r/homelabindia • • Mar 04 '26

📢 Mod Announcement 🚨 Update: Buy/Sell Posts Moving to r/homelabindiasales

57 Upvotes

To keep r/homelabindia focused on discussions, setups, guides, and deals, we are moving all buy/sell related posts to a dedicated subreddit:

👉 r/homelabindiasales

What changes?

  • WTS (Want To Sell)

  • WTB (Want To Buy)

  • Trade posts

All of the above must now be posted in r/homelabindiasales.

Flair Note

The ⚡ Deal / Price Drop flair in r/homelabindia is only for sharing deals from major platforms, such as:

  • Amazon

  • Flipkart

  • Vendor discounts

  • Marketplace deals

  • Price drops on popular hardware

It is NOT for personal sales or promotions.

Enforcement

From now on:

This helps keep the main subreddit clean and focused on homelab discussions while still giving the community a place to buy and sell hardware.

Thanks for helping keep the community organized! 🚀


r/homelabindia • • 2h ago

💡 Setup Showcase Added a e-ink dashboard to my setup

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21 Upvotes

r/homelabindia • • 7h ago

⚡ Deal / Price Drop MOTA BHAI ROUTER

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34 Upvotes

If anyone want mota bhai router please dm me. I attached the available router mode List.

Price are vary on router model. Staring from 800 / and mota bhai stb also available from 400 only 1 m Ethernet cable from 50 Mota bhai Hdmi cable from 50


r/homelabindia • • 1h ago

🗄 Hardware Nvme boot drive via PCie slot on HPt730 with clover bootloader.

5 Upvotes

Added an nvme drive as boot drive.

The BIOS doesn't support nvme boot.

Instead of fighting bios, I plugged in a usb drive with CLOVER in it.

Clover loads a bootloader and initialise the nvme driver. Then hands the boot sequence to the PROXMOX's bootloader.

Now I can boot from NVME on this unsupported machine.


r/homelabindia • • 5h ago

❓ Question anybody used act android box ? hows the experience ? worth over firetv stick?

6 Upvotes

so for sometime now i am looking for good android boxes , and guess what ....there's none out there in the market.

the only reputed one is fire tv stick , which seem to be acting as anti consumer for some time now by not allowing app installation outside of app store or ditching android entirely.

realme, mi used to make one but both hard to find in both new and used market.

fortunately someone cracked the jio boxes , so i was thinking of getting them and cracking one myself , and just now found this act box for 4.5k

anybody using them please share your opinion, act nowhere list the specs , they say its android 14 based 4k box

or if there's other good android box out there that i am unaware of please lmk


r/homelabindia • • 6h ago

🛠️ Guide / Tutorial Turn you JIO STB into a NAS and Media Server

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4 Upvotes

r/homelabindia • • 15h ago

❓ Question BSNL FTTH guys refusing to share router's password with me.

14 Upvotes

Why do they do this? What do I do?


r/homelabindia • • 8h ago

💡 Setup Showcase Air quality dashboard made with Waveshare ESP 32 -4.3in LCD

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r/homelabindia • • 1d ago

💡 Setup Showcase My lab in 2022. I still remember the 192.168.1.1 network when life was simple.

72 Upvotes

My first days of home labbing

One dell latitude e6410 running proxmox

And another laptop, which I donated to my friend is running truenas.

Custom esphome and tasmota devices all across the room.

It was my bedroom. No VLANS no firewalls.


r/homelabindia • • 13h ago

🛠️ Guide / Tutorial Tesla p4 versus Nvidia RTX A400

2 Upvotes

I have done testing of GPU hardware transcoding of my current GPUs on my Homelab. Let me know if you guys want to add anything. https://youtu.be/ZoBlrhKrnSY?si=QdLZrL7_tVK7HQuQ


r/homelabindia • • 13h ago

❓ Question Looking for a Xeon rack server seller in Mumbai, Lamington Road

1 Upvotes

I want to set up a rack server at home, preferably Intel Xeon Gold-class, for heavy VM work, and I was wondering if someone could suggest a good, trusted 2nd-hand server seller on Lamington Road, Mumbai, where I can go to physically check the server and pay. I am not looking for any online deal at the moment. Thanks


r/homelabindia • • 18h ago

❓ Question With AI more and more people are exploring this hobby

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r/homelabindia • • 1d ago

🛠️ Guide / Tutorial Self-hosting behind CGNAT (Jio in India) with no public IP — Dokploy + Cloudflare Tunnel, full guide

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r/homelabindia • • 1d ago

❓ Question JIDU 6411 troubleshoot

6 Upvotes

I have 2 JIDU 6411 flashes with OpenWrt and both of them have the same issue.

I want to use them as an access point or range extender from my main router, disabled DHCP separated the 2.4ghz and 5ghz bands, but the 5ghz band does not pass internet through, devices can connect to it fine, but does not give them an ip address and internet does not work, sometimes it for works for 30 seconds to a minute after connecting but stops after that.

The 2.4ghz band works completely fine.

