This all sounds awesome. So eli5 I have all my drives mounted to Proxmox, then passed through to OMV in a VM.
I can just mount these same drives to containers no issues right now, and I can add them to VMs using your link?
I would like to get down to LXCs too, but I've found VMs so much easier to set up and use. I'll try your way
I share bind-mounts currently between multiple LXC from the host Proxmox OS, configuration is pretty easy, and there are lots of tutorials online for getting started.
Now then:
Are you sharing SMB mounts? I have my HDDs passed through to OMV and have considered just trying to pass them through to other VMs, but never tried because I don't wanna break anything.
I have seen that you can share SMB to Proxmox and use them in Proxmox but don't know if you can use them in VMs too.
As it is I really struggled with mounting smb for a couple of weeks and then had an "aha" moment last weekend, and have it all figured out now.
The Tailnet idea was so I can just mount everything to the Tailnet and stop worrying about whether it's on this vlan or that. I was trying to set up an Openwrt container with VPN, which I could use for any container that needs a vpn, but then those containers couldn't see the main network properly...
I've given up on that now and have my SMB mounts all set up, but feel like pass-through would give better network speeds for moving things around.
I hear what you're saying and honestly it's not something I had thought about, so thanks for that.
For myself I should be good if your prediction comes true since I already have Home Assistant through my own domain using Cloudflare. I could theoretically move all my stuff to my own domain and Nginx, etc.
I like Tailscale because I don't have to do all that. I'm new to Self Hosting (no I'm new to running multiple VMs) so finding something that just works with minimal effort is great for a noob. I wanna learn the things (networking), but I wanna learn other things (loads!) first.
Cloudflare and a Domain wasn't as hard as DuckDNS and Nginx, but Tailscale was easier and cheaper than that in my adventures on Home Assistant. I've gone from hard to easy mode.
At some point a hobby has to cost money, I may be happy to pay for Tailscale if there's more features. I'd like to replace SMB mounts with Tailnet mounts, but currently that's not a thing to my knowledge.
Oh and I'm not really shouting from rooftops on a self hosted Lemmy server, it's more like a quiet chat around a campfire telling a potential newcomer and easy way. It may cost in the future or they may make enough from Businesses that they keep a free tier, but currently it's free and easy.
Nah it sounds far too simple to "just install Tailscale and you're good" doesn't it? But it really is kinda that easy.
Install the Tailscale add on for Home Assistant, sign in and set up an "exit node" (it's a menu item, easy) then install Tailscale on your phone.
Switch it on on your phone outside your network. 3 dots in the app and select "Use exit node" and select the one you set up.
Now on your browser on your phone just type in the IP address of the self hosted service (I just have my home page address set to Homarr which has them all) and you're done.
Really damn easy, and free
Edit: That exit node you set.up is inside your network. Tailscale tunnels to that exit node inside your network without open ports, so when you do as above, you're essentially inside your network.
I use work WiFi. Work block WhatsApp. When I connect through Tailscale via work WiFi, my WhatsApp works fine, because I'm using my own home network to send/receive messages
I have recently been buying cables. I've come to the conclusion that a Man's purpose in life is to collect them and put them in a drawer.
Anyway these cables are usb 3.0 to 3.5" HDD cables with a power supply.
This has allowed me to mount 3 old HDDs I had gathering dust. These are the main storage for my NAS which is OMV through Proxmox.
They work fine, I'm able to watch Plex and also have a friend that watches my Plex.
They were all of £15 each.
I have a domain I own and access through Cloudflare, but there's also DuckDNS or Nabu Casa.
Or as someone else has pointed out, Tailscale, which is awesome, and free.
That's to access from outside.
As for NAS, I'm currently happily using Open Media Vault.
won't proxmox add a layer of complexity with Coral/Frigate/a Zigbee dongle?
Nah, just pass it through
Honestly I wouldn't worry too much, I mean yeah get one with a fan but it's not integral to getting it running.
Install Home Assistant Operating System on an SSD when you can, SD cards aren't made for the read/write you'll get from HAOS but again, it's not integral.
So yeah do those things, but boot it without a case and SSD for now and just play with it. Get the Google drive backup add-on for it. When you upgrade to an SSD just pull the backup from there and you're golden.
I tried to spin up a Homarr docker container the other day after seeing it on YouTube, but because it's located in ghcr it just wouldn't install.
I even added ghcr to my resources in docker using my password and an API key, but still no dice.
I'm missing something obvious, but I'm not sure what, any pointers?
Edit: I've just tried again and this time it hasn't failed with an error message, just hanging in Portainer stacks deployment instead
Edit 2: I left it hanging and checked while I was out and about (love Tailscale)and it's working now!
I just added Jellyseerr to this setup last night and it's amazing.
Call him Robert
I say "There's no such thing as stupid questions, just stupid people"
Bleugh Immich.
I've heard great things but I'm quite new to all this and can't get the fucking thing to boot. Last night I followed their install via Portainer walkthrough to the letter, copy/pasted their files from their links they pointed at...
I'll have it running by next weekend most likely, this keeps happening, then I learn a bunch of shit. But I really have no idea why it wouldn't boot last night.