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Here's my beautiful unemployed-for-too-long-have-no-money-dont-care-about-looks lab :)

picture of a raspberrypi, switch, HP elite desk, KVM and mess of cables on a desk

Hey it's more than good enough to run all this ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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[-] UnfairUtan@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Love this thread, here's my contribution

Just a pi4B and some external drives for Linux ISOs

edit : they resting on a piece of foam to reduce vibrations

Bonus pic of the zigbee dongle for Home Assistant

[-] 0x0@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

You may get better signal by not folding the antenna.

[-] UnfairUtan@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Oh! So you mean pointing it downward? Would you mind explain how that works? I'm clueless when it comes to these things

Some context, the house is on two levels and this is level 0. The ceiling above is level 1. Also we're on the edge of the house not the center, the tip of the antenna is pointing towards the center

[-] 0x0@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 hours ago

Just letting it be straight, as if it didn't have that joint that allows it to bend 90Âș, but test and see.

[-] gergolippai@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

this is the way :)

[-] turmacar@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

I bought a 16U rack this year to organize stuff a bit. Zigbee dongle is still installed exactly like this. I'm not convinced there's a better solution.

[-] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Honestly, I doubt there is. You’re suspending it away from metal and wood, seems like the best solution other than replacing the antenna with something expensive and “mounting” that separately.

[-] UnfairUtan@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago
[-] Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

That's how my ZigBee dongle is mounted, except it's resting on a shelf

[-] UnfairUtan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

It must hang for its sins (of not working when too close to the pi)

[-] northernlights@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago
[-] UnfairUtan@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Yea really happy with it. It only struggled some summers when I used to live in a small apartment in a large city.

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