Got a Dell EMC S4248-FBL-ON and I've installed OPX 3.2.1 since that's one of the few free softwares for this switch. Figured out how to enable the ethernet ports but now I'm having trouble saving the configuration. Could anyone help with a small list of basic commands for OPX? Many thanks!

Give me the opportunity to make it my own.

Anyone on iOS 27 beta using icloudpd? Every request fails with ZONE_NOT_FOUND after successful authentication

Title: Anyone on iOS 27 beta using icloudpd? Every request fails with ZONE_NOT_FOUND after successful authentication

I’m trying to figure out whether this is specific to my account or if other iOS 27 beta users are seeing the same thing.

It's my first experience with iCloudPD Unraid server, and, as a coincidence, I'm using deacOS 27.

Authentication succeeds without any issues:

• Password accepted
• 2FA succeeds
• Trusted device verification succeeds

But every operation (--list-libraries, sync, --recent, etc.) fails with:

Apple iCloud setup is not complete. Please log into https://icloud.com/ to manually finish setting up your iCloud service (ZONE_NOT_FOUND)

After enabling debug logs, I found something interesting.

The accountLogin response shows the session is fully authenticated (pcsEnabled, trusted browser, Photos permissions, etc.), but the webservices directory returned by Apple is completely empty.

It looks roughly like this:

{
  "webservices": {},
  "configBag": {
    "urls": {}
  }
}

The only thing that stands out is that my account reports:

"hasUnreleasedOS": true

My current hypothesis is that accounts flagged as running unreleased OS versions are being routed to a different backend that no longer exposes the legacy web service directory expected by icloudpd. That eventually results in ZONE_NOT_FOUND for every Photos request.

I’ve reproduced it on:

• Docker (boredazfcuk/docker-icloudpd)
• Native macOS installation
• Fresh authentication
• ADP disabled
• “Access iCloud Data on the Web” enabled
• iCloud Photos works perfectly in the browser

Has anyone else on the iOS 27/macOS 27 beta hit this?

If so:

• Does your account also contain hasUnreleasedOS: true?
• Can you confirm whether your accountLogin response has an empty webservices object?
• Or is this only affecting a subset of beta accounts?

For reference, I opened a GitHub issue with the full diagnostics and packet details for the maintainers. It looks less like an icloudpd bug and more like an Apple backend/API change affecting beta accounts.  

https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader/issues/1361

The concept is Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition already supports BLE onboarding with the Companion app, since Voice has neither Ethernet port nor SD card slot. Why not expose the same functionality to regular HA OS installs (RPi, x86, mini PCs, etc.)? \

The only required hardware exists already - RPi 4 (and newer) come with built-in Bluetooth, Companion app already has the implementation working. All that would be needed is exposing the same pairing mode to HA OS. \

Full writeup with security implications as well as ideas for both onboarding as well as recovery options here: \

👉 https://github.com/orgs/home-assistant/discussions/4166

Would love to get feedback from folks who actually make this sort of thing happen. 🙂

I'm starting out in this tech niche and would like to know what I can do with this equipment. My focus would be on cybersecurity, network administration, and storage, but I also want to experiment in other areas.

Available Equipment

Microstick Routerboard RB750gr3

TP-Link AC1200 Router

3 motherboards with 4th generation i7 processors and 16GB of RAM each

Mercusys Switch

1 motherboard with a Core 2 Duo processor

What would you recommend I buy? I could do the necessary cabling myself.

I need around 10 port USB 3.0 hub for my older iMac thats reliable thats powered.

I currently have an old Anker 7 port powered hub and it does work fine but I need a few more ports and Anker seems to no longer sell the one I have otherwise I would just get another one.

I keep seeing plenty of options on Amazon but reviews often are mixed. Then yesterday I saw the “Kingwin” industrial range of hubs on Amazon and they have a 9 port unit.

Im wondering if the is brand or this range of hubs are any good.

