I learned B I 2002. I can make either but have to really think about A while I’m making it.
Over the distance I’m running cables (about 60 feet total for the longest runs) it really doesn’t matter. I’m running fiber for anything beyond gigabit anyway so I say aquamarine, violet, and lime green for lyfe.
Reolink is what I’m using.
The 4K PTZ is running around 3GB per hour, the 180 degree dual 4K is running about 4.5GB per hour the rest are running around 2.8GB pet hour each.
The plan is to shift it all to my TrueNAS. I’ve got a VM setup so I can pass the Google Coral and an ARC A310 through.
I’m in the process of shifting all my data from my currently full pool to a new one and then will be repurposing a couple 4TB drives as striped mirrors with a pair of 240GB D3-S4510’s mirrored for metadata to act as the storage point. I’m currently running four 1080p cameras, a 4K ptz, and a dual 4K 180 degree stitched view camera with six 4K fixed cameras to be added along with a 4K PTZ and another 180 dual 4K. The ARC 310 will be used mainly for camera stream processing and a couple cameras object recognition the Coral will handle the rest.
Then my main desktop will be free for everything else.
Switched from a 1080ti myself in March to a 9070xt. Got it during a sale with a free 800 watt PSU and Crimson Desert.
I don’t game that much anymore but edit video on the same machine.
Only issue is I am using the same machine for FrigateNVR right now and it was a pain to get the Gasket-dkms driver and new kernel/drivers going as I was time constrained. I don’t recommend changing a gpu when you are leaving for 3 weeks and need your cameras working.
A VPS is barely self hosting.
Monit is free and super lightweight
Shilling your paid service is not participating in a community.
Goodbye…
There can be multiple things at play but one thought it’s you may be hardware constrained. This is not limited to just your server but also how you are connecting. If you are using a budget cell phone with a bunch of things installed and running it will get slower. If you use a bunch of social media apps disable them before starting a test so they are not running in the background or eating into your connection.
Another is it sounds like you are using your Tailscale connection to then reach out through your regular connection to a speedtest. So you’re using the same connection with multiple data streams at the same time. You will be limited to your slowest speed when sending data to or from a server through you tailscale connection to the internet so give up on that 109Mb/s. You also have to take into account what your connecting devices speed is, if you are on cellular with an 18Mb/s connection that is your top speed.
Finally instead of running a speed test to the internet, spin up an instance of openspeedtest on a computer that is not hosting your tailscale connection and test to there. When you are starting to setup a homelab it can be useful to have an in house speedtest anyway.
But with a few million investment you can design and build as a startup. It won’t compete with Nvidia or AMD to begin with but the potential is there.
It’s looking more and more like Nvidia and amd are going to chase they data center/AI processing cash cow. With an initial investment of 10 million a company could start up and within 20 years be a market leader if they dedicate catering to gamers and the gaming landscape would shift drastically to function with their hardware even if the ai/processing centric hardware is removed.
You don’t need $500 million to start a GPU company; you need $500 million to mass-manufacture a 3nm desktop card. If you use a few million dollars to design a brilliant, streamlined graphics architecture, you can prove it works on virtual hardware, license it to console makers, or use an older, affordable manufacturing node to serve the millions of gamers that NVIDIA is abandoning to chase AI profits.
Nvidia is chasing the data center hardware market and will continue to do so to make their investors happy. In doing so they will create a vacuum in the consumer market with AMD and Intel likely to follow. History has shown that when a vacuum is created a new company will step in to fill the void created and a lean team with an efficient design and the drive to serve the people can succeed.
Companies chase the money. Nvidia was never for gamers, it was for investors and gaming just happened to be where the money was. Now it’s not and people are realizing the truth of it all. To corporations we are nothing other than disposable profit margins. If the corporations can find a better profit elsewhere they will gladly do so. It’s been that way for a while.
I have the Coral dual tpu module and have an adapter coming that will allow me to use two of them for a total of 4 modules, paired with an ARC A310 for video decoding.
The only bad thing about the Google Coral is that Google has stopped development and archived the driver so one you get to a certain linux kernel version you will have issues unless you switch from the official version. https://lemmy.world/post/46390410
If I didn’t already have the Coral I would probably go with the Hailo 8. I’m going to use the ARC A310 for detection on a couple streams and the Coral for the rest since the detection is more basic.
FrigateNVR is a bit of a pain but has worked great with all my Reolink camera’s. I also link them into HomeAssistant. I have one 4K PTZ camera, four 1080p fixed cameras, and one dual 4K lens 180 degree view camera all POE powered and hooked into both FrigateNVR and HomeAssistant.
I use a Quanta LB6M for 10G backbone and a Dell PowerConnect 5548 for Ethernet with a pair of DAC cables linking the two with my router and server connected via OM3 to the LB6M.
VM ≠ Docker
Most battery backups use off the shelf batteries with a sticker over the original information. Look up the battery and find a compatible replacement. If you can’t find the model number on the battery look at the specs for the battery and cross reference it that way. There are tons of different places that sell the batteries so just start searching.
Also most LFP batteries that match the original leaf acid batteries in size and voltage will not be able to output enough power unless the loading is light. To handle a full load on something similar to a 1500 va ups you need about 80 amps of available power most lfp batteries you get that will fit in a ups are rated at 1c so a 10ah battery can only supply 10 amps of power. That will require a custom battery build that will also need a bms and likely require a modification to the ups to be used and likely will not fit inside the case.
