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So now the plan is to dig deeper, into which precise metrics produce exactly how much data on disk. To have a proper basis for deciding which to keep, and which to throw away.

This might very well end with me writing a Prometheus exporter which regularly analyses the most recent 14 day block and provides the stats.

First step: Looking at the TSDB block and checking what tools for analysis are already available.

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#HomeLab #Prometheus

Okay, time to chose a yak and get to shaving. The one I finally ended up on is my metrics situation. I like metrics. I like charts. And I've got the 600 GB Thanos S3 bucket to prove it. My 14 day compacted blocks currently have 565 MB per day.

And I'd like to know what produces that large amount of data. I already looked at it in detail last year, but the measures I took, excluding a lot of metrics, didn't really make much of a dent in the ingest rate.

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#HomeLab

After some time with me new proxmox based homeserver I'm quite happy and managed to reduce the idle power consumption even further to just below 20W which is for a full homeserver with a ZFS pool and spinning disks way less than I hoped for.

Write up for this in my blog: https://solariz.de/posts/26/09-proxmox-homeserver-powersavings/

#homeserver #homelab #proxmox #NAS

Also working on having my own #HomeAssistant theme based on my personal home brand, in the design of Apple’s #LiquidGlass design language.

This is actually not really easy to do even with Claude. Takes a lot of iterations for him to investigate the DOM, still ongoing...

Game changers here:
- UI eXtension for HA: https://uix.lf.technology/ (card-mod on steriods)
- Adding HA as MCP via https://github.com/homeassistant-ai
- Heinzel as agentic framework https://github.com/wintermeyer/heinzel

#HomeLab #HomeBrand

TrueNAS forums going down briefly on Sept 5 at 0500 UTC for a Discourse update. Should be back in 30-60 minutes. Plan your troubleshooting accordingly. #selfhosted #homelab

https://forums.truenas.com/t/upcoming-forum-maintenance-2026-09-05-at-0500h-utc/67778

Even the Proxmox servers got their little brand!

How I did all of that? Starting to use @wintermeyer’s #Heinzel was a real boost in speed because doing all of this by hand would have been extremely time consuming!

I even gave Heinzel its own LXC with read-only access everywhere (either SSH, API’s, whatever was possible) to always help diagnose from everywhere.

https://github.com/wintermeyer/heinzel

#DiDay #HomeLab #HomeBrand #Selfhosting

Happy to share what today's #DiDay is about for me.
I like to have all the pieces getting a branded view so I asked Claude to help me. Really like how it came out!

#HomeLab #HomeBrand #Selfhosting

Tianji v1.32.35 brings improved AI gateway observer logs, fixes for nested image previews and select dropdowns, plus updated translations. Steady progress on this solid monitoring platform. #selfhosted #homelab

https://github.com/msgbyte/tianji/releases/tag/v1.32.35

Me: Picks up random, older Homelab task that looks like it's going to be no more than an hour or two worth of fun.

The broadly grinning and very shaggy herd of yaks: Come on, you know you want to!

🤦

#HomeLab

Fishing for an answer: Please tell me your favorite self-hosted photo web app (or share with your friends who know one) that:

• Can run in linux, docker

• Supports multiple users, each with the ability to manage their own independent photos and albums.

• Includes a nice slide-show feature over user-curated albums, include "smart" albums (i.e. albums created dynamically based on search criteria).

• Has good metadata support (geolocation, timeline, tags, faces), including preloading metadata from EXIF tags.

• Includes a smartphone app that syncs the device's camera roll.

Basically, a practical replacement for Google Photos. Any ideas?

#HiveMind #SelfHosting #HomeLab #Photography #Photos

@krans Excellent question for the #homelab @homelab community!

IMO:
- Set boundaries on what you are going to do with it, on a scale of: Personal-NAS -> family-ISP -> AV platform -> mini supercomputer system (eg: ML training).
- This will give an idea of scale: one machine or a rack of 'em?
- That determines software a bit, such as RAID array or cluster file system...

Family-ISP here: One Dell T20 tower server, soon to be replaced with a much smaller Beelink Me Pro NAS, NetBSD+services.

