Not yet 🙂

Both services work well, but the (Android) app is also a consideration… Gotify appears to keep losing the connection, but as I have different alerts going via different routes I need to sit down and spend some quality time with these, which I don’t have at the moment.

SMART data will show the data you mentioned; age of the drive, max temperatire, etc.

I always do a full scan of a new drive too - no matter the supplier

Well, I could, but then you’d owe me big too, which puts you in a terrible place, so, you’re better where you are.

since quitting caffeine

Sorry, can you explain this part?

I don’t understand how you can quit breathing caffeine

I took over a project recently.

I recommend you give it back to them

They’d be good for the Excel sheets my boss wants us to use at work.

Senior managers should not be permitted to create spreadsheets…

Ah but how do you enable ssh if you’ve forgotten to enable it (again!) from the initial firmware load on the SD card…?

Wow. Harsh comment.

It’s not like your own post was full of details either

Sorry, no disrespect intended, but I’m shocked. It’s like hearing someone say they drive a 1988 Toyota Cressida because it’s great…

How did you know I had an 88 Cressida? (jk)

You have good points there, but for a homelab, it does show some interesting insights (ie, I did an upgrade of my Raspberry Pi Zeros and saw how all their latency changed after the reboot… weird)

I’ve been using this for years as it just worked, but a recent update has broken it (a simple “v1.10 is earlier than v1.9” issue) and I had to rollback and have been waiting for someone to fix the bug for a few weeks, so, yep, the slowness of response is a fair point.

Ah, dunno, maybe I’ll look at some alternatives… one day…

What’s not to like?

Still alive & still maintained, and less resources than Grafana & Prometheus…

Uptime Kuma if I want something to alert me (still trying to decide between ntfy & gotify)

Home Assistant is also checking some stuff

Watchdog to reboot my Raspberry Pi Zeros when they fall off the wifi

Smokeping for a general, long term feel of the network, which might answer your bonus question?

Taking this at different levels…

Offsite storage (assuming you have something at home): Hetzner storage boxes (2 different countries to choose from)

VPS for actually doing something, also Hetzner, but, I also use MythicBeasts for a UK specific host and they also host Raspberry Pi servers (not checked the price), so maybe that’s something to consider to dip your toe into the waters

They still are: Fairphone

That’s where I am today with my Fairphone.

I honestly held on to my old Nokia, replacing batteries and cases until Fairphone came along and then I jumped from 90’s tech to modern day.

0–>100% in 10 seconds (with a 2nd battery)

Not sure why you’re being downvoted, but you’re absolutely correct

This is the way

<insert Mandalorian gif here>

To be fair to Ansible, that’s probably a packaging issue.

If the 1st run of an application creates a bunch of files and folders, then the packager won’t know about them and Ansible’s just relying on that.

But yeah, for 1 machine I’d find Ansible overkill (not a problem per se), but really helps when you have 5 Rasperry Pi Zeros scattered around the house 😉

Ooh, I didn’t know that. Thanks!

If you release your code, others might be able to help you get those last parts done, perhaps even optimise it.

For me, that’s the hardest part… letting others contribute to my projects 🙂

I don’t see it discontinued, just 0.9.6 has been very stable for 13 years

(/s)