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[1668.78 → 1670.96] It was an idea that I think needed to happen. |
[1670.96 → 1676.12] And it's a great way to go get devices at a very reasonable price, like outdoor and indoor |
[1676.12 → 1683.88] smart plugs, Zigbee dongles, temperature sensors, motion sensors, Z-Wave buttons, door sensors, |
[1684.00 → 1687.06] all that kind of stuff that you might want to hook up to Home Assistant. |
[1687.30 → 1691.02] But, you know, you don't want to have to bother with the ref lashing yourself or worrying about |
[1691.02 → 1694.08] the required cloud connectivity that they ship with by default. |
[1694.68 → 1695.96] Cloud free just takes care of all that. |
[1696.10 → 1698.90] That's why we like to give them a mention at cloudfree.shop. |
[1698.90 → 1702.48] And when you're over there, don't forget to use the coupon code self-hosted so that |
[1702.48 → 1703.28] they know we sent you. |
[1704.62 → 1706.18] All right, feedback time, I think. |
[1706.40 → 1707.28] Daniel writes in, |
[1707.36 → 1712.90] I'm currently using a Synology 216J with an EXT 4-volume mirrored on two drives. |
[1713.20 → 1718.22] I'm curious about how I might go about upgrading here and prioritize backup ergonomics. |
[1718.64 → 1723.84] Right now, I don't have snapshots, and I'm considering switching to ZFS or Butters. |
[1724.34 → 1724.76] Brackets. |
[1724.98 → 1725.80] Please don't fight. |
[1725.80 → 1731.74] How can I do this without purchasing a huge external hard drive to move everything over |
[1731.74 → 1733.02] whilst I build a new volume? |
[1733.72 → 1739.10] Also, NFS seems kind of antiquated, and I'm wondering if this is the fastest way to mount |
[1739.10 → 1740.28] things over the network. |
[1740.56 → 1741.40] Is there a better option? |
[1741.94 → 1742.14] Hmm. |
[1742.44 → 1743.76] A little NFS hate there, huh? |
[1744.08 → 1745.28] No, I used to think that too. |
[1745.74 → 1748.68] You know, actually, that's sort of the beauty of NFS is that it's so simple. |
[1748.82 → 1750.14] It is extremely efficient. |
[1750.14 → 1753.14] But there are lots of ways to transfer files over the network. |
[1753.62 → 1754.10] It is old. |
[1754.28 → 1759.24] But, you know, one way you could look at old is tested, you know, reliable. |
[1759.74 → 1759.88] Right. |
[1760.14 → 1760.50] Boring. |
[1761.06 → 1762.40] And it's still in production. |
[1762.72 → 1764.28] So this is an interesting question. |
[1764.38 → 1768.24] It's like, I want to do something that's kind of risky, like switch to ZFS or Butters, |
[1768.24 → 1773.54] but I don't want to have to purchase an external hard drive to back everything up to. |
[1773.94 → 1777.08] And there's definitely part of me that's like, that's just not how it works. |
[1777.24 → 1781.06] I just want to say, you know, when you're messing with important data, you do kind of |
[1781.06 → 1787.48] want to externalize it because you can convert an extended four partition in place to Butters. |
[1787.80 → 1789.22] I've done it a couple of times, actually. |
[1789.48 → 1793.52] I was just having a conversation with somebody earlier this morning about just that thing. |
[1793.52 → 1794.98] And it'll work. |
[1795.80 → 1798.48] But I can't tell you it's risk-free. |
[1798.76 → 1799.72] It is absolutely not. |
[1800.60 → 1802.26] And so I don't know how you get around that. |
[1802.32 → 1806.54] Do you have any ideas on maybe like pulling other disks on your LAN or I mean, something |
[1806.54 → 1807.24] out of the box? |
[1807.88 → 1808.28] Not really. |
[1808.64 → 1813.30] I mean, it's it goes back to that whole raid is not a backup type thing. |
[1813.44 → 1819.12] So even if you have a volume mirrored on two drives, unless that data exists somewhere |
[1819.12 → 1823.50] else as well, I would pretty much say that data doesn't actually exist at all. |
[1823.72 → 1827.10] Because if that mirror was to go pop, that data is gone. |
