Home server

This repo contains documentation of my current setup for my home server running Ubuntu Server 22.04 on an Intel Nuc.

Services include

• Plex Media Server
• Radarr, Sonarr, Prowlarr, Overseerr & qBittorrent
• Home Assistant, Mosquitto, Zigbee2MQTT & Cloudflared
• Pi-hole & Unbound
• Azure Self Hosted Build Agent
• Tailscale, Gluetun
• Portainer, Watchtower & Glances
• Ollama (LLM) & Open WebUI

Everything is containerized in Docker, and it assumes that the local subnet is 192.168.2.0/24, with the gateway located at 192.168.2.254 and the network interface named eno1.

Install docker

Install docker https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/

Installing containers apps

The apps folder can be copied to ~/apps

~
├── data          
├── apps                    
│   ├── azure-build-agent          
│   ├── home-assistant          
│   ├── monitor             
│   └── ...                
└── ...

In each folder in apps after providing the .env file you can run docker compose up -d to bring them to life.

docker compose up -d
docker compose up -d --force-recreate --build

Pihole, Home Assistant, Overseerr & Glances needs to have their IP addresses setup first (next chapter).

Add extra IP addresses to Host

We can add multiple addresses to our network interface. Make sure the router does not assign IP's above these IP's. Currently we have these hardcoded IP addresses:

IP	App	Domain
192.168.2.253	Pi-Hole	pihole.local
192.168.2.252	Unbound
192.168.2.251	Home Assistant	home.local
192.168.2.250	Overseerr	stream.local
192.168.2.249	Glances	stats.local
192.168.2.248	Open WebUI (Ollama)	chat.local
192.168.2.247	Bar Assistant	bar.local
192.168.2.246	Kavita	kavita.local

Adding the IP address

We have to create a file that we can call on boot to always add these IP addresses.

1. Create file sudo nano ~/scripts/extra-ips.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
ip addr add 192.168.2.253/24 dev eno1
ip addr add 192.168.2.252/24 dev eno1
ip addr add 192.168.2.251/24 dev eno1
ip addr add 192.168.2.250/24 dev eno1
ip addr add 192.168.2.249/24 dev eno1
ip addr add 192.168.2.248/24 dev eno1

sudo chmod +x ~/scripts/extra-ips.sh

1. Create file sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/extra-ips.service

#!/usr/bin/env bash
[Unit]
After=network.target

[Service]
ExecStart=~/scripts/extra-ips.sh          # REPLACE ~ WITH REAL PATH 

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

Enable the service with sudo systemctl enable extra-ips Debug with sudo systemctl status extra-ips

Then sudo reboot

Media

filestructure

~
├── data                    
│   ├── torrent          
│   ├── usenet          
│   ├── media
│   │   ├── movies       
│   │   ├── tv       
├── apps                    
│   ├── portainer          
│   ├── home-assistant          
│   ├── torrent   
│   │   ├── docker-compose.yml      # containing qbittorrent, radarr, sonarr, etc.          
│   └── ...                
└── ...

Torrents downloads to ~/data/torrent
Usenet downloads to ~/data/torrent
Plex has access to ~/data/media

The setup requires remote path mappings on Radarr and Sonarr's download client.

Torrent: From remote path /download to local path /movies/torrents

Usenet: From remote path /config/Downloads/complete/ to local path /movies/usenet

Start Automatically When a Power Source is Connected

When connected to a power source the Nuc automacally turns on. Handy for when there's an power outage and you're on vacation.

1. Press F2 during boot to enter BIOS Setup.
2. Go to the Power > Secondary Power Settings menu.
3. Set the option for After Power Failure to Power On.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000054773/intel-nuc/intel-nuc-mini-pcs.html

Handy commands

Recursive add user to folders: sudo chown -R 1001:1001 /dont/do/this

ip address

ip route

nslookup example.com

nslookup example.com 192.168.2.243

Find eth interface: (eno1) ifconfig the ip that's the ip of the machine is the eth that should be used.

Find gateway: ip r | grep ^def

Ping from inside container sudo docker exec -ti pihole ping -c 4 google.com

Use all available space for LVM group

sudo lvextend -r -L +150g ubuntu-vg/ubuntu-lv
sudo lvextend -r -l +100%FREE ubuntu-vg/ubuntu-lv

nmap 192.168.2.243 to see network stuff

Mount harddrive

Find harddrive with:

lsblk -f

mount by name:

sudo mkdir /mnt sudo mkdir /mnt/hdd1

sudo mount -t auto -v /dev/sda /mnt/hdd1

for startup:

find UUID: sudo blkid /dev/sda (or name)

open sudo nano /etc/fstab

write a new line: UUID={id from before} /mntt/hdd1 ext4 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1