Here’s my beautiful unemployed-for-too-long-have-no-money-dont-care-about-looks lab :)

picture of a raspberrypi, switch, HP elite desk, KVM and mess of cables on a desk

Hey it’s more than good enough to run all this ¯_(ツ)_/¯

screenshot showing list of hosted apps and resources usage of servers

  • erkan@slrpnk.netEnglish
    2·
    24 hours ago

    Started with a nicely packaged mini-pc running some docker containers. Recently added an external gpu through an m.2 to oculink adapter, so now it also hosts wolf for game streaming 😁 Will package it all up at some point…

  • KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    18·
    2 days ago

    Still busy building it. Have a few more parts to print, like the back trim and plug holder, and I need to remove the protective plastic from the aluminum sheets.

      • KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Thanks! I made it from some scrap pieces of wood from my IKEA headboard, aluminium extrusions and some aluminium sheets, then just 3D printed trim and fittings.

        I was lucky and got a good deal on some ram, so each has 24gb.

        Its supposed to be my kubernetes homelab. My actual server is hidden in the electrical box in my apartment.

  • Fmstrat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    I used to have a random server box. This past year my hobby has been CAD work and 3D printing to turn a bunch of mini PCs into a fully remote controlled cluster, complete with a DIY IPMI KVM and custom built outlets that are controllable for power cycling (hard wired, not radio smart outlets). It’s all self-contained with a single plug to the UPS.

    I plan on releasing all my models/etc as I usually do on my site when everything is finished.

    I will say, I don’t miss the dusty box 😄

    Edit: And yes, I color coded cables from each system. ¯\(ツ)/¯

  • UnfairUtan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    2 days ago

    Love this thread, here’s my contribution

    Just a pi4B and some external drives for Linux ISOs

    edit : they resting on a piece of foam to reduce vibrations

    Bonus pic of the zigbee dongle for Home Assistant

      • UnfairUtan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        17 hours ago

        Oh! So you mean pointing it downward? Would you mind explain how that works? I’m clueless when it comes to these things

        Some context, the house is on two levels and this is level 0. The ceiling above is level 1. Also we’re on the edge of the house not the center, the tip of the antenna is pointing towards the center

        • 0x0@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          11 hours ago

          Just letting it be straight, as if it didn’t have that joint that allows it to bend 90º, but test and see.

    • turmacar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      I bought a 16U rack this year to organize stuff a bit. Zigbee dongle is still installed exactly like this. I’m not convinced there’s a better solution.

      • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        Honestly, I doubt there is. You’re suspending it away from metal and wood, seems like the best solution other than replacing the antenna with something expensive and “mounting” that separately.

      • UnfairUtan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        Yea really happy with it. It only struggled some summers when I used to live in a small apartment in a large city.

  • sunbeam60@feddit.ukEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    Behold the Splendor!

    • TerraMaster 4 bay - 30 TB usable and hosts all family services
    • China special N100 - runs OPNsense
    • gobox to provide a SIP DECT bridge; wife wants a landline. I don’t get it either.
    • ZBT-2 ZigBee antenna for garage alarm and handling a bunch of IKEA lights.
    • a Hive heating controller (UK “smart” heating system).
    • A switch with bondable ports.
    • All sitting on a custom-built shelf with lots of ventilation and cabling routing holes.
  • Unusable 3151 ⁂@lemmy.mlEnglish
    133·
    3 days ago

    people put too much “lab” and not enough “home” in homelab. we need more dust, more cables, more jank. love this.

