Oh hell yeah, I didn’t know about the raidz extension. That’s amazing!

It’s in the latest TrueNAS versions. https://www.truenas.com/blog/electric-eel-openzfs-23/

Can’t say anything on unify, but what’s wrong with ZFS in the homelab, especially if you know it already? I use ZFS on my Proxmox hosts and my TrueNAS.

Networking looks fine, but check fail2ban as the other commenter mentioned, it goes to the npm.

Make sure to keep all internet facing applications up to date and use strong passwords.

Home Assistant has a great integration, ZHA, which “drives” the Zigbee device. So having the Zigbee dongle on the machine HA runs on is very common. In my case it’s a raspberry with a RaspBee dongle but every MINI PC will do. Recommended devices: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/zha#recommended-zigbee-radio-adapters-and-modules

The other common setup is using Zigbee2MQTT which allows different devices that communicate over LAN. it’s been the go to recommendation as it has some compatibility improvements for devices that don’t properly follow the Zigbee standard. ZHA is keeping up though and is natively supported by home assistant. I’m using ZHA and check for compatibility before buying devices.

You can theoretically switch later, but you’ll have to reconnect all devices which can be a hassle.

Not sure how that’s related to docker. It’s the prometheus setup which can be run natively just fine. Still needs an agent that actually retrieves info from the OS.

Certainly there’s “single executable” tools as well. I just don’t know them.

Yes. Prometheus isn’t standalone though, it requires agents on all target machines. The go-to is node exporter. It’s really flexible though and there’s agents for lots of different tools, you can monitor everything with it, but the initial setup isn’t suuper easy.

Both! Connecting Iot devices to your LAN is a security risk, since they sometimes carry malware. Many DDOS these days are performed by smart bulbs or the like. May even sniff in your network. Of course you can firewall them, but why bother with wifi at all then? Zigbee is pretty reliable and works even if your router goes down (you probably can’t access Home Assistant Web interface anymore, but zigbee light switches etc will still trigger zigbee bulbs, zigbee thermeters will still report their sensor values etc).

I’m a Zigbee user so I use that in the examples but I’m sure the other options are fine as well.

If you aren’t locked in yet, I’d recommend against WiFi devices. Check Zigbee or similar. It won’t clutter your LAN and is independent. You usually need some kind of central station for that but it’s worth it imho.

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I’m using CamScanner, but I have to share every doc to paperless. Should have a look at an automatic ingest as well…

I like plasma the most. I mostly like the defaults and KDE tools but in some cases enjoy the vast customization options. I haven’t tried any others in five years or so, so my opinion is a bit off. Could never get used to Gnome.

I had a quick look at the mint one when installing Linux for other people and it seemed decent as well.

Cool! Note that the nameservers for your domain don’t have to be from your registrar. I use Hetzner for DNS despite having my domains elsewhere. And I use a similar thing as you, a cronjob that compares my public IP to the DNS records and adjusts them via Hetzner API when necessary.

Sounds good! Are you on SSD or HDD?

If you want to go all in, get some plug that measures the energy! Also let’s you directly see the effects of turning stuff on/off. My last server went up 3W when I started using the second network interface! Let drives go to sleep, play with C-States, etc

Blergh, how did you pinpoint it?

Yeah that would be a bit convoluted :D

The point of the opnsense is that I can tinker with it without risking our home wifi. It needs to stay up for my wife, for our mqtt devices/home assistant etc.

I don’t introduce points of failure to our home network which is the critical part. If something in the opnsense misbehaves, it only impacts my lab stuff. The FritzBox + Pihole combination has proven pretty stable over years, even though I’m considering getting a second Pihole device for high availability.

Ouchy!

I’ve had pihole years before the opnsense, but also opnsense is not the main router but just sits in front of my homelab. The wifi etc is a FritzBox, which also acts as WAN for opnsense.

That way, everything still in the house still works if my homelab/opnsense is down. Pihole is on a pi in the FritzBox LAN.