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[1352.90 --> 1355.28] Low power is more popular than ever. |
[1355.72 --> 1357.24] Also, low noise, I'll point out. |
[1357.92 --> 1361.20] And Home Assistant is just blown up in the last three years. |
[1361.20 --> 1366.72] You know what's really going to annoy that comment here in particular is that I have been running Home Assistant on the Pi. |
[1366.92 --> 1370.58] So we're going to talk about the Pi for a little bit right now for the last month. |
[1370.70 --> 1371.64] And it's been great. |
[1371.72 --> 1372.30] The Pi 4. |
[1372.80 --> 1376.26] I found an old SSD in a drawer, 120 gig SSD. |
[1376.48 --> 1378.06] That's probably five years old. |
[1378.74 --> 1385.64] And I have, from my shucking of easy stores, I have a USB to SATA converter. |
[1385.84 --> 1387.48] So I just reused that. |
[1387.48 --> 1391.56] So I'm upcycling, reducing e-waste, all that kind of good stuff. |
[1391.76 --> 1392.12] Go me. |
[1392.78 --> 1401.34] And I put the Raspberry Pi Home Assistant image on there, expecting it to be, you know, I'm coming from an x86 platform. |
[1401.50 --> 1407.22] So whilst I move across from my Xeons to the Intel system and sort of redo things and move things around, |
[1407.28 --> 1411.70] I got fed up of my DNS stopping working all the time because I was running AdGuard in a container. |
[1411.70 --> 1419.34] And I got fed up of Home Assistant not being up because it automates a lot more in my house than I really realized when it's not there. |
[1420.30 --> 1424.36] And I was expecting the Pi to be just a stopgap. |
[1424.50 --> 1431.32] I was expecting it to be good enough, but I was expecting to be ready to leave it after a few weeks. |
[1431.32 --> 1437.54] And I'm pleasantly surprised to report that I think it's fine for most people. |
[1437.98 --> 1438.08] Wow. |
[1438.12 --> 1439.10] I got to take all this in. |
[1439.22 --> 1441.88] This is a moment in the show. |
[1441.96 --> 1442.74] Episode 38. |
[1442.86 --> 1444.16] Mark it down in the books, everybody. |
[1444.36 --> 1444.76] Wow. |
[1445.42 --> 1445.78] Wow. |
[1445.88 --> 1448.90] Because I feel like you always thought I was a little silly for doing it on the Pi. |
[1449.04 --> 1449.36] I did. |
[1449.62 --> 1450.12] I'll be honest. |
[1450.20 --> 1450.40] Yeah. |
[1450.40 --> 1453.82] I mean, the storage thing is still a problem. |
[1454.00 --> 1462.96] I don't like having an SSD with its ass hanging out on my desk with some random SATA to USB board connected up. |
[1463.16 --> 1468.98] And I'm not comfortable, if I'm being honest, with so much of what I depend on running over USB. |
[1469.50 --> 1469.80] Yeah. |
[1470.12 --> 1470.74] I don't like it. |
[1470.98 --> 1471.32] I agree. |
[1471.40 --> 1471.64] Totally. |
[1472.18 --> 1473.70] But the performance has been good. |
[1473.84 --> 1477.86] I mean, I don't do anything too crazy with image processing or anything like that through Home Assistant. |
[1477.86 --> 1483.92] I do that generally through Blue Iris, which is a dedicated box in my closet over there. |
[1484.44 --> 1486.82] And this leads us nicely into some follow-up. |
[1486.92 --> 1497.00] So a little while ago, I talked about doing or wrote about doing Intel GVT-G pass-through, which is virtual GPUs. |
[1497.12 --> 1504.30] So you can slice up the graphics card built into your CPU into a couple of slices, give Plex and QuickSync one slice, |
[1504.38 --> 1506.96] and then give Blue Iris and QuickSync another slice over there. |
[1506.96 --> 1512.16] And then there's still some left for the host at the same time with no PCIe GPUs required. |
[1512.88 --> 1514.42] That's like the holy grail for me. |
[1514.48 --> 1515.88] That was like the perfect setup. |
[1516.78 --> 1519.38] Unfortunately, it didn't work very well. |
[1519.48 --> 1520.36] Didn't work out very well. |
[1520.82 --> 1521.02] What happened? |
[1521.26 --> 1524.24] I was getting kernel panics with Proxmox. |
[1524.52 --> 1529.16] I was getting hung processes without kernel panics. |
[1529.16 --> 1532.92] So it was fine as long as I wasn't running Blue Iris. |
[1533.24 --> 1540.04] And I think the Windows Blue Iris load was just too much for the GVT-G stuff to handle. |
