Comment on Finally happish with my all-in-one homelab (20+ services and way too much tinkering)
meltedcheese@c.im 2 days ago @ndupont Stickers, yes. Colored sticks. I put little stickers all over the computers. Most stickers have mundane details (like host name, Subnet, etc.) but I also use a sticker for each major service. Everything else is documented in notebooks or spreadsheets. It’s probably overkill, but, between my memory and the home-grown gradual evolution of my #homelab, stickers really useful. I have 9 or so computers (rack-mounted), more controllers spread around (e.g., ESP32s running WLED, Pi Zeros), and nearly 250 individual devices for #homeautomation. I’m trying to learn about FOSS for configuration control but that’s slow going.
ndupont@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
250! Wow, I thought I was already nuts with my 42 ZigBee devices + 10 reflashed sonoff over WiFi and my 8 cameras, doorbell etc… Let’s round up to 60; you are way ahead (oO)
I run everything on a single N100 mini NAS/PC with a remote slave backup NAS and the odd raspberry pi.
I’m more concerned about having to document in case I die than being able to keep all in mind, so far
@ndupont Friend, you won’t need the documentation in case you die. You’ll need it because you will forget (like me) what you did and why.
ndupont@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
The day I hit a tree with my sports car or what have you, my family would certainly be less sad if they could keep the lights on, control the heating and so on.
It’s made so you could remove node red and still have basic functionality, but I really need to document a bit, share passwords, so a trusted friend could help them just in case