




Anything can be a home server right? My Nintendo Switch server
Hey yall, like most of you I got into home servers by repurposing extra hardware I had laying around. I figured I’d document this now as I’m finally hitting limits of what this little 4GB RAM Box can do for me!
This is a Nintendo Switch first edition running the switchroot Ubuntu project. It has a GUI, but it also does serve as a genuine server in addition to a display panel for various things.
This server performs a lot of functions for me:
- Home Assistant Server
- Jellyfin/Media Server
- Tailscale Exit node
- SSH Relay
- Syncthing brain
- Alarm (connects to Google homes for speakers)
- Just a useful, always-on box for cron jobs and the like!
Cheers and happy home labbing folks!