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Super nice video, i have running OMV5 on a raspberry pi4 4gb. Connected 2x 6 tb external drives. Service running cloudflare, wordpress,nginx proxy, fully automated dl with radarr, sonarr,jackett,transmission, vpn. Plex, duckdns, heimdall,portainer,pihole,RU-vid dl. And on a second pi running home assistant for managing all the smart and not so smart devices in the house.
I have been running Plex and Calibre on a Raspberry Pi 4B using that very case for about 3 years now. I'm up to 1100 movies, 60 TV series, and over 800 books. I'm using 6 Seagate 10TB drives (3 primary and 3 for backups) on a powered USB hub with power switches for each port. I discovered that having too many drives connected at once was a problem. 6 seems to be the limit (not counting the M.2 drive). My wife had a stroke 2 years ago and this allows us to watch movies and shows more conveniently. I have also ripped all of my music CD's. I don't share my server outside the house as I believe in making sure artists get royalties for their work. BTW, I keep the backup drives unmounted and the usb ports powered off unless I'm running a backup. I'm also running a NAS using Argon 40's case. I back up the Plex metadata to the NAS using rsync. Just starting to play with a TuringPi2 cluster. Being retired is fun! Thanks for the great video!
Just wanted to say thank you for the video. You have pretty much convinced me to consider getting a Raspberry Pi 4. Hopefully sooner than later. I have tinkered with Docker / Portaininer / PFsense / Cloudflare DDNS / Remotely and others - all on my Synology NAS. I think the Raspberry Pi would be better suited as it would be dedicated as the main part of any Home Server / Network backbone; at least from an economic/power efficiency point of view. Thanks again for the time you have invested in sharing your knowledge. I have now subscribed to your channel.
If you haven't bought one yet, start keeping an eye on prices. I've seen the Raspberry Pi 4 8gb fluctuate by over $100 in the last week (mid-March 2022)
Great intro to the potential with the newer Raspberry Pi's. They have really become capable. Also, be a good and light-weight test bench for various Dockers. Thanks for giving us ideas.
I personally use Cockpit to easily manage my raspberry pi 4 via a simple Web interface. Really comes in handy when i feel like doing updates in the bathroom.
Argon One M.2 is a fantastic case for this RP4. I only wish there was a version that moved one USB port and maybe the audio jack (either 2.0 or 3.0) to the front for wired keyboard/mouse/quick-attach usb drives/headphones.
See, that case addresses the ports issue for me by getting them all on one side to start with. From there, I'm happy to throw on a USB extension pigtail to gain easier access to the ports. As for audio, well the onboard audio jack is still pretty susceptible to external noise, so you're honestly better off using a USB sound card or splitting it off from the HDMI anyway. The real problem with the Argon case (and this isn't their fault by any stretch) is the limited power supply of the Pi. Since the Pi has to run the SSD via USB port, it quickly runs out of juice to run other peripherals like a keyboard and/or mouse. Once you're booting from SSD, you're pretty much committing to either operating the Pi through remote sessions on another system, or connecting a powered USB hub for your peripherals.
Ditto started with PI3s and had fun for years before PI4 released have a PI zero W in production for complete IOT using Nodered, Broker MQTT for the whole home. Also plays many other roles like DNS server in home and lab environment, Radius, tacacs, openldap and more
The only problem i had with the Argon case is the fan crapped out and there is no replacement available , even from Argon Forty directly. I had to harvest the original fans micro connection and rewire a similar fan with it.
hey, I love your content, Its awesome. Buttering aside, :) I want to connect to my home network from outside, My ISP doesn't allow port forwarding, Tried Cloudflare with TCP to make my Proxy server or VPN Server to be accessed from home, That didn;t work Can you suggest something please?
I had that exact same setup (different services) and I have to say it is not reliable. That ssd to usb was failing for me all the time... and it is frustrating
Noice video. I recently discovered Homer and prefer it to Heimdall because there is no need for user credentials. So I run a second instance publicly and use that as my website "landing page". :)
I tested a few things on my pi, i was trying to set up a shoutcast server for piont to point audio streaming but there was no arm version of shoutcast, so ended up at icecast, then i got a hp thin client with an x86 cpu and put crunchbang debian on it and ran icecast and pihole from that. It idles at about 5 watts.
I am new to the game. I have installed docker and portainer and are using pi-hole as of now. How do i use my external harddrive connected to my rpi5 as network storage? So essentially as a NAS. I started using OMV, but people recommended me to use Docker and portainer, as i wanted to used multiple programs on my rpi
So idk if anyone else has come across this issue, but the repo for docker for Ubuntu Groovy (20.10) is actually broken at the moment. I ended up getting stuck on a "docker-ce" has no installation candidate
If u think you’re missing screws then try putting the case together first then go back. And if you’re still missing screws then…you’re probably screwed.
[Sorry, I answered by my own question by looking ... Google says --> pfSense doesn't have an official release for Raspberry Pi, it's only available on AMD64 architecture, so there is no way to install it on a Raspberry Pi.] Damn ... IF ONLY ... Do you think this RB Pi would be powerful enough to be a router with Pfsense? Is the hardware that capable yet? I don't know if one has two ethernet ports. But, I love the wattage.
