#proxmox

NETWORK SETUP - Verizon is my ISP and is running on the subnet x.x. 86.1 - Google wifi mesh extenders running on the subnet x.x.87.1.  - Everything on my homelab is hardwired into the Google mesh.

HARDWARE - My desktop PC that's hardwired into the mesh. + It's my daily driver and I'm not using it as part of my homelab. - 10" 9U network rack with a 12 port patch panel. - Netgear GS308 - NAS running TrueNAS + Manual desktop and photo backups + 1TB mirrored pool for manual desktop and photo backups + 2TB mirrored pool for media storage (Movies/TV/Music) - Raspberry Pi 5 8GB - Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W - Dell Optiplex 3070 Micro + i5 processor and 8GB of RAM and a single 500GB SSD - HP ProDesk + i3 processor and 8GB of RAM and a single 256GB SSD

APPS - Proxmox (Hypervisor) - Glance (Dashboard) - Tailscale (Remote access VPN) - Plex (Media management) - Plexamp (Music management) - A Minecraft server for my LAN - Docmost (Homelab documentation hub) - NextCloud (Google Drive replacement) - Immich (Google Photos replacement) - Pi-hole (Ad blocker)

You can run an instance of proxmox on almost any pc

i have it running on one Lenovo tiny pc with only a i3-2120t cpu, 8gb ram and a 320gb hdd. (Although more storage space is recommended for media of any kind which is also why this isn’t my main server)

Then once you have proxmox setup (plenty of tutorials online, its not too difficult really)

Then you need to setup your storage you can either just format any blank drives/externals you have or you can mount a drive via the fstab file in /etc/fstab with “ nano /etc/fstab “ and just add the drives location such as sda and all to the line you can search for examples of what a drive with ntfs or something looks like, lsblk command to list your drives.

You can use proxmox helper scripts to setup a self hosted audiobook / podcast streaming software.

One you go through the setup which is scripted so it mostly does everything by itself when you run it

Then you go to the file for the id of the lxc you just created in /etc/pve/nodes/pve/lxc/id.conf (id=number like 101.conf) you can use nano or filezilla / other sftp file managers for this. Then add a line to the file

mp1: mnt/localdrive,mp=/mnt/mountedfolderonlxc

Just replace local drive with the drive’s location and mounted folder on lxc with what you want it to be called on the lxc (i usually just use the same folder name)

Then save it and restart the lxc

You go to the ip address assigned to audiobookshelf such as 192.168.1.144 and add port 13378 to it such as http://192.168.11.144:13378 and then login, go to the little gear ⚙️ in the corner, select libraries from the side panel, add library and select the media type podcasts, tell it where the folder is in /mnt/folder on the lxc

then you just hit home > add

And here you can search for any podcast available on itunes or paste in their RSS feed url, click the podcast, you can choose to automatically download new episodes at the bottom and then click submit and it will be added to the server. On the following page, hit the magnifying glass to search for new episodes

Then at the bottom of the window that pops up, select the option to download all if you want or just get the episodes you want (i usually go for all) then click the bottom next to it in the lower righthand corner and you’re done. It will automatically download all episodes.

There is a audiobookshelf app for android or plappa for ios for podcasts (audiobooth is way better but it only works for audiobooks not podcasts, hopefully they fix that soon but as of version 1.5 still no love for podcasts.)

Now you have your favourite podcasts local and offline forever, no internet needed, no worries about them being taken offline, etc, best of all many podcasts add blank moments for ads so if the ads aren’t IN the audio file itself, you get them ad free. (So some have ads some dont at all, thats kind of nice)

If you want to join us to talk about more of these things you can join us within the following groups on Simplex Chat

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