Lifebandit666

It's on my list. I've played with DuckDNS in my time with Home Assistant, I used to get external access through it and Nginx and honestly loathed it. I was SO HAPPY when I got Cloudflare working.

I am now working for a global company and I've noticed that the intranet here doesn't have valid SLL certificates at all, which I know is a security concern, so with a bit of research and tinkering I believe I can become more knowledgeable about this kind of thing than the IT manager of our factory. Might help me work up to a position that isn't on a line anymore.

So yeah, it's on my list.

Well the webui provides me with a list of containers, whether they're running or not, the ports that are opened by the containers. There's Stacks which are basically Docker Compose files in a neat UI. The ability to move these stacks to other instances. There's the network options and ability to make more networks, the files that are associated with the containers.

And not just for the instance I'm in, but for all the instances I've connected.

In my previous experience with Docker these are all things that I need to remember code to find, meaning I most often have to Google the code to find out what I'm after. Here is neatly packaged in a web page.

Oh and the logs, which are really useful when tinkering to try get something up and running

I've used Docker a fair bit over the years because it's a simple line of code I can copy/paste to get a simple web server running.

I ran Home Assistant Supervised in Docker for many years. It was a few lines of code and then I basically had Home Assistant OS running on my Pi without it taking over the whole Pi, meaning I could run other things on it too.

That ended when HA just died one day and I had no clue how to get it running again. I spent a day trying, then just installed HA OS on the Pi instead.

Anyway I now have a Dell Optiplex and Proxmox and I've gone back to Docker. Why? Well I discovered that I could make a Linux VM and install Docker on it, then add the Docker code to install a Portainer client to it, then make that into a template.

Meaning I can clone that template and type the IP address into Portainer and now I have full access to that Docker instance from my original Portainer container. That means I can bang a Docker Compose file into the "Stack" and press go, then tinker with the thing I wanna tinker with. If I get it working it can stay, if I don't then I just delete the VM and I've lost nothing.

Portainer has made Docker way more accessible for me. I love a webui

Yeah I get it, I started home automation using Google Assistant and Tasker on my phone to make everything work. I spent HOURS writing Tasker automations because the Wifey hated it all because it all worked based on my phone.

Whenever I couldn't get something working I'd see Home Assistant as the solution. Maybe for a year or more...

COVID happened and I bought a Pi to play with. Did some shit with it and eventually gave Home Assistant a go and never looked back.

My home automation has come along leaps and bounds since then. I had a friend on the weekend comment that I'll finally know I'm living in the future when I walk through the door and my house welcomes me home. It's been doing that for over a year already...

Also, look at Open Media Vault instead of TrueNAS, honestly so much easier

Now then, you may be my new best friend:

I just spent the better part of a day figuring out how to run Mullvad on it and force all my torrent traffic to use it.

Mine all runs on a Windows machine because I could not work out how to get everything to talk to each other in containers. Then I tried to do the Mullvad thing too. I tried OpenWRT, OpenVPN (docker), Wireguard (Docker), Traffaek (Docker), and even Tailscale (Docker) and couldn't get anything running right.

ATM I just have Mullvad installed on the Windows machine and have it turn on when the VM starts up, but I'd like it all in containers instead.

Do you have any handy links as to how you get Mullvad working?

I think my next project is getting all my Arr working in containers, but I need to get them working through Mullvad to do that, or at least Prowlarr and my Real Debrid or qBittorrent through it

This is why I separate bedtime and tinkering time with something else

Dune is a damn good book! I lost interest around book 3 though

Woah I've just had my mind blown a little. I did not realise that using Tailscale I'd be able to smb into my server on my phone, but I can!

I will have to have a research about what all of those things mean lol. Thanks.

This is why I love this community, really helpful but speak in a language I'm not fluent in yet.

It's like when I learned guitar, I had no clue what people were talking about half the time on /R/learnguitar, same in /R/homeassistant, but I lurked enough that I learned loads and ended up contributing to both communities after a spell of time.

I have transferred a file from another container on the same computer to it and get 40+MBps. So there's something going on on the network.

That said, "The Network" is an old powerline adapter running up a floor through a wired router, so it's probably something to do with that. Not a big deal, it still works and tbh I don't see myself moving too many big files between the server and my PC so I can live with 40MBps between my containers

I gave up Reddit and started on Lemmy, but also started speed cubing. Now when I have time to kill I'll just get my cube out instead of mindlessly scrolling.

I can now on average, solve a Rubik's cube in around 40 seconds.

Just an idea of how much time was consumed scrolling politics on Reddit