006 - Patrick

Patrick works as Production Control Manager, creating work orders in a factory and telling people on the floor what to make.

Hardware

• ASUS monitor

• Trackball

• 2 port VGA KVM switch

• Sliding keyboard tray with numpadless keyboard

• QNAP TS-431XeU NAS

• Dell C6220 (2 node)

• 8 port HDMI KVM switch

• Ubiquiti EdgeRouter 8 Pro

• 24 port patch panel with 13 RJ45 passthrough keystones

• Ubiquiti EdgeSwitch 24 Lite

• 24 port patch panel with 12 RJ45 passthrough keystones

• 24 port patch panel with 4 RJ45 passthrough and 1 fiber optic LC keystones

• Hubitat Elevation in a Hive Tech Solutions rack mount adapter

• BeeLink EQ14 and S12 Pro in Hive Tech Solutions rack mount adapters

• An empty (for now) shelf

• A shelf with an Xfinity xFi gateway and an Intel Celeron PC running Debian (Xfce)

• 2x PDU’s

Software

Servers: Ubuntu Server (For Now)

Services:

• Jellyfin,

• Jellyseerr,

• Navidrome,

• Calibre,

• Heimdall,

• the Servarr stack

• two OpenVPN clients

• Transmission, and the

• Ubiquiti UniFi controller

  I'm also in the process of playing around with Collabora and some other software before I push it to a live environment.

What inspired you to build your homelab, and what’s its main purpose today?

I had a couple of old NASes with media files that I wanted to stream, so I wanted to get Jellyfin set up. It grew from there because the process was relaxing and fun.

What’s one part of your setup (hardware or software) that you’re especially proud of — and why?

My Dell C6220. I got it for free by just asking the IT department at work if they had any servers they were going to be getting rid of.

What are your next plans, experiments, or dream upgrades for your lab?

I've still got a lot to learn about using Docker effectively, so I'll be experimenting with that quite a bit. Plus, I really want too get Collabora Office to work.

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