[plug] Pi as NAS was Re: Installfests

[William Kenworthy]

On 27/12/24 10:43, Brad Campbell wrote:
> On 27/12/24 09:58, Brad Campbell wrote:
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>> One is running some custom stuff and rtl_433 to read weather and temperature sensors, and also works as a network key server.
> Oh, I forgot it's also running a 3x3 CCTV Matrix decoding 8 h264 streams and then has its hdmi output fed into an hdmi->h264 encoder which gets displayed on the htpc pi's as a video source.
> I tried for years to do it using the pi's inbuilt h264 encoder in a sort of loopback, but could never get it to work.
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Timely - I just unplugged my last Pi (a 3B) a couple of days ago as being too underpowered.  I use mostly odroid systems (xu4/hc2/C4/N2) these days.  I am in the process of moving most services to LXC containers including Homeassistant and various related services like esphome.  All run gentoo/openrc. The end game is to have the N2's and C4's running as bare metal hosts for LXC and migrate the VM's as necessary between them.  Its currently working across the N2's - my next tasks are creating better management scripts to automate tasks and putting together a profile to handle the different architectures between the N2's and C4'sbefore recompiling the VM's - the build system is optimised to the cpu and not generic.

Sorta related - can frigate (with USB Coral) run in an LXC container successfully on an N2/C4 or equivent? (basicly a late Rpi) running AARCH64.  I would like to bring it under the same system rather than keep it in docker on an Intel system.

BillK