Justin

Should work well for that!

If you use cloudflare for dns only and turn cloudflare proxying off, none of your data or traffic goes to cloudflare’s servers. They just act as your dns server, telling your devices what IP to go to.

it might be better to skip the cloud server and use cloudflare for dynamic dns. The standardized way to restrict access to websites is with client certificates or a basic authentication (user/pass) proxy. That would help avoid issues with internet traffic passing through the VPN accidentally.

The entertainment system might run something windows based, but there are dozens of microcontrollers that do run linux.

Most cars already run on Linux

Nixos’ weakness is definitely it’s documentation. There’s often configuration snippets you can copy and paste, though. If you go with NixOS, make sure to come back with questions, the community is very helpful.

Unraid is bad at NAS and bad at docker. Go with a separate Nas and application server.

Is there a way for me to be “notified” if shell access of any form is gained by someone?

Falco is a very powerful tool for this.

The #1 cause of lithium battery fires is improper charging, you can find anecdotes of phone and tablet batteries puffing up from being charged too much:

https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/yoitld/battery_bloating_in_wall_mounted_tablets/

But fair enough, you might be able to avoid a potential fire by setting a charge limit.

Alder lake minis work fine with 48gb dimms

https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/1bd892o/intel_n305_mini_homelab_with_48gb_ram_by_one_stick/?chainedPosts=t3_13npvng

the ram support is just a recommendation, as that’s all that they’ve tested

Display and keyboard are unnecessary bulk in my closet when I run everything headless, but fair. Lithium batteries in laptops and tablets don’t last long when constantly plugged in and can spontaneously catch on fire if they’re not watched. You can get N100 mini PCs on ali express without fans.

I didn’t notice this before, but soldered ram is a non-starter. With 8GB of ram, you’re not gonna be able to run anything besides maybe jellyfin and home assistant. Trying to combine jellyfin and nextcloud will run out of ram, and there’s no slack for a container orchestrator like Kubernetes to automate container management. The Ali express boxes often come with 16GB, and its super easy to upgrade to 32/48gb for less than $100 when needed. You’d get 2-6x more capacity with a system with SO-DIMMs, at a cheaper price.

Having a screen, a battery and no ethernet doesnt sound good for a home server. N100 boxes on aliexpress are cheaper than this.

If you’re not using something like synology, it isn’t really an issue to run applications and nas on the same machine. I would generally recommend separating them so you have more options in the future if you want to run muliple servers for HA or expansion, but it should be fine either way. It is worth noting that quad core N100 computers are like $150 on aliexpress if you want a cheap application server(s).

Generally it’s simpler if you have your NAS separate from your application server. Synology runs NAS really well, but a separate application server for docker/etc is a lot easier to use and easier to upgrade than running on Synology. Your application server can even have a GPU for media transcoding or AI processing. Trying to do everything on one box makes things more complicated and fragile.

I would recommend something like Debian or NixOS for the application server, and you should be able to manage it over SSH. You can then mount your NAS as an NFS share, and then run all your applications in Docker or NixOS, using the NAS to store all your state.

That’s fair. I’m just thinking I could never use something like this because I would be invading the privacy of others using my Jellyfin. I would live to see an anonymous view counter on every movie though tbh.

Seems pretty creepy to be collecting logs about what people watch. Why do people use this?

You need IP cameras and then you need a NVR server for recording, detection, and display. There are some good open source NVR programs out there with docker support. I’ve been wanting to try Viseron. There’s also ZoneMinder and Shinobi that seem to be good.

Unfortunately most consumer cameras are cloud only. This seems to be a list of cameras you can look into: https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Hardware_Compatibility_List

Your best bet is probably a chinese brand for cameras. Dahlua seems popular. There are also a bunch of PoE cameras on Aliexpress for $15-25, but I can’t attest to if they’re any good. Hikvision cameras seem to have been popular too, but they have been recently sanctioned by EU/US for human rights violations.

STH measured 23w on theirs, but it can vary based on which one you buy. Tons of compute power with those 4 E cores.

https://www.servethehome.com/fanless-intel-n100-firewall-and-virtualization-appliance-review/4/

$150 fanless N100 pc with 4x2.5gbps from aliexpress and install OPNsense on it.

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CalyxOS works great on Fairphones