Thanks for the background on the tiles.

Yeah, from my PoV, I’d like to use the OSM data that’s already on my phone (from other OSM based apps), but I understand your point.

So, where’s your VPS? In EU?

FYI: Got the app installed, followed the instructions (which refers to a Home Assistant template that doesn’t exist on the app?), modified the default custom template with tid set to an identifier and … I appear to be at home 🙂

Thank you

you can predownload map tiles from a tile server I selfhost or use your own tile server.

Could OSM tiles be used? Ie direct the app to an OSM server and download their data?

I’ve no idea how tiles work, so this may be an absurd question 🙂

I’m currently using GPSLogger, but Home Assistant’s integration for it can’t handle >1 device… if I install your app on multiple devices, can Home Assistant distinguish between them? Ie does the data nclude a DeviceID of some kind?

Edit: ok, I think I’ve found the answer in your Home Assistant documentation

That paper calendar must be rigid now with all that white paint 🤭

when both are available it’s hard to decide.

It’s easy to decide: AUR (only)

Personally, I use pacman for as much as I can, then dip into yay for anything else.

So, that would play music on the client? Ie your phone? Or can it play through a local DAC too?

Ok, not heard of Moode. The website looks interesting, I’ll check it out, thanks!

I remember trying piCorePlayer when I was considering alternatives to Volumio3 and - from memory - the UI was a bit weird?

Like, it started in one UI, but then you had to do a few things to get to another?

But, ok, I’ll take another look as I’d forgotten about it. Thanks

I could not for the life of me make the ethernet transfer speeds be more than somewhere around 1-5 MiB/s

That’s probably a physical cable issue.

Check the connectors and / or different cables.

It’s esp. more important for 1Gbps connections as they’re more sensitive than 100Mbps

Ok, fair point

I had a quick look at the docs… so, can I backup my DB version X and restore it to DB version Y?

I split my loads (gigity) between the power hungry NAS and a passively cooled low power Proxmox host.

For me, most 24/7 activities are low CPU - like Home Assistant, so it needs to be there, but it doesn’t need to do anything.

Other VMs are ansible, uptime kuma, smokeping, etc… the most they use is RAM

Then the (relatively) more power hungry NAS powers up 3 times a day to syncthing everything, maybe upload a backup, and if no-one’s using Immich, etc. then it’ll power back off again.

The only other thing I have yet to downsize is my pfSense box (still a low powered device, but has fans…) and a Raspberry Pi I use for my Zigbee network.

My NAS powers up & down about 3 times a day. Drives are all fine & healthy and some have been in there for years.

I don’t disagree with your core point though…

If the drive just finished spinning down and then it’s triggered for a 1 byte file, spins down, repeat… yeah, that definitely needs sorting out.

Just the initial spin-up lag would do my head in.

But off & on ~ daily, yeah not a problem.

I setup a standard Arch install, added BTRFS, NFS, SMB, restic (for offsite backups), etc and haven’t looked back.

I installed Cockpit thinking we’d need a GUI, but syncthing just works to mirror our laptops & phones with the NAS, and with multiple versions (by syncthing) I’m happy so far

The only thing that I had issues with was Immich and (major) postgresql updates, but that’s stablising now. And, TBH, the worst thing was just having to scrap the DB and just let it rebuild it (for a few days…)

I went with BTRFS because I can “see” it with standard linux tools like gparted, clonezilla, etc. So I can backup and modify the NAS OS itself, not just my data.

Apart from updates, I haven’t touched it for years.

Or

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Thanks, yeah, this is kinda what’s happened with Logseq.

Ok, not even heard of that one, I’ll take a look. Thanks

Thanks for the insight.

I need a UI that I can navigate links between files / topics / dates, so whilst I agree about the editor point (I use Markor for quick notes / edits on my phone), I need to be able to look up points during live meetings.

And to your last points, yes, I’m trying to understand it, but it’s on-ramp is an almost vertical wall for a complete starter like myself… but maybe I’m hitting it too fast

Just to address the networking part…

Wifi is a 1:1 link, usually half-duplex (unless you’ve got something like a MuMiMo router) so you’ll transmit a block of video to the phone and then have to wait for the phone to transmit that block to the laptop, then repeat.

You don’t state the screen sizes, but I suspect you’ll only get decent FPS (I presume this is for gaming) with a cable as that will be full duplex.

For the application, maybe take a look at something like Deskflow

nmon

That, along with tmux and htop, are installed on everything I have.

nmon then ld- give me a system health page that shows me where the bottleneck is.

It’s interesting to see how a system behaves when you’re doing something like a backup… it’s not always what you think.

But, to be fair, how many people are using Win95 apps now?