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Looking for zigbee smart plugs with monitoring in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

To clarify for others, that's just for motor and AC loads. Rated capacity for resistive loads is 1800 W (15 A). Aside from a portable induction stovetop and possibly portable AC units, this is likely fine for most things people will connect to it. Its probably not a good fit for OP though.

What are we doing for TVs these days software wise? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How "big" are your movies and tv shows? If they are 4k UHD remuxes then Nvidia Shield Pro or Apple TV 4k behind a firewall to block external internet is your best option for performance, usability, and privacy. You will want to ocassionally allow it internet for software updates. Kodi, a mini pc, raspberry pi, etc. would be more private but you trade off a seamless remote, easy interface, and streaming codecs (e.g., dolby vision).

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ZeroTrust Your Home (github.com)
 

This is a decent writeup on applying "Zero Tust" principles to a home lab using mostly open source tools. I'm not the author, but thought it was worth sharing.

What companies do you try to support? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The pine64 Pinecil is a great starter soldering iron.

Server Monitoring software recommendations in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

You've already received some great suggestions. Another one is Netdata. Personally, I use glances to collect the data and Home Assistant to display the dashboard. But I only do this because I already had Home Assistant running.

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Dell Optiplex XE3 for Home Server (lemmy.ml)
 

I recently got a Dell Optiplex XE3 second hand and set it up as a home server. It's working great and I wanted to share some info on it in case it's a helpful reference for other people's home labs.

The Dell Optiplex XE3 tower is configured with a i7-8700 (6c, 12t), 32 GiB DDR4 RAM (2 sticks), 2 2.5" SSDs, and 1 M.2 NVMe SSD. I installed Debian 12 minimal and services are deployed via Docker. I'm currently running 20+ containers, with some of the heavier containers being Jellyfin, Nextcloud, Paperless NGX, Home Assistant, and Immich. I haven't performed any software power optimization; it's just a standard Debian install. When idle with no significant load on the containers, power consumption is 14-15W measured with a Shelly Plug. While not fantastic (my previous server had 6W with similar loads), it is lower than I expected and is quite reasonable.

Overall, I'm impressed with this system. It currently has 4 unused PCIe slots, 2 unused SATA connectors, and 2 unused DIMM slots so it has solid future expansion. I have it laying on its side on a rack shelf and it takes up about 3.5U of space in my rack. While I wish it was smaller, fanless, had lower idle power, and had 2.5G Ethernet it has better idle power than I expected for its configuration and options for future expansion.