[1540.70 --> 1543.96] And I wrote a blog post about how to do it with Proxmox. |
[1544.08 --> 1547.20] And a lot of people have been pinging me about the performance and stuff like that. |
[1547.20 --> 1555.96] So this is unfortunately my update is to say that I have bought and sold an HP 290 in the last month because I was so happy it worked. |
[1556.04 --> 1559.00] And then the proof in the pudding turned out to be it wasn't good enough. |
[1559.06 --> 1564.40] So I've gone back to a dedicated Windows box for Blue Iris with QuickSync. |
[1564.40 --> 1576.06] And now my server is still the i5-8500 that I purchased running Plex using QuickSync on that box with pass-through for the storage and that kind of stuff to a VM. |
[1576.66 --> 1583.62] So I'm running Plex on the host, but I'm still running most of my containers in a VM on that host with Proxmox. |
[1583.76 --> 1585.62] And a lot of people will think I'm mad for doing that. |
[1585.62 --> 1591.94] But I prefer doing it that way because it minimizes the number of reboots I need to do on the host. |
[1591.94 --> 1596.42] When you say you're running on the host, do you mean in a container or do you mean actually installed like a package? |
[1596.84 --> 1599.12] Plex is running in a container on top of Proxmox. |
[1599.78 --> 1601.80] A Docker container, not an LXC. |
[1602.12 --> 1608.96] I'm using LXC for stuff like AdGuard and a couple of other things like Bastion, SSH host and that kind of stuff. |
[1609.12 --> 1615.10] But for the most part, I like to try and keep the host as clean as possible to minimize host reboots. |
[1615.20 --> 1619.56] Because, you know, when I reboot that server, it takes a lot of services out and it's a pain in the bum. |
[1619.74 --> 1621.04] So I'd rather not do that. |
[1621.04 --> 1624.92] And Proxmox, does it still give you a GUI to manage a Docker container pretty well? |
[1625.00 --> 1626.80] Like all that's just built into Proxmox? |
[1627.04 --> 1627.82] Not Docker, no. |
[1627.88 --> 1629.76] It does LXCs, but not Dockers. |
[1630.10 --> 1634.04] So did you get on the host, like command line and install Docker? |
[1634.70 --> 1635.60] SSH, yeah, yeah. |
[1635.78 --> 1637.94] I mean, so Proxmox is built on top of Debian. |
[1638.32 --> 1643.96] And actually the route that I went to install Proxmox was a naked Debian install. |
[1644.12 --> 1648.08] And then you can install the Proxmox packages and repos on top of that. |
[1648.08 --> 1652.82] So it's just, you know, vanilla Debian with the Proxmox kernel effectively. |
[1653.30 --> 1657.88] It's not like FreeNAS where you start mucking about on the host OS and you could really screw stuff up. |
[1658.30 --> 1660.02] That's what's always put me off on these appliances. |
[1660.30 --> 1660.58] You could. |
[1660.70 --> 1661.64] I mean, it's Linux. |
[1661.92 --> 1664.18] But Proxmox isn't an appliance. |
[1664.36 --> 1665.50] It's an abstraction layer. |
[1665.50 --> 1674.04] So they do weird stuff with like networking and they put all the VM configs in, you know, bespoke places that are unique to Proxmox. |
[1674.22 --> 1678.26] And that's probably my biggest issue with Proxmox as a project, to be honest, is it's slightly esoteric. |
[1678.62 --> 1683.60] But once you learn those little foibles, does the job. |
[1684.22 --> 1685.24] Yeah, it doesn't seem like it's too bad. |
[1685.28 --> 1686.28] And you were able to get it working. |
[1686.88 --> 1690.84] So you kind of have a real, I mean, a bit of a hodgepodge right now. |
[1690.84 --> 1694.74] Sounds like you got like three different servers running in your house right now. |
[1694.74 --> 1695.30] I did. |
[1695.48 --> 1695.66] Yeah. |
[1695.82 --> 1701.98] So I predicated all of my buying and purchase decisions around this Intel GVTG stuff actually working. |
[1702.72 --> 1710.22] And it was only once it had been in production for a couple of weeks, I sort of really realized that now this isn't this isn't going to be reliable enough. |
[1710.52 --> 1713.70] And I'm going to have to constantly keep poking and tending this thing. |
[1714.48 --> 1724.54] And so, yeah, going back to the HP290 as a Windows box, the i5-8500 based system with Pi KVM. |
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