Projects
The Problem
Keeping clubs clean mid-round makes a real difference – dirt and grass packed into the grooves kills spin and control. Motorized golf carts have had side-mounted ball and club cleaners for years, and Scrubi has a solid solution for push carts too. Catch is, their mount is designed specifically for clip-gear-style carts, and my CaddyLite push cart doesn’t have that interface.
The style of integrated club cleaner common on motorized golf carts – the inspiration for this build.
Proxmox has a built-in notification system, but by default it only routes alerts to a local email address. I wanted backup failure alerts delivered to my phone as push notifications – without relying on email. This post covers how I set that up using Gotify hosted on PikaPods, wired into Proxmox’s notification targets and matchers.
For a while, my Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) ran on a dedicated bare-metal machine – reliable, but one more box humming away on the shelf. As part of a broader effort to consolidate my homelab, I decided to move PBS into a VM on one of my existing Proxmox nodes. The catch: I still wanted my local Unraid NAS to serve as the primary backup datastore, which isn’t something PBS supports out of the box. And on top of that, I wanted a second copy synced offsite to a second Unraid server at a different location for a proper offsite backup tier.
This post covers how I pulled all of that off – from the VM setup, through the NFS datastore configuration, to the offsite sync job running automatically.
Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Design and Technology — Capstone Research Project, University of New Hampshire, Fall 2021 / Spring 2022. Faculty Advisor: Szu-Feng Chen.