What happens when you buy a $800+ in car* detailing supplies? Every car you own and your parents own look as good as they did coming off the car lot. And then you get bored with cleaning and detailing clean and detailed cars… So what do you do? Step up your game and get into…
Building a Personal Music Streaming Service with Navidrome
Jun 3rd, 2024 Like most people old enough to remember paying for music instead of for streaming rights, I have a pretty extensive collection of music. It starts with the CDs I bought in the late 80′ through early 2000s and the songs I bought on iTunes after it’s release in 2003. I listened to…
How to use Dynamic DNS with your own Fully Qualified Domain Name
May 27th, 2024 Over the years with my home lab, I’ve wanted to point urls back to my home IP address. However, I’m on a dynamic IP address that changes from time to time. This breaks the domain every time my IP address moved… Enter DDNS. DDNS or Dynamic DNS is a process where a service…
How to Quiet a Noisy Raspberry Pi POE Hat Fan
May, 17th, 2024 If you have a Raspberry Pi Power Over Ethernet (POE) Hat, on your Pi, you know that it has a fan. I mean really know. Once the pi gets up to temp, they whine like there is no tomorrow. Here is the trick to get rid of the noise while still keeping…
How To Rebuild and Replace a Dead Node in a Pimox Cluster
May 17th, 2024 Tonight, I had a Pimox node die on me. It looks like the microSD gave up the ghost. Once I identified the issue, I thought I had to build a new node and I couldn’t reuse the node configuration. I thought this would mean I’d have to restore the Virtual Machines from…
Using a Raspberry Pi and Hyper Backup to Backup a Synology NAS
May 14th, 2024 Situation: I’ve been running my Synology with a remote backup for a couple of years. I love the Synology NAS and their cloud backup solution. I’m using Synology’s Hyper Backup pushing my data to the Synology’s S2 cloud. I also have local snapshots turned on, but no local backup on a separate…
Synology: Solving Slow Drive Backup Speeds – 4 MB/s on USB 3.0
May 14th, 2024 Situation: I’m doing trying to do a backup from my Synology NAS – DS220+ to a USB 3.0 3TB drive connected to the front usb slot. This would be to copy all my critical data, mostly family photos, videos and financial documents. The goal is a backup I can read if the…
How to Run Proxmox VE / Pimox on a Raspberry Pi
May 7th, 2024 Anyone with a pi 4b or pi 5 with 4gb or 8gb of ram should use Proxmox / Pimox or at least play with it once. As a person with a 90% raspberry pi home lab, I’m here to say that the flexibility Virtual Machines offer is worth the effort to setup…
Pimox – Advanced Backups with Proxmox Backup Server
May 7th, 2024 Proxmox VE / Pimox backups copy all the data within the backup. These backups can’t be differential or incremental so they take up a whole lot of space on your backup location. The Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) is a great server that can create true snapshots, allowing differential backups vs. the afore…
Painless Creation of Pimox / Proxmox Virtual Machines
May 6th, 2024 Creating Pimox Virtual Machines can be difficult. The standard process to setup a VM in Proxmox VE just won’t work for Pimox. Instead, setting up a VM on a Pimox is a tricky process to follow and if it isn’t followed, the newly minted VM won’t actually boot. The best instructions I…