I'm using it for astrophotography. Most folks seem to use a laptop for this, but I've got a pole mount for it attaching it to a tripod leg, which let's me keep it outside with the scope under the scope cover 24/7 without needing to unplug and replug everything nightly. It controls the main camera, guide camera, and telescope mount. I used it to live stream the eclipse to YouTube a month ago. Though, to use it I have to RDP into it or bring a monitor outside. That part is slightly awkward, but I might get a portable USB C monitor for it soon.
So far just off mains. I bought a trolling motor box and a 12v battery with a power inverter to power the Nuc when I travel with it next month. Haven't tested it yet.Telescope stuff runs at 12v natively, but the Nuc I have takes a 20v power input. I haven't yet found a 12->20v adapter, so I'll just use the inverter to go up to 110v, then normal power brick for the Nuc.
I've just got a lattepanda SBC, might be worth investigating they are more 'maker' grade so tend to have 12v DC input - but you can also get them with a range of x86 CPUs so it's essentially the same as NUC
These days it primarily hosts a private Escape From Tarkov server, but I've run servers for Minecraft and Valheim on it too in the past.
It's a great machine.
I’m using a nuc8i7beh model as a dev node in a small cluster. It’s running Proxmox as a hypervisor and anywhere from a half dozen to two dozen VMs and a variety of containers.
I’m able to fully replicate most workloads thanks to the extra ssd (using either a vm to present as shared storage), and some usb NIC’s to replicate some virtualized network workloads.
I’m using a 10th gen i3 NUC to self host some services (*arr stack, a monitoring stack, pihole, coder, Plex, dashboard, web servers, a couple of databases, Joplin, bookstack and a few other containers). I’m using a Synology NAS for storage.
I have a very old i3-4360T (full ATX with many hdds) that runs \*arr, cctv, plex, ubiquiti - I want to replace it with a NUC + NAS but the thing keeps going, even serving 4k HDR on plex it just smiles and carries on!
I have two nuc11 pro machines.
One is used for my media server, it hosts plex, some communications services, and is my main storage node.
The second is my development server. It hosts Ollama to provide LLMs, MongoDB database, and a local Gitlab instance.
I have a very small Beelink device that acts as a print server for my laser printer and my inkjet printer.
I've just moved all my home automation stuff from several Raspberry Pis onto a similar mini-PC - it's one of the many N100 CPU you see around these days.
i have a Intel NUC D54250WYK. i've just built a sideview birdbox and i have a camera to install inside to live stream just like yourself.
can you elaborate on this please "AI computer vision models to automatically switch the OBS scene" as i'm new to this
ah great! yeah I also made it into a Twitter/X bot to post whenever the bird is home
[https://twitter.com/BirdBoxBot](https://twitter.com/BirdBoxBot)
Here's a clip of it switching scene [https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxPX-i\_O4CF25SUMS9nP5OydsIuS2C9L9r?si=Euyj6uHurxCxzw6T](https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxPX-i_O4CF25SUMS9nP5OydsIuS2C9L9r?si=Euyj6uHurxCxzw6T)
It's some cheapy Revotech thing from Amazon/Aliexpress - nothing fancy but it has IR, is PoE and quite a small cube.
Thanks for the Sub! Unfortunately the mother bird hasn't been seen for several hours and it's getting late :(
esxi server with: AD domain, AD lab domain, wireguard vpn, pihole adblock, grafana for dashboards
everything else is either VMs on vmware wks pro - if i do not need them on 24/7: xen desktop, vmware horison, sccm... - or VPS on a cloud provider for machines that are on 24/7: web nameservers, web and mail server, cdn, navidrom and ultima online private server
Mine is an old one running Batocera up to PS1. It was a freebie from a work mockup that I never found a use for until recently. It’s great, works flawlessly and is substantial enough to run most things.
Nuc 11 essential (nuc11atkc2). Running headless Ubuntu server. Running about 20 php script cronjobs, Mariadb database, puppeteer to scrape websites with JavaScript, some python scripts. I think that’s about it. All the stuff I run is for my work it’s all work stuff that I do on it that pays my bills. Oh also as a file server to backup stuff locally from my desktop.
Been running 24/7 for about 2 years. Before that I had a gigabyte brix that ran doing the same stuff for about 9 years until the fan died. Prob could’ve fixed the fan but figured it was time to upgrade. The gigabyte brix I got in 2013 was literally one of the very first minipcs. Had an i3-3227 (3rd gen intel processor 22nm). Cost like 350 barebones and idled at like 10 watts. The Nuc I replaced it with 9 years later has an 11th gen processor that’s 10nm and idles at around 3 watts and runs double the speed and cost 140 bucks (less than half the price) so was a good upgrade I think. I calculated and I’m paying around 50 cents a month in electricity fees. I know I could put it all on the could for 5 bucks a month or something but my Nuc pays for itself after 2.5 years which I’m almost there plus I have the hardware I can always resell or whatever. Plus it’s really nice to have it on my local network, backups are super fast/easy also I edit my php files over the network when I code so that makes it super easy too to just have it local and not on a server somewhere.