Grocy 4.7.1 fixes broken iCal exports, non-latin password login issues, and API key auth in subdirectories. Also adds a new product copy API endpoint. Solid maintenance release #selfhosted #homelab

https://github.com/grocy/grocy/releases/tag/v4.7.1

Tianji v1.32.34 patches a bug in the AI gateway where serialized observer dates were not being parsed correctly. Small fix, big reliability win. #selfhosted #homelab

https://github.com/msgbyte/tianji/releases/tag/v1.32.34

PasswordPusher v2.11.6 brings env variable overrides for logging, better docs for OSS vs Pro API fields, and a warning against mounting volumes over the db directory. Solid maintenance release. #selfhosted #homelab

https://github.com/pglombardo/PasswordPusher/releases/tag/v2.11.6

Another step away from the corporate internet taken today. My continous glucose monitor's app has been sucking down 40% of my battery a day and I already have a sparky fitness self hosted instance for calories and step tracking from my Garmin watch with gadget bridge.

Juggluco desperately needs a ui overhaul but once I got it linked up it's a far better fit for me.

Live blood sugar in my status bar, doesn't kill my battery and doesn't store my data at some conglomerate. #homelab #degoogle

Spent some time tuning my Akkoma services and now my instance is so performant. I didn’t realise before how laggy it was until now I see it acting so snappy.

#fedi #mastodon #servers #homelab

Hey #homelab folks, I could use a little help with #ethernet cables. I've installed CAT7 S/FTP cables from basement -> ground floor and one from ground floor -> first floor using keystones and dual mounting boxes. My router is placed in first floor. When plugging my laptop in ground floor I do get a signal.
However If bridge the two cables using a normal shielded patch cable I don't get a signal in the basement.
Is this expected or is something wrong with the cable to the basement?
#fedihelp

Duplicati canary drops a new native VSS snapshot provider for Windows. No more VCRedist dependency, works on x86/x64/Arm64, and VSS now applies to full-disk backups too. #selfhosted #homelab

https://github.com/duplicati/duplicati/releases/tag/v2.4.0.100_canary_2026-09-04

Traefik v3.7.13 lands with critical ACME fixes, a basic auth user enumeration patch, HTTP/3 transport improvements, and better Kubernetes ingress handling. Check the migration guide before upgrading. #selfhosted #homelab

https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v3.7.13

I used to think reaching for a rebuild meant giving up. Now I think knowing when to stop debugging is its own skill.

Some services I'll chase a weird bug on all weekend because I want to understand it. Others I nuke and pave the second something feels off, since the config is in git and I have better things to do.

The hard part is telling those two apart before I've already sunk three hours.

Where's your line? What makes you stop poking and just start over?

#homelab

Pangolin 1.22.2 brings bug fixes for the AI Gateway release plus configurable tab titles in branding. Make sure Badger and Gerbil are updated before upgrading. #selfhosted #homelab

https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin/releases/tag/1.22.2

Spent the night tinkering around in my #homelab until 2 a.m..

The result: an offsite #backup off all my homelab data to Hetzner Storage Box, using Zerobyte.

There seems to be some interest, so I'm going to stream at ~4ish UK time on Twitch (sorry, don't have the energy to figure out a new platform today).

Repeating the rough plan:

• Hook up the Pi with a TTL serial cable, Ethernet, and power it through a relay board.
• Build a minimal U-Boot that chainloads a full U-Boot over serial, flash that to the SD card
• Build a full U-Boot (with my patches) that sets up netconsole and loads a signed FIT image with kernel, initramfs, and maybe devicetree from my TFTP server
• Cross-compile a Linux kernel and modules for the Pi
• Statically (musl) cross-compile BusyBox (with patches) for the Pi
• Statically (musl) cross-compile Dropbear for the Pi
• Statically (musl) cross-compile rsync (and whatever dependencies it has) for the Pi
• Statically (musl) cross-compile gpsd for the Pi
• Statically (musl) cross-compile chrony for the Pi
• Statically (musl) cross-compile my temperature logger for the Pi
• Script up something to build the initramfs
• Set up runit as the init system and script an overlayfs setup
• Iterate until it works properly.

https://www.twitch.tv/rya_nc

#linux #embedded #embedded_systems #embeddedsystems #homelab

Obsidian LiveSync 1.0.25 fixes a nasty bug where one bad file could block all syncing on startup. Better error reporting, smarter conflict handling, and long filename warnings for Android/Linux users. #selfhosted #homelab

https://github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync/releases/tag/1.0.25

Tmux is one of those amazing tools that you wonder how you ever got along without.

#Linux #HomeLab #Tmux #LinuxTerminal

Tmux Fundamentals: Free Course on Terminal Multiplexing https://linuxhandbook.com/courses/tmux/

Traefik v2.11.57 patches key security and stability issues including HTTP/3 transport fixes and h2c upgrade header handling. Read the migration guide before updating. #selfhosted #homelab

https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v2.11.57