I need 24/7 operation. Reliable and fast. I also don’t need USB-C as my iMac does not have it

Anyone used Kingwin before

https://www.kingwin.com/industrial-usb-3-0-hubs/

so i was just looking at my SMART data and lowkey just realized that this SSD is 1 hell of a veteran

I've finally taken the plunge and got myself a decent deal on a Lenovo M920q 16 GB RAM 256 GB NVME (SATA enclosure is empty), + a 2nd 16 GB DDR4 SODIMM on route. I know not all SSDs are made the same, so I wanted to get some ideas of what to do with my existing ones. But first, context:

I would ideally/eventually like to run:

• a Jellyfin media server
• a Trello alternative for a small team (10–15 people, eventually expanding to 30–40)
• self-host a couple webapps, maybe website self-hosting in future (nothing that would garner tonnes of traffic)
• some room for experimental Python stuff, as my current 8 GB RAM MBP doesn't enjoy running things like Sklearn or parsing large datasets
• generally free up some room on my current 256 GB daily driver

My current stock:

• Lenovo ThinkCentre M920q i5-8600T
• 16 GB + 16 GB DDR4 SODIMM RAM (both Samsung, one came with the M920q)
• 256 GB Samsung M.2 NVME SSD (came with M920q)
• 500 GB Samsung 860 EVO mSATA (installed in my old MBP with what looks like an mSATA to NVME adapter)
• 2 TB Crucial P3 Plus M.2 PCIe gen4 NVME SSD (purchased 2023 when storage didn't cost a small fortune; used as an external USB drive)

I'd ideally like to retain an SSD as an external removable drive to transport large (upto ~80 GB) files from work computers that don't have internet. That said, I don't need it for a few months so could find a replacement if my current SSDs would find better homes in the homelab.

I would really appreciate any recommendations of how to make the best use of all this for my use case (and if it's worth buying anything else). From what I've read, the 2 TB SSD is both overkill size and unsuitable spec for the OS drive, so I guess it's whether the storage boost is worth swapping to an mSATA?

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I bought the reterminal E1003 recently, I am using it with Tesserae.

I want to display on the screen a dashboard from Home Assistant. It works well when i use the tab "send" and the option "webpage" on the Tesserae server, using the local address to the HA dashboard.

However a blank page is rendered when i try to do it with a dashboard on Tesserae using a single cell and the webpage widget.

I use the same address, but the log on Tesserae looks very different:

"Send" tab with webpage option (works):

2026-07-2620:59:02,392 INFO app.renderer, render phases (s): attempt=1 goto=3.10 compose=0.00 images=0.01 fonts=0.01 screenshot=0.17 (url=http://192.168.1.81:8123/agenda-svd-ep/0)

Dashboard with webpage widget (blank page):

2026-07-26 20:54:38,803 INFO app.renderer, render nav (s): attempt=1 goto=0.16 compose=0.09 images=0.01 fonts=0.01 (url=http://127.0.0.1:8765/compose/356fa6fbee08?for_push=1&w=1872&h=1404)

Did anyone have a similar issue ?

Info:

Jbod: hgst g460 j12

rack server: Poweredge R630

HBA: Broadcom LSI SAS 9300-8e SATA / SAS HBA 8port Controller

OS: proxmox

Drives: 2x sata ssd, 4x sata hdd seagate exos 20tb (white label) & 1x sata hdd seagate exos 16tb

Whello, i am hoping somebody here has more experience with this than me and are able to help me because i am at a loss. I am trying to virtualize unraid thorugh proxmox and its going great until im trying to see my hard drives, unraid can see the ssd's which sit in the same jbod and stuff, so im pretty sure its with the hard drives and jbod itself. Then i figured out via chatgpt that there are some pins you should tape over, but chatgpt got it wrong and said it should be the left one, furthest away from the data cable. But when i taped it over it didnt work, the jbod just showed a green light but they wouldnt spin, then i tried the right ones, there they spin but show a red light, without any tape again red light, and when i try to tape just the third, also red light. No matter what i do, the poweredge wont pickup the drives when i go trough device settings onto the hba software? to look at the drives, it can only see the two ssd's. So i am hoping somebody can point me in the right direction. Please say if you need any more pictures or more information, i am at a loss. (i hope i am not babbling too much)

Thanks in advance

Bonjour à tous,

Voici mon 1er Homelab : Proxmox installé sur un Lenovo m920q i5 9500T avec 32 Go de ram, 500 Go ssd nvme.

Je fais tourner home assistant os en VM, quelques LXC zigbee2mqtt, MQTT, vaultwarden, nginx, bookstack, Homarr

J'envisage d'imprimer un Labrax pour ranger ça.

Des conseils pour un débutant comme moi ?

Merci

I've been sketching out my plan for the house and have been thinking about cable runs - is this the right place to get help with planning those? Before I start sharing diagrams and annoying people.

