Category: Issue Tracking

Moving MacOS local iOS backups for space maximization
Ditching all cloud services is not easy considering just how convenient so many of them are and how much space some of these services can take. Backing up a phone and tablet, particularly and iPhone and iPad Pro can take as multiple terabytes and often Mac’s have smaller primary storage. (I wonder why Apple…) Fortunately with a USB-C drive and a symlink, you can get basically unlimited storage for backing up devices.

(Obviously update the paths for your set up as needed.)
```
ln -s "/Volumes/DockedOrbit/PhoneandPadBackups/Backup" ~/Library/Application\ Support/MobileSync
```
Updated and Retried on MacOS 26.0.1 11/05/25
November 5, 2025
Jellyfin Docker Compose is Brilliant
After the little snafu of DuckDuckGo’s Assist box showing non-official directions, I tried the Docker Compose install and, with just a little set up.

My docker-compose.yml here. Most of the changes are commenting out the user, running it as root, and hiding the environment configuration for now.

Also note using the Plex media folder for everything, which is not the best idea. Here permissions wasn’t an issue, running as root, but probably should move things around and have this properly organized. For now though, everything gets dumped in there.

So far, using Jellyfin as a music streamer with a specific client, Finamp, works great.
```
services:
  jellyfin:
    image: jellyfin/jellyfin
    container_name: jellyfin
    # user: plex:plex
    ports:
      - 8096:8096/tcp
      - 7359:7359/udp
    volumes:
      - ./config:/config
      - ./cache:/cache
      - type: bind
        source: /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/audio/
        target: /media
      # Optional - extra fonts to be used during transcoding with subtitle burn-in
    restart: 'unless-stopped'
    # Optional - alternative address used for autodiscovery
    # environment:
      # - JELLYFIN_PublishedServerUrl=http://example.com
    # Optional - may be necessary for docker healthcheck to pass if running in host network mode
    extra_hosts:
      - 'host.docker.internal:host-gateway'
```
Updated and Retried on 25.04 11/04/25
November 4, 2025
Potential F3800 API Options

Following up on the F3800, otherwise quite good dual voltage standalone home backup but sans API, there are attempts at connecting to the unit. The standout is GitHub thomluther’s builds for Solix products but these are mainly balcony units outside the US. https://github.com/thomluther/ha-anker-solix

Second there is an attempt at connecting via the Bluetooth local connection but, when I tried it, it didn’t easily connect and my bit registers seemed to be different so any updates by Anker might completely wreck the IO. https://github.com/tiger2380/anker_f3800_web

For the first, the issue is the F3800 (plus or non I am guessing) doesn’t create a System (as defined in Anker’s config) so the endpoints are not available. That said, once connected to WiFi the unit can be managed from any location, not just on the same network, so the unit has cloud management but the endpoints aren’t clear. The second API option, tapping right into the local Bluetooth, would be ideal but relying on reading bit output has any number of issues.

There are Ecoflow HA options and it would be interesting just to see what the potential is there.

November 3, 2025