frosch

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[–] frosch@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wow, that's a crazy and impressive setup! Pretty amazing what's possible with something so low power that it could run off of battery and possibly solar alone...

Having such a setup for travel and emergencies is a cool idea, I'll have to put it onto my "possibly some day" list :)

[–] frosch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Gotta take a look at it and spin one container up. Looks promising, too!

As I'm not completely invested in paperless, I'll definitely try it out, thanks!

Haven't seen support for exports/backups at first glance, that is imo a must have.

[–] frosch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Ja, weniger Worker, dann dauert das OCR eben Mal länger. Da das eher selten ich muss das Dokument sofort im Paperless anschauen, kann das meinetwegen auch seine Minuten brauchen.

Bin bisher auch noch nicht 100% auf den Workflow eingeschossen:

  • MakeACopy macht ganz gutes OCR auf dem Handy, die Scans sind aber oft etwas wackelig.
  • FairScan macht sehr gute PDFs, aber kein OCR
  • Ich habe einen Scanner, der natürlich bei 600DPI nahezu perfekte Kopien macht, die ich auf dem PC per Shell in Sekunden durch OcrMyPDF jagen kann für extrem gute Ergebnisse. Aber>5 Seiten per Hand auf dem Scannerbett... das ist dann schon nervig
[–] frosch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I've read about using a Wyse 5070 for this a lot by now. Maybe I'll explicitly search for them instead. All I've seen around me are 4gb models, however. The Stack I'm currently running blocks 3.7gb in idle... So that's not enough

[–] frosch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Did you just turn off all transcoding or pre-transcoded to 720p mp4 (or similar)?

Or did you just rely on the native apps for direct play?

Paperless, I guess OCR is very taxing, but I mainly had RAM problems regarding this on my Pi 3, with only one doc at a time, it went slow but steady.

Immich maxed out my i5 (all cores on 100) for some minutes when running the ML on my imported test library of ca. 3k Files. So yeah, when choosing the Pi4, I'd go with ente for sure!

[–] frosch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

A Pi as a travel server sounds like an awesome idea!

What are the use cases for taking it with you instead of just connecting to your homelab?

Edit: Your username made me thirsty, too bad I have to wait some hundred years to get one on earth...

[–] frosch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it did not work well enough to be usable.

Was it the overall performance or the OCR specifically?

I have run paperless some time on a pi 3b without OCR (manually doing it on a PC or when scanning with Apps like MakeACopy) and it was okay-ish. Not a lot documents though.

And I thought it was mainly the 1GB RAM limiting (starting Paperless started swapping right away...)

 

Does anyone run one of the above on a Pi 4 and can share their experience how good or bad they run?

If course, transcoding won't be any good and OCR probably cannot run in parallel, but aside from that - is it okay?

Currently running everything on a mini ITX with a i5-6600 which handles this easily for my small use cases, but also draws 20-30W idling most of the day... I'm eyeing a Pi 4b with 8gb RAM but don't want to spend the money and then realizing that it doesn't run smooth enough

[–] frosch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Did you get a static public IP from your ISP?

[–] frosch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Taking do one thing, but do it good to the next level, nice!

I thought about getting a pi zero also just for the pi-hole. But my pi3b holds up pretty good, still

[–] frosch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Cool, do you get any auth and/or ingress protection?

With cloudflare, you get some auth options, can block AI crawlers (that get recognized...) etc for free

[–] frosch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

When I looked into it first, Pangolin seemed a bit overwhelming.

Is it hard to set up?

[–] frosch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Nice, I have to take a look if mine supports it, too!

 

Which route did you go for your homeland, a tunnel to your services or setting up tail scale/wireguard and access them on your trailer?

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