1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

Yeah I can't remember what games needed a quad if any at the time?

I played CS, pre-Steam and post, Rainbow Six variants, Civilization, WoW, and whatever else was popular at the time.

What'd you play that needed extra processing?

 

Sweet! I've had several 1U servers but they all proved to be too loud for me, even in the 2nd bedroom so I just decided to strip them and make this instead. That's a shitload of RAM. What do you use for remote booting? Been wanting a solution for autostarting when I turn on my TV, and have some ideas, but might just set up a magic packet app on my phone. I have it scheduled for an auto-shutdown at 3am, but would like to code an app that keeps it live if it successfully pings the TV.

 

i'll have to bother you guys if I ever decided to try making a PLEX server again

 

No problemo
I got sick of Plex. They phased out local access so you have to have internet access and a user account with them to use it now. So I switched to Emby. It's not as nice on the library recognition but it has a lot more options - stemming from a more open source platform. The only thing really restricted on both are GPU rendering, which really only matters if you have x265 content and not a streaming device that natively decodes it.

 

Yeah it’s a noisy one, I’ve gotten pretty good at doing some sound deadening and where it is in the house I don’t hear it.

I have the the ram to run vms for work, and I have a gitlab jail, a plex jail, and some other stuff I’m forgetting.

It has a idrac6 module in it that I can access to boot remotely. Perks of server hardware

 

Ah ok, the HPs I had had iLo

 

I never had much luck with magic packets. Would Almost tempted to hook up a raspberry pi to run the power switch

 

Ya that's probably my best bet. I've had a B for years that I've never had a good project for. But then I have to relearn Python
jk lol I like Python

 

Yeah I setup one as sort of the all-the-services. It runs pinhole, home assistant and an mqtt server. DNS is flakey on it though so I need to fiddle with that.

 

Do you have smarthome stuff depending on it then?

 

Just a few lamps plugged into sonoff modules running tasmota. Might do more as I get time. I just got tired of dealing with a pile of mechanical lamp timers

 

Meanwhile, unreleased picture of Tony Hawk when he was really young -

 

Girlfriend, last night:
“My anaconda don't want none
Unless you've got puns, hun!”

She might be a keeper

 

Heh... I have mixed opinions about the smart home stuff, but I plan on investing in Insteon dimmers and devices, as they seem very scalable and actually have a backend communication via powerline, so you don't have to rely on a hub or wifi (though you can). In other words, it works in all circumstances...supposedly
https://www.insteon.com/products

 

Yeah I’m pretty skeptical of smart home stuff too. So much of it I just don’t need anyway. These lights aren’t critical but the switches are hard to get to so I figured it was a decent place to play.

powerline networking has come a long way, is the Insteon stuff some sort of standard or is it some proprietary protocol?

 

https://www.insteon.com/technology#technologycompared
If you go down to the systems compared you'll see some of the other ones mention z-wave, zigbee, etc, so I'd assume the powerline protocol itself is proprietary, but the wireless might work with Z-wave, not sure

I'm really only concerned with light zoning and potentially timers, so compatibility not really a concern of mine

 

Gonna bookmark that for if I ever buy a house, that seems really slick.

 

Not cheap though, which is why I have yet to pull the trigger. Think I was looking at over $300 just for the light switch/keypad replacements I wanted for my small house.

 

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