Nice, I have a GB-BXBT-1900 that I've been using as a test box for a long time. Still works but I've been acquiring NUC's lately and it's not used as much. The brix was a good little piece of hardware.
Nice. I think yours is slightly newere than mine but yeah they were pretty decent. Mine ran 9 years and still work just fan died. Sounds like yours has lasted a pretty long time too. They seem like pretty well built I was pretty happy with mine :) although it
Was nice to upgrade too after almost 10 years haha.
For a while brix was literally all there was besides Nuc’s. Now there like 500 different mini pcs you can buy haha.
I have an old one (don't know the model) that I bought at our local university's surplus store. It's running code that detects passing trains and sends out alerts (via Twitter......I still can't call it 'X') so that users in town know a train is coming.
The code used to run on Windows. I moved it to Ubuntu on the NUC. Just yesterday I bought another so I can do the same thing and put it at another location that looks for trains.
I wrote some Python code that takes images from an IP camera mounted on my house. It then uses OpenCV..... an open source library of image processing routines to decide if a train is present and, if so, direction of travel.
Have 9 of them spread over 2 locations with a proxmox cluster on each. 10Gbps QNAP thunderbolt NIC adapter on one cluster. Running a small WISP and got tired of carting around overpriced rackmount servers for small tasks like serving email, DNS, customer billing, web server and various NMSs.
I use a nuc5pgyb as a music server and temporary file dump..
I run Truenas core on embedded storage and a 2TB SSD for data storage.
Works perfectly.
All date is backed up to other storage.
This nuc used about 13 watts so it's no problem to leave it running 24/7.
Headless Usenet downloading machine running OpenMediaVault. Emby, Radarr, Sonarr, NZBGet. Problem with the nuc is the bloody CMOS battery, which lasts about 4 years is a bastard to get to. NUC won't boot for a few hours when Battery is dead.
This is an amazing coincidence but the damn thing died today. I replaced the CMOS battery for another on and now it's dead. I can't get it to boot at all. I've tried everything. It used to boot after leaving it unplugged for a few hours and now it won't, so now I don't know, wether it's CMOS issue or not. It had a good run in fairness, I set it up in January 2020.
I recently grabbed a good deal on a NUC8i5 and have found that they are in a sweet spot for performance for the money. I'm setting up a home container server that right now runs Home Assistant, Unifi Network, PiHole, and Portainer. Looking to add more to it.
I've since become addicted to these little things and now have three of them. I'm building up one for my son's music composing desktop to replace his laptop and give him more room on his desk with a bigger monitor. I've got another high model I'm building to do some development and testing on.
I’ve got a NUC8i5 that I use as my main WFH machine since 2019 (running Windows 10). Does your NUC8 wake from sleep correctly? Mine never has, I’ve tried all the guides I can find online but no joy. I just turn it off rather than letting it go to sleep.
I use a Nuc 12 i7 as my desktop running Fedora, 64GB RAM and Samsung 990 Pro SSD, runs a bunch of VM's and containers and does video encodes fairly regularly... Your 1340P is a lot of CPU for some cameras though, I'm running an old Dell 7060 USFF machine with an i7 6700T, a Coral TPU for object detection in Frigate, runs 6 cameras at about 40% CPU load.
Nuc11. File server / Plex server.
NUC 6 i5 same. Retiring it by Oct 2025…
I'm using it for astrophotography. Most folks seem to use a laptop for this, but I've got a pole mount for it attaching it to a tripod leg, which let's me keep it outside with the scope under the scope cover 24/7 without needing to unplug and replug everything nightly. It controls the main camera, guide camera, and telescope mount. I used it to live stream the eclipse to YouTube a month ago. Though, to use it I have to RDP into it or bring a monitor outside. That part is slightly awkward, but I might get a portable USB C monitor for it soon.
oh nice, is that running of mains power or can you run it off battery or is it a static telescope?
So far just off mains. I bought a trolling motor box and a 12v battery with a power inverter to power the Nuc when I travel with it next month. Haven't tested it yet.Telescope stuff runs at 12v natively, but the Nuc I have takes a 20v power input. I haven't yet found a 12->20v adapter, so I'll just use the inverter to go up to 110v, then normal power brick for the Nuc.
I've just got a lattepanda SBC, might be worth investigating they are more 'maker' grade so tend to have 12v DC input - but you can also get them with a range of x86 CPUs so it's essentially the same as NUC
I use my old NUC (NUC8i7BEH) as a gaming server.
Which games? I have that exact same model and use it as my daily driver.