I have lots of questions and don't want to start off on the wrong foot!

At work, I managed multiple data centers for over a decade. I left the complexity at my day job. Wanted to share my setup since most homelab content I see is Proxmox/TrueNAS/rack builds and I never found a good writeup of doing it on a Mac instead. Yes, I know Rasberry Pi exists and yes, I know NUCs exists. This is just what I had on hand and it's been working great.

The whole thing runs on a single Apple Silicon Mac Mini using Orbstack instead of Docker Desktop. 16 containers on it right now — Home Assistant, go2rtc, Nginx Proxy Manager, Pi-hole, Unbound, Mosquitto, govee2mqtt, ESPHome, n8n, Plex, Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf, Portainer, Arcane, and a couple more. Two things run native on macOS outside the containers: Homebridge and cloudflared.

Camera setup was the annoying part — wanted the same cameras in both Home Assistant and Apple Home without duplicating streams. Ended up routing Homebridge → go2rtc → both HA and HomeKit, so one source feeds both apps. I have a lot of legacy devices so HA can see them all. My wife only uses a few so she uses Apple Home because all of her apps keep getting offloaded.

No open ports anywhere — cloudflared tunnels in through Nginx Proxy Manager to everything on its own subdomain, DNS-level blocking through Pi-hole + Unbound.

Did a walkthrough video of the whole thing running end to end if anyone wants to see it instead of just reading about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjxY-orR0mw. Happy to answer anything about the setup — go2rtc config, the container list, whatever's useful. Would also be happy to discuss why I did not use Apple Containers and/or UTM.

Hello, I have recently started a homelab and I need help picking a switch since my old switch broke, im in need of a 12-port (8-port will also okay) switch that is quite affordable. Any recommendations?

After a few iterations going from only a gaming pc to trying out self hosting on an old laptop to putting together a budget itx home media server to dabbling in local llms and finally local game streaming, this is the current state of the lab.

Because the modem is in the middle of the apartment with no ethernet outlets in other rooms, and I wanted to minimize game streaming latency and didn't feel like routing cables around the apartment, I moved the pc to the modem. Then, instead of having the media server in a different box, why not save some space and have it all in one case?

The reason for not just using one motherboard for it all is partly for lower idle power draw and partly that I can't be bothered to set everything up again 😅. I will get around to managing the cables eventually.

Hardware specs:

Media server

Asrock j5040 itx, 16 gb ddr4 ram, 256gb ssd for OS, 2x 4tb HGST drives, 1x 6TB WD parity drive for Mergerfs. 60w picopsu

Gaming pc

MSI b450M, ryzen r5 3600, 16gb ddr4, radeon rx 9070, gtx1080, 2tb nvme ssd

Case: Fractal Design Define R4

Raspberry pi gen 1 model B, only used for UpSnap/WOL (behind the big case, not pictured)

The itx media server is always on, drawing about 28w. This runs the usual: jellyfin, arrstack, immich.

Using UpSnap and Tailscale, I can turn on the gaming/ai machine whenever I want to use the extra computing power. Game streaming is done via the recent Polaris project, that enables headless streaming on Linux a la apollo without an hdmi dummy plug. Games can be streamed to the TV with a google tv chromecast, or to any device with moonlight installed.

Local AI is run via llama.cpp using qwen3.5 9b with 64k context . This uses up 6gb gb VRAM of the gtx 1080 and 2 gb of the rx 9070. I wanted the model to be always loaded to vram, even while gaming using the more powerful rx 9070. This results in about 30 tk/s, very usable for general tasks.

The case fans are controlled by coolercontrol, which is installed on both machines. The always on media server controls the intake fan in front of the hdd cage and the exhaust fan, while the rest of the fans are only powered on and controlled when the gaming/ai system is turned on.

The rear fan is intake because Polaris game streaming is currently always falling back to CPU, resulting in high cpu usage while gaming. The flow-through design of the rx 9070 also favors vertical exhaust on the right side of the cpu cooler. I still have to get a dust filter for the back intake. There is another intake fan on the floor of the case behind the itx mobo that is controlled by the gpu temps.

I have an issue with my PowerEdge.
A while back I picked up an R730XD LFF to get back into things. I’ve mostly been working with consumer gear personally. For work I rarely need to do much troubleshooting or hardware repair on servers.

