don’t want your server maxing out all day

But don’t you think about that poor server?

It is feeling so bored out and it’s whole life worthless…

Anyone know of something that isn’t Nextcloud Chat?

Do you absolutely need to put ONE tag on it all and say this is it?

Synology is great because of the easy backup. But it is limiting your ideas for your new NAS. Leave it in “backup corner” :)

Play with ZFS, see how much flexibility it really has, and when you got that up, then write your first own smb.conf - and the new NAS is done.

For the host, proxmox. There’s nothing else at the moment that makes more sense.

What the … LOL

Samba makes the same files available via another protocol. Sometimes you prefer a web browser interface, or the nextcloud companion app, and sometimes you prefer the Windows explorer.

Is owncloud or an alternative enough, or do I need something more elaborated like TrueNAS?

I run a Nextcloud for my family and then serve the same folders again via samba to the same users. Don’t need a separate NAS for this, just activate the samba service on the same machine.

Regarding the pirate ship, I don’t know. I haven’t tried that yet.

I have liked the Sonoffs with Tasmota for many years. But recently, they use different chips that make this impossible.

So I ordered my last ones from athom.com, because they sell them preinstalled with Tasmota (or other firmware).

In Germany, yes. I think they are selling them worldwide.

https://www.velux.de/produkte/sonnenschutz-und-rolllaeden

They are pretty reliable, with a builtin oversized battery and small solar panel, remote control, and 5 years warranty iirc.

They offer an integration into smartness - I can look up for you later which one.

I am planning currently to get some, but without their solar, just normal power and my own smart relays to control them.

reassemble the zfspool

zfs itself can do that. The zpool members know the pool and the other members.

Then, apparently to mount the share to Plex, I needed to pass the pool from TrueNAS back to ProxMox.

I doubt this part.

I think as soon as the NAS is working, the others (including prox) should use it, and no additional complications.

Just to provide a different point of view:

My general strategy is to decentralize these simple condition-action things.

Where only one sensor controls only one action/state, the function should run on the device itself, not on HA. Either the sensor or the switch or both is “smart”, and it is good that HA knows and shows the state, and you can switch it on/off there in the HA app, but it should not depend on HA. It should still work when HA is down.

In my case, Tasmota runs on all the light switches and a rule in Tasmota does the job.

For tracking my own location, I have tried out Traccar once. It works without any foreign data stores.

https://www.traccar.org/

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.traccar.client

You can passthru the GPU hardware to a qemu VM on proxmox. Proxmox itself will not get in your way, because proxmox is just an administative helper for qemu there. The setup for this passthru is a qemu thing.

I don’t know if the same kind of passthru is possible to a docker container.

a version controlled markdown file

There’s a lot of genius in this idea …

Is Proxmox the best system to use for these applications? Would it be easier to just install Debian and Docker and run everything through containers on one OS instead of splitting them all up into LXC or VMs?

Proxmox is (nearly) a class of it’s own. Yes, you need it.

You are not limited to lxc. Just run one or more of these Debians in VM’s inside, and they can docker then as needed.

Don’t forget to use the templates in Proxmox.

Could browse as per normal with abysmal internet speed

Of course. It’s because they had to catch and write down every single byte with a pencil on paper, then decrypt it, understand it, report the funny ones to a boss, who nodded slowly and silently and then they typed it in again on the other side.

/s

They do not visit you. You do not visit them. You visit bad places.

They are prepared for such ideas, and you should assume that they are better than you.

Ethernet cables are not “wireless”, however.

How did you find out?

Now you know that the problem is not your DNS.

It is either your routing or firewalling.