I haven’t tried syncthing yet, but might be able to combine it with some of these ideas.

I’m currently doing phone backups to a samba smb server with an app called smbsync2 from fdroid. It can copy or move files and directories from and to a smb share on a schedule. An option for desktop would be rsync.

To get the archiving functionality you can do automatic ZFS snapshots. You can restore the entire snapshot or mount it via the terminal, or samba apparenly has a feature to display files from snapshots as shadow copies on windows.

There is one limitation of this is, if a client deletes a file on the local storage, the file on the server doesn’t get deleted automaticly.

You can take a look at mikrotik, their switches are really cheap and some of them are even layer 3, but I don’t know about their availability in the US.

I don’t have one yet, but their 4 port 100 gig switch looks verry tempting.

10 gig sfp+ isnt that expensive or power hungry anymore. You can get a new switch for ~100$ now. A complete 2.5 gig network is probably more expensive as you can’t really get used nics.

10 gig sfp+ isnt that expensive or power hungry anymore. You can get a new switch for ~100$ now. A complete 2.5 gig network is probably more expensive as you can’t really get used nics.

I’m currently doing this to a Citroën C5 III (2015). The hdd in the old infotainment system broke, so I had a reason to do it, and adding a few features couldn’t hurt.

It’s a huge pain to get to find information about anything in this car and to get anything to work properly, but I hope it’ll be worth it.

If you ever want to try it, here are the config files and commands from my bash history.

https://codeberg.org/KaninchenSpeed/c5-car/src/branch/main/gps

The geoclue file is set up for organic maps.

You can also run organic maps without flatpak, but you might need to compile it yourself.

I’m currently doing the same project.

To get gps to work on linux, you configure gpsd to get the data from your gps module and setup geoclue to get its data from gpsd. I lost the config files but I remember that I did the gpsd geoclue connection by echoing the gps data of gpsd into a netcat socket and connecting geoclue to it. Organic maps then automaticly gets its position from geoclue.

Im also working on a organic maps fork, which shows onscreen directions on linux.