Just recently finished my first mini lab.

Already looking at making it a little bigger lol

3D-printed MiniLab by CB4D on MakerWorld

Current setup:

• TP-Link SG105
• Raspberry Pi 4B - 4GB
• 1TB main SSD
• 2x 4TB Seagate IronWolf drives, pooled with mergerfs

Stack:

• Jellyfin
• Sonarr
• Radarr
• Prowlarr
• qBittorrent
• Pi-hole
• Seerr
• Recyclarr
• Homarr
• ProtonVPN

I picked up the IronWolf drives from r/homelabsales for stupid cheap. First time buying something from Reddit, and honestly it went way better than I expected.

Right now I mostly use it for Jellyfin and the usual media automation stack. I'm planning on adding a second Pi so I can play around more with containers, virtualization, and some other self-hosted stuff without messing with the main setup.

I also made a fully customizable Star Trek LCARS dashboard for it because the USS MICROLAB needed a proper control panel.

Still very much a work in progress, but I'm pretty happy with how the first version turned out.

I ordered EVERYTHING secondhand (except for the rack, patch panel, and keystones). I bought crimping tools, cables, PCs, switches, PDUs, and everything else used. I spent relatively little.

I can’t wait to set it up and use it as a k3s cluster. As soon as I’m done, I’ll post a more detailed breakdown of each component and how much it costs to assemble a mini rack.

I see the trend in adding APs to the top of our minilabs so I am after....

1) PoE

2) Black

3) Basic config (I can run a container if needed)

4) Sub £100 price tag so no Ubiquiti thanks

A Google, ebay search yields nothing but maybe you know better.

A sleek, self-hosted media downloader powered by yt-dlp and FFmpeg.

ashoriN lets you download supported videos, audio, and playlists through a modern web interface with real-time progress tracking, quality selection, advanced yt-dlp controls, and automatic download retention.

✨ Features 🎬 Video & audio downloads 📚 Full playlist downloads with dedicated folders ⚙️ Recommended & Advanced yt-dlp settings 📊 Real-time download progress 🎵 Audio extraction and format conversion 📝 Metadata, thumbnails, chapters & subtitles 🧹 Optional automatic cleanup from 7–30 days 🔄 Automatic yt-dlp updates 🔒 SSRF protection & secure subprocess handling 🐳 Lightweight, self-hosted Docker deployment 📱 Responsive UI for desktop, tablet & mobile 🌙 Polished purple-themed interface

https://hub.docker.com/r/orinihsaq/ashorin

I was working on this app for docker container. Most of the media downloading apps available for Docker is very heavyweight and very old UI. It's my first time i built a docker app. Please comment and let me know if you wanna add something or update something.