NotYetRated

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  1. I am having issues with audio/video going out of sync when watching videos within any web browser, from any website. Netflix, hulu, youtube, chrome, firefox, edge... Running 2 different Windows 10 VM's. Video cards are Radeon 7850 and a 6450. Passing through the card integrated audio and running via HDMI. Never used to have an issue, really not sure what caused the issue to crop up. Anyone else experiencing it or can point me in some direction for a fix?
  2. Im gonna be lazy and copy my post from another thread, giving you some details of mysetup and experience with unRaid+Blue Iris in a VM. For reference to a couple of your questions, I am also running a Windows VM for my BI setup. 6 POE cameras, 4 always recording to a WD purple drive set outside my array. I do send my alert snapshots to an array protected share, as BI lets you configure what goes where and when. I am running 6 cores of an e5-2670V1 with 4gigs of ram. It has been plenty of power for me so far(average CPU use 30%). All in all, it has been incredibly reliable. I pull up the stream via blue iris android app from home, work, tablet, phone, on the road, etc with no problem. I also run a Homeseer home automation system on a Windows VM, and have a few tablets set with Imperihome constantly showing a few of the camera feeds. Have yet to have any real hiccups, apart from some older cameras that didn't play nice and one poor cable termination(my fault) that gave me headaches for a couple of days before root cause being discovered. A key to managing my CPU usage was to set each camera to blue iris DVR format, and direct to disk recording. This required me to set my overlays on each camera, but other than that no big trade-offs that have affected me anyways.
  3. For reference to a couple of your questions, I am also running a Windows VM for my BI setup. 6 POE cameras, 4 always recording to a WD purple drive set outside my array. I do send my alert snapshots to an array protected share, as BI lets you configure what goes where and when. I am running 6 cores of an e5-2670V1 with 4gigs of ram. It has been plenty of power for me so far. All in all, it has been incredibly reliable. I pull up the stream via blue iris android app from home, work, tablet, phone, on the road, etc with no problem. I also run a Homeseer home automation system on a Windows VM, and have a few tablets set with Imperihome constantly showing a few of the camera feeds. Have yet to have any real hiccups, apart from some older cameras that didn't play nice and one poor cable termination(my fault) that gave me headaches for a couple of days before root cause being discovered. A key to managing my CPU usage was to set each camera to blue iris DVR format, and direct to disk recording. This required me to set my overlays on each camera, but other than that no big trade-offs that have affected me anyways.
  4. I have 50 and 65 foot HDMI cables from my server to various spots in my house and transmit 4k content just fine. The only place I struggled was with my gaming monitor, which requires a DVI cable to achieve 144hz@1080p, though I think thats a fact of the monitor itself. I use Bluerigger cables from Amazon. For the 65 foot run, I actually have a 50 foot and a 15 foot daisey chained with a simple female/female connector. I know, not ideal. May not work for everyone, etc. But its been working for me for a while now.
  5. I get a latency of about 500 on my desktop PC running Windows 10 on an e3-1245v3 and 16GB RAM. Similar on my 2 Windows 10 VM's running on a dual e5-2670 rig, with 2 and 4 CPU's assigned and 6GB RAM.
  6. +1 for hardware hoarding. Its how ive been living anyways haha.
  7. Ive also always had this issue. Well, its always been intermittent. I have stopped updating the docker because of it.
  8. Appreciate the comment, but I asked about the power draw of the AMD system, not about how to perform an ROI. I need to know comparative power draws of these systems to perform any ROI calculation.
  9. #1 is possible, that is a simple dual boot scenario. #2 No you cannot share resources like sound cards/video cards etc across active running VM's. #3 Ditto to #2. Regarding #2, why not just pass the video card and pass audio through it via HDMI? This is what I do. 2 video cards for 2 different VM's are passed out and plugged in to a receiver. Then I get audio/video via the card, and dont need additional sound cards.
  10. How is the power usage? I love my dual socket e5-2670 system, but really hate the power draw!
  11. I know what you mean regarding basement placement. In my situation, I have a central small closet in the basement which houses all of my homes electronics, computers, server, switches, modem, etc. This way I have a single nice tidy spot for everything, as well as easy battery backup setup for all items. Spreading the AP out with current gear means getting battery backup units at their home locations, which in my setup is not ideal. Easier to get some PoE AP's and set the PoE switch on the battery backup. Though that yields an interesting idea, could just PoE inject and split an ethernet line, that would keep the need for a separate batter backup unit at the ideal AP location upstairs.... Still interested in what units some others have gone with, thanks for all the replies.
