I’ve had to lean on backups many a time. It’s one of the reasons I make them and test them in a VM, because my dim brain coupled with fat fingers are a disaster waiting to happen.

People shit on LLMs

Well yes, and both sides of the coin have valid points. I do use AI occasionally, and at the very least it gets me going in the right direction, tho not always 100% accurate.

Be that as it may, you’re still sysadmin. In fact, you’re the whole IT dept for your network. LOL Chief cook and bottle washer, as it were. Don’t worry about asking for help either. You’re in the right place for this sort of thing.

OP, I failed to mention one of the most important things you can do as a novice or even as a seasoned vet: take prolific notes. Write down everything. All the commands, all the steps, you’ve used in conjunction with setting up whatever service you choose, everything. What I do is while I’m in the middle of deploying something, I write everything down. Upon a successful deployment, take those notes, clean them up, and include them in my 3,2,1 back up scheme. Don’t be lulled into the notion that you’ll be able to remember everything 6 months down the road. You wont! That’s the devil talking Bobby Boucher. Take notes. They’ll save your ass in the future.

I can provide a sample tomorrow.

That would be swell, but I wouldn’t make it a priority. Just whenever you get a round to it. I have been given a ton of source material to read. Stayed up a little too late last night trying to assimilate it all. LOL

Is this a “learn it by coding it” project or is it a “I want this thing to exist, no one has done it, but my code skills aren’t quite there” project?

This is a practical use learning project. I’m sure there have been many iterations of what I’m trying to learn. I’m a prolific reader and consume a lot of data, but I learn the best by hands on. Read, do, screw it up, rince/repeat ad nauseam until I get it right, and then I write that shit down because my brain is shit at remembering.

I know what perl is, but I have never used it before. I’ll spool up on that too.

As I’m not very skilled with sysadmin stuff

You sound pretty skilled to me. What an awesome update. Thank you for sharing.

I’m the map, I’m the map, I’m the map /s

(In my mind this is hosting images, music, video, connected home controls, search and email)?

• Hosting Images: Immich seems to be a hit
• Music: Navidrome which I use daily
• Video: Jellyfin seems popular these days. Part of the 'arr stack
• Home Controls: Home Assistant gets rave reviews
• Search: Searxng which I use daily
• Email: MailCow gets some good reviews

What are the specs on that SFF? Of the 6 I listed, Immich and Jellyfin might need a few more resources, especially transcoding video. I am not familiar with running either. The rest should run within a nominal spec of something post 2015. I’m running that and another 30+ containers on a little Dell Optiplex 7020 SFF with the i7-4790 chip and 32 GB RAM (which is a bit overkill), and it barely breaks a sweat. Load averages usually run .20 .15 .35, essentially sleeping. The only time it’s under a real load is on boot up starting about 40 containers total, and that usually takes less than 2 minutes.

I mean, you could start lower on the totem pole and work your way up to those 6, but if your equipment is, like I said, within the last 10 or so years, you should be fine to march right on up to the top. That is, unless this is a learning mission for you and you wanted to just ‘try out’ other similar containers. If I were to give you a map, I’d say start with one container. See how it runs. Learn it. Take note of load averages, temps, resources. Then slowly add to the list. Worst case you might have to split the load between a laptop server and the SFF or NAS if it has capabilities to do so.

There are some security measures to keep in mind with Jellyfin, and with all containers you run really. But Jellyfin seems to need some extra attention, or so I’ve read.

I’m not sure how far along you are as a ‘novice’, but Linux Upskill Challenge is always a good bookmark.

so I’m going to call this gardening level

Micro Farming. ;)

Is it a webpage or an app or such?

I am using the Homarr dashboard. It does have an iframe module that I think I could use once I pretty up the data.

Well, primarily because I wouldn’t learn anything. lol Plus, the Homarr weather plugin doesn’t give as much detail as I would like. It works, no doubt, I just wanted something a bit more.

Nushell

https://www.nushell.sh/? I’ll add it to this evening’s reading material. I was skimming the site and saw this: https://www.nushell.sh/cookbook/jq_v_nushell.html in relation to jq.

Thanks for the input.

envsubst sed

Ahh more to explore. Thanks.

your requirements aren’t very clear on what you want this data for or how it will be used.

Apologies. As per usual, it’s all in my head and sometimes doesn’t make it to paper. I am using Homarr dashboard. Homarr has the ability to incorporate iframes. Ideally I would like to parse the JSON data into a prettier format perhaps adding some icons in the future once I get it all hammered out, and display it in an iframe on my dashboard.

Thank you for the leads and your time.

Have you heard of reticulum?

Never, but I will spool up on it.

Always fancied growing my own food

Even in a small yard, one can grow enough food to offset buying at the local grocery. Container gardening. Maybe using some areas of your landscaping for a small grow. I’ll tell you that there is nothing like home grown food. It tastes much different than what you find in most groceries. For instance, I look forward in much anticipation to tomato season. I grow all kinds of varieties. Store bought tomatoes are usually picked green, flooded with Ethylene, and shipped. That will never compare to a sliced tomato, ripe off the vine with some mayo, salt and pepper, between two slices of bread.

It mostly depends on what you’re doing with the property

Well, I used to be a farmer among other things in a former life. I’m 71 now and a bit too old to be running a farm full time. So I lease most of it out to other farmers in the area to grow silage for their livestock. I still retain some for my livestock, and personal grows. I also have parceled out a couple of half and quarter acre plots for the townies to grow their community gardens. Positive cash flow and all that.

Home Assistant

I thought about Home Assistant, but I’m not sure what I’d do with the rest of it’s capabilities. I live in a house built in the latter part of the 40’s sitting in the middle of 22 acres. Besides a monitor for all my security cams which I already have set up, there’s not a whole lot to automate with Home Assistant around here. LOL 2 rooms, one bath, part of which have the original logs from when it was a log cabin. Not a whole lot to keep up with.

I’m using Homarr which has the capabilities of iframes.

Is this not JSON format?

ETA: I guess I should have posted it as such:

Use Case: I want to display a daily and extended forecast on a dashboard perhaps via an iframe or other means. I get tired of going to the weather channel and having them complain about my ad blocking techniques. LOL Also, I thought it would be a good learning exercise for me. I’m using n8n to pull the raw data from OpenWeather API. I can generate the JSON data fine (at least it was an accomplishment for me), it’s just getting that JSON data into a prettier format to display on a dashboard with maybe some pretty little weather icons later on when I get it down pat.

I mentioned Python because it seemed like a language I see others use for this sort of thing, but I am willing to explore other avenues. I am not very strong at coding. I can muck by, fiddling with this or that until I finally get something that works. Then I immediately commit that to my notes because my brain is shit at remembering things.

If you’re new to programming in general,

I’m not new to programming, I’m just not very strong or proficient at all at it. You’ve given me a lot to read, and I thank you.

Btw, you are definitly not limited to using Python for this

I mentioned Python because that seems like a language a lot of people use for this sort of thing, but I am willing to entertain any other avenues…except perhaps Microsoft’s Power BI, which is discontinued.

Thank you.