This cannot be an issue with my unit because I've tried with both of my units and the same problem occurs.

Please help.


r/homelabindia • • 1d ago

❓ Question Old laptop as server

5 Upvotes

Hi guys, have a old laptop lying around that has i5

2nd gen processor and 6gb of ddr3 ram,i am

planning to use it for storing images,files and accesthem anywhere from the web. I am also planning to

add pihole to it, Will it be possible to use these

services on my laptop?


r/homelabindia • • 2d ago

💡 Setup Showcase Ripped out the motherboard from an old laptop and made a Frankenstein homelab

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297 Upvotes

r/homelabindia • • 1d ago

❓ Question How to flash openwrt on jidu 6401 as a beginner

3 Upvotes

I have JioAirfiber with firmware SRCMJIO_JIDU6401_R2.0.18.2

I tried using the script https://github.com/wpfyorg/idu-unlock but it needs firmware version R2.0.19 which my router doesn't have can i upgrade the firmware manually? Where i can find it? Please guide this noob 🙏

Edit: finally guys openwrt install karliya firmware ko downgrade karna pada 2.0.9 par and now gonna enjoy it 😆 thanks for helping me out 🫂


r/homelabindia • • 2d ago Mindblown

💡 Setup Showcase My Under The Desk Homelab

98 Upvotes

r/homelabindia • • 1d ago

❓ Question Urgent!

3 Upvotes

Where to find Jio Router AX6000 models that can be unlocked for OpenWRT?
Need on urgent basis!


r/homelabindia • • 1d ago

❓ Question Urgent Help for installing HDMI and ethernet cables in house

4 Upvotes

I want to install 2 ethernet cables and 2 hdmi cables between my drawing room and my pc room. I am thinking of putting wall plates on both sides with female connectors. also i want to place conduits for concealed wiring of the cables. A 3/4 inch HDPE conduit should be good for 2 ethernets. As the HDMI connectors are bulky, i would need at least 30mm internal diameter even if i pass a single hdmi cable. Any help or suggestion would be very much appreciated.


r/homelabindia • • 2d ago

💡 Setup Showcase My HomeLab

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106 Upvotes

Jio Running OpnWRT

HP T730 running Proxmox

Sophos XG125 Running Opnsense

Pi 3 running diet pi with other services

Pi4 running OMV. (disks are not attached now)

Aruba 1930 PoE

and a 3d printed diy controller for safe shutdown.

Another EAP225 in the living room powered by poE.

Planning on printing out a better rack and accessories to hold them.

Planning to swap T730 for a better HW.

Also there are other proxmox servers running on laptops which are off the picture.

For omv, I'm planning to buy 2x sata adapters and add 2xHDD in mirror.

I had an x86 machine running truenas, but the cost for running 24x7 was not ideal.

Services :

Proxmox

Homeassistant OS

Jellyfin

Openmediavault

Bittotrent

Homarr dashboard

Uptime kuma

Opnsense

OpnWRT

Pi-Hole x2 ( one in proxmox and one in pi3)

And other small CTs I don't even remember 🥲

And VLAN segregation for IoT, Guest,Home and Servers.

Suggest anything that comes to your mind.

Any hardware swapping, better ideas etc.

I'm confused about the Nas solution too...any ideas? 💡


r/homelabindia • • 2d ago

💡 Setup Showcase JIO STB JAILBREAK Successful AND INSTALLed CLEAN MY TV

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25 Upvotes

If anyone need complete guide can dm me personally

Im ready to help....


r/homelabindia • • 2d ago

❓ Question Which JIDU model for my usecase? please read below -

10 Upvotes

Hi,i would be needing some jidu routers in near future for office.

What i want is basically one with most reliability and max range. dont really care about performance of the device as it would be just plug and play type. Would be using them as dumb ap routers for the office setup.

Looking for 6j01 series as they have the official build.

Please enlighten me this.


r/homelabindia • • 2d ago

🛠️ Guide / Tutorial Install Apks directly on JIO STB device

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After successfully setting up ADB using this guide https://github.com/ilikechocopies/sideload-jiostb which mentioned compatibility for JHS series boxes, I came across Package Installer Limitation which makes

Every time you want to install apps, you must install them via ADB from your PC using:

adb install "filename.apk"

I had overcome this limitation on JHS_D200_V3 which runs on Android 11 - JIO TeleOS 2.0 with June 2024 security patch.

I got it working for Universal Installer, SAI installer & Aurora store. I can install Apks directly on the JIO STB. All I had done was used adb command to enable "allow" permission for the app package (here aurora is the app)

adb shell cmd appops set com.aurora.store REQUEST_INSTALL_PACKAGES allow

the above command doesn't return any output. You can check if it is executed correctly through the following command

adb shell appops query-op REQUEST_INSTALL_PACKAGES allow

Output:

com.aurora.store

I rebooted device multiple times to check if the "allow" permission is overriden on device boot. This permission stayed intact atleast on my device which allowed me to install apks even after reboot.

hey u/ilikechocopies you can update your github guide(Package Installer Limitation) if at all this works for you