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Question tho those with #ErsatzTV :

When creating a channel that has both shows and movies... how do you keep it from going off the rails while keeping a (mostly) consistent schedule, without excessive filler?

Do y'all just create a collection with movies that are within a certain narrow length range, or is there something fancier that I am missing?

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Time to ask for some advise/inspiration, particularily those of y'all that run #ErsatzTV or similiar services that simulate linear broadcast TV with your legally-aquired media:

Did y'all get fancy and create your own fantasy channel names and logos, or do you just run with descriptive names without logos?
And if you took the more creative approach, what was your process? Did you riff on existing channels, or was it all original?

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Ja serio w swoim #ErsatzTV muszę zrobić #discorelax
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I've finally completed most of the guides I was planning on adding to my #Homelab Wiki - now it's got guides on setting up #Portainer, #Immich, #Jellyfin, #ErsatzTV, #OpenMediaVault (#OMV), and even #HomeAssistant - all of these (besides Jellyfin and ErsatzTV, those are on #Proxmox) are hosted on my #RaspberryPi in my homelab.

Most importantly though, I've organised the wiki a lil better - into different courses. The first course details the type of hardware you're going to want to assemble - a beefy server (with only consumer parts) or a mini server (i.e. an #SBC), or whether you'd like to deploy a #NAS, followed by a course to setting up and managing a hypervisor (including #ESXi, but really, use Proxmox - which is #FOSS and plain better).

There's also a whole course on all sorts of 'host deployment environments' (i.e. where your application is hosted on, like #VM, #Docker, #Kubernetes, and #LXC) you could have in your homelab. (One of the) Most importantly, a course on networking - which covers valuable topics like setting up a domain, free or paid, and setting up a reverse proxy for serving your hosted applications publicly, securely.

There's still some stuffs I gotta add, like a complete guide on setting up #TrueNAS (which I've set up for many years at this point, without much documentation on how I did it - so I gotta find an opp to replicate it, when I have extra hardware maybe), but I'm pretty happy with it at this point. If you're planning to get into homelabbing, or even if you're already in it - maybe check it out ​:blobfoxcat:​

🔗 https://github.com/irfanhakim-as/homelab-wiki

RE: https://sakurajima.social/notes/a9so79m6ze

I have finally caved in and dove into the rabbit hole of #Linux Container (#LXC) on #Proxmox during my exploration on how to split a GPU across multiple servers and... I totally understand now seeing people's Proxmox setups that are made up exclusively of LXCs rather than VMs lol - it's just so pleasant to setup and use, and superficially at least, very efficient.

I now have a #Jellyfin and #ErsatzTV setup running on LXCs with working iGPU passthrough of my server's #AMD Ryzen 5600G APU. My #Intel #ArcA380 GPU has also arrived, but I'm prolly gonna hold off on adding that until I decide on which node should I add it to and schedule the shutdown, etc. In the future, I might even consider exploring (re)building a #Kubernetes, #RKE2 cluster on LXC nodes instead of VMs - and if that's viable or perhaps better.

Anyway, I've updated my #Homelab Wiki with guides pertaining LXCs, including creating one, passing through a GPU to multiple unprivileged LXCs, and adding an #SMB share for the entire cluster and mounting them, also, on unprivileged LXC containers.

🔗 https://github.com/irfanhakim-as/homelab-wiki/blob/master/topics/proxmox.md#linux-containers-lxc

I... actually managed to do this and it was somewhat messy to get through with it, but I did it. My 'stoppers' initially were simply needing to update some of the #Jellyfin's xml configs for any wrong/old paths/values, and lastly, the #SQLite DBs themselves which had old paths as well - most of which were easy to fix as they're text values, but some were (JSON) blobs, using the same extension on #VSCode, this wasn't that hard to do either by simply exporting the blob, editing the blob's JSON text value, and reimporting the blob to the column. Oh, I also had to update meta.json files of all plugins I've installed to point to the new path to their logos.

Now my Jellyfin #LinuxServer.io container sitting in an unprivileged (#Debian #Linux) #LXC container on #Proxmox is set up with hardware transcoding using the #AMD Ryzen 5 5600G onboard iGPU (cos I'm getting impatient in waiting for my #Intel #ArcA380 to arrive). I'll update my #ErsatzTV container to do the same. Everything's perfect now, 'cept, I still wouldn't recommend users to stream Jellyfin on the web or a web-based client using transcoding, cos while the transcoding itself is perfect, Jellyfin seems to have an issue (that I never got on #Plex) whereby the subtitle would desync pretty consistently if not direct playing - with external or embedded subs, regardless. Dk if that can ever be fixed though, considering the issue has been up since 2023 with no fix whatsoever.

There's also a separate issue I'm having where Jellyfin does not seem to support discovering/serving media files that are contained in a symlink directory (even though there were some people on their forums reporting in the past that it should) - I've reported it last week, but it's not going anywhere for now. Regardless though, I'm absolutely loving Jellyfin despite some of its rough edges, and my users are loving it too. I think I've considered myself 'migrated' from Plex to Jellyfin, but I'll still keep Plex around as backup for these 2 cases/issues I've mentioned, for now.

🔗 https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/issues/4346

🔗 https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/13858

RE: https://sakurajima.social/notes/a6j9bhrbtq

Bruh, I might've wasted my time learning how to passthrough a GPU to an #LXC container on #Proxmox (as well as mount a SMB/CIFS share) and write up a guide (haven't been able to test yet, cept with the latter) - all by doing some seemingly magic #Linux fu with some user/group mappings and custom configs, if it turns out that you could actually achieve the same result just as easily graphically using a standard wizard on PVE.

It's 4am, I'll prolly try to find time later during the day, or rather evening (open house to attend at noon), and try using the wizard to 1) Add a device passthrough on an LXC container for my #AMD iGPU (until my #Intel #ArcA380 GPU arrives) and see if the root user + service user on the container could access it/use it for transcoding on #Jellyfin/#ErsatzTV, and 2) Add a SMB/CIFS storage on the Proxmox Datacenter, tho my #NAS is also just a Proxmox VM in the same cluster (not sure if this is a bad idea?) and see if I could mount that storage to the LXC container that way.

#Homelab folks who have done this, feel free to give some tips or wtv if you've done this before!