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Best option for low cost reliable solar node

Best option for low cost reliable solar node - Lemmy

I’m on a budget and i’m looking to mount a node on a pole in my back yard. I have access to a 3d printer, i have soldering skills, and i’m okay with buying individual components and assembling them myself. I’d like it to look nice but it doesn’t have to if that keeps costs down. The first goal is reliability, i won’t be able to easily access it once it’s up. The second goal is cheap, i’m on a fairly tight budget. It’s possible the device might be in wifi range where it’s mounted so that would be a nice bonus.

zerodawn Sep 29

Is it possible to block/shape mmwave?

https://leaf.dance/post/4939639

Is it possible to block/shape mmwave? - Lemmy

The sensor i have let’s you set zones which work width wise but not height. What i would like to do, if able, is mount the sensor waist height or a little higher and block the top and bottom of the sensor so i only have the middle 20° being used. Can this be done with foil or metal?

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zerodawn Sep 21, 2025

I hope someone else knows a better way to do this because it would appear it is somewhat possible but not easy.

Subsonic servers, such as navidrome, offer the ability to “SyncPlayQueue” via api to specific players, but in the case of navidrome that does not included the web player or music assistant for home assistant (the later is an assumption as i was unable to find a setting to enable it).

For those who don’t care about home assistant they just need to find a player on the devices they want to transition music too and from that supports the feature.

For those who use home assistant and want to listen to music across devices you can transfer queue from within the music assistant player to a device added as a player or the app by picking “this device”. That only works if you’ve been playing music from your phone on a smart speaker, the music queue being played via web isn’t visible from the app and vice vera. It might be possible to set a web browser as a player to interact with but i imagine that would be a fragile setup at best.

zerodawn Sep 21, 2025

Self hosted music server that remembers playlist location and song time stamp

https://leaf.dance/post/4464229

Self hosted music server that remembers playlist location and song time stamp - Lemmy

I’m looking for a foss self hosted music service that will let me play music from my computer, my phone, and home assistant all while remembering where i was in the song and where i was in the playlist. Ideally it would be as simple as hitting pause on one and play on the other.

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zerodawn Sep 15, 2025

Turns out it was as simple as checking a box in my reverse proxy settings to enable “forwardfor” now to wait and see if the information actually gets passed through or if I have to do as NeryK suggests and enter the address in Jellyfin.

zerodawn Sep 14, 2025

Self hosted calendar

https://leaf.dance/post/4042913

Self hosted calendar - Lemmy

I’m looking for a self hosted calendar that supports multiple users, runs in docker, and is easy to integrate into home assistant and a phone app. Does anything like this exist or should i lower my expectations?

zerodawn Sep 14, 2025

JellyStat ip address

https://leaf.dance/post/4030670

JellyStat ip address - Lemmy

I’m not sure where else to ask this other than maybe self-hosted, so let me know if I’m in the wrong place. I’m trying to overcome a minor issue with Jellystat. Coming from Plex, I used Tautulli fairly heavily, and one of the features I’d use for various internal monitoring was the IP address tracking. Jellystat has IP address tracking, but unfortunately, due to the structure of my network, it only shows the address of my firewall when the connection is coming from outside my network. I’m fairly sure this isn’t an issue with Plex, since their site does the authentication and the service exits through NAT port forwarding, but with Jellyfin, I use a reverse proxy to route all external traffic as needed. I’m open to additional software or different methods of tracking, but I’m not sure where to start. Any advice would be appreciated.

zerodawn Jul 18, 2025

Best plex/jellyfin compatible streaming box

https://leaf.dance/post/498072

Best plex/jellyfin compatible streaming box - Lemmy

I’ve seen a couple articles about an android tv alternative and it’s got me thinking about a streaming box again. A while back i gave kodi a try and didn’t care for the experience. Granted, it was on a pi so expectations were low but it missed the mark for me. This time around i’ve got a modest nuc with proxmox i was thinking of moving to the living room and standing up a fresh vm of kodi to stream to. I could just access the files over the network but i’m already running both plex and jellyfin so why not use either for my watch history. All that being said is kodi still my best bet? Why proxmox? At some point down the road i’d like to get a capture card in the mix to stream games and that feels like the most flexible way to do everything.

zerodawn Jul 16, 2025

Pfsense help: Route all inbound vpn traffic out over external vpn

https://leaf.dance/post/397359

Pfsense help: Route all inbound vpn traffic out over external vpn - Lemmy

I don’t know how to word my search for better Google results, but my goal is to have a couple of devices access my network via WireGuard, but when those devices access the internet, it’s through a vpn. Right now, I have the devices routed through a vpn and able to access internal addresses. I also have an external vpn that some of my traffic currently routes out through. I just don’t know how to take the traffic coming in through one vpn and send it out another. An example goal: Have a phone that, when on wifi, goes out through commercial vpn. If wifi is disconnected, that device will switch over to the WireGuard connection and go out through the same commercial vpn.

zerodawn Jul 10, 2025

Is my federation working?

https://leaf.dance/post/44611