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[897.52 --> 905.52] But if it's in stock at this point in history, that extra $60 is kind of worth it, right? |
[905.90 --> 908.62] Well, and it really kind of, it depends on how you frame it, too. |
[908.62 --> 912.26] If you think of it as a server motherboard, it's a pretty good price. |
[912.40 --> 918.68] If you think of it as like a gaming PC desktop motherboard, that's just sort of an average motherboard, it's expensive. |
[919.00 --> 920.16] But it doesn't have any LEDs. |
[921.12 --> 923.00] So gamers aren't interested. |
[924.70 --> 931.38] I mean, it's not like it's, it's not like it's the be all end all server solution, especially because it's a, you know, it's a micro ATX. |
[931.58 --> 933.90] But, geez, it's pretty great. |
[933.90 --> 940.06] And the fact that you have iGPU, you get QuickSync, and you have IPMI, that's a great choice, Alex. |
[940.12 --> 942.50] I mean, that seems like a board that's going to run a box for you for years. |
[942.50 --> 947.72] And that if you ever have any troubles, you're going to be able to remotely figure out what's going on through IPMI. |
[948.10 --> 948.18] Yeah. |
[948.22 --> 952.22] And the nice thing is, I think I'm going to have that board in the UK and the US. |
[952.30 --> 954.92] I'm going to have hardware parity between two systems. |
[956.38 --> 963.60] 32 gigs of RAM in the UK and 64 in the US, just because, you know, at home, I do a lot more stuff than I will do. |
[963.90 --> 965.56] With a remote backup box. |
[966.04 --> 968.08] And then are you doing Proxmox as the host OS? |
[968.22 --> 969.84] I am actually in both places, yes. |
[970.04 --> 984.30] And the reason being is I've run into a couple of issues, and I do only mean a couple, where I use ZFS, as you all know, to do my remote backups and Jim Salter's Syncoid tool to kind of manage the snapshot replication. |
[984.30 --> 991.54] I've run into a couple of issues where, when I had the old server set up, it was running Ubuntu. |
[991.92 --> 999.74] And therefore, the version of ZFS that was shipping in there wasn't exactly the same as the version that was running on Proxmox on my US server. |
[999.74 --> 1008.56] And so I ran into a couple of issues where Syncoid failed because it was trying to send across a data set with feature flags that didn't exist on the target system. |
[1009.10 --> 1017.92] And so just having Proxmox in both places means that I'm a lot less likely to run into any idiosyncrasies like that between the two systems. |
[1017.92 --> 1025.18] The other thing as well is that I've been trying to get my dad on the home automation train for a long, long, long time. |
[1025.88 --> 1035.40] And I think when I arrived, he gave me a whole rundown of how to turn off all the lamps in his kitchen, which is where we all hang out in his house. |
[1036.52 --> 1037.78] You mean like for all the switches? |
[1038.26 --> 1042.96] Yeah, there were six individually switched lamps I'd have to walk around and turn off one by one. |
[1042.96 --> 1050.86] You know, having to walk somebody through how to use physical switches makes me feel a little bit better about walking people through how to use the automated home assistant system. |
[1051.22 --> 1054.60] Yeah, I mean, we're talking I would have to walk to each different corner of the room. |
[1054.68 --> 1057.38] It's not even like it's six switches on a single panel next to each other. |
[1057.94 --> 1061.68] So as you can imagine, I was like, hmm, I can do better than this. |
[1062.08 --> 1069.96] So I went on to our sponsor, My Local Bytes, and hit him up and he gave me a discount code, self-hosted, by the way, it's a discount code on that. |
[1070.54 --> 1072.66] And I ordered some gear from him. |
[1072.66 --> 1076.80] I ordered six smart plugs, a Zigbee transmitter, and a couple of Zigbee buttons. |
[1077.94 --> 1087.88] And my dad now has all of his lights in his kitchen, well, the lamps anyway, turn on 45 minutes before sunset automatically, and they turn off at midnight. |
[1088.10 --> 1091.72] But I also thought it would be nice to give them a button to control these things. |
[1092.82 --> 1100.38] So I'm running the VM for Home Assistant on the UK server, on Proxmox, much like I do back in the US. |
[1100.38 --> 1103.36] And running their whole OS stack? |
[1103.66 --> 1104.48] Yeah, yeah. |
[1104.56 --> 1105.84] I actually really like it. |
[1105.94 --> 1113.34] I know conceptually and fundamentally I have some issues with people making their own operating systems, but damn, is it convenient. |
[1113.82 --> 1114.02] Right. |
[1114.08 --> 1117.20] The supervisor, the snapshots, all of that is, it's really great. |
[1117.26 --> 1120.38] And it makes it super easy to restore if something goes wrong. |
[1120.44 --> 1120.84] I get it. |
[1120.84 --> 1122.96] I think running in a VM is the way to go. |
[1123.52 --> 1126.56] And so now he has a couple of Zigbee buttons that are magnetic. |
[1126.70 --> 1137.30] I went to Ikea, actually, just down the road from where he lives, and bought a couple of the trad-free Ikea Zigbee buttons, paired them up with the Zigbee stick that I got from my local bytes. |
