Good call out on the smart values. That’s on the priority list for my monitoring scheme now too.

Thanks for the tip on measuring temp of the ram, too. I will incorporate that into my monitoring scheme.

The mini pc I have has a good case design with a fan that blows across the ram, cpu and ssd. So I think it has good cooling, but I will definitely confirm with some monitoring.

Oh boy, can of worms just opened. Awesome insight. I do have an ecosystem of servers already and i have a pi zero 2 set aside to develop as a dedicated system watchdog for the whole shebang. I have multiple wifi networks segregated for testing and personal use. Use both built in wifi for the network connection and a wifi adapter to scan my sub networks.

So great insight and it helps some things click into place.

Thanks, a solid suggestion.

I have explored that direction and would 100% agree for most home setups. I specifically need HA running in an unsupervised environment, so Add-ons are not on the table anyway. The containerized version works well for me so far and it’s consistent with my overall services scheme. I am developing an integration and there’s a whole other story to my setup that includes different networks and test servers for customer simulations using fresh installs of HASS OS and the like.

I have a fine backup strategy and I don’t really want to go into it here. I am considering my ecosystem of services at this point.

I am skeptical that this will overload my i/o if I build it slowly and allocate the resources properly. It may be the rate-limiting factor in some very occasional situations, but never a real over-load situation. Most of these services only sit and listen on their respective ports most of the time. Only a few do intense processing and even then only on upload of new files or when streaming.

I really resist throwing a lot of excess power at a single-user system. It goes against my whole ethos of appropriate and proportional tech.

I do have a backup plan. I will use the on-board SSD for the main system and an additional 1Tb HDD for an incremental backup of the entire system with ZFS, all to guard against garden-variety disk corruption. I also take total system copies to keep in a fire safe.

Good insights, thank you for the perspective. I will look into that more closely before committing.

That’s very relevant. Thanks for the heads-up. I will look into that.

That’s surely overkill for my use level. Most of these services are only really listening to the web port most of the time. Yes, some like Immich or Paperless-ngx do some brief intense processing, but I am skeptical that I need nearly that much separation. I am using an AMD Ryzen 7 5825U. I am open to ideas, but I also press hard against over-investing in hardware for a single-person home setup.

I would like to hear a bit more about the main differences. I tried immich first on a resource constrained system and it was a real pig naturally. PhotoPrism seems to be less resource intensive, but my new AMD Ryzen 7 mini pc is also a lot more powerful than a pi 4.

Im willing to go either way and this one will probably be near the bottom of the list anyway, so I have time to learn more and perhaps change my mind.

My storage needs will never be as huge as some setups. The Jellyfin library will surely be the largest as I am part of a sneakernet pirate enclave (me and my friends swapping media collections as an alternative to torrents).

But the 512gb main drive of my mini PC should be plenty for the foreseeable future. That will be incrementally backed up to another internal HDD. I already snapshot my systems quarterly and keep that drive in a fire safe as a disaster recovery measure.

I may get to the point where I need a NAS, so I will look at True NAS so I can plan for that future need. My digital footprint is relatively small as I do not hoard a lot of video media. So, hooray, something else I can migrate later!

You are correct that I will be using it only for internal authentication. I want to get away from my bad habit of reusing passwords on internal services to reduce pwnage if mr robot gets access ;)

Any experience on how authelia interacts with vaultwarden? They seem sympatico but should I install them in tandem? Would that make anything easier?

I am considering FF3 too for my home host setup.

I have looked at simpleFin, which is a third party that provides the ability to link bank, credit card, loan and investment accounts into FF3. It’s cheap so cost isn’t an issue.

Does anyone have direct experience using this with FF3? The idea of having a comprehensive dashboard of my whole financial situation is appealing.