Home Assistant / Media Server journey ( need assistance from home server Legends)

https://www.reddit.com/r/rustdesk/comments/1ixxvnr/how_to_use_rustdesk_with_no_display/

Ya i also saw that thread and went ahead and ordered a dummy hdmi adapter

couple of banking apps (eg. federal bank app) are not opening if rustdesk app is installed in my android mobile :neutral_face:

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In some banking apps you get the option saying i understand the risk and then the app opens. If you have a samsung phone you can run rust desk inside secret folder that way it is isolated from other apps.

Spent an entire day trying to fix a simple installation of Self hosted rust desk , damn terminal is hard but after headbanging , nail biting finally did it , IT WORKSSSSSS !! whew i dono how u guys just do this all like a piece of cake lol, finally i can go eat my dinner lol

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Let me check if there is something like that for my POCO F5

We have put in enough headbanging and nailbiting overtime too :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

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@mahenkpatel I think I did. :man_facepalming: I read “a number of” instead of "a numbered xyz domain"

All numeric ones? And do we get privacy friendly WHOIS domain protection?

  1. All numeric followed by .xyz (eg. 123456.xyz). Currently running series is of 6 digit numeric number.

  2. WHOIS domain protection is an optional item and costs additional 1$ per domain. I have taken this as well

So I was just checking, I could book it from spaceship and get free WHOIS privacy

Update after a week

Finally managed to grab a dummy HDMI plug and fix all issues and now remote connection working well but i have a few questions

1.)Cloudflare tunnel + Domain name to access my HA / Jellyfin etc ( currently dynamic IP but not CGNAT public ip only confirmed and tested it )

or

2.)
A static public IP from ISP
port forwarding
A reverse proxy on Ubuntu (Nginx or Caddy)
Real TLS certificates (Let’s Encrypt or ZeroSSL)
Your domain DNS points to your static IP

Which is better in long term ?

Also i heard cloudflare bans or blocks heavy media usage so want to know if second method possible
-Without static ip ?
-Possible to make it safer as Cloudflare tunnel ?

or any other better options ? ( not tailscale as some devices i cant use it )

If you have public dynamic IP, there is no need to get static IP.
You can use any free dyndns service to point your domain to dyndns and configure your router with dyndns so domain can keep track of your ip.

I am using noip.com.
Also what is your ISP?

Cloudflare tunnel can be good for data light services but not something like jellyfin, immich etc.

I use both cloudflare tunnels for data light services like baikal, findmy etc and nginx for jellyfin and immich

Its Hathway one of the few with public ip but i am planning to get static ip if needed as its cheaper with them

And tp link router on bridge mode

Need a help since you run Proxmox ,

Currently after diving in a bit of UBUNTU moved to proxmox again ( rustdesk and weyland issues ) . This time seems familiar some yt videos helped and installed HA OS .

So currently running into a error where HA wont load with EFI but works fine without EFI.

Do you have the same case ?

I Installed HA OS on a VM. I don’t remember how I installed, it was long back. But if it runs without EFI, whats the problem?

This is my Proxmox vm details for HA VM

I’ve been experimenting with Proxmox and ran into two things I’m still trying to understand.

  1. Home Assistant OS VM + EFI:
    I don’t really know much about EFI, but on my setup HA OS refuses to boot when the VM uses EFI. If I remove EFI and switch to SeaBIOS, it boots immediately. I’m curious why HA behaves like this and what EFI is actually doing under the hood that breaks the boot process.

  2. USB NVMe enclosures & the term mounting in Proxmox:
    I’m liking Proxmox far more than Ubuntu—mainly the cleaner interface and no need for RustDesk—but I’m stuck on storage.
    In Windows, multiple NVMe SSDs in USB enclosures just show up and mount instantly.
    In Proxmox/Linux, they appear as devices but don’t auto-mount, and I can’t access them in a consistent path to point Jellyfin to my media. ( really new to the mounting part )
    I’m trying to understand what the correct way is to mount these drives so Proxmox (and Jellyfin inside an ubuntu lcx or is there a better way to do it and avoid headaches)

Looking for clarification on both the EFI behavior with HA OS and the proper method for mounting multiple USB NVMe drives in Proxmox.

The mounting behaviour you mentioned is how storage needs to be handled in Linux. If you don’t want to use the drives for proxmox host storage directly, you can pass them through to the the VM and then the drive will only be available to that particular VM.

Once you finalize the VM where you want to access the drive, you can use the fstab file (if using Linux debian based distros) to mount the drive automatically on reboots.

Quick tip: If using fstab, ask AI to include an option so that the boot doesn’t fail if the drive is not available or unmountable. I think it is called ‘nofail’ option/flag in the fstab file command.

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Regarding the OS VM + EFI:
You might find the note mentioned in the section helpful:

Probably the EFI boot partition is not marked/configured correctly.

Thanks for sharing , ill check them out

I figured out the EFI issue , seems if the KEYS option is checked its considered as secure boot so delete and remaking it with keys unchecked solved the issue )