#UltimateHomeServer

[@h4X0r99221]

We must protect this man at all cost. Thanks for everything Level1Techs!

[@NPzed]

You've got my axe!

[@ElDarric]

@@NPzed and my bow!

[@JeffGeerling]

I'm excited about the Raspberry Pi.

[@Level1Techs]

I can tell :D In one cut of this I did mention using ansible to manage the rpi config but that was cut I think for time :D

[@volvagia6860]

We couldn't tell, Jeff! :D

[@pdk005]

But is this Jeff...or Red Shirt Jeff?

[@Spazzmoticus]

Somewhat recently the number of Pis and VMs on my network became unwieldy to keep updated, so I automated apt and yum updates with Ansible. Been slowly converting the installs to Ansible managed but it's a fair bit of work.

[@williamp6800]

@@pdk005 wherever Jeff is, Red Shirt Jeff is never far behind…

[@DrathVader]

Running "diskless" Alpine Linux is a good alternative. I've been running it on my pi without many issues for 2+ years. All of the system configuration is stored in an apkovl file (which is actually just a compressed tar), the file is usually no more than 100-200KB. It's easy to back it up with even just a basic cronjob copying it to a remote server over ssh. If the SD card dies, you just untar fresh Alpine onto the SD card, put the apkovl file in /boot partition and it's like nothing ever happened. Diskless Alpine is very frugal on SD writes, so failures happen less often than other distros.

[@tron.d98200]

As someone wanting to get home server setup, this is something I hadn't considered, netboot the pis, I've already converted them to endurance SD cards so they've lasted allot longer then normal. Still trying to figure some stuff out for my Nas, might be time to check the forum out.... Thanks for satisfying my inner nerd Wendell

[@TheExard3k]

64bit will enable so many more options for our lovely Pis. Memory makes the world go round.

[@dfgdfg_]

*Jeff Geerling has entered the chat* "So an rPI k8s cluster configured with Ansible?"

[@b2bb]

I cannot stress how excited I am to get into my house enough... Deploy all the home automation with Level1 at my back. _engagement_

[@Jasquik]

Love you!

[@jackiechan8840]

Looking forward to trying this. Thanks! The Chromecast audio puck things are easier for multi-room audio imo. Have to buy them used now however.

[@iyates]

Good reminder that I have not backed up my openhab raspberry pi micro sd card in several years 😬

[@murtadha96]

I love this series!

[@vincei4252]

It's great to hear that boiler snake doesn't die when there's no internet or electricity.

[@JasonEdelman66]

great project!!! I see the point, I will be following along. Depending on home layout/audio/speaker needs, having external DAC is valuable to audio 'sound quality'. Could configure so RasPi receive rendered video from local server/PC cpu/gpu?

[@3Dant]

0:11 "THE ULTIMATE HOME SERVER" needs to be the intro to all of these videos from now on

[@northwiebesick7136]

I'm wondering if you guys could do a test comparing a pi to a NAS, in backup speed for a backup server... I plan on building an all-in-one Ryzen APU rig in an old bubble Mac with the crt replaced with an LCD screen, that I want to use as a storage server eventually but I still find it very cool that you can do such stuff with hardware that small

[@LeGoog2008]

Pi looses, Jeff Geerling have done testing in hes channel: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGTNqISwl5lpkMU He have more videos about Pi as NAS.

[@nathantron]

Hone assistant is completely borked on a Docker Network Behind a NGINX Proxy; I have been trying to fix it for 2 years. I am unable to get it to let me authenticate with my google account... Could someone tell me if they have the same issue?

[@spierkid5000]

Seems like a good idea, Have an unraid server running for home media and plex and a not aging very well old intel atom server running docker with pihole and some other smaller services. It would be great to setup up soem raspberry pis to run images off a home server to handle pihole, home assassint, etc. put it all in a 3rd printed case adn it would fit prefectly in the rack.

[@tomiesz]

i've used volumio for a while, but not for whole home audio stuff. From what i heard it's pretty decent

[@GeoStreber]

Regarding the MicroSDs: I just have it boot from a SATA SSD via USB 3.0. Works very nicely.

[@cromefire_]

A great (simpler or maybe even complementary) way to approach this can be cloud-init, so you just configure you're OS in the yaml config put it on a clean image an of you go, in case anything goes wrong you just flash it with a clean image an the config or you can maybe even configure the system readonly.

[@loosingmymemory7]

So, I know about PXE boot, what I am not too familiar with is the boot image. How do you update your boot images? Emulation? Can you boot into the target pxe boot image using emulation, run updates, fixes, patches, compiling, etc., and re-squash it to a boot image? And what are the problems you run into doing that?

[@mrwonk]

I'm thinking about a private AI system with LLM 's. Different VM's running different models with different training data. Perhaps one on medicine, one on chemistry, perhaps train one on all of the laws in the nation...

[@KennyFlagg]

Everything I didn’t know I needed for my pihole. 🙏 Any nonprofit or gov jobs in IaC?

[@ProjectBlackweather]

Jeff Geerling X Level1 Collab When?

