I recently learned about a product called a Zimaboard, which to my understanding is like a raspberry pi, and the default OS on the listing says that it comes with CasaOs. Doing a quick search, I found the website and tried their demo, which had a very modern look with many popular apps available and so I got curious as to why this wasn't as popular as other server os.

I want to know if any of you had a go with any of these things and if you have some experiences or opinions regarding it.

It's very modern looking UI gives of "Apple" vibes which makes me trust things less, but that's just my caveman brain acting up, hence the reason I'm asking.

With my Raspberry Pi basically being software/service complete, I'm starting to think more about my router and I need to make sure I'm thinking about this right.

As I envision it, my router would run OpenWRT, Pi-Hole and a VPN. Is that correct or have I got this wrong?

My homelab is still in its infancy as I'm at the start of my self-hosting journey. I'm now down the rabbit hole though and where I can self host, I'd like to.

Not long back, I asked for some advice regarding an IFTTT replacement. I only need a tiny subset of the service, in that I want it to check some RSS feeds and send a notification if it finds one. The people of the fediverse are amazing and I got some great recommendations, however some felt like a great fit but didn't pan out. That left me with less and less.

One of the suggestions though was n8n and as I looked into giving it a whirl, I noticed it needed Traefik to be installed.

Now here's the thing, I haven't sorted out my router yet and since nothing I'm doing is facing the net, I'm kinda just chilling without a proper set up. I'm wondering, if I install Traefik along with n8n, will it break my other services? Will I still be able to install my homebrew router with OpenWRT when I finally sort that out and will it impact the IPTV which I'll sort out when I've sorted out the router?

Hiya folks, I am looking for a wifi extender that can serve as a temporary Ethernet solution for my server.

In short; My housing situation is temporary and while I do have access to WiFi, I do not have access to the router. So I thought I'd buy a WiFi extender that my server can connect to, until I move again (need to stay here 5 months). I thought about trying to bridge my connection from my Desktop PC to the Server, but realised that means I need both of them on at all times. So I'd rather buy an extender which I might be able to use long term.

I have been looking at Ubiquiti equipment, but seem a little expensive for me right now. However, this brand does look tempting to invest into in the future (feel free to suggest other brands, if you recommend any others!). But yeah; for now I think a WiFi Extender could do the job, one that has an Ethernet port ofc.

Edit; I could also invest in a cheap network card for the server ofc, might that be a better solution?

Any suggestions are much appreciated 🌻

I'm thinking about moving my laptop into the virtualization age with the power of vfio. I want to install Debian and then pass though my GPU and peripherals. I will manage my wireless connections though openwrt.

The problem is, the VMs don't have a way of seeing the battery level of the host. This results in a short battery life. Is there is any way of passing though a virtual battery. I see a old issue on virtual manager but it seems dead. Shouldn't this just be a matter of passing though the block device?

I would like to create my own router with OpenWRT and there are an overwhelming amount of hardware options by the likes of nanopi, bananapi, etc. Does this community have any recommendations? :)

Here are my requirements:

• 1.5Gbps support
• I plan to connect a total of 3 access points to it (just using spare routers. One of them can support 1.5G)
• either a port to connect a pihole or another way to set it up
• ideally VLAN support but I can also use a guest network for a few smart devices
• no plans to run a homelab off of this setup, so doesn't need to be fancy
• lower cost is preferred.

The drive works in other devices but when I boot I don't see the device with lspci and there isn't any errors in dmesg.

Is there something I'm missing? Why wouldn't a pcie drive work?

Edit: I sent it back Edit 2: I got a new one and it worked with sata

So I'm trying to bridge to physical locations together. At one location I control the firewall and at the other I don't. I would normally use Wireguard but its all dynamic IPs so it would break every so often.

My though was to use I2P to create a bridge between the 2 places. I will use 0 hops on each with encrypted lease sets. Am I crazy or is this a good solution.

Update: don't

I am having trouble deciding between Proxmox and TrueNAS scale for a homelab on my Dell OptiPlex. I am worried that I'll be limited by TrueNAS at some point, so why not just make it a VM? Will there be any significant performance loss if I just make a TrueNAS VM within Proxmox and give it all the resources? I have a total of 4x 8TB HDDs. One isn't functioning but I'm pretty sure I can fix it, although I don't trust it now.

Or perhaps Proxmox is unnecessary for my use case? Please let me know what you think! I intend to run the following:

PiHole with Unbound DNS Jellyfin Home Assistant with smart devices on separate VLAN Playing around with webhosting, maybe even a small personal Lemmy server. Miniflux RSS Personal documentation solution such as Logseq

I also have a few spare Raspberry Pis and I'm wondering if they could be made into Proxmox nodes...

I want to make sure that my network share mounts before podman starts jellyfin. Right now I have a simple delay setup to wait to start the podman VM but its a very ugly solution.

Edit: the solution is systemd

I am tired of Reddit reposts

Hi. I have an Eaton 3S 850B UPS which abruptly shuts down my PC. The UPS itself doesn't shut down, and nor does it shut down other devices connected to the mains side panel of the UPS. Only the PC is connected to the battery panel. When this happens, the PC cannot be turned on. Not until I remove the plug from the socket and put it into another socket outlet on the battery panel of the UPS can the PC be turned on. What could be the cause of this?

Apologies if this isn't the correct location to post this. But I figured, this would the likely people to use consumer UPS and would likely help me solve the issue.

Hello ive tried to port forward but it does not seem to want to work. This is what ive put in my router settings:

anyone know what i did wrong? When i check if its been opened on yougetsignal.com it says its not

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I'm gonna virtualize one of these sooner or later to get some networking hands-on experience for myself. While I don't plan to throw my current router in the trash day 1, how (not?) safe is it to switch over to using it as your router in the sense of making sure things like basic firewall protections and whatnot are up? Is it set and forget and you'd have to turn things off/create exceptions to create huge vulnerabilities, like anything else? Or do you have to build it all from the ground up and know what you're doing entirely?

Also, If down the line I wanted to ditch a router entirely, I'd still want wifi. Is that something where I just buy the cheapest router from amazon and have it only serve wifi, or is there some kind of way I can slap a wifi dongle into a usb port somewhere and have it transmit instead of receive?

Also feel free to have an argument about if I should start with pfsense or opnsense. Leaning toward opnsense since things I've read have implied it's a little easier to set up and start with, and they're similar enough I can always hop to the other.

I have a Asus z590-p and want to pair a 1050ti and a rx550 in the x16 slots, the board has no extra board delivery socket lile some high and boards. Will every card be able to pull 75w or is the 75w shared, also is the power delivery with a 11900k enough? The PSU won't be the problem, 1200w titanium. I just want that the GPUs don't choke on power.

Hi All, looking for some help. I’m running VMware ESXI 7 on a Dell PowerEdge r630. I’ve been trying to use this as an NAS to store my movies for Plex but I haven’t been able to see the datastore on my home network. I’m new to this and trying to learn so any advice is appreciated.

So I purchased a rack mount that came with a SATA SSD PCB. I want to get away from using the micro SD card and I heard SSDs compliment the pi well but I’m not sure how to go about doing it, do I just flash the ssd like I would a micro SD? If anyone could please give me some advice on the best way to do this I’d be grateful!