substantial administrative overhead for keeping a virtualization system running just for home assistant.

I’m not sure what you mean? HA OS in a VM doesn’t have any administrative overhead.

Oh I know it’s just more of a pain, there’s very little overhead from a VM running Linux so it’s well worth doing that IMO.

Larger drives, because less power consumption.

Also less overall failures to deal with, if you have 10 drives vs 2 drives the chance of failure is higher.

Especially with 12TB drives being under $100 now for refurbs.

Doesn’t that require manual setup of the addons if you don’t run HA OS?

The general rule is the 3-2-1 rule, so 3 copies of your data, 2 different storage types, and 1 of them offsite.

Make sure you run backups at least daily too for your data, and keep a month or so worth of incremental snapshots.

Restic + Backblaze B2 is great for an offsite backup.

Yeah it’s great for that kind of thing!

Enterprise servers often have it built in, but for everything else this is priced really well.

Interesting, as I remember it didn’t do integration with a lot of apps, so you end up with some that have auth and some that don’t at all, and some that you have to manage auth internally.

You can use nginx just fine, probably need to skip the automatic deployment though.

That’s not too surprising since it’s Pi based, and that stuff is really expensive. The PCBs in those 2 links also look to use a lot of through hole parts, and are not optimized for low cost mass production.

The JetKVM looks to use a cheaper SBC probably with a custom PCB actually designed to be cheap to produce, so it doesn’t have the Pi premium slapped on it.

KVM also allows access if the machine isn’t booted up, so like mounting remote recovery images, re-installing an OS, and changing BIOS settings and that kind of thing.

I tried it, but not knowing what was going on under the hood made me worried about how I would fix anything when it broke, and how timely updates to software would be. I also don’t think it had any kind of central user management for the installed apps.

If you’re already familiar with docker I would stick with that.

I’ve never used anything else so I can’t really compare, but frigate works well.

Blue Iris is windows only and really resource heavy, so thats why I’ve never used it for more than a quick test.

The i7-6700 has an Intel iGPU that will handle heavy transcoding just fine using Quicksync.

It will even do really fast object detection with OpenVINO, with minimal CPU usage. At least in Frigate both of those things work extremely well.

It’s docker compose changes (at least the ones in the last 2 years have been), so it’s not really config related with a worry about breaking stuff from that.

But also multiple backups are in place anyways, so worst case I restore from that.

I go the other way, auto-update and fix the file if it goes down lol

Does Immich auto update

Only if you auto-update the docker images on your server.

There have been a few breaking chances, but it just takes a minute to tweak the compose file and it’s up and running again.

I thought the apple headset was MR for productivity and stuff? VR gaming headsets like the Oculus seem to be doing fairly well.

Those things have a fan with blades, just stuck in the base.

Eh I mean there are lots of connections I’ve made with people only on discord that would suck to lose.

The downside is it’s against their ToS, and you could have your account banned or similar if they do decide to take action.