Home Lab Configure Wake on Lan when not available in the BIOS The latest (cheap) mini pc with the N5105 CPU in it has low power consumption and enough grunt for running plex but does have a couple of issues. The BIOS Steve Morriss 11 Jul 2023 · 2 min read
Home Lab Transcoding with 11th Gen Celeron CPU In a bid to further reduce the power consumption of my always on services such as Plex I obtained a cheap mini pc with a Celeron N5105 CPU which has Steve Morriss 14 Oct 2022 · 2 min read
Home Lab Plex docker container with Nvidia transcoding As part of my drive to make the homelab environment use less electricity (with the current price increases this got even more appealing) I decided to try running plex on Steve Morriss 18 Sep 2022 · 3 min read
Home Lab Dynamic DNS and Cloudflare When I had a static IP address I just added the various hostnames into the Fasthosts (domain registrar) DNS configuration. However, when changing to an ISP that doesn't Steve Morriss 16 Sep 2022 · 3 min read
Home Lab Automatically mount remote file systems Using autofs Install autofs On Debian/Ubuntu based distros sudo apt install autofs On Redhat/Centos based distros dnf install autofs This will install the autofs packages and any missing Steve Morriss 30 Nov 2021 · 2 min read
Classic cars MG Headlight Upgrades Halogen Upgrade The MG originally came with sealed beam headlights and if I'm honest, the light output wasn't great, especially compared to modern cars with xenon Steve Morriss 25 Nov 2021 · 2 min read
Home Lab Install Docker on Ubuntu This post is a quick guide to installing docker on Ubuntu. This guide assumes that you're working on a "blank" system, as in you've Steve Morriss 25 Nov 2021 · 2 min read
Home Lab Plex as a docker container My old server had 12 CPU cores with hyper-threading giving 24 available threads. However, as a Plex server it wasn't ideal as the Xeon processors don't Steve Morriss 25 Nov 2021 · 3 min read
Home Lab Why Proxmox? I have used Proxmox as my main hypervisor since 2016 and even after trying out others have always gone back to it. I suspect that part of it is just Steve Morriss 20 Jan 2021 · 3 min read
Home Lab Dynamic DNS Until November 2020 I had a fixed IP address which meant that connecting to my server from the outside world was easy, I updated my domain registrar DNS information with Steve Morriss 19 Jan 2021 · 3 min read
Home Lab Why use a reverse proxy? Why use a reverse proxy? Well, if my home lab was only providing one service then I wouldn’t need one as I’d just pass the traffic through the Steve Morriss 18 Jan 2021 · 3 min read
Home Lab Why raglits.co.uk? After changing ISPs a couple of times I decided that I needed an email address that didn’t change whenever I changed ISP. It wasn’t too bad letting friends Steve Morriss 18 Jan 2021 · 1 min read
