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Cake day: June 3rd, 2023

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  • I finally got around to doing this. I bought one of these. Here is a quick brain dump of the steps.

    • Enable the beta program in the frame settings and you’ll get the USB debugging option.
    • Once you enable USB debugging, hook it up to your computer (usb-a to c, not c-c cable) and install the latest immichframe apk: adb install <path to apk>
    • You’ll need a computer on the network where the frame will live that is kinda like a proxy to your immich server. I didn’t initially figure this out.
    • Setup immich frame docker container on that machine. you’ll need to configure your immich library credentials and which albums to serve, etc.
    • Then, in the immichframe settings on the frame, configure your host address of the machine running the docker container.
    • you can then disable the frameo app so that immichframe launches when the frame starts up. ‘adb shell su’ then ‘pm disable net.frameo.frame’

    that’s basically it. the immichframe documentation is pretty sparse so I had to fumble around trying a bunch of different things before I could make this work.

    Also, I was originally planning on getting tailscale running on the frame but that was a no-go. Plus, it was not needed in my case since I already had a system on tailscale at that location so I installed the immichframe server there and it connects over tailscale to my immich server.


  • I’m about to try this. I’ve ordered a Frameo picture frame that runs Android and supposedly you can use adb to sideload Immichframe and set it as the home app so it launches automatically. My Immich instance is on a private mesh network so I was going to configure the frame to autoconnect to the mesh network and only have permissions to access that one machine.

    If I cannot get this to work, I’ll fail back to just manually loading the pictures on an SD card and swap out the card for one with new pictures when I visit.




  • Using the SAS cards instead of the FC controllers should be fine, but it will be a different beast. The MD3600 controllers are basically your RAID card and you use a SAS HBA to connect to it. The virtual disks are configured on the MD3600 and exposed as LUNs to the hosts over FC. If you put plain SAS controllers in the storage chassis instead, you are exposing all the bare drives to the host. That is how I would do it if I were in your shoes and then would just create ZFS arrays over those bare disks. If I were going to try and have multiple hosts using that storage then you would need to stick with the MD3600F.



  • I use hledger mostly because of the plain text format. I came from YNAB as well but I just hated how you couldn’t easily undo changes or see when you made a change, etc. This is so easily to track changes and you can add comments explaining your reasoning around things and you can keep everything in source control so you have all the power of that as well. Not for everyone but if you’re a programmer or just comfortable on the command line it’s great.














  • Yeah it is but it’s a pretty capable laptop. I’ve replaced mine with a Framework 11th gen for my daily use but my T480 is currently hosting 10 VMs for my homelab. It’s got the base CPU, i5-8250U, 64GB of RAM and a 4TB SSD and is plenty of horsepower. I really only got the Framework because I was excited about the product and company, not because I was unsatisfied with the T480. I highly recommend it.