MythTV for the main storage, stored in folders by my genre.

All metadata updated via Picard.

Syncthing to replicate to a Raspberry Pi (2 or 3, I don’t recall which) running Volumio with a DAC board to connect speakers to.

The Pi is in the bedroom, so I only replicate the genres that I want, which cuts down on storage needed on the Pi, and means I don’t need MythTv / NAS / etc. powered over night.

I was going to query why fork instead of just maintaining, but after reading theose comments I see the problem.

So, ok, I need to start shifting packages…

Thanks for the CoMaps pointer, didn’t know about that / issues with Organic Maps

MythTV - as others have already mentioned. It’s designed to work with the 10’ interface

Even records TV programs (presuming you have tuner hardware of course) - which I don’t think the others can do?

We don’t stream Netflix, but we do watch other various streams (ie BBC iPlayer), yoochoob, etc - all works fine, inc… video files from various sources, and music…

We use it with a Logitech K400 wireless keyboard and it works great for us.

I have played with a more traditional looking TV wand remote in the past, but you still need a keyboard to type in program websites, names, etc. so the K400 became our defacto remote.

MythTV used to come with Ubuntu as Mythbuntu back in the day, but most of the pre-installed distros have fallen away, so you’d need to pick a distro and install it yourself.

It’s a very mature application, so you won’t need to keep updating every time you want to watch anything.

My opinion: pfSense - IMHO, if you’re moving from a domestic router this is your best bet.

DHCP reservations which ties into local DNS, (external) DNS caching with DoT / DoH, firewalling, detailed logs, etc…

There’s also OPNSense, and OpenWrt

I’ve not used OPNSense and OpenWrt was originally for lower powet devices, so I just don’t know if it handles >1Gb - or how good it’s FW functions are.

For pfSense you can install it on your own hardware, or buy something from Netgate, so the wifi capabilities are whatever you have / buy

Mesh is just a wireless standard for multiple antennaes, so shouldn’t be a biggie - I used an old WAP with OpenWrt and that worked for me until I changed the APs to some old 2nd hand Ruckus APs…

Look at the additional packages after installation, ie pfBlockerNG, VPNs, etc and you’ll be pleasantly surprised… pkus there’s loads of yoochoob videos (search for Tom Lawrence)

Yes. And No.

I have a home made (arch btw) NAS that stores all our files - mostly via syncthing, even from remote family.

That was it.

Then I installed Immich so that we could see the photos… so… it’s technically just a NAS, but it does now have a web application running on it…

Videos & Music are on a completely separate MythTV box which existed before the NAS - I saw no point in moving ~3TB of data to a separate box that would need to be powered when I want to watch / listen to something… my NAS powers itself up & down throughout the day to save electricity (and it was interesting to learn how to make it know when it was / wasn’t being used)

Download with yt-dlp. All of it. Even into a single folder if that’s easier.

Then run it all through Picard and that’ll do everything else for you - albumart, metadata, folders, filenames, the lot.

Anything that Picard doesn’t know about, enter it into the MusicBrainz db to give back to the community.

Done.

We use VNC as we can record the sessions easily for later priof / discussion with our customers.

It’s in a VPN tunnel of course.

But of course, we also don’t use Google, AWS, etc as they’re not secure enough for us and we have our own SOCs

If you’re looking for a different approach, I moved from Nextcloud to Radicale for my family calendars, which includes ToDo functionality.

From an app point, for Android I’m using Fossify Calendar (which I think you’re using?) and Tasks.Org ToDo - and this definitely handles recurring tasks (inc. with different types of schedules)

From a remote access point of view, I have HA Proxy to convert the internal HTTP traffic into external HTTPS traffic (with Lets Encrypt certificate)

(Yes, I also have a VPN for other things… just focusing here for the calendar / todo)

My journey⋮ Nextcloud —> syncthing + radicale

Much simpler, easier to maintain, less resources needed

So, the R320 is just for bulk storage?

Personally I’d drop that one for the lowest power consumption box I could find… unless it’s part of a (V)SAN for your R710?

But be careful with assuming many SFF PCs will be better than 1x R710, consider their power properly as they might be more expensive… servers are can be more efficient at heavier loads

Got a link for that? Searching for “garage backup storage” doesn’t really get me anywhere…

Nice. I’ll go that way when I next brave the dust and cobwebs where the server’s currently located

Aha! I was considering moving from proxmox to incus too, but incus seemed quite new and not much documentation (at the time)

How do you find it now?

Happy for them to be developing an app (which already appears to exist), but at ~20‰ with 16 days left… wouldn’t it be “better” to collaborate with existing apps like Pipepipe / Newpipe and direct those funds into the platform instead?

Yeah, but it’s hard work to make it look easy.

I made a video for work once, it was basically a recorded Teams call, but, good god, I was awful 🤭

Hadn’t thought about all the locale, etc… good point, thanks

Yeah… notes… they started about 50% of the way through building the system.

Now, my notes are great, but some of these devices are ~10 years old.

But, yep, I totally agree, notes are a damn good thing to have.

Not thought about bash history though, interesting point, but I think that only goes back a short duration?

Yeah, at least others are confirming what I had assumed, rather than everyone pointing me to a blindingly obvious tool that did it all for me!

Good point, not thought of that - thanks