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meta·MetabyIsoKiero

Gateway timeouts increased

Lately I've seen quite a few errors when browsing around Sopuli, either 504 gateway timeout or 502 bad gateway. They usually clear within a minute or two, but lately they've been far more common than before.

Is this a known issue or has Sopuli grown out of the VPS limits again?

Not a huge problem by any stretch, just wondering what might cause that.

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230VAC exhaust fan control

So, we have an exhaust fan at the roof and it doubles as a kitchen hood fan. The controls used to be on the hood, similar on what you'd have on a cheap desk fan with buttons 1-3 and only one can be pressed at a time. Some time ago a plastic broke from the mechanism and it allowed two buttons to be pressed at the same time and it fried the transformer by connecting two of the different voltage outputs together. I just bypassed the transformer and there's now just a single on-off switch, so the fan is either off or at full blast.

Now we're remodeling the kitchen and I'd like to get smart controls on the fan, as it'd be nice to have it automatically turn on after shower or sauna to remove the moisture and obviously there needs to be controls in the kitchen to turn the fan up when cooking.

I've searched around but haven't found a suitable controller for it which would have any kind of digital input. Modern fans around here seem to have logic built in and they can be controlled either via propietary systems or via 1-10VDC control, but as the current fan works I'd rather not throw several hundred euros for a new fan and some more for modifying the existing mounts at the roof.

There's all kinds of triac-controllers which would do the trick, but all I've found have only manual controls. So, does the hive mind have suggestions on what I could use?

I haven't checked the fan, but I'm guessing it's few hundred watts at max and there's absolutely no smart features in it. Give it some AC voltage and it spins, that's it. I'm happy with either few pre-set speeds or full variable via triac/whatever. I've got home assistant with z-wave running, but zigbee/thread/matter is fine too as I'm planning a migration to newer standard. For control esphome is an option too, but for the high voltage side I'd like to get something proper from a reputable vendor instead of soldering something together or getting a solid state relay for PWM via aliexpress.

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selfhosted·SelfhostedbyIsoKiero

Proxmox Backup Server verifications stupidly slow on S3 storage

So, I've been running offsite copies to OVH S3 bucket via PBS running as an VM but I ran into an issue that verification of the backups is so slow that they're practically unusable.

Copies run nightly and I've set the storage to keep last 4 copies in place. Bigger VMs, like my immich-instance with a bit over terabyte of data, take several days to verify and logs show data rates at around 5MB/s or less. So, with the current schedule I'm running it'll mean in practise that backups expire before they're verified.

I could keep the copies longer, but that'd cost more, or run copies less frequently, which risks losing data if hardware fails at unfortunate moment (which it most likely will). Tuning settings are on default and based on what I've read, adding more runners wouldn't really help that much.

PBS VM itself shows very little load on proxmox monitoring and I've got plenty of bandwidth to use, so the verification shouldn't have any bottlenecks on my end at those speeds. Cache usage is at around 60% with ~30GB of total space available.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to speed that up? Or should I just give up and do something totally different? I attempted to run backups to Hetzner storagebox over cifs-mount, but that's pretty much the same or worse with performance.

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selfhosted·SelfhostedbyIsoKiero

DVB-T2 receiving & re-streaming?

Our family watches TV trough IPTV and via streaming services and it's been fine enough for quite some time. However, now one of our broadcast companies got in a fight about streaming contract with our IPTV provider and we lost a few of the channels. Not that big of a deal for me personally, but apparently there's some shows the rest of the family wants to see. This isn't the first time and likely it won't be the last.

However, all the free channels are available over air as well (and that's one excuse for IPTV operators to exclude offerings, "you can watch it anyway"). We have an antenna, but previous house owners just left the cable loose at the outside wall and brough it trough a hole in window frame. I've removed the cable and patched the hole for it and it'd be pretty difficult to run antenna cable to our TV set cleanly. However, I could pull a new cable nearby to my server stack with reasonable effort.

It's been quite a while since I've played with capture cards and any kind of streaming, so maybe hive mind here has some ideas. TV already has Android TV box connected, so anything that works with it is a bonus, but not a requirement.

So, what software (and hardware) I could use to pull video from DVB-T2 and stream that over local network?

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arkisuomi·ArkisuomibyIsoKiero

Omakotielämän ihanuuksia, keittiöremontti on kallista lystiä

Näin kun tunnollisena työmiehenä päädyin sairastamaan vappuna niin mitäpä sitä muutakaan nuhakuumehoureissa tekisi kuin ottaisi ikean keittiösuunnitteluohjelman läppärille sohvannurkkaan auki.

Kallista lystiä se on tuolta lihapullakaupastakin. Ihan "oikeita" keittiöfirmoja en ole viitsinyt edes kysyä, hiha-arvaus on että pari-kolme kertaa ruotsalaisen aaltopahvin verran.

Koneita ei tarvi onneksi samaan palaan vaihtaa, mutta tiskipöytä, hana, kaapistot ja pöytätasot menee uusiksi kun 90-luvun rungot alkaa lahota käsiin. Nettisivun laskuri pysähtyi pyöreästi neljään tonniin ja tuohon saa laskea ainakin tonnin touhuvaraa päälle kun samalla pitää tietysti vähän jumpata vesi- ja viemäripisteitä sivuun, vähän tehdä sähköhommia, uusia osa seinästä kun vanha välitilan laatoitus ei osu uuden kaapiston kanssa kohdalleen ja muuta pientä.

Elämä on. Eikä tämä toki pelkästään omakotiasujan riemu ole, sama kai se tulee vastaan missä vain omistuskämpässä. Ja toisaalta lankomies oli kysellyt kattoremontin hintaa, siellä on viivan alla 3kymppiä.

Mutta ei tämän kummempaa tähän iltaan, mukavaa vapun jatkoa sopuleille ja muille eläjille.

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arkisuomi·ArkisuomibyIsoKiero

Pöytälevyn uudelleenpinnoittaminen

Keittiöremonttia pukkaa ja kun kaikki on edelleen ihan pirun kallista niin ajatus on vähän alkanut kytemään että voisiko noita olemassaolevia pöytälevyjä ainakin osittain käyttää uudelleen.

Ensimmäisenä olisi työlistalla keittiösaarekkeen pöytä, kokoa noin metri kertaa 2. Levy itsessään on jotain puukuitua, MDFää veikkaisin ja siinä on pinnassa melamiinikalvo 90-luvun alkupuolelta. Pinta on vuosien mittaan kulunut, joten sen puhtaanapito alkaa olla melko haastavaa eikä ulkonäkö muutenkaan ole aivan tätä päivää.

Vaihtoehdot olisi siis joko vaihtaa koko levy ihan uuteen (pirun kallista hupia), ostaa täyspuinen käytetty ruokapöytä ja nikkaroida siitä uusi kansi (täyttä tuuria mitä sattuu torifi:stä ym löytymään) tai pinnoittaa nykyinen.

Pinnoitustekniikalla ei ole ihan hirvittävästi väliä. Viilutusta olen itse miettinyt mutta se ei ole kovin halpaa sekään ja hyvä lopputulos noin isoon pintaan voi olla kotinikkarin värkeillä kevyesti sanoen haastavaa. Pinnan pitäisi kestää satunnaiset roiskeet, eli esim. laminaatti ei oikein ole vaihtoehto ja toisekseen se on tosiaan keittiötaso eli puhdistaminenkin pitäisi onnistua joten karvalauta ei käy. Muutoin lähinnä mielikuvitus (ja lompakko) rajoittaa vaihtoehtoja.

Olisiko sopuleilla vinkkejä miten tuommoinen pinnotus tehdään?

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