Domain about 10 per year (I pay for multiple years at a time), internet 55 per month with a static IP address
Beyond that I have a vpn that I use but was an early adopter so I have a lifetime subscription which cost me like a hundred bucks so call that 10 per year and getting less as time goes by, I have three other domain names not related to my homelab and webhosting also not related to my homelab. But by the time next year I should no longer be paying for any hosting. I bought a lifetime plexpass when it was like 125. Beyond that the costs are hardware and electricity and I just put an Enphase System Controller 3 and an IQ Combiner 5 on the house with 7.2kw of panels going on over the next few months and a couple IQ Battery 5P’s so my power use for my homelab is basically covered.
Tried Jellyfin. It puked when it saw my library.
I bought plex lifetime years ago when it was like 125.
I still hate the new plex app ui on roku. It’s clunky and sucks. The alternative is to break my library in sections and hope something else will maybe work.
I have one question. Are you using an of the shelf router or something like OpnSense?
If the answer is no then you have found a good place to get started. As you begin to self host you will need to look at securing your new toys.
You will gain a ton over a consumer router. They are often just powerful enough to get the job done today. They rarely get updated and if the product is end of life you can only hope a project has picked it up or replace it with similar risks. Building your own you can shoot the specs to a point where you have room to run other features and last a long time. You can run something like CrowdSec, multiple vLan’s, time server, DNS servers with multiple upstream servers and ad blocking similar to piHole, Caddy, ACME client, captive portal for guest networks, Intrusion Detection, and a lot more.
Then you will not only have some understanding of the function and use while you expand your self hosting journey to all those fun services you will also have the flexibility to secure your network when you begin to integrate those things into your home and life.
I’m running my own router using OpnSense, server running TrueNAS, smart home with HomeAssistant and fairly complex network of devices. I have a 10Gbps fiber backbone and a 48 port switch for my 1Gbps ethernet. It can be addictive especially when you are rebuilding a house.
After that figure out what you need, want, and desire. But keep your router as a separate device from everything else. And remember that what you think you need will only work for today, software is only going to get more complex and need more horsepower to keep it going.
For hardware there are two schools of thought, newer lower power devices and older stuff. The choice is spend now or over time. My used X10SLL-F with a xeon E3-1226 v3 router, my X10DRH-C with a pair of E5-2683 v3’s and my desktop Ryzen 5800X which is currently also my Frigate NVR host along with other miscellaneous hardware draws along with the other devices in the house (fridge, deep freezer, smarthome stuff, and the like) draw about 1100 watts. So my baseload is about the same as any other us household.
If it’s a 1U they can sound like a jet engine. The Noctua 40MM fans can be swapped in and cut the noise a good bit.
You can also build a shroud to place over the case, the idea is to allow the air to flow but use something like deep pile carpet to line the inside and absorb the sound created.
It will never be silent but you can get the sound to the point where it won’t rot your brain.
Yes, I’ve been tinkering for a while. The network piece I have had the longest is actually my 10G switch. Previously I had a couple 8 port switches but when I started wiring the house up I didn’t want to be playing any games.
I buy a lot of used enterprise equipment. If you are planning to have multiple access points that can use POE (power over ethernet) you can buy a new 5 port switch and be ok but if you are thinking about cameras a used 24 or 48 port POE switch from ebay well save you a ton in the long run. The Dell PowerConnect 5548 (48 port 1Gbps switch) I am using provides two 10G connections so that I can use a pair of DAC (Direct Attached Copper) Cables for a total of 20Gbps from my 10Gbps backbone. It’s overkill but it means even with multiple cameras, ap’s and wired clients I don’t have to worry about oversaturating the connection. My camera server also connects via fiber as does my NAS/media server.
Mini pc’s are great right up to the point where you want to expand beyond what they are capable of. Without a PCI Express slot upgrading the network will require the use of a USB adapter but they can be more of a pain than it’s worth. You can find stuff with more ports but there is a point where it will probably be cheaper to just get something you can expand with.
For failover to 4G the Netgear LM1200 has the option to go between your current internet connection and your router and negotiate the connection and automatically switch. I just use it like an ONT (Optical Network Transceiver) or Cable Modem and let OpnSense control the switch over because then I get accurate measurement of the data used and length of downtime. But that also means I need a minimum of three ethernet connections two for WAN and one for LAN.
I purchased my router parts used on Ebay. A similar setup in a 1U format (which I wouldn’t recommend unless you have a place where you can keep it and not hear it in your day to day life, are deaf, or are wrong to swap it into a new case with a different cooler) can be picked up as of right now for 185.00 plus tax and about 35 shipping.
If you have questions though please feel free to ask.
I picked up enough used SAS drives to build an 11 drive RaidZ3 pool. 100 USD each shipped. DIF formatted so had to low level format to native 4k sectors, then run a full run of badblocks, and finally a long smart test to verify no errors. Had a couple bad drives that the seller replaced no questions asked when I provided the smart logs.
SAS controller and backplane opens up a lot of drives that SATA controllers can’t touch.
My old pool drives will be repurposed for a FrigateNVR storage point and a storage point for some other stuff as well as spares for other pools.