[1137.30 --> 1140.20] And it just worked. |
[1140.32 --> 1147.76] You kind of pick out this, it's like a MAC address, but it's like an ID that looks like a MAC address on the Zigbee network that's created. |
[1148.36 --> 1158.08] And the ZHA plugin that's built into Home Assistant picks up the Zigbee device, and then you just create an automation that is triggered by that button press. |
[1158.38 --> 1159.64] And you went Zigbee, not Z-Wave. |
[1159.68 --> 1160.72] I think that's a good call. |
[1160.72 --> 1166.92] Was it just because that's what was available, or did you actually actively choose Zigbee over Z-Wave or Wi-Fi devices? |
[1167.32 --> 1171.40] Well, I guess I did actively choose it, but not through much research. |
[1171.50 --> 1177.08] I was just speaking to the guy behind my local bytes, and he said, you know, we sell Zigbee buttons, right? |
[1177.48 --> 1177.66] Yeah. |
[1177.90 --> 1179.12] I think Zigbee's the way to go. |
[1179.28 --> 1184.84] And I think they're more reliable than Wi-Fi devices, and you can take down your Wi-Fi network, and that stuff all still works. |
[1184.84 --> 1192.60] And, of course, I'm a fan of Zigbee because it's an open protocol, and it's what they use on Mars to communicate between the rover and the helicopter. |
[1193.06 --> 1194.14] It is, absolutely, yeah. |
[1194.90 --> 1200.42] It's, you know, those trad-free buttons from Ikea, they're six pounds a pop. |
[1200.54 --> 1203.28] I think they're about eight or nine dollars in the U.S. each. |
[1203.62 --> 1203.72] Yeah. |
[1203.90 --> 1207.56] You know, for that price, I could have 20 in my house without really much thought. |
[1207.56 --> 1215.60] I think there's two philosophies when it comes to home automation, and I think one philosophy is design it in such a way that you never have to touch it. |
[1215.74 --> 1220.08] Like, the whole thing's automated, and you should really never need to interfere with it. |
[1220.12 --> 1221.10] If you ever do, there's a dashboard. |
[1221.60 --> 1227.74] But then the other, I think, very valid approach to home automation is using buttons for stuff. |
[1227.74 --> 1236.80] And I think that's why there are some brands out there that specifically sell solutions where there's still switches, and that's why you and I have looked into devices that we can install on the wall so we can still use switches. |
[1236.98 --> 1243.36] Because when you have physical controls, it adds a whole other dimension of what you can do with these buttons. |
[1243.46 --> 1249.20] Like, you can set things so that if you three-tap that button, it could do a totally different set of functions. |
[1249.20 --> 1253.44] And you have all of this kind of flexibility when you add physical buttons. |
[1253.44 --> 1258.70] And people have written into the show and laughed, like, you guys, you automate all this stuff, and then you add buttons back in there. |
[1258.80 --> 1260.38] Because I've talked about this in Lady Joops. |
[1260.80 --> 1265.22] And it's like, nah, man, you add it where it makes sense, and you remove it where it doesn't make sense. |
[1265.36 --> 1269.02] And, you know, your folks are going to be used to buttons. |
[1269.10 --> 1271.42] They've had buttons their entire life in their home. |
[1271.42 --> 1280.64] And so if you left that place and didn't put those things in, they'd probably rip it all out and just go back to using buttons again and turn stuff off and the automation be screwed up. |
[1280.76 --> 1283.46] And it just wouldn't work because they're used to it. |
[1284.08 --> 1289.90] I'm comfortable with pulling a phone out my pocket and opening an app and swiping and swiping and tapping. |
[1290.32 --> 1294.44] Or shouting to an assistant in the air, you know, hey, hey, tube, turn on this light. |
[1294.52 --> 1295.78] I mean, you could do that too. |
[1296.16 --> 1296.32] Yeah. |
[1296.46 --> 1299.34] And also, you know, think about the Home Assistant cloud subscription. |
[1299.50 --> 1301.10] I pay that at home out of my own pocket. |
[1301.10 --> 1308.46] I don't necessarily want to have to do that for my parents as well to get the Google Assistant support put in there. |
[1308.66 --> 1310.88] And neither do I want to open up their firewall. |
[1311.74 --> 1317.40] Even port 80 or 443, whatever, would be required to make that work for Google that way. |
[1317.56 --> 1321.84] So whilst all those things are possible, I haven't enabled Google support for them. |
[1322.04 --> 1323.86] I kind of don't want to either. |
[1323.94 --> 1325.18] I want to keep it super simple. |
[1325.30 --> 1327.30] Like you push this button, your lamps turn off. |
[1327.92 --> 1329.08] I mean, it's that simple. |
[1329.08 --> 1339.00] You know what I appreciate about you, Chris, is that I woke up on British time to a bunch of messages in our private JB chat team chat that we have. |
[1339.36 --> 1342.68] And I know your Hollywood server has been offline for a couple of weeks. |
[1342.82 --> 1343.12] Yeah. |
[1343.12 --> 1345.76] You'd been home for, what, an hour? |
[1346.06 --> 1347.42] And you'd fix that bad boy. |
[1347.84 --> 1348.38] That's right. |
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