    • BakedCatboy@lemmy.mlEnglish
      45·
      3 days ago

      Dust and jank you say? Behold, my old basement homelab when I rented just outside Boston with a very permissive landlord who agreed to let me have Comcast gig pro fiber pulled into the basement, running off an outlet I installed without asking on a free slot in our breaker box. The dust was terrible, the rack was a hodge podge, I had to put up that sign because maintenance guys kept plugging their power tools into the UPS when I wasn’t around and tripping it. But Comcast fucked up the billing and the 2gig + 1gig symmetric internet is still active to this day for free, which I left behind minimally working for the next tenants after parting out the rack. The tower by the side was a friend who wanted to colocate on my fiber, and I had some fun stuff like a slide out vga console. I also pulled Ethernet into every room, most of them installed with nice wall plates all bundled down to the rack, so with a house full of gamers, you could have multiple people pulling a gig on a game download without anyone stepping on anyone else’s toes.

  • Senal@programming.devEnglish
    16·
    3 days ago

    a bunch of ebay specials with more ebay parts scavenged over time + some 3d printing.

    The centre tower has a miniitx mb and PSU behind those panels to run the NAS, and the drive bays are in the bottom.

    The right is a failover cluster that isn’t finished yet.

      • Senal@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        i’m not utilising it nearly as much as i should which is why i haven’t gotten around to the failover cluster yet.

        • linuxguy@piefed.caEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          Same here wrt utilization. I’ve excess capacity and can’t seem to find anything I want to use it on.

    • Ajen@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      Wow, that looks really good! I like the labels on each server! Are the 3d printed parts custom or did you find them online?

      • Senal@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        Custom printed.

        The front rack grills, keystone panels and thinkcentre mounts are from a website but all the other printed parts are custom.

  • Flaxseed@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    Moving to a new house soon where it will be in a rack, but this is the current setup. Mini pc for opnsense, UPS and server. Behind that the spaghetti includes a kvm, switch and AP.

  • Alfredolin@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    9·
    3 days ago

    Here my homelab. I moved not too long ago and I am still lacking some furniture, so it’s on the floor with cables lying wild. Does not look like much but it actually covers almost all my needs. I still need a VPS because of email ports and resident ISP not being compatible…

  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago



    My literal tech stack:
    HP Prodesk and NUC i3: Proxmox hosts
    NUC i5: Debian server (primarily docker server)
    uGreen NAS: TrueNAS NFS-Storage for proxmox host (connected via 2.5G NIC)
    RaspberryPi4 (NES case): docker host for pihole (so I don’t take out my whole DNS access when doing maintenance…)
    White sandwich at the botom: HPE Aruba 1930 24G PoE switch

    All stacked on my PC (Win11, Ryzen 5 7800X3D, 16GB RAM, RTX 3070)

    Edit: Power is stable enough to not need a UPS. In fact I had never experienced a power outage at home.

  • tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.gardenEnglish
    20·
    3 days ago

    Built a year ago, didn’t change anything but drives since. PCengine APU OpnSense, two Proxmox cluster hosts, one mini PC NAS with JBOD. All DIY.

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      Man, GTFO with that hot mess… I’m jealous really. I’m getting a chub just thinking about it.

    • thumdinger@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Is this the “before” shot? There’s 190 spare ports. I’m all for leaving room to expand, but that’s a lot

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      I remember looking at Sysracks racks a while back when I was trying to find sound-absorbent enclosed racks (which they do make, though I didn’t get one; wasn’t willing to pay for it, as they come at a very large premium). They were one of the very few companies making them. I don’t think that those particular ones are the sound-absorbent models, but their name stuck in my head.

      • Brkdncr@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        I got this because it’s almost fully enclosed. Most of the noise comes from an open rear door which this doesn’t have, and an open front door which this sort of has. It’s not very loud when the hvac is set to a reasonable level, even though it’s pulling air through 4 fans on the top.

        I have additional sound deadening material if I need to apply it but I’m not there yet.

        I’m eyeing 3-5 more 1U servers though so maybe I’ll need to do it.

        • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          I have additional sound deadening material if I need to apply it but I’m not there yet.

          That’s probably a pretty good idea in terms of cost. I checked earlier when I made the comment to see what the price difference these days was, and IIRC a non-isolated 18U is ~$800 and an isolated 18U is ~$1800. They aren’t putting anything like $1k of sound-absorbing material into the rack.