Proxmox or portainer best suited for external disk and zwave dungle
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Osteduden89 · 2023-10-04 09:10

I have been browsing this awesome subreddit for a while now. also seen
a couple of videos on YouTube. I want to learn , get experience  using
Docker containers.

But I would like some advise on which software I should use for
managing the containers. since my Linux command skills are very
limited. I have experience from hyper-v mostly managed with GUI.

Hardware that I have available is an Intel NUC i5, 8GB RAM, 120GB M2,
1TB ssd usb.

Since I would like to host an plex container what is the easiest way
to mount the external usb SSD drive with proxmox or just on an Ubuntu
server on the bare metal?

Also hope to replace my current smarthome hub SmartThings with Home
assistant docker. Than I would need to USB passthrough an usb dongle
for zwave/Zigbee transmitter. Read some people using proxmox for this
but Maybe it also should work on Ubuntu and portainer?

Cheers!

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8-16_account · 2023-10-04 11:48

Both are pretty easy. But if you're going for Home Assistant, I
recommend VM, just because you'll be able to easily use the store in
Home Assistant. Iirc, that's either impossible or difficult if you're
running it in Docker.

So yes, run Proxmox and Home Assistant VM, and pass through your
dongle and you'll be good.

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BCIT_Richard · 2023-10-05 21:14

I use both, I run Proxmox as my hypervisior, and then I have a Debian
VM hosting docker + Portainer. I also found a nice custom apps
template to use with Portainer making it almost as straight forward as
unraid.