RFC: When disaster strikes (sorry it's a bit verbose)
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Sort of 'Ohh, if you want to go there, I wouldn't start from here, if I were you'
Thinking on I've ordered some more RAM for my Synology. Might start migrating some of the easier stuff onto a virtual machine, as Mosquitto, HA Bridge and so on should be easy.
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Ask me how I know
I'm on my 4th major breakdown in 12 years of home automation. Coming from this and from an enterprise job, I know how to over-engineer
I got more RAM from my Syno, and I'm completely on docker. Even my own small script are now docker-ized.I have a NUC that's running Reactor, Home Assistant, ZwaveJS, a couple of other obscure things, and the storage of those container is backupped every hour, day, week and month. I have the same containers on my Syno and it's just a matter of adding the NUC's IP address, update them and start them. It usually takes no more than 15 minutes. I have switched to Ubiquiti for my network and I have backup devices for that as well.
I have two new villas on the beach (3 hours drive one-way) and I'm now exploring the options. One will be a rental, one for us. I'm tempted to replicate something similar to our main house, but I want to be extra sure that everything is working without my intervention. I don't know, but I feel your pain.
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Ask me how I know
I'm on my 4th major breakdown in 12 years of home automation. Coming from this and from an enterprise job, I know how to over-engineer
I got more RAM from my Syno, and I'm completely on docker. Even my own small script are now docker-ized.I have a NUC that's running Reactor, Home Assistant, ZwaveJS, a couple of other obscure things, and the storage of those container is backupped every hour, day, week and month. I have the same containers on my Syno and it's just a matter of adding the NUC's IP address, update them and start them. It usually takes no more than 15 minutes. I have switched to Ubiquiti for my network and I have backup devices for that as well.
I have two new villas on the beach (3 hours drive one-way) and I'm now exploring the options. One will be a rental, one for us. I'm tempted to replicate something similar to our main house, but I want to be extra sure that everything is working without my intervention. I don't know, but I feel your pain.
Well, I just ordered 16G of RAM
@therealdb said in RFC: When disaster strikes (sorry it's a bit verbose):
I have a NUC that's running Reactor, Home Assistant, ZwaveJS, a couple of other obscure things, and the storage of those container is backupped every hour, day, week and month.
OK, this is confusing to me. You've got a NUC? But that's running Docker so everything is containerised on the NUC, not the Synology?
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Well, I just ordered 16G of RAM
@therealdb said in RFC: When disaster strikes (sorry it's a bit verbose):
I have a NUC that's running Reactor, Home Assistant, ZwaveJS, a couple of other obscure things, and the storage of those container is backupped every hour, day, week and month.
OK, this is confusing to me. You've got a NUC? But that's running Docker so everything is containerised on the NUC, not the Synology?
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@CatmanV2 yep. My syno is the backup plan. The only prod containers on the syno are mosquitto and influxdb. This way, in case of failure, the mqtt server is still running and retained messages are picked up from the queue. With this configuration, I avoid the slower cpu of the syno. The nuc one is definitely faster.
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OK got it. I'd still have to migrate from the NUC to some kind of container. A VM might be favourite.
Still have two questions:
- Are all my Z-wave devices paired to the stick i.e. if I move the stick to another devices, will the devices follow?
- Can I use the stick on my Synology?
Any thoughts?
Cheers
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Using the USB ports on a Synology looks to be a pain for anything else than storage. There are hacks around, but nothing officially supported I could find. So that is why I opted for Hubitat as that seems to be pretty stable for my needs (nothing cutting edge on that front). O and I did add more memory in my NAS too, not original Synology as that is insainly expensive.
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Hmm, I've just tried a 16G stick that was meant to work from Amazon, Crucial. Won't boot.
Also an 8G Transcend stick. Also won't boot.I'm not missing anything stupid, am I? Power down, remove the drives, clip in the module, re-insert discs and power up?
Just sits there for > 60 seconds with the blue LED blinking.
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OK here's a useful resource:
With a linked sheet of all results that people have entered.
Despite the thread I originally found, no one has got that particular RAM to work on the sheet. There's another Crucial item:
CCT16G4SFD824AWhich has 10 reports of working in the 224+
Return initiated, new RAM arriving tomorrow. £10 more expensive so £35.
<edit> New RAM in and booted fine. Takes a little longer to come up (I assume it takes a bit longer to check 18G of RAM than 2G
I think I'll start another thread about how I'm going to do this.
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