I’m using nvidia right now with a 3060. It doesnt use much power, I got it for pretty cheap on ebay, and it encodes/decodes everything except for av1 encoding which I dont have use for. Looking at the charts in the link below, if you need to encode av1 you’ld need a 4000 series.

https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-and-decode-gpu-support-matrix-new

I’ve found nvidia to work pretty well for jellyfin, I use docker with the nvidia container toolkit and it just worked with hardware encoding out of the gate. I also have some other docker containers running gen ai and the 3060 handles them well as long as the modle will fit in vram.

I was using it as a free domain for local things. I had a local address stored in duckdns as *.example.duckdns.org -> 192.168.1.x which pointed to an nginx reverse proxy that I then used to point at different services I host locally. It worked with letsencrypt so I could use https. I bought a domain from namecheap yesterday and have since switched to using them, with the benefit of the new domain being much shorter to type lol. I’m still working on getting letsencrypt working so that I dont have to pay for an ssl, but regular http works fine since its all internal to my network.

https://www.gnutomorrow.com/best-free-dynamic-dns-services/ Here are a few, DuckDNS is listed here funny enough

This is the first time I’ve noticed it not working, if its consistent I’ll probably switch but I havent looked for alternatives yet

It seems to be intermittent? I can access it sometimes and other times I cant. When I cant unbound logs this 2024-03-26T11:14:08-04:00 Error unbound [20503:2] error: SERVFAIL <www.duckdns.org. A IN>: all servers for this domain failed, at zone duckdns.org. no server to query nameserver addresses not usable

I dont know much about your router/ap, but from some light googling the virgin media hub 5 has 2.5gb/s ethernet and wifi 6 which should be fairly decent. I agree with what most comments are saying about connecting the pi using ethernet (“hardwiring” it) and setting a static ip. The raspberry pi image flasher even has an option for that in the advanced settings if I’m not mistaken. If youre worried about not being able to plug a keyboard/mouse and monitor to the pi look at ssh. If you arnt comfortable with command line/terminal I cant say I’d recommend setting up your own router/firewall.

If you dont have any ethernet ports available on your router then looking at a good switch for 2.5 gbps might be a better bet, I always perfer physical connections to wifi.

If you do want to jump down the rabbit hole of pfsense/opnsense/openwrt then hit ebay and look for a cheap workstation and an intel nic, that will get you started messing about with it. Be sure to do research about power consumption of the device youre getting, the raspberry pis sip power but beefier machines will suck some power and might show up on your electricity bill.

I use opnsense, the forums are a good place to look at hardware that you might want to gravitate towards, intel nics have been my best bet but there are plenty of resources to tell you what is compatible and what isnt with openbsd.

I can recommend the dietpi OS; it is a minimal os that comes with a package manager for installing containers for things like radarr, sonarr, deluge, and jellyfin, which will allow you to download/watch movies(find on radarr, download with deluge, watch on jellyfin) and tv shows (find on sonarr, download with deluge, watch on jelyfin) in a fairly autonomous way. Its a bit of setup if you havent done it before it might not be for you but once its running its fairly seamless.

I threw this on my server to see how it runs, I’m not able to see any of my library( I think this is the connection to jellyfin) or any way that it connects to my sonarr/radarr services? I tripple checked that the api keys are correct but I’m still not seeing anything. I saw that someone else said that it does browser caching and I have a large library so maybe that is the issue. I look forward to seeing how this project progresses because I host all of these services and it will be nice to have one place to go for them.