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Navidrome on my server, with Feishin as the client on my computers, and Symfonium on my phone.

“API client”

Imagine needing a GUI for curl.

I had the same problem: Debian host + official Jellyfin Docker image, all set up according to the official guide, but it would fail to transcode anything.

There was no relevant information about what was wrong in the logs so what I did was:

• Copy the ffmpeg command from the logs.
• docker exec -it into the Jellyfin container.
• run the same ffmpeg command manually so I could see the error directly.

Long story short, because the Nvidia toolkit uses the driver/libraries from the host, the error was that I was missing the library libnvidia-encode1 on the host. After installing that, everything works as it should.

No, but I’m in the UK, so the lowest temp this doorbell has ever experienced here is around -8°C. Depending on where in the world you are, that might not even register as “cold”. Also, I’ve wired it with the official 16V power supply included in the box and the “chime adapter” dongle thingy, which turned out to be really important for it to function properly.

No idea how it compares to Ring, but my wife is a severe technophobe and she had no issues or complaints with Protect. We only have one doorbell + one camera connected to a CloudKey+ though, so your mileage may vary.

Motion detection works reasonably well as far as I can tell, with person, vehicle and animal detection too.

Regarding the doorbell, one option you have is to try finding a second-hand Unifi G4 Doorbell (non-pro). It can be wired with only the two wires you already have. Just make sure you have relatively good 5GHz WiFi reception near your front door, because the 2.4GHz antennas on this model are notably bad.

Hey. I realise my comment may have come off as rude and made me sound like an asshole. It was not my intention to be disrespectful, apologies for that. The reason I posted that is because I read your post (thanks for taking the time to write and share it) and it left me a bit puzzled. I respect wanting something stable, familiar and that requires minimal maintenance, but you seemed to imply this is not possible with a more “traditional” NAS setup. Many of the points you raised about wanting an applliance-like experience are equally achievable on most Linux distros, with no license fees, and with a lot more flexibility, should you need it in the future (although I understand you don’t need or want it).

Take Debian for example (a.k.a. the world’s most boring distro, in a good sense). With the knowledge you demonstrated about the underlying services involved (BTRFS, Wireguard, etc), it would have taken you no more time to configure the same set of services on a minimal Debian install, it would also run rock-solid for many years, and updates would be entirely at your discretion (as they are with RouterOS). Plus, your pockets would be 50 EUR heavier. But for me, personally, by far the biggest avantage of going with Linux for a data storage solution like this is the possiblity of using ZFS.

Also, have this Debian meme:

“I do not want to play sysadmin in my spare time.”

* proceeds to do a bunch of sysadminy things, but on a proprietary OS *

Huh…

59 according to docker info.

I don’t have a registrar to recommend, but for the nameservers (which would already solve your problem) I had a good experience in the past with Hurricane Electric (dns.he.net). AFAIK the only requirement from your list it doesn’t satisfy is being European (not 100% sure about MFA and scoped tokens).

This is the way.

Damn, that’s scary indeed! First of all, congratulations on your resolve to take control of your data. You have a long journey ahead of you, but don’t be discouraged, take one step at a time and don’t be afraid to ask for help.

As for where to start, I think you’ve already figured it out yourself: invest some time in learning the basics of networking. You don’t need to become an enterprise-level networking wizard, just learn the basics: learn what an IP address is, what a network mask is (sometimes also referred to as “prefix length”), what DNS is and does, how to change these settings on your home network and why you’d want to change them. Try stuff, break it, fix it, repeat. Also, if you’re not familiar with or already using it, it might be a good opportunity to pick up Linux. If you’re coming from Windows, a beginner friendly distribution like Linux Mint will do nicely. Try installing it on an old computer to see what it’s like, poke at it until you’re comfortable, then maybe make it your main operating system. Knowing Linux basics (command-line shenanigans in particular) will give you a big edge when you decide to start hosting your own services.

I have Alarmo setup in HA with a bunch of ZigBee sensors and it’s brilliant. I haven’t used it with cameras, but considering Frigate exposes motion sensors, I think this should work fine.

And yes, you can do this with just Frigate and a HA automation, but it would be less flexible.

Uptime Kuma monitoring anything I care about and notifying me via Matrix, or notifying me via email if it’s Matrix that’s down.

I understand this is not exactly what you’re asking for, but if you have access to a terminal, you can “unshorten” a link with:

curl --head -L https://example.com/short | grep: location