In this project, I explore an all-in-one home server using low cost hardware, bringing together as many common home applications as possible in a single box.

Terramaster NAS as low-cost Proxmox node? Teardown and SW Install!

In the first video, I introduce the hardware for this project - a cheap Terramaster NAS! It combines two HDD bays and two NVMe slots in a very tiny and low power brick, with dual 2.5G ethernet too! I get it running with Proxmox, so future projects have a platform to build on.

Terramaster NAS as low-cost Proxmox node? Teardown and SW Install!

Take Control of your Smarthome with Home Assistant! Installation Tutorial on Proxmox

In this video, I go over the process for creating a new virtual machien in Proxmox for Home Assistant, what settings you should choose, and why. I also include the steps to pass through USB hardware such as Zigbee and Z-Wave dongles to your virtual machine. Enjoy!

Take Control of your Smarthome with Home Assistant! Installation Tutorial on Proxmox

Making Proxmox into a pretty good NAS

Continuing the series where apalrd teaches proxmox skills through meaningful applications, today we are setting up a proper fileserver on our Proxmox system using Linux Containers. I’ve chosen to use a lightweight Linux Container (LXC) for this, so we can share the host’s ZFS filesystem. To manage shares and users using a web UI, I’m installing Cockpit, as well as some additional modules from 45Drives to deal with Samba. Hope you enjoy it!

Making Proxmox into a pretty good NAS

Manage your Media Collection with Jellyfin! Install on Proxmox with Hardware Transcode

In the last video I introduced Linux Containers, today we’re going to supercharge that by seeing if we can get some graphics hardware into our container, and give our large blu-ray collection a new home. We’re going to cover a few more advanced Proxmox container features, such as privilaged containers, hardware pass-through, and Jellyfin setup and transcoding for Intel and AMD GPUs.

Manage your Media Collection with Jellyfin! Install on Proxmox with Hardware Transcode