That looks like the Fractal Define 6 case which already has built in soundproofing. I have mine on a desk doing the exact same job with even more drives and I don’t even hear it from a couple feet away.

Edit: actually not a Define 6 after looking closer. Mine doesn’t have those weird latches on the side panels despite otherwise looking identical.

The only notifications I use are for my cameras through frigate so I just use home assistant to send push notifications when someone walks up to my house.

Because there are a limited number of IPv4 addresses and bots scan them for open ports.

Maybe use ESPHome on to run the servo back and forth a few times and have an automation in Home Assistant to trigger the servo when it detects the toilet running. The hard part would probably be getting power near the toilet and connecting the servo to the handle in some fashion.

https://esphome.io/components/servo/

OP I think using PCPartPicker might show you tons of options for cases with 4+ drive capacity. If you want an older case just search ebay for the options you find.

You can also mount 2.5" drives into the 3.5: trays if you wanted. Ive had my R6 for years now and just bought a 2-pack of drive caddies as it filled up to the point that I now have enough to fill the whole case.

I have a Fractal Define 6 with room for (i think) 12 HDDs. They have tons of great options for HDD storage.

Especially one without a mainstream CPU that won’t have any support

Its showing $17.97 USD for me, though I have seen process charge drastically once you actually log in.

You should really up your game and buy some ESPs and servo motors to jiggle the toilet handles when the toilets are running.

This really depends on what you’re watching it on. 480p can look fine on a phone but like garbage on a 65" OLED. I find that 720p is good for most shows that aren’t visually stunning (like Foundation) while most movies look fine in 1080p on the aforementioned OLED.

I used Emby for a couple years right before they went closed source which spawned Jellyfin and it was fine in some area (though not as polished) and better in others, but securely sharing remotely was always a huge hurdle which is not something they’ve found a solution for.

I have a lifetime pass so I have no reason to switch as of yet. Migrating people over like my elderly parents is going to be a nightmare if it ever comes to that.

You don’t pay for a VPN, HDDs, Usenet, etc?

They’re not facilitating anything other than media organization and playback. What you’re suggesting is akin to Ford being investigated for ‘facilitating bank robbery’ because some robbers used a Mustang as a getaway vehicle.

My server is also running an Intel chip so maybe I’ll play around with using that instead. How is your performance? I have six cameras running but frigate only sees the lower bitrate streams as I have a standalone NVR in the mix already. All I use it for is object detection so that I can get notifications when someone approaches the house via Home Assistant.

I decided to try the LXC route as I also have Immich running in a separate LXC and wanted to share the Coral with both and AFAIK you can’t share resources between multiple VMs (though I’m pretty green with Proxmox/Linux based systems)

Edit: actually you commented on that post of mine, so that’s funny!

“Rock solid” may have been a bit premature 🤣

I restored from a backup from months ago when I’m sure it was still working and didnt have any luck, but thinking about it now this may have been before I had solved the issue with the Coral not being found. I’ll try that again tonight when I get back to the server.

I tried different levels of reboots from frigate to portainer to the LXC and finally the host running Proxmox as part of the troubleshooting with the Coral then again once I got it connected and still didn’t have any luck.

My NAS is in the case with my server (its just a desktop case with tons of drive slots). I’m not a fan of pre-built NAS as they’re insanely expensive and can’t be expanded without buying a whole other NAS. Plus now I don’t have to worry about network issues causing my files to be unavailable nor tons of traffic over the LAN for reads/writes

I haven’t really been in the music game for a long time either with streaming being so easy and most torrent sites not offering much, but I did try SoulSeek out and it was super nice for acquiring new music. I have not tried the integration with Lidarr, but I think that would make it excellent.

You should be able to find tutorials on YouTube or follow the TRaSH guide. You don’t need to expose this stuff to the internet, only your download client like Qbittorrent. For movies and TV, all you’d need is a download client + VPN, sonarr (TV), radarr (movies), Prowlarr (handles indexers/trackers), and possibly Jellyseer for requests from you or those you share with in a single UI. There are other *arrs for music (Lidarr), books, porn, etc too. Lidarr can integrate with SoulSeek if thats what you’re using to fill content for Navidrome, but you would use Jellyfin as the media player.

Yes they’ll integrate well with Plex, Emby, and Jellyfin. You just paste API keys from one to another to allow them to communicate.