All the same size screws, nice, flat surfaces, small and power efficient, multiple mounting points and flexible IO options... why can't we all have nice things?
I cant imagine all the youtubers in another countrys are common friends while in my country some youtubers are hate each other having more subscriber than theirs😅
I’ve noticed you minimize your electrical skills. However, you’ve helped me learn a whole bunch and that’s helped me in both my home lab as well as my career.
I wish I could reassemble the PCs I take apart with a clap. That's kind of an awesome use for that little PC. You find the coolest stuff out there. Thanks so much!
That would make a great system to use for remote control of your home lab or as a home assistant PC. It might also be fun to control a home brew robot.
The Dual NIC controller setup with there exact two model is standard for embedded systems, where you want the maximum compatibility with most OS’es and hypervisors.
I have camera's at my house. I run my DVR at my girl friends house. Neat!! If someone breaks into my house, there is no way to steal the DVR. I also run BlueIris.
Man 4 HDMI ports? Dual NICs? That'd make a helluva battlestation KVM with quad screens for ALL the terminals and dashboards! Talk about being locked in :D
I bought x3 of those Seneca PCs but with AMD Ryzen CPUs V1605B for $150, crazy deal. So far I have tested with OPNsense and run with no problem, except i couldn't get the working LTE module.
Initially I thought it was using two different NICs because many systems need one that supports vPro/AMT, but the I219-LM is the vPro variant of the I219 family, not the I219-V. As far as I'm able to find, the I219 family connects to Intel PCH via a proprietary interface, which only supports only one PHY, while the I211 simply connects over PCIe. I219 are also more power efficient, but I'm not sure if that was even of concern for Seneca. Maybe I211 offers compatibility benefits as well as it's an older chipset with a "standard" interface? I'm not sure if I219 connecting via PCH could cause potential issues for older OSs.
Could you use the GPIO with an intermediary 'thing' to create a physical disconnection from drives before/after a backup? I could see it being amazing for a backup NAS to be able to have it's drives hard-disconnected as a defence against encryption viruses, and requiring an 'all clear' signal before connecting them.
Can you do a full tutorial on Blue Iris? I came across a box of Xfinity wired Ethernet powered cameras that can replace my discontinued Dropcam cameras.
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Hey Hardware Haven, I was wondering if there are any budget NAS you would recommend that could be stored in a little home office, and AREN'T horrible on the eyes? I know there are dozens of RU-vid videos about budget/DIY NAS that usually are old PCs and aren't the most flattering to look at. I ask this because my mother wants a place to store our old family photos that isn't on an external drive. I would like to get her one for Christmas or something, but I don't see her enjoying a janky old pc sitting in her office lol. I see some old NAS on Ebay that usually go for ~$6o. Would these be good just for storing and accessing photos? I don't see my mother spinning up a VM or plex server lol, so she doesn't need something top of the line.
@HardwareHaven - I am in a similar situation and starting to set up an NVR with ~10-ish (mostly Reolink) cameras - including their Wired doorbell. I might be getting couple Odyssey Blue (v2) computers that you are using for your router for this purpose as well as the Coral TPUs. Have you compared Blue Iris with Frigate for NVR duties? Is one easier to set up / maintain than the other? In watching few videos (Apalrd(?) - thanks for reference to his channel in previous video), ti appears Frigate has good built-in support for the Coral TPUs (as well as other hardware - like Nvidia GPUs, OpenVINO, etc. for object detection). Not sure how easy or hard it might (relatively) in Blue Iris to setup some of the same functionality. Great video regardless. Keep it up.👍
I haven't spent enough time with either to really provide much feedback. Frigate seems to be missing some functionality I like, such as recording schedules and a timeline viewer. BI has those and also seems to have a ton of other features in an easier to use interface. Getting object detection was a bit odd as I had never used BI or Code Project AI, but once I got it working it seemed to do just about as well as Frigate. Once again, very little experience with both. I might do a video on BI here soon.
Hey, just trying to help. The I211 is not supported almost anywhere, routers will not see it and Linux too. I bought an Asus M/B and all it has was an Intel I211 and nothing would work with it as far as it has no built in drivers (remember the days before you were born, NT 4 days where all drivers had to be installed). The I219 is a normal nic that will work as expected.
Hmm.. it seemed to work fine once I had an OS at least. And it was recognized just fine for the brief little bit of time I tested it out in OPNSense (just cut that from the video). Definitely something to watch out for though I guess. Thanks for the heads up!
Due to variance in different markets, that's going to be nearly impossible. I would just recommend whatever it is you can find for a good deal. Being patient is probably your best chance to snag something good.
