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[1766.38 --> 1767.52] I mean, why not? |
[1767.60 --> 1769.84] That's such a great way to go. |
[1769.84 --> 1774.22] And so I imagine you're considering a whole new generation of home assistant build. |
[1774.30 --> 1775.82] You're not going to take the one out of the RV. |
[1775.96 --> 1776.80] You're going to leave that. |
[1776.92 --> 1778.62] And I would imagine a whole new build. |
[1779.02 --> 1779.18] Yeah. |
[1779.40 --> 1782.30] And this is an area now that I'm learning so much about. |
[1782.40 --> 1786.90] The hardware side of running servers is pretty new to me. |
[1786.90 --> 1798.14] And so although I'm comfortable, like, with the concepts, the specifics of exactly what to run is all new, but you actually touch on something there that's a real challenge that I'm battling with. |
[1798.42 --> 1802.72] The concept of self-hosting is that you have your own little private island of stuff. |
[1803.42 --> 1807.52] It doesn't matter what goes on elsewhere, out in the cloud or whatever. |
[1808.12 --> 1811.60] You are insulated from that because you have your own little private island. |
[1812.26 --> 1816.26] Well, when we have a house, we sort of then have two islands. |
[1816.26 --> 1817.00] Mm-hmm. |
[1817.36 --> 1819.36] You have things like take Plex as an example. |
[1819.82 --> 1824.70] Do I run Plex in the house, in the RV, both? |
[1825.02 --> 1827.22] Like, how do I sort of manage those things? |
[1827.54 --> 1827.74] Right. |
[1828.02 --> 1828.38] In there. |
[1828.56 --> 1828.86] Yes. |
[1829.16 --> 1829.40] Yeah. |
[1829.70 --> 1832.58] So that's an area for me that's, I think, really exciting. |
[1833.00 --> 1835.36] There's some places where it's a huge asset, like backups. |
[1835.64 --> 1835.84] Great. |
[1836.06 --> 1837.92] I've now got a really easy way to do that. |
[1838.22 --> 1841.46] But for things like media sharing, do I have two copies? |
[1841.90 --> 1843.06] It becomes tricky. |
[1843.06 --> 1867.24] And then there's the angle as well of, for you in particular, I think this will be a unique challenge, is when you are driving around in your RV for potentially six months and you're leaving the rural pad empty for six months, you want to make sure that that stuff is reliable and has decent redun... |
[1867.24 --> 1873.70] And I think one of the things that I've heard you struggling with, you sort of brought up on the Discord, is how good is good enough? |
[1873.82 --> 1875.80] And do I need to have dual power supplies? |
[1876.18 --> 1883.38] And, you know, how many SSDs do I need to put in RAID to make sure that that doesn't, you know, kick things over and that kind of thing? |
[1883.38 --> 1885.16] So there's a lot to consider. |
[1885.72 --> 1889.70] And I'll add to that, Alex, you know, lesson learned here. |
[1889.78 --> 1891.46] I thought I had a fairly good setup. |
[1891.88 --> 1903.16] And as I'm on the road at this point, my main server at the studio is offline, which does a ton of lifting for me and then syncs the results to the RV. |
[1903.16 --> 1909.22] And I feel like I'm, like, operating with one hand tied behind my back while that server's down. |
[1909.28 --> 1912.82] And now I'm running through my head of, like, what am I going to do to rebuild that? |
[1912.86 --> 1914.62] Because it really, it is a tricky problem. |
[1914.62 --> 1919.52] And this is on, you know, a pretty nice actual server box. |
[1920.24 --> 1921.70] It's a nice little box. |
[1922.14 --> 1930.50] See, the thing is, I don't think we really fully admit to ourselves just how much light tinkering we do on the average week to these servers to keep them tended, |
[1930.50 --> 1937.14] to keep the, you know, the leaves in the correct space, you know, to coin a gardening kind of analogy, you know? |
[1937.68 --> 1942.10] I probably SSH into my server just out of habit, well, at least once or twice a day. |
[1942.20 --> 1943.62] I don't really know why sometimes. |
[1943.68 --> 1944.20] I just do. |
[1945.90 --> 1948.54] Yeah, I mean, you touched on it there with the dual PSUs. |
[1948.54 --> 1954.38] And I would just say, imagine the situation where you don't have physical access to your server, |
[1954.62 --> 1958.14] nor would anybody else have physical access to your server for three months. |
[1958.14 --> 1963.46] How do you give yourself the best chance of being okay and everything working? |
[1963.82 --> 1969.44] I've gone through exactly this this week, because as you both know, I'm going back to England at the weekend. |
[1970.14 --> 1972.46] It will be probably the day after this airs, actually. |