Good afternoon, I bought the Argon M.2 and love it, however, I setup mine the exact same way as you with Ubuntu as the OS and I'm struggling to figure out how to boot from the SSD. All of the instructions I find only pertains to the Raspberry Pi OS. However, I installed Ubuntu, because I want to learn a new OS and it's fun. Can someone help me? Thank you, GO Navy!
I see that this video was published over a year ago, but I found it when looking for information regarding Lycal and Raspberry Pi. Local by Flywheel, and they have an installer for Ubuntu. Is this not an easier option when running WP locally?
Now that you’ve upgraded with your rack in the garage are you still using your pi? I have the same one you have but use an optiplex for Plex and browsing for Plex media and worry about the pi’s browsing performance given the low specs.
I still have a PI set up for testing stuff. The PI would be fine for a small Plex server to play locally but having it transcode media for more than one playback will be tough.
Will this work for monitoring different sensors? Testing all different sensors and want to use this idea as a central receiving point and create dashbords.
Yep! The only thing is that if you're using Ubuntu you'll have to follow a guide for getting GPIO set up, as the traditional was from Raspberry Pi OS won't work. Its really easy, though. ubuntu.com/tutorials/gpio-on-raspberry-pi#1-overview
Thank's is a very good explain and pretty video, i have 2 PI 4, one with M.2 Argon with 4 G ram 128 G NVME SSD, And i got another one with the Case DeskPi PRO with SSD 256 G PI 4 8Gb With Budgy install. 2 more PI 3 with Octoprint with 3,5 " touch and the other with 7 " touch. I used Grfana With "Internet Monitoring" (Jeff Geerling) and "Container Monitoring" (Novaspirits). A lot of debuging. I wil follow you Thank's again (french guy)
Yes indeed...the Pis are ubiquitous but certainly not the best choice of hardware for a server. HP/Dell/Lenovo Mini/Micro is a much better choice IMO. What say?
So you were able to run Ubuntu desktop version on the Raspberry Pi with a bunch of services. The performance looks rock solid. Is that an accurate assessment, or did you edit the video to make the UI zipper than it really was?
I went with Ubuntu due to it being 64 bit and being more likely to support most services I throw at it. I believe there is a Raspberry Pi OS beta that is 64 bit, though. I haven’t tried it as Ubuntu has been solid for me.
Has anyone solved the "maximum upload rate" (2mb) issue with this version. Creating a uploads.ini file with it set in there doesn't seem to be working for me.
8gb is already pushing it if you want to run the setup I am so 4gb wouldn't perform very well. However, if you just want to run a few containers I'm sure 4gb can work.
If you set up a custom DNS entry for a locally-hosted site then PiHole shouldn't need internet access to route that traffic. There must be a config error somewhere.
@@empetor492 The Red PRO versions are the ones that aren't SMR, right? I've had good experiences with most WD stuff so I'm sure they're fine. Just make sure you don't get the SMR versions if you plan to any continuous I/O on them.
@@RaidOwl on rpi i now have smr 2.5 backup plus or how is it called but that one is painfully slow, ill just get red pro and build normal tower server (e3 1220 v2, 32gb ddr3 ram)
hey there kept getting the issue when trying to deploy my stacks it came back with "failed to deploy a stack services must be a mapping" any suggestions? i literally just copy and pasted , happened to me on both pihole and wordpress. luckily got filebrowser to work but that was simple, do u by chance know if i can use an external drive instead of my micro usb for filebrowser?
sadly i think its just the indentation but seeing from how it looks on my end versus yours , sadly i dont know how to fix this seeing as i cant pause yours and fully see it all
pihole didnt show this but on wordpress it showed "There is an error in the yaml syntax: YAMLSemanticError: Map keys must be unique; "image" is repeated"
@@RaidOwl what about a similar multi system server?? Right now I have OMV running and would like to run Pi Hole and Wordpress on it at the same time...
If it’s just a regular x86 based system then you can easily run everything from this video. The only difficulty we get is when using ARM based hardware.
Raspis are too expensive. For 180 euro you get no proper Harddrive, no power supply and no case. I needed a small server, so i bought a used notebook. Cheaper and better. Also has a monitor, keybord, mouse and battery. On the software side it does not really matter if its Arm or x64. Linux supports it all.
@@RaidOwl My criticism was valid. Listening to criticism makes you better understand your shortcomings. I was legitimatly trying to help. You could have chosen to better prepare your oration materials, edited your videos more and created content that would make your channel grow. Or You can act like a pathetic child. Your choice.
I'd love to see an example of three of these devices setup as a Proxmox HA cluster with ZFS (to make it really interesting) and 1 TB drives. Would it work at all, and how feasible would it be?
I know there are people out there who have gotten Proxmox running on some Pis in a cluster so its def possible. Feasible? Maybe...if it's stable then it would certainly make for a fun project. I might just have to try it out ;)
I have two full-size NAS boxes and want to build a proxmox HA cluster. Apparently the minimum number of nodes is three. If your idea works maybe I can use a Pi as the third node, yes?
@@mmoltich If you can get Proxmox running on the Pi then you should be good. I just know its pretty tricky to do, and from what I've seen doesn't work too great.