Hello everyone,
I would like to get started with selfhost with two projects.
Project A (for me): A NUC with Proxmox installed on it, two VMs including a Home Assistant and a NAS system that I haven’t chosen yet.
The only question I have with this project is:
- how to access the NAS and HA separately from the outside knowing that my access provider does not offer a static IP and that access to each VM must be differentiated from Proxmox.
Project B (for my uncle):
A NUC (with Proxmox or not, I don’t know yet, perhaps simpler for making backups), with HA but especially Frigate.
The goal is to use Google Coral to do recognition on 3 video surveillance cameras.
My questions are:
is Coral really useful with 3 cameras?do you need a Coral in USB or M.2 version?are there affordable NUCs with free M.2 slots?won’t proxmox add a layer of complexity with Coral/Frigate/a Zigbee dongle?
Thank you in advance for your help and sorry if my post is long.
PS: if you have recommendations for cameras that work with Frigate and are self-powered with solar panels, I’ll take them!
Edit : 8 april 2024
A little update. Thank you everyone for your super quick responses!
Regarding my uncle’s project and after big discussions, he is going to buy Reolink cameras and that’s it. This will be much simpler for maintenance than building a server.
Regarding my project: I chose a Beelink Mini S12 pro with an N100 processor (for its low consumption) with a 2.5 bay for an SSD for my Nextcloud.
I wondered if I wouldn’t take the opportunity to add pihole and that’s where new questions arise…
I see a lot of people installing Pihole on Docker, should I put it on Docker? Or create a VM?
Should Docker be installed on Proxmox or on a VM?
Is Proxmox really useful, shouldn’t I better install HA/Nextcloud/Pihole under Docker directly?
Should I use LXC or Docker?
I have dynamic IP and there are several ways around it. I use Cloudflared (updates DNS records regularly) and a script I found to update duck DNS as a backup. Both very simple.
Accessing the services is not the problem, the problem is keeping them safe. I’ve tried lots of different ways (although not tailscale yet) and have a few services exposed directly to the internet behind authentik \ NPM \ Cloudflare \ fail2ban \ ufw. Others, I access through my router openvpn server, with keys for my laptop and phone as clients. There are so many guides online for all VPN types. Its just finding the right approach between ease of use vs safety
how to access the NAS and HA separately from the outside knowing that my access provider does not offer a static IP and that access to each VM must be differentiated from Proxmox.
HA has add-ons for duckns and nginx-proxy-manager which should solve this… Or alternatively use those things in docker or by installing on your host OS.
is Coral really useful with 3 cameras?
Yes if you want object detection
- do you need a Coral in USB or M.2 version?
I’ve only used a USB, I don’t know how to pass M.2 through to the VM but I’m sure theres tutorials out there if you want to.
- are there affordable NUCs with free M.2 slots?
Can’t answer that one.
- won’t proxmox add a layer of complexity with Coral/Frigate/a Zigbee dongle?
Yes, you’ll need to know how to pass through the devices to their respective VMs.
Thanks for your help!
HA has add-ons for duckns and nginx-proxy-manager which should solve this… Or alternatively use those things in docker or by installing on your host OS. I get this point, but I don’t understand how do I manage my NAS VM with this.
Oh right, so the NAS you can setup with the addon Samba NAS.
DuckDNS will mitigate your issues with not having a staic IP (alternatively theres any number of DynDNS programs you can look into if for example you already own your own domain name)
Nginx-Proxy-Manager allows you to forward ports based on the domain used to connect so, you might not even need it really but if you wanted for exmple to have an address like mysupercoolnas.duckdns,org rediect to one proxmox vm and mycoolassitant.duckdns.org to reditect to HA you could do that. Or you could just have one DynDNS setup and use port forwarding on your router to handle what ports direct to which VM.
For project A, I’d look into tailscale. I’d advise against having home assistant open to the internet otherwise.
Don’t know anything about your other project, sorry.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| HA | Home Assistant automation software |
| ~ | High Availability |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| LXC | Linux Containers |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| NUC | Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers |
| SMB | Server Message Block protocol for file and printer sharing; Windows-native |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| Zigbee | Wireless mesh network for low-power devices |
| nginx | Popular HTTP server |
10 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 10 acronyms.
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