[1827.30 → 1830.18] So this is probably not what you want to hear. |
[1830.66 → 1835.58] But I would buy that external hard drive, mirror everything onto that external hard drive, |
[1835.84 → 1841.78] free up the two drives that you want to put ZFS or Butters onto, and then you should be |
[1841.78 → 1842.24] good to go. |
[1842.76 → 1844.28] That I completely agree with. |
[1844.50 → 1849.72] And now, as an aside, I want to just acknowledge that I do feel like we go about our daily lives |
[1849.72 → 1854.48] totally underutilizing lots of free space on the systems on our LAN. |
[1854.64 → 1858.10] And I know there are a couple of projects out there to crack this nut. |
[1858.16 → 1863.02] But if anybody listening is using something and has been using it for a little bit to take |
[1863.02 → 1867.54] advantage of maybe, you know, a machine over here that's connected via Ethernet that has |
[1867.54 → 1868.76] 120 gigs free. |
[1868.76 → 1871.08] And this machine over here that has a terabyte free. |
[1871.18 → 1874.20] And I have a machine over here that has 500 gigs and a machine over here that has four |
[1874.20 → 1874.98] terabytes free. |
[1875.42 → 1881.40] And I just need temporarily, I just need somewhere to store an extra seven terabytes a day. |
[1881.44 → 1887.30] It's like, could I pool everything somehow together and then somehow trust that this network |
[1887.30 → 1889.34] file system would work? |
[1889.34 → 1893.10] And you could, there are ways you could hack it together, especially with, you know, on |
[1893.10 → 1894.58] Linux with different mount points and all of that. |
[1894.64 → 1897.04] But I just don't, I just don't know of a solid one. |
[1897.16 → 1899.08] So self-hosted. Show slash contact. |
[1899.40 → 1903.98] If anyone out there has something just out of curiosity, just be a fun thought experiment |
[1903.98 → 1905.82] to pool the storage on my network. |
[1906.02 → 1909.28] I don't think I'd use it for anything in production or for backup though. |
[1909.64 → 1910.70] I just don't think I would. |
[1911.30 → 1916.94] The next one comes from Mike, and he's responding to a question I proposed last week about using |
[1916.94 → 1921.74] home assistant automations to cycle the charging of batteries on and off. |
[1921.80 → 1927.06] So that way devices don't sit at a hundred percent charged for days, or they don't stay |
[1927.06 → 1928.20] at zero percent charge. |
[1928.28 → 1931.24] You may be something in the 40 to 60 percent range. |
[1931.50 → 1935.48] It'd be lovely to have an option to say today, I want everything charged to a hundred percent |
[1935.48 → 1938.50] because we're going on a road trip today, and we need everything charged up. |
[1938.70 → 1942.90] And we got a couple ideas suggested, and I liked Mike's and I wanted to give it a read |
[1942.90 → 1943.08] here. |
[1943.12 → 1946.92] He says, since there's really no out of the box solution right now, I'm going to |
[1946.92 → 1951.78] I'm creating a script that scrapes my laptop's battery info, and then we'll publish it to |
[1951.78 → 1956.88] my home assistant's MQTT broker and then home assistant will act on that data to power |
[1956.88 → 1958.84] cycle my laptop's power supply. |
[1959.26 → 1960.10] Keep up the show. |
[1960.22 → 1960.48] Thanks. |
[1960.62 → 1962.48] And Mike, good idea. |
[1962.56 → 1963.66] That's great for the laptops. |
[1963.98 → 1970.28] The impossible nut that I'm trying to crack is like iOS devices, maybe even drone batteries, |
[1970.62 → 1975.40] things that don't even have an OS to scrape from, but you'd almost need like a time-based |
[1975.40 → 1975.86] system. |
[1975.86 → 1978.34] I suppose I'm still chewing on it right now. |
[1978.46 → 1984.86] I just kind of do it manually, and it's not bad, but an example of a system that I probably |
[1984.86 → 1990.68] don't unplug and cycle the battery as frequently as I should are those fire tablets that are |
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