Look into frigate. It’s designed to work with home assistant and is incredibly reliable. It works with pretty much any camera that can publish a stream. That being said, most people recommend reo link

I found some Amcrest cameras on Craigslist, 4 being sold for $75, and that started my system.

I disagree. Sometimes you need to look at the situation as a whole in order to understand the motivation.

How is it irrelevant? Plex offers a bunch of services that cost them money that we don’t use, so they jacked up prices for streaming our own data.

Plex actually does have streaming services. The ones we’ve never asked for. And live tv.

I have the docker AIO going for about a year after every other form of install exploded itself. So far so good.

I started using it and I love it.

I’m going to second this. I have things labeled like 1F_Kitchen_Counter.

When searching for entities in automations it’s easy to type 1F_Kitchen and see all the entities associated with the room.

This is incredible!

What application are you trying to tweak?

I should also say I use portainer for some graphical hand holding. And I run watchtower for updates (although portainer can monitor GitHub’s and run updates based on monitored merged).

For simplicity I create all my volumes in the portainer gui, then specify the mount points in the docker compose (portainer calls this a stack for some reason).

The volumes are looped into the base OS (Truenas scale) zfs snapshots. Any restoration is dead simple. It keeps 1x yearly, 3x monthly, 4x weekly, and 1x daily snapshot.

All media etc… is mounted via NFS shares (for applications like immich or plex).

Restoration to a new machine should be as simple as pasting the compose, restoring and restoring the Portainer volumes.

Use portainer + watchtower

I use the *arr suite, a project zomboid server, a foundry vtt server, invoice ninja, immich, next cloud, qbittorrent, and caddy.

I pretty much only use prebuilt images, I run them like appliances. Anything custom I’d run in a vm with snapshots as my docker skills do not run that deep.

I love docker, and backups are a breeze if you’re using ZFS or BTRFS with volume sending. That is the bummer about docker, it relies on you to back it up instead of having its native backup system.

Is tube archivist dead?! I just discovered it and I’m loving it!

How does this differ from tune archivist?

Are you using node red or keeping all of this native?

I bought a cheap AIO PC on FB Marketplace and run HA’s front end on it. I also have the thermostat on an Amazon fire.

Each device has its own login so I can update what it sees. Eventually I want a 2F control, 1F control, and maybe use open hasp for thermostats. I’m also going to experiment using a raspberry pi or esp32 and gpio buttons.

If I were going to spend a little more cash I think I’d get a Chromebook that has a detachable screen and use that.

I looked at your post history and you’re overwhelming negative on a very small platform that tends to be people interacting with their best interests at heart. Maybe you grew up on 4chan, maybe you’re used to reddit griefing, either Lemmy doesn’t seem like a good place for you.

This is why I came here. I think you’d need at least three. One to work while the other sleeps, and a spare in case one gets injured.

Check out resilio.