[1972.88 --> 1981.78] And the server that lives in England, for me, has been running on an old super micro board with a Java-based IPMI KVM built in. |
[1982.32 --> 1985.88] Works okay, but I prefer it was a little more modern, that kind of stuff. |
[1985.88 --> 1991.84] And I thought to myself, could I just make do by taking in a Raspberry Pi 4 over there and put Pi KVM on it? |
[1991.96 --> 1999.68] And I'm like, no, actually, I need this to be 100% as close as is possible, reliable. |
[2000.16 --> 2007.20] Because the last thing I want to do is have to call my dad up and say, hey, can you go and push this widget into this particular orifice? |
[2007.20 --> 2012.82] And, you know, wave your hands at three o'clock on Sunday, you know, and make it work. |
[2013.64 --> 2019.72] So I've bought a new ASRock board, which I've written a blog post about, which I'll put a link to in the show notes. |
[2020.08 --> 2023.46] I think that might be the perfect media server motherboard for me moving forward. |
[2023.78 --> 2024.30] We'll see. |
[2024.88 --> 2027.42] But there's just so much to consider. |
[2027.42 --> 2034.82] And I think you have to get to a point where you're like, okay, I'm willing to risk a single power supply in this system. |
[2034.94 --> 2038.90] If that goes boom, okay, what's my plan B? |
[2039.24 --> 2046.66] You know, my plan B might be Linode, something like that, with some ZFS datasets replicated or something like that. |
[2047.20 --> 2053.10] It's too bad about the Pi KVM, though, because that was one of my thoughts, was if I had Pi KVM at the studio, |
[2053.10 --> 2055.48] I could at least see what's going on on the console right now. |
[2056.10 --> 2058.22] But really, an IPMI system would be better. |
[2058.80 --> 2066.30] I was actually thinking, although I don't really know how to pull it off, is like a redundant Pi KVM system or a redundant Pi system for WireGuard. |
[2067.22 --> 2073.06] When I'm back, when I do get back to Washington, addressing that redundancy is one of my to-do items. |
[2073.24 --> 2075.10] Because I know exactly what you mean, Matt. |
[2075.14 --> 2079.20] It's like I'm sort of helpless down here in Tucson when the server's up in Seattle. |
[2079.20 --> 2084.48] Yeah, I mean, one of the technologies I've been researching and playing with some more recently is Karp. |
[2085.28 --> 2093.50] So this gives you essentially the ability to have two devices that can fight between themselves, let's say, for an IP address on the network. |
[2094.20 --> 2096.16] So OpenSense supports this out of the box. |
[2096.26 --> 2098.96] You can run two separate machines with OpenSense on. |
[2099.64 --> 2104.00] And if one of them dies, the other will automatically kind of pick up and run with that. |
[2104.68 --> 2108.34] And maybe there's a similar thing you can do with Raspberry Pis with other services. |
[2108.34 --> 2112.36] So you can have essentially a redundant Raspberry Pi sitting there idle. |
[2112.86 --> 2118.86] And if the first one drops off the network for any reason or just doesn't respond, the second one would pick up. |
[2119.18 --> 2122.54] But you've got this vision of two fish flopping around on the deck fighting each other. |
[2125.22 --> 2125.66] Right? |
[2126.88 --> 2127.74] It might be fun. |
[2127.86 --> 2128.76] That could be good to watch. |
[2129.44 --> 2135.62] Well, Matt, there's so many things we could talk about, but we should probably leave some of it for your YouTube channel. |
[2135.62 --> 2139.12] But thank you for coming on the show today and chatting with us about some of this. |
[2139.24 --> 2143.92] And best of luck to you and the wife building your new home. |
[2144.08 --> 2145.62] I think it's going to be quite the project to watch. |
[2145.74 --> 2146.20] Thank you so much. |
[2146.28 --> 2146.42] Yeah. |
[2146.46 --> 2148.48] And I'm looking forward to learning a lot more. |
[2148.62 --> 2152.22] And I've been binging all of the podcasts recently. |
[2152.34 --> 2156.12] So over the last three and a half weeks, I've just got through all 50-something episodes. |
[2156.12 --> 2160.24] I'm looking forward to learning a lot more from the group and the Discord as well. |
[2160.58 --> 2160.80] Yes. |
[2160.88 --> 2161.94] Good plug for the Discord there. |
[2162.04 --> 2163.68] Selfhosted.show slash Discord. |
[2164.04 --> 2164.64] You can go over there. |
[2164.70 --> 2167.62] Also, if you want to give us an email, there's selfhosted.show slash contact. |
[2168.04 --> 2172.52] And if you want to find more of Matt, you can go and search on YouTube for Adventurous Way. |
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