[@HoshPak]

There is one major project I still need a solution for and it might go well with network boot. I would like to have an RPi behave like a mass storage when plugged into another device via USB. Background: I have hacked a gaming console to archive my games in digital form. The console's internal drive is not redundant but it accepts external drives for storing the games, so if I could make an RPi behave like mass storage while actually being backed by a 4 bay NAS that would be amazing.

[@spiralout112]

Yeah network storage would probably be a great way to deal with the SD card thing, that and when it comes to backups it sure makes your life easier. Pis definitely have their place, and I do own a couple, ones a RetroPie, another is a heatermeter to automate my charcoal smoker. But up in Canada anyways they're like $70-$100 for some reason. I bought a couple R320 rackmount servers with 8 core xeons and a LOT more ram for $100 a few years ago, and they only draw ~50w idle. So yeah Pi's are neat and have their place but I wish I could get them a bit cheaper, compute wise they just don't have the best bang for the buck. Power efficiency though they're hard to beat.

[@av_oid]

Balena etcher: turn ~200kb dd command into 130mb app (thanks to the Electron framework). Not sure I’d trust any product they’d make.

[@pfunkPT]

But the server with the OS must be on all the time right? or Just for the boot process? Currently I have it boot of a SSD with a USB adapter... works great for now.

[@delphipascal]

I dont really have much knowledge on this subject area but I know my dad runs several Pi's on the home hetwork with SSDs connected via a usb adapter to negate the constant SD card failure issue

[@jakemeyer6047]

Can you do a video on balena-sound?

[@borretje]

Home assistant is great... but replacing a raspberry is difficult, they are all sold out. If you can buy one, prices are through the roof

[@javierortiz82]

I've been thinking for a while on setting up my own home server but power is a consideration, I definitely need to check all the wonders a raspberry can do, for now, I want a NAS and a Pi Hole to block ads because I'm a filthy pirate /jk, but some automation tasks could be nice to have without depending on google's/apple/amazon ecosystems.

[@CreativityNull]

Privateer* Linus did a WAN show and rebranded it to privateering (to avoid the negative connotation of pirating) because he didn't necessarily disagree with people doing it, just wanted people to understand what it does.

[@javierortiz82]

@@CreativityNull don't justify the prick, I also happened to watch that wan show, that's the most entitled, smug take he could ever take, are you telling me that Linus doesn't use a Pi Hole?, let alone an adblocker? You and I know that the internet is pretty much unusable without one, of course he uses it!, he even taught you how to set one! he has no shame throwing us an average of four ads per video (one sponsor at the intro, one at the ending, plus at least two LTT Store commercial plugs) and wants us to put up with more?, come on. He's a hypocrite.

[@northwiebesick7136]

@@javierortiz82 he's not a hypocrite, he is just saying that how KZbin works, is that you buy KZbin premium, or else KZbin will use ads to pay for the subscription you didn't get premium for, and that if you aren't either watching ads, or paying for premium then Google is not then paying for your subscription... Does Google do anything about it, no, but that doesn't mean they like people using KZbin vanced, because then they don't have as much ad revenue to pay for your watching videos with...

[@CreativityNull]

@@javierortiz82 I think you missed the part where he talked about intrusive ads and attack ads. I happen to agree with Linus on this point AND I just installed an ad blocker on a client's computer because he nearly became the victim of a tech support scam by clicking on an ad while googling Walmart. I think you're hearing what you want to hear and not what is actually being said.

[@alexisentonfire]

The one thing I don't like about raspberry pi is that if you don't shut it down before powering off you can corrupt the installation. This is frustrating

[@SunDancerGE]

"... a 35$ PC" that is barely to get for that price at the moment... sadly chip shortage hits raspberry as well

[@Stoney_Eagle]

I have a few failed attempts on netboot so please do a video! 🙏🥺

[@Marc_Wolfe]

I want to go diskless on my gaming PC. Wanted to for a while.

[@treyquattro]

this is my obsession right now, but have you tried buying a Raspberry Pi or any SBC for that matter? There's nothing available anywhere! When this pandemic-related supply crisis (supposedly) is over I expect these things to be much more expensive. I feel like I've missed the boat on affordable SBCs; they were **stupidly** cheap.

[@ivailogeimara]

I'm probably the only tech nerd that doesn't have RPi. I just can't find a use for it because I have a home server and for everything that I need I can just spin up a VM or a container. I even run PiHole in a VM on my server despite the name. I mean I already use a server for things that can't run on a Pi so running another VM does not consume that much more power.

[@CreativityNull]

9:30 "there's not really a lot of RISC there." Lies. ARM is a RISC platform... I choose to interpret it this way because it's funnier

[@scality4309]

Started as RISC. V7 and up the definition changed.

[@CreativityNull]

@@scality4309 but but but... My joke :(

[@jjjacer]

I would love to use Pi's my problem is when i want to buy them they are sold out or scalped to insane prices, or places like amazon, or best buy dont sell just the pi, i dont need a case, i dont need a psu, i dont need a hat, i dont need cables. i just want a pi and im not paying 100$ for a pi with accessories just to get the pi. lately i just went and got a couple old thinclients just because its so hard to get an actual pi lol.

