Don’t use sms. Use the home assistant notify skill. It will notify my phone using the notify.notify skill.

But if I’m going to do 3 pings for the direction of the pings, then I gotta figure out a different solution.

Ohhhhhh fantastic idea!!

Little known feature on Home Assistant is the ability to have any phone who has home assistant installed to be able to use it as a trigger. So you can see things like battery left and gps location. I have an automations that will ping the last location of my family members when the phone hits 2% power so I can see their last location right before the phone dies.

I use mine as a home assistant dashboard.

Well, at the time, there was no AI. So a lot of this was just me and stack overflow. I imagine it’s a lot easier now.

I had 3 Ethernets. 2x 10Gbe. 1x 1Gbe.

My Synology would directly connect to the proxmox directly using the 10Gbe since it has immich on it and the source of truth is on the Synology.

The other 10Gbe went into the 10Gbe switch which had ports for 2.5Gbe and my wifi 7 connects to this.

The main WAN would come in on the 1Gbe.

Any random settings that I updated, I would lose everything and have to plug in a keyboard and redo the .conf.

What I ended up doing was just have one the 10Gbe as the router WAN and then the 1Gbe became the console/different VLAN and so I don’t count on the router to connect to my pfsense.

I still at the very end just gutted pfsense out and gave it a proper box. Never a problem since.

I did the same setup except I used pfsense and a Dell.

I wouldn’t recommend it at all. Want setting change that requires a reboot from proxmox would result in a total lots of the network. The weakest link is settings based.

I can’t begin to tell you the amount of times this happened to me that I went out and bought a Intel NUC and put the pfsense on bare metal.

I have a 5080 and 128gb of ram running on a AMD 9950X.

Depending on the task I can get over 170-200t/s when the MOE only calls a few agents and can fit inside the VRAM or as low as 5-10ts when it calls more agents and has to hit the system memory. But for grunt work that doesn’t need professor level tasks, it’s more than capable and if you have the time, it’s super worth it because it’s basically free tokens.

I only use this for overnight work to save on tokens during the day. When I’m pulling analytics for my work and it just needs basic analysis that doesn’t touch multiple tooks.

During work hours I’m using GLM5.2 for web development, Kimi k2.7 for complicated data analysis and Minimax m3 if I need the context window to be bigger than what kimik2.7 can give me.

I’m running dwarfstar which is a 2 bit deepseek v4 flash. It’s quite capable even at 2 bit.

I actually switched it to a LXC and it significantly faster than running it on a VM.

I’m running immich with tailscale.

I have too much data to have it on the proxmox. The source of truth is on the Synology and I have the proxmox running the immich database and thumbnails.

Xeon E3-1245 v5

32gb ddr4

1tb NVME gen 3

I did this. I kept both.

I have Synology photos and immich.

Synology photo is faster to load photos when you scroll to a random date. Also on mobile, the map view is fast and reliable. Also the Android widget can show images of a specific person instead of a random photo.

Immich has better face detection and significantly better search tool. But is super laggy when you’re looking for a specific date and time and location.

My Synology is a DS 1821+ with dual nvme cache and 32gb mem My immich is running on a proxmox using a late model Xeon processor and NVME gen 3 and 32gb mem. Nothing else is running on the proxmox.

I’m running gemma4 26b MOE for most of my agent calls. I use glm5:cloud for my development agent because 26b struggles when the context windows gets too big.

Kubernetes? New Relic?

I don’t have too much processing power unless I move my frigate to my proxmox. Let me know if you do and it’s better. I might make the switch!

I have used frigate on bare metal using a Google coral with a E key M.2. then I moved it to a Synology + a USB coral. On both systems I have never had any issues with the coral. If I have to nitpick, I would be that frigate would trigger persons incorrectly. Like a blanket or my couch.

I don’t. Synology stores all the files and it comes with Synology photos, but it’s clunky if you don’t have an Intel chip that has an onboard GPU.

I have a 10 GbE connection to my proxmox running the immich with only read access.

I wish it was that simple. I have over 15 TB of videos and images as far back as the 1970s. Mostly in raw format or slog format. Copying and pasting an instance would take me a ton of time.

You know, I have been using Immich since forever. The last issue was probably a year ago.