Monday, 27th January, 2025

All this faffing with summits and distance calculations has got me thinking about my computer arrangements.

The server is running proxmox, so that I can run home assistance in a VM easily. Which it is easy. Everything else is difficult. I don’t really know how Proxmox works and using the webUI isn’t always obvious. I think that I’m expecting to do everything on proxmox, when in fact it just looks after VMs and storage (sort of?) and everything else I do on the computer as normal. I don’t like this. I think I just need a regular linux server where I run what I want and that’s that. The only thing is home assitant is better when installed on bare metal or in a vm, and isn’t great when in a container. However…I don’t actually use home assitant for anything. I just collect data but do nothing with it. I don’t have any automations. Since we moved to the EV tariff, our “automations” are fixed on a schedule which I program via an app.

I do wonder if something simplier is what I need? Although HA is simple to use…I sort of what to use NodeRed to do things, as I think it would be useful to learn. Home assistant has a nice phone app though. All I do is look at historical data every so often. I dunno…don’t want to give it up but at the same time seems unnecessary.

I’ve actually considered getting rid of the server altogether, but then plex is nice, and recently the audio book server is handy. Plus I run my private tiddlywiki server from it too.

Mostly I want to build a server with large amounts of RAM (like 512+GB) for this summit computation I’ve been doing in order to avoid chunking it. Then I wanted to run it on NVME so it’s fast but the NVMEs are buried behind proxmox stuff, but I have found the 4TB SSDs I have are in the server, but just not mounted.

Now I’m looking at Dell Wyse 5070 to run proxmox and home assistant on.