[@kamertonaudiophileplayer847]

I upgraded Raspberry Pi software 5 years ago, I do not see any reason since.

[@FranklySean]

The pi headphone jack has unacceptable audio quality for hifi, even when amplified. You need a USB sound card, or something that can handle I2S

[@Level1Techs]

I mentioned the hifi pod project. The audio interface there is.... Elaborate

[@marekstanicki]

That’s true. The quality on the Pi’s onboard audio isn’t great, especially for Audiophiles. Using a good USB DAC (or a HAT (Hardware on-top) DAC - from HiFiBerry for example) would improve the audio quality of the Pi over the onboard audio. If the Fosi Audio amplifier has a USB input, then you can plug the Pi directly to it and use the Fosi Audio interface as your DAC and amplifier, not just your amplifier. I have an old Sony amplifier so I use a USB DAC from Hidizs (S9) that’s plugged to the Pi and the Pi sounds phenomenal from it. John Darko, from “Darko Audio”, is an audiophile youtuber located in Berlin that has a series of videos covering RPi use for Audiophiles and how one can turn a Pi into a network streamer. Randy from “Cheap Audio-man” also covers the same thing. John also covers an alternative to BalenaSound called Volumio, which is what I use on my RPi 4. Volumio is Linux-based and open-source, and it packed with tons of features (ex. Spotify Connect, Tidal Connect, multi-room). Volumio also allows me to plug in a CD drive into the Pi and use it as a CD player. It’s pretty easy to setup; however, it requires an SD card for installation and I’m not sure whether it allows a ‘diskless’ boot from a network.

[@jyvben1520]

@@marekstanicki i assume the cd drive is rpi4 usb powered or usb hub powered.

[@Xamy-]

The Pi 4’s USB output works fine. Pi 3 USB not so much

[@kamertonaudiophileplayer847]

I run a home server on Raspberry Pi since 2008. It works fine, but Raspberry Pi V2 can't still play DST audio smoothly. Maybe I should try V3, but it requires much more electricity. Anyway, if somebody confirms that V3 can play DST music fine, then let me know.

[@WilliamBurlingame]

Is that a real PDP-11 or one being emulated by a RPi? The PDP-11 was my favorite computer to program (assembly language). I was introduced to the PDP-11 in the early 1970s. At the time, we didn't have an OS for the PDP-11.

[@PiperTube]

I believe it is the emulated one from this vid. kzbin.info/www/bejne/f6quZZKui9ypm5I

[@mickgibson370]

I have 2 model 1, 2 model 2, 2 model 3, 3 model 3b, 2 4b 4 gig, 4b 8 gig, pi zero, and pi zero w. At one time I would scan my emails with them. And delete the virus ones! I have 8 email address and 1 that could reach 400 emails an hour. But email servers are a lot better now.

[@denvera1g1]

I use a Ryzen 7 4650GE that i got for cheap, and then because i had some moeny to burn, and want reliability, i have 18x2TB samsung SSDs. Sure, the array is WAY too fast for my 40G network card, speed was not the intended use case, long term reliability was, i have a write once-read many use case which is perfect for SSDs, even QLC SSDs.

[@LandsharkTank]

The days of $35 raspberry Pis are long gone.

[@SoundToxin]

You can get a Rock64 for $35 (not including shipping).

[@agenericaccount3935]

Mesmerized by blinkenlites

[@tron.d98200]

*video started* *Amazon basics USB cable Wendell nooo!

[@adeldex]

You should have named it boiler snake

[@david18555]

I just use a uugear Emmc and no sd card issues

[@ManVersusWilderness]

I keep hearing $35 for a raspberry pi in this video, where is this? I cannot find one for under $100! O_o

[@nitroblueuk]

Where dafuq this man finding a pi4 for $35

[@noirphoenix2747]

Right?! I haven’t found one under $100

[@soapytits8288]

Can you do like raid with micro sd?

[@jeremymoon9088]

An autopilot? I know how he found that device, lol; i've used their controllers for 10 years.

[@ltguy]

But... but.. you can't actually buy raspberry Pi's right now. They are sold out, everywhere.

[@ghastlyo9284]

if autism was a superpower

[@Jdjsksjdhdj]

can i set something up so that it shuts off my porn when my girlfriend comes up the stairs.

[@dfgdfg_]

easily. Motion sensor plus smart plug on your monitor

[@tanmaypanadi1414]

a dead man's switch in your hand so as soon as she come the PC turns off.

[@Jdjsksjdhdj]

@@dfgdfg_ thats perfect bahahahah

[@jimbolove5669]

13 dollars? dude hasn't checked amazon how much Raspberry Pi 4 is being marked up and scalped as. this video was posted 13 hours ago from my current comment, I checked the price for Raspberry Pi 4 and its 150 dollars, Raspberry pi 3 is not even available. pi zero is on average 60 to 75 dollars, evil scalpers brings shame and sickness to our economys health.

[@SoundToxin]

You can get a Rock64 or RockPro64 right now.

[@scality4309]

Pi4 - 50 euro