home automation

Node Zero

My Node Zero is in two parts. The main part is in an outdoor rack cabinet which holds the servers. This has a fan system on the door to keep the contents cool as its sealed unit designed for use outside. I picked it up off EBay at a bargain price.

 

Inside the house is the second Node 0 where all the cables run back to. This is located upstairs in a cupboard. They connect into a patch panel seen at the top of the rack. The blue cables are LAN, the green is for a USB extender for a printer, the grey is for the KVM extender in the rack cabinet and finally the yellow is for analogue telephone connections. The rack mounted network switch is one gigabit. Just a small 8 port version at the moment. The blue Linksys box at the bottom is a 8 port switch. The double gang face plate brings in the analogue telephone connections for patching.

More detailed view of cabinet. At the bottom you can see the UPS on the left and power supply for the fan system on the right side. The Cat5e/coax/power cables come into the cabinet at the side and then up into the floor. This seal is to stop any bugs etc from getting into the cabinet. On the back of the rack frame is a plate with two double gang wall boxes which bring the cat5e connections into the rack.

Top of rack cabinet, from left to right. Linksys network switch, KVM extender/Keyboard splitter, KVM switch.

The cabinet closed

The two extraction fans. The right one switched on

 

The taped cable to the door is a 1-Wire temperature probe to measure in inbound air temperature.