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Take a look at the Finamp desktop client. It comes very close to the Plexamp client from back when I was using Plex.

Kodi/LibreELEC is able to do all of it, but IMO it’s not a good experience for browsing YouTube

You can do the browsing on your phone and then share the link with your media center through Kore/Yatse and it will play it automatically.

I have exactly the setup you described, a Raspberry Pi with an 8 TB SSD parked at a friend of mine. It connects to my network via Wireguard automatically and just sits there until one of my hosts running Duplicati starts to sync the encrypted backups to it.

Has been running for 2 years now with no issues.

Thanks for the tip! I took a look and it seems like Recognize uses this: https://github.com/jordipons/musicnn

Last update was 4 years ago but will give it a try this weekend.

I’m thinking of Ripping my CD collection again. I’m researching a way to use a LLM to tidy up the metadata.

If you ever figure out how to use AI to determine the genre(s) of a song, let me know. Have been looking for something like that for quite a while.

I don’t think you can import pfSense configurations into OPNsense. I switched from a DIY pfSense box as well and redid the config.

You can look for a converter or install pfSense onto it though.

Because it’s dope.

Also, according to their website the 10 and 25 Gbit/s packages cost the same per month.

Also, still cheaper than my 1 Gbit/s connection.

They are expensive but I run a OPNsense DEC740 and have no issues with my Gigabit fiber, even without modem and the PPPoE overhead.

You can still try playing with hardware offload on/off and if you use PPPoE, it runs on a single core by default.

Yeah, I’m also on my third controller RMA. First the stick on the left controller started drifting, then the right controller’s plastic started peeling off and finally the right controller stopped working altogether.

At least they did the third RMA for free way out of warranty.

Had to buy a new headset cable on my own though when the display started flickering after 2 years. They also sent me a new plastic clip for the cable on the back when the old one broke and a new left speaker when it started crackling instead of requiring me to send in the full headset so that’s pretty cool.

Off the top of my head, why did you set the prefix to 0x1? I was under the impression that it only needs to be set if there are multiple vlans

I have multiple VLANs, 0x1 is my LAN and 0x10 is my DMZ for example. I then get IP addresses abcd:abcd:a01::abcd in my LAN and abcd:abcd:a10::bcdf in my DMZ.

However, I get a /56 from my ISP wich gets subnetted into /64. I heard it’s not ideal to subnet a /64 but you might want to double check what you really got.

what are your rules for the WAN side of the firewall?

Only IPv4 + IPv6 ICMP, the normal NAT rules for IPv4 and the same rules for IPv6 but as regular rule instead of NAT rule.

My LAN interface is only getting an LLA so maybe it’s being blocked from communicating with the ISP router.

If you enable DHCPv6 in your network your firewall should be the one to hand out IP addresses, your ISP assigns your OPNsense the prefix and your OPNsense then subnets them into smaller chunks for your internal networks.

It is possible to do it without DHCPv6 but I didn’t read into it yet since DHCPv6 does exactly what I want it to do.

I’m no expert on IPv6 but here’s how I did it on my OPNsense box:

• Activate IPv6 on your WAN interface (probably already done)
• Activate IPv6 on the LAN interface, use Track interface on IPv6, track the WAN interface and choose a prefix ID like 0x1
• Activate DHCPv6 under Services -> ISC DHCPv6 for your LAN interface (you can shorten the range like ::eeee to ::ffff, you don’t have to type the full IP)
• Activate Router advertisments under Services -> Router Advertisments for your LAN interface (set Advertisments to Managed and Priority to High

After that your DHCP server should serve public IPv6 addresses inside of your prefix and clients should be able to connect to the internet.

A few notes:

• Don’t forget to add an allow rule for IPv6 on your LAN as well if you only have one for IPv4
• Repeat the steps above for every VLAN you have, always use a different prefix ID
• You don’t have to use NAT rules with IPv6 anymore and can just directly add a regular firewall rule to WAN with the target IP and port and you are done
• Make sure you don’t have any of the various “Disable IPv6” toggles enabled, there’s a few in the firewall settings and general settings for example

I don’t run Pi-hole but quickly peeking into the container (docker run -it --rm --entrypoint /bin/sh pihole/pihole:latest) the folder and files belong to root with the permissions being 755 for the folder and 644 for the files.

chmod 700 most likely killed Pi-hole because a service that is not running as root will be accessing those config files and you removed their read access.

Also, I’m with the guys above. Never chmod 777 anything, period. In 99.9% of cases there’s a better way.

As someone who runs CoreELEC on all their HTPCs I cannot agree with this comment.

Is it a bad desktop application? Yes, but Kodi is for HTPCs what VLC is for desktops, it plays everything you throw at it. On dedicated HTPCs it is about the best you can get.

I went from a Windows PC with VLC, to MPC to Plex to Jellyfin and landed on Kodi/CoreELEC in the end.

None of your alternatives provide a interface that is useable in an environment where controlling via remote/phone is important and supporting 4k/HDR/Dolby Vision/audio passthrough and various codecs is a must. Plex comes close but locks you into their environment while Kodi can stream anything (including from Plex and Jellyfin).