cable laid and tested still working.. just in case I snagged on something... so just requires some pinning to exterior wall and garage and connected up and it's bye bye power line adapters
All done.. nice 1gb connection out to garage for ip cams and wifi access points..
Quote from: Fishy on December 04, 2023, 03:06:07 PMSlack notification now setup from uptime kuma to phone...
Setup pushover notifications.. much cleaner looking app.. free trial for 30 days and then it's a one off 5$ which I think is the way forward .. will test it out..
Moved my local music streaming stuff from a windows 11 box running subsonic to a Debian vm running subsonic.. much smaller footprint and working well.. thank god for AI cos I'm shit at Linux stuff..
Have you thought about Airsonic instead of Subsonic? Airsonic forked when Subsonic went closed source and remains FOSS. Airsonic itself became Airsonic-Advanced which is still being maintained by kagemoni (I mention this as there is yet another Airsonic-Advanced fork which stopped being maintained). This is the latest:
https://github.com/kagemomiji/airsonic-advanced
I have it running on a Raspberry Pi4 behind a Caddy reverse proxy for remote access. App wise I use DSub on my Android phone - as you probably know there are quite a lot of apps that work with *sonic servers, but I like DSub as it runs with Android Auto in my car.
Yep looked at airsonic years ago but was too lazy to give it a go... I'll consult my AI helper on this one...lol
Quote from: Fishy on April 30, 2024, 10:00:40 PMMoved my local music streaming stuff from a windows 11 box running subsonic to a Debian vm running subsonic.. much smaller footprint and working well.. thank god for AI cos I'm shit at Linux stuff..
I need to find some domestic Linux projects to do to keep my hand in once I leave my job at the end of June. I've been typing ls, du, df, mv, tar etc for a living since January 1990.
Eventually found a snap install for subsonic and it was basically done in a few commands . the hard part was copying the stuff across from the windows box.. creating mount points.. smb stuff.. permissions etc.. nightmare stuff for me.. ChatGPT helped a lot..
Quote from: Fishy on April 30, 2024, 10:24:46 PMYep looked at airsonic years ago but was too lazy to give it a go... I'll consult my AI helper on this one...lol
Tried an airsonic snap install that worked fine but scanning media folder gives nothing back.. its setup same as my working Debian one so I can't figure out why it's not seeing any files.. very annoying and being shit at Linux doesn't help..