Ah, good call on using the power to get the tablet to respond… I don’t have that problem (tablet freezing), but it does drop off the wifi sometimes.

I’ve done similar with an old Android tablet. Installed Fully Kiosk Browser to display the dashboard AND read the battery level - above 75%, switch off power…

But… automations only trigger when going past the threshold once, so if there’s a random issue where HA doesn’t see the battery drop below 10%, (had that happen a few times in the past), then I also have multiple triggers for 5% and 2%… to turn the power back on again 😉

It’s so sad when we all find these critical components are maintained by someone we’d just pass in the street… and then they’re gone.

Lovely to see the contributions on ko-fi

I’m curious if anyone’s paying to support development (of either application)?

I’m just about getting all my photos into my NAS, so will be looking at these myself soon

I can confirm that moving the disks to a very similar device will work.

We recovered “enough” data from what disks remained of a Dell server that was dropped (PSU side down) from a crane. The server was destroyed, most of the disks had moved further inside the disk caddy which protected them a little more.

It was fun to struggle with that one for ~1 week

And the noise from the drives…

Wha?! I didn’t know this was happening… Damn, that was my solution to multiple applications

I think they should consider the word “wages” instead.

Let’s be honest, this is compensation for skilled labour.

What kinda thing are you thinking of? An actual photobooth kinda box?

You could usr an Android tablet, install Open Camera (from F-Droid) and that has the ability to take (for example) 4 photos with a 10 sec delay… videos too…

Then use syncthing to copy those photos to something else (your phone, a NAS, etc) before it gets trashed / accidentally wiped, etc…

This is the way.

There’s nothing worse than finding your DNS/DHCP has gone down and it’s a VM / container running inside a server that can’t start because it doesn’t have an IP address and you can’t resolve names to get the thing started.

Break things down into chunks that make sense - to you.

I have dedicated (low power) hardware for the interweb firewall / DHCP / core network stuff.

I have a NAS for storage with all the backups / reinstall images on (so I can rebuild the firewall if there’s no internet, for example)

Then I have everything else in a single server.

Sources: a house fire, water leak & many hardware failures & borked upgrades over many decades.

Yes, because the CLI command is poweroff, so I do agree with you 🙂

(Please Wait… comments about alternative CLI commands will arrive soon…)

Yeah, that was me a couple years ago… I’d read some blogs, watched some yoochoobz and had data going from my NAS to Backblaze… encrypted…so… ok… is it restorable? No idea.

No, you can jusy restore to a second location…it depends on whether everything was backed up, or just a few test files.

I prefer backing up specific folders rather than “everything”, so it’s easier to test. (I’d just reinstall the OS if that was nuked)

Let’s say I want to do a test restore of all my photos. I just rename that folder to simulate that it’s been accidentally deleted… then I just do a normal restore - and do a bit-by-bit comparison of the two folders and check it all went well.

I think the main thing is for you to try doing a test restore of your data before you need to (and you already have a local backup anyway if your test goes wrong)

That will give you a better understanding of the whole process - they might be 100% reliable in storing data which is totally unusable by you because you’ve lost your decryption key, weren’t backing it up correctly, etc (for example).

:) you don’t have to use containers, but they do simplify the install.

I don’t use containers.

There’s also no Setup.exe to download run where you just Next, Next, Finish.

So, instead, I have to install separate packages, configure them, deal with conflicting requirements, etc…

Did I have to learn Docker? No. Did I have to learn something else? Yes.

As someone else mentioned, spending some time learning what / how / why you’re doing will help massively later on. Probably why you’re getting Docker answers, they’re auto-suggesting it to start you off with something simpler…

Yeah, good summary - I’m not using the latest version, but LiveTV channel changing still takes a second (on a dual tuner machine), but, like you said, we rarely watch LiveTV now and if we do, we’re not really channel hopping either.

How well doea the NUC perform as a Frontend? I have a small TV in a spare room which could benefit from a separate Frontend…

Glad we helped you :)

I think Myth can record from the homerun boxes?

I’m lucky the OTA scheduling works well enough for me - only issue is that I can only see a few days ahead.

Ah, ok, you’re a bit of a contributor… I helped with a couple of patches and loads of wiki edits (that needed much love a few years ago)

TVDb is still hit & miss, but much better than it used to be.

And yeah, Myth’s not ideal for external streaming…

Yeah, I was kinda thinking about a combined Myth Backend / *arr box and then see whether Myth Frontend or Jellyfin worked “better” (for my use case)… just need a spare weekend to try it all out.