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A custom Unraid tower and a Raspberry Pi, kept on separate boxes on purpose.

There are two of them. wednesday is the tower in the work room: a Ryzen 9 7950X with 64GB of DDR5-6000 and an RTX 4070 Ti, running Unraid with Plex and a handful of Docker containers around it. tars is a Raspberry Pi 4 on a living-room shelf running the smart-home control plane in Docker, doing more than the form factor lets on. Splitting them this way means I can take wednesday down for a kernel update without the lights and sensors going with it, and the tower never has to drag Home Assistant along when it reboots for something Plex-related at an inconvenient hour.

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Server (custom tower, Unraid)wednesday: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X (16C/32T) on an MSI MPG X670E Carbon WiFi, 64GB G.Skill RipJaws S5 DDR5-6000 CL32, Inno3D RTX 4070 Ti X3 OC 12GB, EVGA SuperNOVA 850 GT 80+ Gold PSU, Noctua NH-D15 cooler in a Fractal Design Meshify 2 case. Wired to the work-room switch and kept up by the UPS. Hosts Plex and the heavier Docker workloads.
Server (Raspberry Pi 4 Model B)tars: Broadcom BCM2711 quad-core Cortex-A72, onboard WiFi and Bluetooth. The Bluetooth radio (bcm43438-bt) is what reads the Aranet4 across the room. Runs the smart-home control plane (Home Assistant, Zigbee2MQTT, AdGuard Home, Omada Controller, MQTT) as Docker containers, all over wired ethernet.

Last updated · April 28, 2026