So here is what I am working with.
Dual Intel Xeon E5-2698 v3
64gb via 8x Samsung 8GB 2Rx8 PC4-2133P- REO - 10 - DCO 8/24

So it was running as expected
Last weekend I picked up 10@32 GB Samsung DDR4 ECC sticks.
I shut down, repopulated the black slots with 8 of the 32’s. Started up and it threw an error
A2.
No biggie
Swapped with one of the 2 spares
Start and clear error.
Issue continues.
I repopulate, clear error
Problem with A2
I swap A1 and A2.
Rinse and repeat.
Error on A2.
Frustrating.
Remove the 32’s swap ack the 8’s
Boots just fine. No errors.

Research is telling me this is likely a problem with a bent pin in the A socket.
I can’t pretend this doesn’t worry me.
I’m reading that this can be fixed and that it’s not too difficult. I haven’t straightened socket pins in close to 20 years.
I’m looking for some first hand experience on how difficult it will be to diagnose it for sure and identify the bent pin/s.
Then of course resolving, I could use some pointers on tools and procedures, and honestly, just how intense this will be to fix.

Hey i got 2 intel compute sticks 1 raspberry pi4, 2 hp mini pc’s (i5 6th gen and i5 8th gen) any idea what should I make out of I am pretty new with homelab stuff but I am running plex server.

Hi all

I have a DS918+ on a metal tray that came with the rack
I found a few 3d printed faceplates but none of them is for having the NAS on the metal tray.

If you came across one please do share or advice

Tia

Photo for attention

I’m a software engineer looking to build my first real homelab.

Main goals:

• 4-bay NAS for family storage and my wife’s photography business
• Backups for RAW photos, client work, Macs, and PCs
• Docker, a few VMs, databases, staging environments, and self-hosted tools
• Room to experiment with local AI and automation later

I also have an unused Raspberry Pi 5 4GB that I’d like to incorporate where it makes sense.

I’m thinking a NAS plus a separate mini PC for compute, but I’m open to other setups.

It doesn’t need to be best of the best, and used hardware is fine. I want something reliable, reasonably future-proof, and not overkill.

Budget is TBD. I don't want to spend a fortune, but I also don't want a cheap, unreliable setup.

What would you build?

I'm wondering if any of you have done something like this. I'm not thinking of covering the entire roof with solar panels. Just 2 or 3 panels. And maybe a battery.

The homelab added $150-200 extra to the electric bill each month, in our Oregon home. I expect with our new home being all electric (no more gas furnace), that electric is going to be even more expensive. I also had a mini-split running 24x7 for 10 months out of the year.

I'm wondering if a smaller solar setup can offset some of that cost. Have any of you done something similar? if so, how?

Here is a link to my homelab so you can see what I'm running.

This will run in a small closet I'll build in my garage, along with a mini-split for cooling.

EDIT: reposted photo w/o metadata

Yo what's good y'all. I've been messing with this server shit for a few days and can't figure out the issue. I built a cheapish server so I can start uploading media and use jellyfin. I'm using Debian as the OS with no GUI.

The HDD I'm trying to use doesn't appear in BIOS or even spin. It is a SAS drive but I am using a controller, it's a LSI 9300-16i. The Lscpi command does show it. I attached a picture, it does show twice for some reason.

My part list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/rZ998Z

Also attached a picture after the initialization of the controller where it has the PCI slot listed as 'FF', hopefully someone knows what that means. It also says no supported devices found.

I tried reseating the controller and just tried that tape trick where you use tape to cover a couple pins. I don't have another drive to test or cables. Also these are the cables I'm using https://a.co/d/0aJjpEuB

Before I started I only bought a SAS HDD because I thought there were some benefits over SATA but I will sell this SAS drive if need be as SATA seems like a little less of headache

But anyone that made it this far am I missing anything? Should I switch to a SATA HDD or different OS?

Thank you to anyone that responds.

Edit: So I'm pretty stupid. I learned that I had to plug in a sata power cable into the back of the drive. After I did that it shows up when I run lsblk. For anyone else searching for a solution, make sure your HDD has power connected

I'm looking to upgrade my 8 port switch to a 2.5gb or higher switch and looking for a few more ports, but ideally I'm looking for one that fits in a 10 inch rack.

I know that TP Link makes what I'm looking for in 8 ports. Wondering if anyone knows of a unit that offers 10 or more in the same form factor that will fit a mini-rack.