I diagrammed out my home lab/home server setup, mostly to keep a complete overview of how everything connects. I didn’t want to get bogged down in aesthetics around colour scheme, or layout – as you can no doubt tell. After a while diagramming it started to feel like a meme where I was trying to convey some crazy conspiracy theory on a wall of pinned paperwork and connecting threads. I think I am done documenting everything. But now I am wondering how obsessive I should be about detailing every little thing and VLANs and IP assignments. I don’t really care if it looks like a dog’s dinner, I really just care about “okay, where does this wire go to?” Is that the right approach?
I am working on the build log for the jukebox project. It’ll be on github eventually.
I have a $700 Tyan motherboard in my workstation. When I was moving the motherboard from one case to another, I scraped the underside of the motherboard against the metal case and broke off a number of small SMT caps and resistors. In the middle of the pandemic. In the middle of a project. So I had to jump on Amazon and have a new motherboard shipped to me next day whilst I RMA’d the damaged one. What do you say when you break your workstation motherboard in a moment of casual clumsiness? “Well… fuck!”
The jukebox is a “retro” jukebox. Wood grain, lots of tactile buttons. Two 14" 4160x1100 pixel touch screens with a vacuum fluroescent display graphic effect that shows the tracks. Click an arcade button, play that track. So it looks like those old-style jukebox devices you’d find in a diner. There are two 1920x1080 flexible touchscreens (though I have them encased so they are just permanently curved touchscreen displays), that let you navigate the full library, show album artwork, search box, etc. It’s all driven by a single Raspberry Pi with a 4TB USB SSD for storage, and everything syncs to the music directory on my Synology NAS.
Am I in deep shit? Only if I don’t clean the litter box in the “Cat Bathroom.” So the only thing that can really go wrong is the power going out. Everything else is sort of redundant, and you can route around it by moving a few cables. I guess the UDM Pro SE taking a shit would cause me some issues. Or the cable modem. Everything else, though used daily and to its fullest extent, simply means those services, e.g. music server, become temporarily unavailable. No real disasters in over 20 years. The backup Synology NAS is effectivel a fail over for essential services, e.g. adguard, but even if both synology devices are down, there’s backup DNS resolving on the UDM and also with quad9.
Is it 84 cores? 4 in the NUC, 28x2 in Storm, 28 in oh-fuck. Never really thought of it that way. I’d like some 8490H XEONs but I cannot justify it right now.