Ideas for projects on Linux Box

[araczkowski]

Hey everyone,

first thank you @devmfc for fantastic work 🥇

I've been using Linux on box for a while for the basics (navigating the filesystem, managing packages, etc.) erything works stable 👍 .

Then I've installed some packages for example btop, cockpit
and I was able to install Home Assistant supervised version - see the screens below

Now I'm looking for some new project ideas to really level up my box :)
What have you install? What do you recommend?

Cheers!

[araczkowski]

Nextcloud

apt install snapd
snap install nextcloud
nextcloud.manual-install box box

[araczkowski]

Pi-hole
apt install curl
curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash
pihole setpassword

[araczkowski]

remote access to box
https://my.zerotier.com/

curl -s https://install.zerotier.com | sudo bash
zerotier-cli info
zerotier-cli join <network-id>

autorize clinet in https://my.zerotier.com/
do the same on your laptop/box
access box (terminal) remotely via zerotier ip:

[araczkowski]

Portainer Server

curl -fsSL get.docker.com | sh
docker volume create portainer_data
docker run -d -p 8000:8000 -p 9443:9443 --name portainer --restart=always -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v portainer_data:/data portainer/portainer-ce:lts

https://[box-ip]:9443

[araczkowski]

Uptime Kuma (in docker)

docker run -d --restart=always -p 3001:3001 \
  -v uptime-kuma:/app/data \
  --name uptime-kuma louislam/uptime-kuma

https://<box-ip>:3001

[araczkowski]

vscode in docker

docker run -it -d --name code-server \ 
  -p 8111:8080 \
  -v "$HOME/code:/home/box" \
  -e PASSWORD="box" \
  codercom/code-server

[araczkowski]

Oracle DB server (in Docker container)

docker run -it -d --name code-server \
  -p 8080:8080 \
  -v "$HOME/code:/home/coder/project" \
  -e PASSWORD="box" \
  codercom/code-server

[araczkowski]

Postgres DB server (in docker container)

docker run --name pgdb -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=mojehaslo \
  -v pgdata:/var/lib/postgresql/data \
  -p 5432:5432 -d postgres

pgAdmin (in docker container)

docker run -d \
  --name pgadmin \
  -e [email protected] \
  -e PGADMIN_DEFAULT_PASSWORD=box \
  -p 5050:80 \
  dpage/pgadmin4

[unmesh59]

TV boxes are usually low spec to save on cost and power but you seem to be able to run a lot of stuff. Which box do you have?

And what performance are you able to get on ZeroTier?

[araczkowski]

I have X88 Pro X3 (S905X3) 4 GB RAM and 128 GB eMMC

the performance via zerotier is good enough to remotely access any service on box - see below

box:~#iperf3 -s 
-----------------------------------------------------------
Server listening on 5201 (test #1)
-----------------------------------------------------------
Accepted connection from 172.yyy.yyy.yyy, port 38442
[  5] local 172.xxx.xxx.xxx port 5201 connected to 172.yyy.yyy.yyy port 38454
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-1.00   sec  7.00 MBytes  58.7 Mbits/sec                  
[  5]   1.00-2.00   sec  5.25 MBytes  44.0 Mbits/sec                  
[  5]   2.00-3.00   sec  6.12 MBytes  51.4 Mbits/sec                  
[  5]   3.00-4.00   sec  7.25 MBytes  60.8 Mbits/sec                  
[  5]   4.00-5.00   sec  6.62 MBytes  55.6 Mbits/sec                  
[  5]   5.00-6.00   sec  8.25 MBytes  69.2 Mbits/sec                  
[  5]   6.00-7.00   sec  8.38 MBytes  70.2 Mbits/sec                  
[  5]   7.00-8.00   sec  8.12 MBytes  68.2 Mbits/sec                  
[  5]   8.00-9.00   sec  6.62 MBytes  55.6 Mbits/sec                  
[  5]   9.00-10.00  sec  7.25 MBytes  60.8 Mbits/sec                  
[  5]  10.00-10.02  sec   128 KBytes  50.3 Mbits/sec                  
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-10.02  sec  71.0 MBytes  59.4 Mbits/sec                  receiver

[araczkowski]

26 containers

Glances web -> cpu 9 - 70%, memory 80 - 89%, temperature 69 °C

Btop

Uptime: 1 day, 2:04:23, full stable and responsible

[araczkowski]

I installed:

• Docker
• Portainer Server
• Home Assistant Supervised
• EMQX mqtt broker
• Zigbee2mqtt
• Cockpit
• Btop
• Nextcloud
• Pi-hole
• Defguard
• Uptime Kuma
• vscode
• Postgres DB server
• pgAdmin
• Glances
• Grafana
• Node-red
• Domoticz
• OpenHub

and now I'm out of ideas

BTW
during the startup when all 20+ docker containers starts, the box in less responsive - cpu 100% the temperature of the cpu and ddr is about 80°C and max memory usage is 94%

after boot when all containers starts the box is responsive, temperature is about 70°C
So, this is very stable system with lot of resources

BTW2
I want to see what happen when the memory cross 100% - if SWAP or LMK(low memory killer) will be used

[unmesh59]

Awesome!

What is the dashboard that you're using?

[araczkowski]

btop (htop on steroids) -> https://github.com/aristocratos/btop

apt install btop

btop

[devmfc]

Wow! Great to see what you are doing with these simple low spec boxes! 👍

[araczkowski]

This is all possible thank to you 🙏

I'm using these boxes as a very good inexpensive tinker toys.
The hardware of thes boxes is a verry good, with eMMC and LED screen on board is a better affordable alternative to a Raspberry Pi for many projects.
But the software is a different story, most factory Android are total junk, and there is no support from manufacturer. That is why so far I used my customazed Android and Armbian ( ophub/amlogic-s9xxx-armbian#1621).

But your approach with clean ubuntu and debian is better for my projects 👍

I wish you will find a time to shere instruction with sources and build scripts that you are using - i will be glad to try to play with these builds myself.

Thanks again and have a good day!

[pepper7777]

From my experience Home Assistant Supervised does not like to have other docker containers installed. Is that your experience as well?

[araczkowski]

Yes. Home Assistant discourages running other applications on the host system that aren't managed by the Supervisor.
While it is technically possible, doing so may cause the system to be marked in Home Assistant as "unhealthy".

So, the choice (HA Supervised, or HA Container) depends on your comfort level with managing Docker containers and your need for the features provided by the Supervisor.