Homebox has this capability too, you can generate QR codes for assets and scan it later to identify whatever’s inside.

The current version does have the ability to create QR codes for your assets and scan them later for identification, but I don’t know of a way to scan a new item and identify it automatically.

I think it becomes more useful as you accumulate stuff - I get frustrated when my wife buys crap on Amazon that we already have. So while I don’t have the time or energy to sort everything in our house, I am beginning to catalogue things as we buy or find them in the hope it becomes more useful over time to find things we rarely use and/or avoid re-buying excess items

https://a.co/d/hh2N98y Something as simple as that, though I’m not sure 5v/3a is enough for a pi5 you’d have to check power specs

I would especially advise against relying on battery banks due to the heat, if you’re just going to use it in the car and already going to the trouble of customizing so much hardware I’d find a way to run a power supply off a switched 12v fuse or wire from the car - just convert to 5v/USB power. I’m sure there are generic kits online

You know, my thumbnails load super slow on my phone but your comment made me think I should check where the thumbnails are located. First though I noticed I had this setting on, after disabling it they now load almost instantly:

My setup is exactly what you’re aiming for: Immich and it’s database resides on the main SSD while the photos and videos are uploaded to my NAS using NFS shares and a bind mount to /mnt/
I run Cosmos Cloud so the manner in which it’s implemented may be slightly different to your setup.

It isnt the snappiest experience loading media off the HDD’s but it’s been very reliable.

My first time I started winging it with a raspberry pi, docker, and nginx and it took me like 2 months to get one service up and running and I didn’t feel it was very secure - fail2ban didn’t work, geoblocking didn’t work, and updates were manual.

When I re-started from scratch with an x86 device and cosmos it has been shockingly easy in comparison. Not only is it much quicker to spool the service up (app store), they can be automatically updated, the proxy has options for geoblocking, rate limiting, etc.

I’ve even got some of the services below built from a custom compose file instead of the app store, some use remote storage and some are set up with OAuth SSO. There’s still mild troubleshooting for a lot of things but it’s been much easier for me to understand and fix issues, plus there’s an active discord community as well.

I’m all in on Cosmos Cloud, been very happy with it

The unfortunate reality is in our system that is not possible unless democrats can achieve decades of overwhelming wins. We can’t get rid of the things you mentioned without a majority in the house, and a 60% majority in the senate considering how often republicans filibuster. Even then, we need to claw back the 3-6 disadvantage in the supreme court for any changes to stick long term.

I only have my one anecdote to go off of, but if you are located in the US eBay is full of enterprise computer reseller postings and mine arrived in very clean condition. And eBay generally has pretty strong buyer protections.

The beginning of your post sounds like you are still looking at hardware to buy, but the later half seems like you already have the NUC?

If not I’d suggest looking at a used HP Mini, Lenovo Tiny, or Dell Micro ex-enterprise PC. They can be had very cheap off ebay, run with similarly low power demands but very capable devices. I run an HP 705 G4 mini Ryzen 5 2600GE with 16gb ram, 256gb SSD, cost me about $95 and averages about 15w

Additionally here’s an excellent tutorial to do it via Docker Compose in Cosmos Cloud:

https://discord.com/channels/1083875833824944188/1283413252356706416/1283785229923909694

1. Locate the Docker Compose File:

   • Find the Docker Compose file for the desired service. For example, you can use the Open Chat UI and Ollama setup from the following GitHub repository: Open Chat UI Docker Compose File

2. Docker Compose Configuration:

   • The Docker Compose file defines two services: ollama and open-webui. This is the configuration

3. Import the Docker Compose File:

   • Go to the ServApps section in Cosmos.
   • Click on Import Compose File.
   • Click Next and proceed to add or modify the configuration. Replace any ${} placeholders with the desired values, such as latest or any specific version you prefer. You can also make changes later if needed.

4. Create the Docker Containers:

   • Click Create. The Docker containers will be automatically created based on the provided configuration.

5. Access the Service:

   • After the containers are created, you can access the service by adding a new URL.
   • Cosmos typically auto-detects the correct port, so you usually only need to create the URL.
   • You can now access the service as usual.

6. Customize with Labels:

   • Optionally, you can customize the service further using labels such as:
     • cosmos-icon
     • cosmos-stack
     • cosmos-stack-main

7. Modify Environment Variables:

   • Refer to the documentation for the Docker service and its environment variables. You can modify these variables directly from the Docker or Compose tab in Cosmos.

That’s it!

Thanks for editing in the solution!

Now that I bought different hardware for the cosmos server and my Pi is free I should check out proxmox and unraid though just to compare

I haven’t tried any of those honestly. My previous setup was just a Raspberry Pi running docker with portainer GUI, and nginx pointing to one service. It took me at least a month of dealing with errors, and I got burned out when I could never get geo-blocking or fail2ban working.

I stumbled across Cosmos when the dev posted about 0.16 release and the main draw for me was integrated reverse proxy, geo-blocking, anti-bot/ddos, and automatic updates. I have only run into a few hiccups setting it up and the discord is pretty active so my issues had either been solved before or someone answered me quick

What are they reinventing the wheel from, proxmox or something like that? I should take a peek at something else just to see how they compare

I’m still a noob but I have been shocked at how easy Cosmos Cloud has been to set up compared to my old docker/portainer/nginx architecture. Things just work with minimal to no troubleshooting

Glad to see progress being made on this front. Local justice movements like this are a bulwark against state and national level fascist gerrymandering and election stealing efforts as well.