jeena

What we did in my dads house was just to repurpouse old wifi routers as access points and put them everywhere where there was no coverage. But we pulled Ethernet all the way to each of them. Then we put the same SSID and password so everything would just switch to the one with the atrongest signal automatically.

I have a raspberry pie with Home assistant on it and I run Nginx Proxy Manager on it. It does the whole HTTPS thing and exposes specific services from my internal network for easy access for me and my family.

I only use Jellyfin because we want to watch it on the TV and not on the laptop.

Radicals is an amazing software but I also struggled to understand the concept at first, the documentation assumes you know so much already, which you normally don’t. But once you get through the initial hurdle it’s really reliable and uses minimal resources.

But about the videos and photos I think you’re a bit wrong, I still rewatch my dads home videos from the 90’s

I moved to https://mxroute.com/ and payed $15 for three years of hosting because they had some promotion.

I’m not using it myself but Proxmox sounds like something you could get good use out of.

For things like pinhole a small device like a raspberry pi is enough

Having several older PCs running 24/7 will cost you a lot of electricity. I would probably try to consolidate all of the things which really need to run 24/7 on one machine and put then the other stuff on machines which I can do wake on LAN on them when necessary.
Jellyfin for example does not need to run 27/7 you can wake it up when you or other users want to watch something. The webserver on the other hand needs to run 24/7 but is fairly lightweight.
I have a NAS but I don’t really use it for much just small things like grafana and a second picture backup from the phones, because the old synology is not powerful enough for things like paperless, Immich, etc. So those things I run on my PC which I can WOL.