Need a good demo for a home server.
This weekend is an ideal time to put one out. No games I am interested in on Sunday.
So I will work it out.
Gonna add plex and home assistant to this server as well.
Document later, just gonna do.
Luckily I got all the ansible playbooks already done.
Weight: 346.4
Found this little gem of a machine at the local PC recycle store.
Recall this https://www.apolonio.com/blog/?p=9356
This one is interesting, I did add a 2.5″ hard drive, but it is cool in that includes everything else I need compared to a pi.
Couple things, it does include build in wifi, I am still looking but it looks to also have bluetooth.
Had to manually install iwl7260-firmware and NetworkManager-wifi
Looks like I can add another 8GB of RAM to increase it to 16GB.
The CPU is an i5-6500T CPU @ 2.50GHz which does support plex transcoding.
Another cool thing I didn’t realize is it supports NVME.
So in addition to SATA 2.5″ you can have a faster booting NVME.
As for USB, it has 6 USB3 ports.
finally, it draws between 5 and 20Watts (depending on what it is doing) so at worse case it would be about $20 per year to run continuously.
I am going to base my 2024 documentation on this.
Weight: 347.2
I keep changing my office setup. Still trying to get everything setup where I want them to be.
I feel like a really need a small workspace for a desk.
Office is better though, meeting more of my needs and is a bit flexible.
I got 4 monitors off my PC right now.
Weight: 347.4
Mostly, I kickstart a build, then imported a a profile into the machine that included static IPs and sshd keys.
Another manual thing is to add my ssh keys via ssh-copy-id command. But everything is all ansible playbooks till I have a running nagios.
After that though I have to restore zoneminder data files by hand.
May want to not restore from backup and just move forward.
Not sure yet.
Also there was an issue with PHP and timezone, ended up putting timezone in the PHP file rather than the config file.
Weight: 348.8
I know I went to bed around 11:30 last night and I woke up at closer to 8AM.
All do I felt great, although I was taken down by lunch.
But for most of the day I was going strong.
Got a lot done at work, in fact kept pushing thought to the evening.
Going to try and sleep early again too.
Weight: 347.8
A lot of cool things happened this weekend, but wanted to put an important milestone first, not for me but my son.
He ran his first timed 1/2 marathon.
We left the house at 5:45AM to make it to the 7:30 start line, but we were rushed.
In the future maybe we should leave at 5AM. We did make it with 5 minutes to spare.
Couple other notes for my future self, bring a Cell Phone charger and pack, I ran through mine real quick for a reason. Another thing was dry clothes. It was cold and he was shivering pretty bad in the medical tent. I had three layers but could make due with 2. So I gave him my dry under shirt.
He ran it in 2:00:18 but he was clearly hurting at the end, but I think he vowed to do better next year and I vowed to join him.
Back to the weekend recap, got a lot done, First was of course Thanksgiving, house was cleaned pretty well.
Then was black Friday, I ordered some things like hard drives and a couple of Rack mount cases, to replace my backup server (maybe) and a zoneminder box (for sure)
Also celebrated a birthday, but Saturday was kind of chill, but did go to the Casino.
Did get most production machines backing up using URbackup
Sunday was this race as mentioned, but we also did our xmas photos and I got my fitbit steps.
Noticed the SSD in my ZM box kicked off some SMART errors.
I feel accomplished but tired.
Weight: 347.4
With Thanksgiving behind me, it is now time to goal set for 2024, and do other end of year things.
I think since it is the Saturday between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, I am going to call this procurement weekend, at least for 2023.
Looking at things to buy and set up for 2024 goals.
One of those is building the Rocky 9 Zoneminder server. I purchased the rack and hard drives.
Weight: 347.0
Purchased some items for Black Friday and starting to do my 2024 goals.
One of the things I am starting to purchase are pieces for my new 2024 zoneminder.
Also getting pieces to put my backup server into a 4U case.
Playing with some other things like a new drive.
Weight: 349.4
Had a decent Thanksgiving this year
Not faces (recall my posts rarely included faces as individuals or in small groups) But wanted to post food we have.
One thing to note is our house is extremely dusty. Pet dander in hidden crevasses.
House feels easier to breath in now. And a simple cleaning made it look great.
Weight: 347.2
I created myself an account on Red Hat in the Developer Network.
I am going to try and install RHEL 9 and see how it works out for me.
Gonna see what it takes.
Weight: 346.0
