I think you might be misunderstanding something here, because this is already how every ISP works - including the one you are using right now. Just on a bigger scale.
I'm honestly not entirely sure. I've been eyeballing Valetudo for a few years now, but the price of the supported robots was out of my budget until I happened onto the $20 Wyze from eBay. Took a chance and won big. I'm into it a whopping $65. And a bit of labor to swap the motherboard (mine refused to run ADB at all). But that's the fun part for me.
So, uh, exactly how "old" is that server? Because, if I understood it correctly, it should be based on 8th gen Intel, which makes this a solid piece of equipment in any homelab (provided you can deal with the noise and power draw).
As tempting as that is, I'm not expecting to build up something that hefty. Love the wireminding and all, but I'm hoping to keep this as something I can mount nicely in my teeny tiny network cabinet. The horsepower I'm looking for, alongside the low thermal and power loads, are my goal. Maybe I'll expand beyond eventually, but who knows?
Understood! I'm just showing you that a tiny/mini/micro PC is incredibly beefy for what it is, especially when you stuff it with an i7 and a bunch of RAM.
Thank you for the suggestion though! Also love the R&C refs :) Still need to finish Rift Apart.
I name all my physical machines after R&C characters. HA is "Ace" as in Ace Hardlight, and the Optiplex on the left (running Frigate) is "Skrunch"... As in Qwark's monkey sidekick 😂
Rift Apart was super fun. The final battle sequence is awesome for grinding if you wanna 100% the game. I've got it down to a science haha.
Buy a 7th gen Intel based tiny/mini/micro PC instead of a Pi or NUC. You get much more bang for your buck. 35W max draw. They are far more capable than people give them credit for. I run 3 of them (4 if you count the Mac mini).
Despite owning a lifetime Plex Pass, it would put ads in the subtitles. That may be on the site's end though, not Plex's.
You would be correct. Plex doesn't generate the subtitles at all - they are pulled from places like OpenSubtitles. The person/entity that made the subtitles and uploaded them to wherever Plex pulled it from is responsible for that. Absolutely zero to do with having a lifetime Plex Pass.
Same here. Dockge is also developed by the Watchtower dev.
It's so much easier to use than Portainer: no weird licensing shit, uses standard Docker locations, and works even with existing stacks. Also helps me keep Docker stacks organized - each compose.yaml lives in it's own folder under /opt/stacks/.
I have 4 VMs on my cluster specifically for Docker, each with it's own Dockge instance, which can be linked together so that any Dockge instance in my cluster can access all Docker stacks over all the VMs.
"NAS" is just an acronym for "Network Attached Storage". Companies have capitalized on that and will happily sell you a "do everything box"....Until you realize that it's closed-source, overpriced, and underpowered garbage that will go EOL after a couple years, and might even lock you out of using non-approved drives coughSynologycough
A NAS is literally any computer that is setup to host storage that's accessible over a network. That's it. Don't get suckered into overpriced underpowered crap. Dollar for dollar, literally any PC made in the last decade has more horsepower than a brand new "dedicated NAS". Hell, a Pentium G4560T (i.e. 6th/7th gen Intel) will run OMV or TrueNAS or whatever without a hitch. Stuff an old ATX case with hard drives, load OMV or TrueNAS or something, and go to town.
It is a huge problem here, unfortunately.