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Deep Dive into a Self-Hosted Media Management Platform for Beginners

2023-08-28 No Comments

What exactly are we building?

A fancy docker compose stack consisting of:

  • A built in VPN container, through which all other containers’ traffic is routed
  • Plex: A media library management tool that organizes and streams your media files.”
  • Tautulli: Companion software to Plex, fine-grained control for monitoring and managing your streams
  • Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Bazarr: Automating the downloads of TV shows, movies, music, and subtitles (in that order)
  • Jackett: API-based management of indexers for the aforementioned list of download clients
  • QBittorrent: Torrent client
  • Watchtower: Tool to auto-update the containers
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Written by: Martin
Encryption Linux Security Storage Technologies Utilities

Encrypt an empty partition with LUKS

2021-12-09 No Comments

LUKS encrypts block devices. It can be used both to encrypt individual partitions within a disk, or entire LVM volumes, in which case you can have multiple partitions under an encrypted container.

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Grafana Homelab Linux Monitoring Projects Technologies

Grafana + InfluxDB: Bad Gateway

2021-06-08 No Comments

I’ve been ecountering a weird issue with Grafana when trying to set up InfluxDB: even though the config for the data source is correct, when trying to test it it returns InfluxDB Error: Bad Gateway.

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Homelab Linux Storage Utilities

Have multiple drives appear as one

2021-05-10 No Comments

In short:

  • The Problem: Managing multiple drives dedicated to media for my Plex server is annoying
  • The Solution: using mergerfs, a union file system to “merge” the drives and make storage management easier
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ESPHome Home Assistant Home Automation

MagicHue and ESPHome

2021-05-09 No Comments

Flashing ESPHome onto a Magic Hue LED Controller and integrating it into Home Assistant

A while back I have ordered a cheap, 5m LED strip with Wi-Fi capabilities. The hardware was perfectly fine, but the Wi-Fi controls only worked through the manufacturer’s own, questionable Chinese app that I didn’t really want to keep around on my phone. I set out to modify and configure the controller to work with both Home Assistant for home automation as well as Apple HomeKit for easy voice control.

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Homelab

Upgrading the CPU

2019-05-27 No Comments

The original CPU in my rickety home server was proving to be a little inadequate, but even the strongest supported CPU would have been such a small upgrade that I could not justify spending the money on it.

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Written by: Martin
Homelab

Homelab

2019-05-09 No Comments

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  • Deep Dive into a Self-Hosted Media Management Platform for Beginners
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    What exactly are we building? A fancy docker compose stack consisting of: A built in VPN container, through which all other containers’ traffic is routed Plex: A media library management tool that organizes and streams your media files.” Tautulli: Companion software to Plex, fine-grained control for monitoring and managing your streams Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Bazarr: Automating the downloads of TV shows, movies, music, and subtitles (in that order) Jackett: API-based management of indexers for the aforementioned list of download clients QBittorrent: Torrent client Watchtower: Tool to auto-update the containers
  • Grafana + InfluxDB: Bad Gateway
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    Fixing Grafana’s weird issue with InfluxDB.
  • Have multiple drives appear as one
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    Solving a slight annoyance with hours of research and risking all my data, because why not.
  • Upgrading the CPU
    by Martin
    2019-05-27
    The original CPU in my rickety home server was proving to be a little inadequate, but even the strongest supported CPU would have been such a small upgrade that I could not justify spending the money on it.
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Written by: Martin

My name is Martin, and I'm a sysadmin. On this blog I'll be posting tutorials and personal anecdotes about my work in IT.

  • Deep Dive into a Self-Hosted Media Management Platform for Beginners2023-08-28
  • Encrypt an empty partition with LUKS2021-12-09
  • Grafana + InfluxDB: Bad Gateway2021-06-08
  • Have multiple drives appear as one2021-05-10
  • MagicHue and ESPHome2021-05-09

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