Lifebandit666

I got a Dell Optiplex for £68 on eBay to replace my pi4b Home Assistant.

It's running Home Assistant plus a Windows machine Arr stack with Plex and transcoding, a music server, a NAS storage and Adguard at the moment and I still have ram to spare.

As someone else has said, whether they're playing from the device or not it's a server.

With that said, I'm a fan of Logitech Media Server and Squeezelite (the player part).

Install both on a pi or something, add a HDD (I bought a usb plug and power cable for £15 on Amazon) and then rip and transfer it to the HDD.

Then you can play it through any old speakers you connect. If you use a pi you can get a hat for it that will make audio quality good.

There's even an app for it called Squeezer on F-droid which allows control from your phone.

It's old but it works, use the Material Theme to make it look nice.

Bonus is that you can install Squeezelite on a bunch more Pis and dot them around the house and play the same library on those at a later date

I already have one, I treated myself to my own .com domain for Chrimbo just gone and own it for the next 5 years

Ok that makes sense. I'm not trying to tie any of this to my external domain though, I just want to proxy Lan names at the moment.

I have a domain set up for home assistant though Cloudflare and I don't want anything else to be externally accessible.

So what I'm currently trying to do is have radarr.crypt, Sonarr.crypt, plex.crypt, openwrt.crypt hit the correct lanIP:port

I can't do that with just my DNS because that's just for lanIP not port

So I'm trying to have the *.crypt go to the Nginx IP and have that proxy the name to the IP and port.

I've been prodding it all day and even had ChatGPT have a go at it but I'm getting nowhere.

And this is why I don't like Nginx.

I have managed to get Nginx working and even got a pretty UI for it, but just can't get it to proxy my IP addresses to names.

It ain't a big deal, Heimdall does the job for now, just thought it would be a nice way to dip my toes in.

Ok so what I need to do in my case is have my DNS direct *.crypt to my Nginx (when I get it set up) then have that direct all the bits that the star represents to the right IP/port?

I don't know why you were downvoted for this, you're right and I figured this out for myself last night when I decided to try figure it out at 1.30am after 3 beers.

I managed to get all my port 80 stuff sorted but my Arr stack for example needs something more, probably the dreaded nginx...

I'm having a look at Caddy now because I've never used it before, Nginx I didn't like when I used it and I've recently heard the original developer has left the project and started a new one.

Wow, I'm glad you speak Adguard, thanks for this. She does surveys for Amazon vouchers and buys Christmas presents and shoes with them, and the filters stop the surveys. She got quite mad with me.

Ace! Thanks. There's so much to delve into in networking, it's a bit daunting tbh.

That's why I asked, when you know a little but not a lot it's hard trying to figure out where to look.

At least by asking I have some ideas where to start poking my nose.

I WANT to learn how to do all that stuff properly but it hurts my brain. I WILL learn it at some point.

But I have a domain with Cloudflare and found that far simpler than DuckDNS and Nginx .

I intend to look into Nginx and caddy and learn them, it annoys me that it makes my eyes cross, but if I can just use Adguard for now then I shall do that, for now.

I'm at a point where I know that the IT manager at work is a bit shit because the internal addresses at work have no certificate, but also that I'm not better because it makes my eyes cross too. I've done it before but I don't know how I did it, it was a lot of poking.

I have done this with Home Assistant. It's at ha.mydomain.com after I treated myself to a domain for Christmas.

The only issue I have with this is that my server is a hole in my lan.

I have a pretty good password on my HA but that can't be said for any of my internal stuff.

Plus I've since discovered the amazing world of Tailscale and I'm fiddling with that. I didn't realise it was so easy to always be on my own network even when I'm not, I found a setting on android that means I'm always in my Tailnet. This makes me wonder if the domain was a waste of money (it wasn't) but then remember there's more than just me in the house, and I use the domain for prescence detection by having my family install the HA app, logged in through the domain.

I shall certainly use this method in the future if any of my family want access to anything while they're out and about, but I could probably just set em up on Tailscale and share it that way with less hassle

I have my router point everything through my DNS servers, a main one and a backup on a pi3b, so that shouldn't be an issue.

Except for Wifey. She hates ad blocking with a passion, so I've set her phones to use Google DNS servers.

Wifey also does not care one jot for what I'm playing with, it's mainly my 13 year old ATM. Wifey likes having TV shows appear when they air in the States and that's it.

She's an odd one but I love her a great deal.

I shall have a look into avahi just because I've heard of it but never known what it actually does. Thanks

Excellent news, at least I know where to start now. I wanna play with all the network things and learn, but I also wanna just have it sorted in 5 minutes of hacking