u/nnray

I asked this over at r/homelab, but I haven't gotten much of a response yet, so I'm hoping there are people here with experiences they can share.

A few years ago I migrated my Plex server from Windows to a Linux docker container, hastily set up on an Intel Core i5-11320H system with Iris XE 96EU graphics. OS is OpenMediaVault with the Extras add-on to manage docker containers. The GPU is used by Plex for media transcoding, which is why I chose that hardware and it works great. My media is SMB mounted from my NAS. OpenMediaVault is primarily a NAS OS with the Docker features not being a focus. I have plans now for a number of other Docker containers, and while I have a Proxmox host, I don't want to put Docker inside LXEs, so installing a new OS onto the i5-11320H and dedicating it to Docker makes sense for my needs. I would like to have a nice web interface for managing the system and containers.

I did some research and I'm considering Debian with an install of Cockpit and either Cockpit Docker Manager or cockpit-podman. Seems like podman is a better way to go since it doesn't run as root? Any reason to stick with Docker over podman? Bummer there is no way to manage SMB mounts in Cockpit the way you can NFS mounts. (There is cockpit-file-sharing, but that's for managing shares hosted on a system running Cockpit that are being offered to other systems.) I've appreciated seeing at a glance if my media shares are mounted to OMV in the main dashboard... Is there something better than Cockpit I should be looking at that does everything I want?

Hi, long-time Plex user here, and almost all my media is either mp4, m4a (ALAC), or mp3 with embedded metadata (titles, covers, release dates, descriptions, genres, artists, actors, directors, etc.) and I have my Plex libraries set up to read local embedded metadata from files and preference it ahead of any online metadata sources. I've read through the Emby docs, and haven't found anything to indicate whether this is possible in Emby (I see there is support for local NFO files, but I don't have any of those). Does Emby read embedded metadata, and if it does, how is it prioritized as a metadata source?

A few years ago I migrated my Plex server from a Windows install to a Linux docker container, and I just sort of threw something together on a system with an Intel Core i5-11320H with Iris XE 96EU graphics. I used OpenMediaVault with the Extras package to manage the docker container, and set up Tautulli at the same time. My media is SMB mounted from my NAS. OMV has left a bit to be desired since it's primary aim is a NAS OS. There are a bunch of other docker containers for things I'd like to spin up (like Jellyfin and other services), so I'd like to move to something more capable for that purpose. Anyone have a recommendation?

I did some research and I'm considering Debian plus an install of Cockpit and either Cockpit Docker Manager or cockpit-podman. Not sure which of those add-ons is better... Also it's a little frustrating that Cockpit supports managing NFS mounts in the UI (as in mounting NFS from other systems to the host running Cockpit), but doesn't do the same for SMB. There is cockpit-file-sharing, but that's for managing shares on a Cockpit host that are being offered to other systems. It has been nice to see at a glance if my media shares are mounted to OMV right in the dashboard, but I could manage without it. Is there something better than Cockpit I should be looking at?

Hi, I recently decided to try out Vivaldi (version 7.9.3970.67 in macOS 15.7.5), and I'm running into an odd issue. The only LAN resource I can reach with Vivaldi is the web interface to my router. Everything else results in:

This site can’t be reached
[redacted] is unreachable.
ERR_ADDRESS_UNREACHABLE

I can reach those resources (Proxmox, Synology, etc.) with other browsers on the same machine, so this is a problem isolated to Vivaldi. I get this message when I try via IP or DNS. I've looked in Vivaldi's preferences and nothing jumped out at me as a feature that would cause this issue, but maybe I missed something? I don't have any issues getting to any websites outside of my LAN. Hoping someone can shed some light.