new setup across vlans/subnets

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(29-03-2021 14:27)Neo Wrote:  Thanks for the tips
I like the idea of having a master copy backed up and synced - it doesn't make sense to only have one copy on the nas. If I lose that, will be bad.

I don't know what NAS you have, but if it just offers redundancy (RAID) then that's not a backup at all, what if you accidentally delete a folder or another malicious process does, redundancy isn't going to help you there as it'll just be mirrored across :-)
Unfortunately I'm still on Windows 10 so don't have the option of using ZFS or something similar, so once every 6 months I MD5 the files, and compare them with the previous run just to make sure nothing has gone awry (bit rot e.t.c.). Then I just sync across the new files to my backup server and the Pi.

(29-03-2021 14:27)Neo Wrote:  I attached a basic layout of the network. Each colour is a different subnet/vlan. Grey is trunk and they are all isolated unless I've set specific rules for something I need.

Wow you've gone very granular, I resisted the urge to split it out too much and just have:

Code:

Management - networking equipment
Home       - any computing device that get's updated regularly by me
IoT        - google homes and philips hue hub
CCTV
Guest

(29-03-2021 14:27)Neo Wrote:  Can I ask a question about minimserver.
What does it actually do? does it manage the music library in anyway? like will the file structure be changed/reorganised? Or the meta data changed in any way? Is it purely how it is presented/searched?

MinimServer doesn't touch your music at all, it's just a presentation layer (it's not JUST that but that's 80% of it). If you don't have a DLNA/UPnP server for your music then you can only browse by folder; if you know where everything is then that's fine, but if you're in the mood for some Reggae, or want to look at all the songs from a particular artist, be them on their own album or from a compilation then that's not really possible.
Where MinimServer excells over other servers is the configurability. It makes it possible to surface ALL the tags in your metadata and manipulate them so you can display them in your control point of choice e.g. BubbleUPnP doesn't display release date AND original date of release, so I can manipulate the album tag (all within MimimServer so it's not affecting your real music) to add $ORIGINALDATE$ to the album name e.t.c.
The other benefit is the "intelligent browsing" which basically means you can look at any of your category tags (which you choose to filter by) in any order you want, and it only shows the one's that are still applicable.
If you have a decent, clean set of tags it's worth a play as you can get a 30 day trial.

(29-03-2021 14:27)Neo Wrote:  I'm just thinking that if the music directory is in a good state, nicely organised and meta data all accurate, I think I could just settle with an nfs share for volumio and use firewall rules to allow my mobile to have a http connection to the volumio and control it that way. Seems like a lot less work although will that mean I'll need to have volumio specific playlists created?
I'm hoping that can be something common at some point

As you say, anything that isn't in your tags will be siloed if you have devices on each vlan.
Could you not have a vlan that had all your music devices and servers on and a single control point?
EDIT: Given you've already got MinimServer and BubbleUPnP server on the NAS it would just need to be the streamers and UPnP speakers with a control point.