Folder share from Proxmox to LXC, for Samba

Since I installed Proxmox for my small home server, I struggled a bit with nas shares due to user ownership and permissions, but after searching a bit I encountered a tutorial (I can remember where) to do it easily. So, before I forget it I will write here how I nailed it. It works to share a mountpoint from Proxmox to the LXCs, so if you have an ssd/hdd in that directory, it will share the whole disk. ...

June 21, 2025 · 2 min · 307 words · Me

Home-Assistant, being lazy at home

Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server. HomeAssistant is basically an OS (?) where you can add all the IoT devices (e.g. smart switches, cameras, smart led lights, sensors, TVs, etc.) of your home, to be controlled locally from a friendly UI, with ability to create automations to be executed at specific times and/or events. I will just cover the basics. ...

July 16, 2023 · 3 min · 605 words · Me

DuckDNS, forget your ip

Duck DNS is a free service which will point a DNS (sub domains of duckdns.org) to an IP of your choice. In other words, you can create: yourverycoolandawesomewebsitethatnooneknowsabout.duckdns.org that will point to the ip of your homelab or VPS. Why? Well, I already wrote about how to access remotely to your homelab using the Tor network. Also how it can be simplified using Tailscale and to avoid sending data to tailscale servers you could use headscale to selfhost. ...

February 23, 2023 · 2 min · 347 words · Me

Netdata, real-time server monitoring

If you have a server, you know it is useful to have information of your server to troubleshoot and detect problems or bad configurations, usage of the CPU, ram, network and health of the HDD. There are plenty of options: monit, monitorix, munin, Netdata and Grafana (coupled with one data collector like: collectd, influxdb, Graphite or Prometheus) Despite Grafana is one of the most popular choices, I decided to use Netdata, since it is pre-configured out of the box and it does both collect data and create graphs displayed through a http server. It is lightweight that will only require 1% CPU usage and around 12 MiB of RAM (at least in my OpenWrt router). Munin is my second choice, but decided to go with Netdata just because it just worked fine after install without too much hassle to configure. ...

September 2, 2022 · 5 min · 935 words · Me