
Home Assistant is able to switch the outlets via SNMP. Power control for the AV setup is handled by an APC AP9212 8-way switched PDU. All the devices in the rack are hard-wired with ethernet. There's also my long-serving Apple AirPort dual-band 11n AP, which has been in almost constant use since 2011. The 1810 is a nice upgrade from the 1800. I did have an 1800, which I swapped for a Zyxel GS1900-24HP, but found the fans too noisy even after replacing them, so I went back to passive-cooled.

Finally, there's a Pi-powered Mycroft MkI open-source voice assistant that I'm experimenting with (the white thing that looks like a 90s clock radio). On top, I have an RPi 3B running as a dashboard and collecting bluetooth data from various Govee temperature/humidity sensors around the house to feed into Home Assistant, also a particulate-matter and CO2 sensor for air quality (keeping the house tightly shut up to conserve heat, it's important). I had the Cubietruck running LibreNMS but it was just too heavy to keep up. I have 2 additional ARM boards, a Cubietruck with a 500GB HDD running Debian as a syslog server, and a (way overkill) ODROID XU4 running Home Assistant natively. 4 SATA HDDs, 1 each of 12TB (Plex library), 4TB (general storage), 3TB (system backups) and 500GB (NFS share for Kubernetes). I run about 5 VMs per machine: PiHoles, Bitwarden, TubeArchivist, FreeIPA, SaltStack, SQL databases and a general web server running various r/SelfHosted apps.īulk storage is on a Kobol Helios4 dual-core ARM NAS with 2GB ECC, running Debian from an SD card. All 3 run clients now, and the heat from the trio contributes to keeping my lounge/WFH office warm.

Hopefully will upgrade them to a Ganeti HA cluster. My main lab platform is a trio of HP 260 G1s running Devuan Linux, each with the same spec: i3-4030U dual-core, 16GB RAM, 500GB SATA SSD, 1Gb NIC. Since energy prices in the UK are through the roof, I moved my lab to mostly small machines, and then decided to bring them out of my 18U main rack and into my media rack.
