I thought of a weekly thread to post about what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you read.

So I decided to just try it. Maybe we find a format that works! It doesn’t have to be me, feel free to create this post on Sunday if it’s not up already.

  • @[email protected]English
    2•5 months ago

    2012 macbook pro in the cupboard as server. Put nixos on it and it flies now, only wish the Magsafe connection was a bit more stable.

    Its got gigabit so should be good.

  • @[email protected]English
    3•5 months ago

    I moved my Home Assistant from Proxmox VM to a older Lenovo Laptop we had stored as we thought the charger wasn’t working. We are preparing to move so it was my job to check that laptop as well as 2 others. 2 I am not going to use and e-scrap those later this week after yanking the drives out (I don’t trust anyone with my old drives). It turned out, the charger works just fine! I just installed it early in the morning (Midnight) and so far, it seems just as responsive if maybe more than what I had on the Proxmox host so that’s a win on my end. Plus, I was able to give it the full 8gb of RAM it has instead of the 4gb I gave it in Promxox and somehow it’s showing lighter use than what I had in the VM. 2.8gb vs. 4-5gb it reported from the Home Assistant Hardware details when in the VM.

  • SayCyberOnceMoreEnglish
    0•5 months ago

    Updated my NAS recently and Immich’s database stopped working due to some PostgreSQL update that needs something changed manually, so I need to get my head around that.

    Also trying to get a tablet to run as a 2nd satellite for HomeAssistant voice commands and no matter what I do, only the 1st one responds to wakeword… but I tend to give up after everyone’s gone to bed as I’m literally in a room on my own talking to myself…

    • @[email protected]English
      1•5 months ago

      PostgreSQL Updates AFAIK require manual Backup / Restore of the Database. But better look that up. I think the last one I did was:

      1. Stop the Application Containers (here the Immich ones, so only PostgreSQL runs)
      2. Backup the Database
      3. Stop the PostgreSQL Container
      4. Change to the new PostgreSQL Version
      5. Start the PostgreSQL Container
      6. Restore the Database
      7. Start the Application Containers

      As I said, better look it up first, this is just how I remember the process (but not the backup / restore commands).