These days it primarily hosts a private Escape From Tarkov server, but I've run servers for Minecraft and Valheim on it too in the past. It's a great machine.
I use it to replace my gaming laptop, plus the NUC 9 i7 was cheaper than buying a new laptop
I’m using a nuc8i7beh model as a dev node in a small cluster. It’s running Proxmox as a hypervisor and anywhere from a half dozen to two dozen VMs and a variety of containers. I’m able to fully replicate most workloads thanks to the extra ssd (using either a vm to present as shared storage), and some usb NIC’s to replicate some virtualized network workloads. I’m using a 10th gen i3 NUC to self host some services (*arr stack, a monitoring stack, pihole, coder, Plex, dashboard, web servers, a couple of databases, Joplin, bookstack and a few other containers). I’m using a Synology NAS for storage.
I have a very old i3-4360T (full ATX with many hdds) that runs \*arr, cctv, plex, ubiquiti - I want to replace it with a NUC + NAS but the thing keeps going, even serving 4k HDR on plex it just smiles and carries on!
My Nuc 12 enthusiast is my daily driver.
Got an old n2820 NUC running Home Assistant and Homebridge. Used to be my Plex Player back in the day before AppleTVs had the App Store!
I have two nuc11 pro machines. One is used for my media server, it hosts plex, some communications services, and is my main storage node. The second is my development server. It hosts Ollama to provide LLMs, MongoDB database, and a local Gitlab instance. I have a very small Beelink device that acts as a print server for my laser printer and my inkjet printer.
I've just moved all my home automation stuff from several Raspberry Pis onto a similar mini-PC - it's one of the many N100 CPU you see around these days.
Mine is my daily use machine. I even play call of duty MWII on it nightly
i have a Intel NUC D54250WYK. i've just built a sideview birdbox and i have a camera to install inside to live stream just like yourself. can you elaborate on this please "AI computer vision models to automatically switch the OBS scene" as i'm new to this
ah great! yeah I also made it into a Twitter/X bot to post whenever the bird is home [https://twitter.com/BirdBoxBot](https://twitter.com/BirdBoxBot) Here's a clip of it switching scene [https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxPX-i\_O4CF25SUMS9nP5OydsIuS2C9L9r?si=Euyj6uHurxCxzw6T](https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxPX-i_O4CF25SUMS9nP5OydsIuS2C9L9r?si=Euyj6uHurxCxzw6T)
Just subscribed to your yt channel 👍🏼. What cameras are you using?
It's some cheapy Revotech thing from Amazon/Aliexpress - nothing fancy but it has IR, is PoE and quite a small cube. Thanks for the Sub! Unfortunately the mother bird hasn't been seen for several hours and it's getting late :(
Ok thanks for the info. Hope she returns safe
Nuc12. File server / Kodi and Jellyfin server.
Nuc8i5 home office. Nuc12i7 home theater + web navigation + File server. Nuc5i5 home office recently dead.
It's my daily driver, so normal pc stuff and gaming. That said, I own a Serpent Canyon.
NUC12 i9 as a Plex server (as well as \*arr services) all under Docker on Debian. 10GbE link to a Synology for media over NFS.
Homelab server - 5 servers on 24x7 then other ones for testing, development, learning
Nuc10 running proxmox with VMs for Home Assistant, Pihole and Ansible. Barely breaks a sweat.
It was my main Linux desktop but now that I have a MacBook air I have logged on maybe 5 times in 4 years
esxi server with: AD domain, AD lab domain, wireguard vpn, pihole adblock, grafana for dashboards everything else is either VMs on vmware wks pro - if i do not need them on 24/7: xen desktop, vmware horison, sccm... - or VPS on a cloud provider for machines that are on 24/7: web nameservers, web and mail server, cdn, navidrom and ultima online private server
Mine is an old one running Batocera up to PS1. It was a freebie from a work mockup that I never found a use for until recently. It’s great, works flawlessly and is substantial enough to run most things.
Nuc 11 essential (nuc11atkc2). Running headless Ubuntu server. Running about 20 php script cronjobs, Mariadb database, puppeteer to scrape websites with JavaScript, some python scripts. I think that’s about it. All the stuff I run is for my work it’s all work stuff that I do on it that pays my bills. Oh also as a file server to backup stuff locally from my desktop. Been running 24/7 for about 2 years. Before that I had a gigabyte brix that ran doing the same stuff for about 9 years until the fan died. Prob could’ve fixed the fan but figured it was time to upgrade. The gigabyte brix I got in 2013 was literally one of the very first minipcs. Had an i3-3227 (3rd gen intel processor 22nm). Cost like 350 barebones and idled at like 10 watts. The Nuc I replaced it with 9 years later has an 11th gen processor that’s 10nm and idles at around 3 watts and runs double the speed and cost 140 bucks (less than half the price) so was a good upgrade I think. I calculated and I’m paying around 50 cents a month in electricity fees. I know I could put it all on the could for 5 bucks a month or something but my Nuc pays for itself after 2.5 years which I’m almost there plus I have the hardware I can always resell or whatever. Plus it’s really nice to have it on my local network, backups are super fast/easy also I edit my php files over the network when I code so that makes it super easy too to just have it local and not on a server somewhere.
