I bought the new TerraMaster F4-425 NAS recently to use for media and app storage. It comes with TOS7 pre-installed but TrueNAS seemed like a better option for my needs. There’s a guide to installing TrueNAS on TerraMaster here but it’s a bit out-of-date for the F4-425.
After a routine reboot of my Proxmox host (along with the network switch and router), I found that all of my VMs started fine, but none of my LXC containers would come up. Trying to start a container from the UI or CLI resulted in the following message: After trying Read more
I wanted to extend the range of my Zigbee network to make device connections more stable. To that end I purchased 2 Sonoff Zigbee Dongle Plus P devices and flashed them to be routers following the instructions from this guide. I’m reproducing the instructions here to give me a better Read more
I’ve got a Raspberry Pi 5 and have recently added an NVME hat to it for improved storage rather than running off of the SD card. Most guides suggest using the offical imager but as I’m running the lite version of the OS this isn’t possible. The easiest way I’ve Read more
I am running Proxmox on a Dell Optiplex 7050 Mini with an i7-6700T. The i7-6700T has an integrated Intel 530 GPU and in order to use this GPU in Frigate for hardware acceleration it needs to be passed through from Proxmox. Open the grub file Update the file Save and Read more
Although there’s a community script for creating a Frigate LXC in Proxmox I’ve found it easier get working with external devices like hard drives and a Coral TPU by running as a VM rather than as an LXC. Download the relevant Debian ISO image from https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/ and upload it to Read more
If you’re running Linux devices like Raspberry Pis or VMs at home then managing them is easier if you can SSH into them as the root user. Though this is not always allowed by default. Open the SSH config file Find and update the following lines Restart SSH service This Read more
I’m currently in the process of setting up a home k3s cluster. As part of that I want to use Keycloak as an OIDC provider for managing authorization and authentication in a couple of apps that I’m hosting. Because I’m hosting the cluster at home and my ISP users a Read more
As part of setting up a home k3s cluster I had expected to be able to expose applications to the internet by using a Dynamic Domain Name System (DDNS) to keep my dynamic home IP address up-to-date with my domain name provider and to then port forward traffic through my Read more
We run regular security scans against our resources using AppCheck and one of the issues it’s recently picked up is that we’re using an older version of openssh on our Ubuntu virtual machines which has potential vulnerabilities in it. Although these vulnerabilities are unlikely to be exploitable in our specific Read more