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Help with a AMD GPU in truenas scale
  • Not sure how to change the driver to AMDGPU, I blacklisted the Radeon driver but the kernel didn't load the other one. I read somewhere that I have to do a initframs update but the command doens't exist in truenas scale. How do I force to load the other driver?

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    Help with a AMD GPU in truenas scale
  • Thanks for the answer.

    Just checked with lspci -v and it says radeon:

    03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cape Verde PRO [Radeon HD 7750/8740 / R7 250E] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
            Subsystem: PC Partner Limited / Sapphire Technology Cape Verde PRO [Radeon HD 7750/8740 / R7 250E]
            Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 28, NUMA node 0
            Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
            Memory at fbf80000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
            I/O ports at e000 [size=256]
            Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
            Capabilities: [48] Vendor Specific Information: Len=08 <?>
            Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
            Capabilities: [58] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
            Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
            Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=010 <?>
            Capabilities: [150] Advanced Error Reporting
            Capabilities: [270] Secondary PCI Express
            Kernel driver in use: radeon
            Kernel modules: radeon, amdgpu
    

    Is that the one it's supposed to be active?

    About the allocate thing, I think that is a number and not an index in an array. I think that you can allocate as many gpus you want:

    I've seen that same menu in screenshots and I'm supposed to be able to choose something different from zero.

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  • Hello c/Selfhosted!

    Although I'm still new with truenas, I've been a happy truenas scale hoster for a year more or less and I've been increasing the reach of my self hosted server little by little.

    The problem came when I decided to add jellyfin and a GPU for encoding. My server is mostly made of old parts and the GPU is not different. The GPU is recognized by truenas scale as a "Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cape Verde PRO [Radeon HD 7750/8740 R7 250E", which AFAIK has hardware encoding/decoding as per Jellyfin wiki.

    But the only place I can see the GPU is in lspci and in System Settings/Isolated GPU PCI Ids (and it's not isolated). Whenever I try to change the configuration of an app to allocate the GPU I can only select "Allocate 0 amd.com/gpu GPU", there are no more options.

    I've searched for this a lot but I found very little info about AMD GPUs and how to debug this issue.

    I'am missing something? Could anybody point me in the right direction? Any commands I can run to diagnose?

    Thanks for reading!

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    I have a flat tyre
  • I'm sorry to hear that. I know what you feel, I had a few of those days a few weeks ago... Things change, everything pass.

    I hope you the best, good luck!

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    Moving to new house. Start from scratch or reuse?
  • I'm really thinking about starting from scratch. The rabbit hole kind of scares me but at the same time it's exciting 😂.

    I think I have room to grow in the new home and I always try to get things with local integration and as open source as possible.

    My setup right now is in a small flat, with 3 or 4 automations and a very small amount of sensors. The new home is going to be very very different. I have a lot of plans, maybe too many of them. So maybe staying from scratch is the way to go.

    Thanks for your input

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    Moving to new house. Start from scratch or reuse?
  • Same thing is happening to me. I even have some old stuff from Android devices that no longer exist and your comment just reminded me about it. I think I might start from scratch saving what I think is worth.

    Thanks

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    Moving to new house. Start from scratch or reuse?
  • That is why I'm thinking about starting from scratch. I'm going from a small flat to a house and everything is going to change A LOT. I'd like to move HA from the pi4 to a small home server but that's for later, I have too many thing in my plate right now.

    Thanks for your input!

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  • Hello!

    As stated in the title I'm moving to a new house soon(tm) that will change my home assistant instance a lot.

    I was wondering what would be better... Start from scratch or adapt what I have? I have some information in HA that I want to preserve but most of it could go away.

    Have you any experiences in this situation? Any insights?

    Thank for reading!

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    Home assistant cheap pool sensor?
  • Thank you! Just checked it and it looks really nice. How do you integrate it with home assistant? I've been checking the inkbird integration and it seems to be Bluetooth only. I'm afraid Bluetooth is not an alternative, the HA server is in the basement and is not going to reach the pool by Bluetooth

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  • Hello!

    I moving to a new home with a small pool and I was thinking of buying a pool sensor.

    Right now I'm searching for something simple like temperature but would be nice to have ph and others.

    I'd like it to be local, no cloud, and right now something cheap, I love DIY stuff.

    So, any recommendations? Any experiences with these kind of sensors? My searches lead to pretty expensive stuff that can measure all the pool parameters and cloud based.

    Thanks for reading!

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