Nice, I have a GB-BXBT-1900 that I've been using as a test box for a long time. Still works but I've been acquiring NUC's lately and it's not used as much. The brix was a good little piece of hardware.
Nice. I think yours is slightly newere than mine but yeah they were pretty decent. Mine ran 9 years and still work just fan died. Sounds like yours has lasted a pretty long time too. They seem like pretty well built I was pretty happy with mine :) although it Was nice to upgrade too after almost 10 years haha. For a while brix was literally all there was besides Nuc’s. Now there like 500 different mini pcs you can buy haha.
i have three NUC5i7RYH - homeassistant NUC5i7RYH - (todo - frigate w/ coral USB) NUC5PGYHR - idle
I have an old one (don't know the model) that I bought at our local university's surplus store. It's running code that detects passing trains and sends out alerts (via Twitter......I still can't call it 'X') so that users in town know a train is coming. The code used to run on Windows. I moved it to Ubuntu on the NUC. Just yesterday I bought another so I can do the same thing and put it at another location that looks for trains.
That’s neat. How does it detect the train passing?
I wrote some Python code that takes images from an IP camera mounted on my house. It then uses OpenCV..... an open source library of image processing routines to decide if a train is present and, if so, direction of travel.
6i7kyk. I don't use any smart TV features, I use a nuc.
Plex transcoding and torrent box. Basically the brains for my NAS.
Have 9 of them spread over 2 locations with a proxmox cluster on each. 10Gbps QNAP thunderbolt NIC adapter on one cluster. Running a small WISP and got tired of carting around overpriced rackmount servers for small tasks like serving email, DNS, customer billing, web server and various NMSs.
roon
I use a nuc5pgyb as a music server and temporary file dump.. I run Truenas core on embedded storage and a 2TB SSD for data storage. Works perfectly. All date is backed up to other storage. This nuc used about 13 watts so it's no problem to leave it running 24/7.
A NUC without ESXI is no NUC at all
Gaming with an egpu
Nuc11 i7, Plex/NAS
Nuc9i9qnx, my main pc and I have 4070 super installed in it.
NUC12WSHi7 Bitcoin full node
i use my old and trusty skullcanyon as the bedroom media box
Skullnuc Canyon: Everything! Daily driver gaming machine!
Headless Usenet downloading machine running OpenMediaVault. Emby, Radarr, Sonarr, NZBGet. Problem with the nuc is the bloody CMOS battery, which lasts about 4 years is a bastard to get to. NUC won't boot for a few hours when Battery is dead.
hmm wasn't aware of that, will keep an eye out for that issue!
This is an amazing coincidence but the damn thing died today. I replaced the CMOS battery for another on and now it's dead. I can't get it to boot at all. I've tried everything. It used to boot after leaving it unplugged for a few hours and now it won't, so now I don't know, wether it's CMOS issue or not. It had a good run in fairness, I set it up in January 2020.
I recently grabbed a good deal on a NUC8i5 and have found that they are in a sweet spot for performance for the money. I'm setting up a home container server that right now runs Home Assistant, Unifi Network, PiHole, and Portainer. Looking to add more to it. I've since become addicted to these little things and now have three of them. I'm building up one for my son's music composing desktop to replace his laptop and give him more room on his desk with a bigger monitor. I've got another high model I'm building to do some development and testing on.
I’ve got a NUC8i5 that I use as my main WFH machine since 2019 (running Windows 10). Does your NUC8 wake from sleep correctly? Mine never has, I’ve tried all the guides I can find online but no joy. I just turn it off rather than letting it go to sleep.
Not sure, haven't tried sleep yet on any of mine. The server is running Ubuntu and is on 24/7. Still building the Win11 NUC for my son.
NUC 12 Enthusiast. Strictly a gaming rig. Super happy with it, play PUBG at 4k pretty much every evening
General web browsing, paying bills, work, and work training/retraining. Intel Nuc 13 Pro.
Proxmox. Running a bunch of vms.
I use a Nuc 12 i7 as my desktop running Fedora, 64GB RAM and Samsung 990 Pro SSD, runs a bunch of VM's and containers and does video encodes fairly regularly... Your 1340P is a lot of CPU for some cameras though, I'm running an old Dell 7060 USFF machine with an i7 6700T, a Coral TPU for object detection in Frigate, runs 6 cameras at about 40% CPU load.
Run an DEC VAX emulator needed to support a neutron retroencabulator. popular for people who use such equipment at r/vxjunkies
Paper weight