  12. Looking for some fellow techies experiences with the various options for distributing wifi throughout the house. I've got about 2,000 sq.ft home that I am looking to cover, plus a small workshop close to the house. Plasterboard walls, nothing too bad to get signal through in the house. Have 2x gig ethernet cables already run to the workshop. Currently using pFsense for routing and firewall, with a Netgear Nighthawk set in bridge mode for serving up wifi. Coverage is quite poor. Nighthawk is located on ceiling of basement, dead center of house. I get no signal at the workshop, limited in garage and corner rooms of the house. Looked at ubiquity, and people seem to be disappointed in their latest models/hardware/software. I have explored Xclaim Xi-3, but it is a little pricey @$250 for a single unit. Google onHub and wifi dont seem to support multiple SSID support/guest networks, so I ruled them out. Mostly looking for good coverage, modern technology(2x2 or preferably 3x3), have hardwire access pretty much everywhere, as well as PoE availability, guest network options. I have a lot of devices to serve up, multiple phones, tablets, laptops as well as an abundant amount of misc wifi devices such as Amazon Echo's, some wifi based intercoms, etc. Looking for advice before I drop hundreds of dollars.
  13. Some monitors have HDMI video/sound in with headphone ports for sound out.... Could look to that as well.
  14. change "2.3" to "2.7" in the below noted line of your config. I had to on mine as well. <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-i440fx-2.3'>hvm</type>
  15. Forgive my ignorance but i simply cannot figure out how to set the correct time. Currently, it is 6:39 PM here (eastern time) and my Domoticz shows 11:39 PM... Tried adding TZ=New_York as a variable to the start, but still shows wrong time.
  16. Thanks for the replies everyone, seems no "quick" implementation for using Harmony. However, the Alexa integration looks like it could have some promise. Worst case is the WOL for waking the VM's. Can manually shut down when needed. Have any links for configuring this? I spent about 20 minutes so far reading up on the docker, didnt see anything in a quick search. Will begin more in depth tomorrow.
  17. Is there any relatively easy method of turning VM's on/off via Logitech Harmony, or anything other than logging in to the WebUI of unRaid?
  18. bah hah, I meant to have quoted someone. Sorry! The error is as follows: /var/run/s6/etc/cont-init.d/50-interface: line 10: /config/scripts/confdba: Permission denied /var/run/s6/etc/cont-init.d/50-interface: line 11: /config/scripts/confdba: Permission denied /var/run/s6/etc/cont-init.d/50-interface: line 12: /config/scripts/confdba: Permission denied
  19. I recently also received this error. Don't want to redeploy this at this point... has anyone found a fix? Or cause at least?
  20. RDP does not use the GPU to render the desktop environment you are logged in to. Handbrake may still utilize the GPU for transcoding tasks. Or, it may be that your 2 cores on the VM are more powerful than your laptop.
  21. RDP is not intended/performance acceptable for USING a VM, especially in a heavy video environment such as watching movies, tv shows, youtube, gaming, etc. RDP is useful for ACCESSING VM's for things such as configuration changes, simple installing of programs, moving around of files, etc. You need a dedicated video card and direct video access to actually utilize said VM in the manner in which you are speaking of. This is accomplished via outputting video from the GPU directly, NOT connecting via RDP. I have a couple of VM's which I have HDMI cables plugged in to and routed through my home to various TV's and receivers for this. I also shoot the USB over ethernet for a mouse/keyboard connection. That being said, steam in-home streaming is also an option, but a little fussy at times if you are looking for a direct desktop stream, not just game stream.
  22. Data points are recorded and stored by the sysstats application. Usually spikes occur when there was some unforeseen interruption in the recording. These are stored in the database files and can't be removed afaik. The GUI application does do filtering and removes any unrealistic values. The threshold for this is fixed (hard-coded) and higher than the numbers you see. I need to see how to make that smarter. Might be shortest putt to just drop the hard code and make it configurable. That way each person and their individual setup can set their cropping limit based on their individual systems? Just a thought. Thanks for the reply!
  23. Is there any way to filter out some odd spikes I see in my Dynamix Stats? Specifically looking at my history of Network and Storage, my network has a couple of sharp spikes upwards of 160gb/s. This would be awesome, however it is definitely not true. It is scaling the graph to lose all of the useful information of trending. Ditto on disk access, with a couple of random insane spikes upwards of 1gb/s.