Home Servers\Homelabs: NAS, Plex, & Everything Else
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Wargames
One Of The Last Real Ones To Do It
That’s my issue I don’t know a good channel from a bad one.
xXMASHERXx
Superstar
There's the homelab reddit but realistically you're going to have to get comfortable with reading documentation. I would say figure out what it is you want to do,how you want to do it, and go for it. If you have questions, we can try our best to assist but realistically if you really want to get the most out of homelab, you'll need to get comfortable with researching and reading.
I'm home for Christmas trying to set up the Arr stack on my dad's Synology.My Proxmox cluster has Radarr, Sonarr, Tautulli, Tdarr, Overseer, Plex, and other services running in symphony.
Anyway, I can't remember if this got posted before, but here's instructions for anyone trying to do this
Wargames
One Of The Last Real Ones To Do It
Ok that’s fair thanks
In my opinion/experience, the best content focuses on software instead of hardware... Hardware discussions tend to be more technical, expensive and have complexities that are overkill... Anyone discussing kubernetes/VPS/proxmox/reverse proxies/ansible are (un)intentionally too nuanced as a first project imo. Even using the phrase homelab instead of server is usually a sign of an advanced, complicated setup. Some examples of popular but overly technical channels (imo) are Christian Lerma, Techno Tim & Wolfgang's Channel.
On the other hand, people that focus more on the self-hosted software than the hardware are easier to digest, tend to explain things better and are often learning -> sharing instead of selling a product. Some channels like KeepItTechie, Network Chuck or TheLinuxCast come to mind. Also r/selfhosted for convo/questions in general. There is a popular weekly newsletter that tracks the latest self-hosted news and the site also lists many popular self-hosted apps.
IMO tho, the first goal is to figure out what project you want to undertake and then look to YouTube/GitHub for tutorials to hold your hand.
For example, you can try a project to replace something you use in your life w/ a self-hosting alternative such as: Google Photos (immich), Google Drive (Nextcloud), Pocket (Wallabag), Google Search (SearXNG), Audible (Audiobookshelf), GitHub (forgejo), Reddit (redLib), Toggl (solidtime), YouTube (invidious), Kindle (calibre), Feedly (FreshRSS), etc. Or if you have existing media or don't mind ripping music/movies/dvds/yt, you can use jellyfin to stream content to any device connected to your LAN.
Wargames
One Of The Last Real Ones To Do It
Thank you!!!
Okay, what is it exactly you want to know for a setup. I’ll sort them out for you and will post it here.
I think this is too advanced for him, we need to keep it simple and not discourage him.
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Something like this?My Proxmox cluster has Radarr, Sonarr, Tautulli, Tdarr, Overseer, Plex, and other services running in symphony.
Yes, except I use Usenet to download media, so no VPN is required. I have 1Gbps up and down, and 9GB movies download in 2-3 minutes.
Overseerr lets my Plex members request movies on their own without nagging me.
Curious what would be a simpler solution from your perspective.
Allen Poe
All Star
was always interested in getting into using a NAS, and I initially wanted to move my jellyfin installation off my laptop and onto a NAS. got this one on the relative cheap, but never got around to setting it up (because lazy), and then after a small bit of reading realized I can't run Jellyfin directly from this model, so that kinda delayed me tinkering with it even further.
xXMASHERXx
Superstar
Have you thought about running something besides Jellyfin on it? Worst case scenario you could just use it for storage. That's what my NAS will be used for once I finish rebuilding my home lab.
Allen Poe
All Star
i looked into plex and emby and decided jellyfin was the best option for me