I’d absolutely love this to have a home assistant hook, or even be able to run it as an add-on. Being able to issue triggers, notably Android notifications, would be perfect for my home.

Additionally, being able to track “taken” as well as record the time/date the dose was marked as such would be great!

If you are decent with script type stuff, and have tasker, I believe you can build your own via kwgt:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kustom.widget

You can use tasker to set up variables that kwgt then can render in several ways.

I’ve only done simpler things but it’s worked well for me for years.

That server sounds a bit older in the teeth… Has new thermal paste been applied to the cpu? Even if the reported temps are under 90c, you might be getting hot spots causing glitches inside the package.

Worth trying a couple of different generations of kernel as well, both newer and older. You might be hitting a regression somewhere.

Holy crap that is comprehensive. Great timing since I’m about to wipe and redo my server from scratch.

Thanks for sharing!

Absolutely this. Save trouble.

If absolutely in need of a backplane, look for old chassis parts from super micro on eBay.

Run SMART short tests on your drives. Any “pending sectors” at all are failure.

If the test has any problems, especially pending sectors, replace the drive.

Major typically writes these as much for his own notes / thoughts as anything. Having some insight into how he got where he is in the process can help some others learn. I’ve learned tons from the guy.

I’ve known him over 15 years, and he always has written posts for himself first. This isn’t a bad way, just maybe not the simplest for experienced folks. Laying out your own thoughts along the path can help later when you wonder why you did X instead of Y.