The ASRock X570 Phantom motherboard is $99 on Amazon right now. If you don’t need IPMI or ECC RAM, this is the board to get. It has fantastic IOMMU groups, so it’s very easy to do PCI-e hardware passthrough to VMs. I currently use it and have a GPU passed through to a VM for transcoding and an HBA passed through to a different VM for storage. This kind of thing can be a pain on the B-series motherboards.
I moved from Maryland to Colorado this summer and left my homelab on Maryland after begging my dad to have it in his house temporarily. I’m getting a replacement system up and running in Colorado using my old gaming PC. I’m moving away from enterprise gear to cut down on noise, heat, and power usage, but I’m going to miss the insane amount of RAM, ECC RAM, and nice hotswap HDD cases.
This week I switched my home assistant system from a raspberry pi to a VM under proxmox, so I started turning that raspberry pi into a display for my kitchen. I’m playing around with MagicMirror, but it doesn’t do everything that I want, and I’m more comfortable writing Python than JavaScript, so I think I’m going to make a home assistant dashboard instead (I’ll definitely need to make some custom integrations).
I’m also going to make the display a remote rhasspy system for the rhasspy server I’m adding to home assistant now that it’s not running on a pi. If I can get rhasspy working well, this will get me one step closer to degoogling my life. All that’s left after that is trying to setup my own invidious instance or using yt-dlp to get YouTube videos into jellyfin, and switching to grapheneOS on my phone and sandboxing Google maps. I unfortunately still need Google Maps when I occasionally drive. OSM is great for biking and walking, but it’s not there for driving yet.
Denver. I drive maybe 5 times a month. Between construction and traffic, Google’s live traffic data is frankly unbeatable, and I often use a vehicle with Android Auto.
Motherboard for Homelab recommendations?
Hi there peeps,...
What are you guys up to these days?