Topic per title, basically.
For me: after setting up all the integrations and fall overs using the arr stack and Jellyfin (inc Sabnzdb etc)… I keep circling back to Nova video player.
https://github.com/nova-video-player/aos-AVP/releases
It’s arguably not even self hosting…but there something undeniably cool about sticking a USB stick into a router, installing a single app on your TV and boom, done. EDIT: of course, it can consume the *arr stack, integrate with Ombi etc
IOW, I really like stuff that simple to set up and punches above its weight class.
not sure if this is on topic, but i self-host little apps i’ve made to solve very specific issues via claude code. i also self-host some of the most popular ones like Plex, Jellyfin, Actual, TeslaMate, etc. I think my favorite is Plex, but I feel that it has been going downhill lately. i tried to play a 480p video of futurama s1e1 on my phone. Brand new phone, strong wifi - would not play smoothly. No problem on my ipad, no my problem on my laptop. And even though i have a lifetime pass, i don’t think there’s anyway to report the issue or get support - at least not that I could find. I’m thinking eventually i’ll just move everything over to Jellyfin.
Just gonna say it.
Stash. Is a great FOSS media management platform for primarily adult content.
Selfhosting porn is the most neckbeard gooner thing I’ve heard of :))
It’s just a few magazines in the woods
It’s kinda good the scratch hdd I was using for stash died. I was getting a little too into curating that library and it was changing my relationship with adult content.
10/10 app though, would recommend
Yeah you can really go overboard i suppose. But i also dontl like scrolling and looking for stuff. So just having some local stuff helps me to not interact with all those sites. Esp these days with bans and vpn bans and tracking and whatnot
Email’s probably the most satisfying. I learnt a lot in setting up my own email server, and it’s nice being in complete control (well, of my end of things at least, ofc not of the other person’s end) of such an essential service.
Damn, never heard anyone enjoy hosting e-mail servers
that’s crazy though
There are some decent packages out there like MailCow, Mailu, there’s another one for Docker, but it escapes me. I’ve tried, and failed. From what I understand, it takes a level of dedication.
Tbh was quite painless for me! Had a few hiccups but it was educational to troubleshoot them, and once it’s up and running, I haven’t had to touch it for the most part. Had to update my Dovecot configs when they changed the config syntax but that’s all I can think of. And will probably see about switching from spamassassin to rspamd because I swear spamassassin has so many false positives no matter how many false positives I feed to it to train it. But it’s really not so bad, and I would recommend it as a decent learning opportunity for folks who like tinkering with computers.
If I had to only pick one that is by far Home Assistant.
100%. Home Assistant has proven to be incredibly useful in my house. My wife loves it for the laundry notifications, the fact that I essentially replaced Life360 with it (Traccar, really, but it ties into HA so nicely), and the automated lighting: our basement (the younger kids’ play area), and themed lighting for the outdoor lights.
We’ve been fighting tangled toilet flapper chains over the last few years. The tangled chain keeps the flapper from closing, which causes the tank to continuously run into the bowl, which causes my water bill to skyrocket if gone unnoticed (we have 5 kids, 4 toilets, and the chains get tangled no matter what I do: new chain, longer chain, shorter chain, different type of chain/string/twine, etc… I blame the hard water). I finally got fed up, so I bought and installed a zigbee water level sensor for each toilet tank, then whipped up an automation which notifies us via Android’s “alarm_stream” notification channel if a sensor has been dry for longer than a few minutes. That channel overrides DND, and I am going to add an entry to ping my HA Voice thing as well in case we don’t have our phones on us.
You should really up your game and buy some ESPs and servo motors to jiggle the toilet handles when the toilets are running.
I had the same problem with a toilet. I replaced the chain with a rod made from thick copper wire I had leftover. Works like a charm, doesn’t get jammed open anymore.
Immich
Jellyfin
HomeAssistant
Dawarich
HortusFoxIn that order.
Things like the *arrs, traefik/authelia, etc. are just a necessity and not something that gives back like the 5 mentioned at first.what do you mean by “gives back”? To whom? For example, why Jellyfin over any of the *arrs
Also answered here: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/27309703
For example, why Jellyfin over any of the *arrs
Don’t take it the wrong way, the *arrs are an awesome ecosystem and tool. Very cool integration and administration.
But I could life without or replace them. Things like Jellyfin, immich, homeassistant are more integral in the sense of usage and replacing them would be a whole ordeal I would ideally like to avoid.gotcha, that makes total sense
I think what they mean is that things like Traefix, arr, et al are means to an end. The ideal situation is that you don’t need to touch them after they’re set up. Jellyfin, on the other hand, is something you actively sign into and use
Kind of.
To me they are more like accessories and not services I interact with (interact like homeassistant, immich, jellyfin).Services like Traefik/Authelia are infrastructure. Needed but not required.
They are like a road. Nice to have and receive a smooth ride but driving on the bare ground is possible but uncomfortable ;)
Selfhosting Lemmy has been surprisingly nice
Does it have any particular benefits over using a random public instance? All I’ve heard is mostly needing heaps of bandwidth and storage.
Since I already host a bunch of stuff, it hasn’t been a big burden for me. I get to laugh any time one of the popular instances goes down or has some admin/mod controversy, but the tradeoff is I have to manually subscribe to everything since I don’t have an “All”.
I mostly did it because this is the only way to truly own your lemmy identity. I hope one day it will be possible to link accounts on different instances together so that migrating doesn’t lose your history.
That’s a good point… was just looking into how I’d go about backing up my post+comment history and the only answer is basically “you need to use a special tool that pretends to be a lemmy client and fetches your history item by item”. I guess “host your own instance and migrate to that” is another one.
Which is surprisingly silly for what was supposed to be a more open platform than others. Heck, I can submit a GDPR request to Reddit and get a full dump of my account within the hour.
I don’t find self hosting lemmy to use much of either.
if hosting on a VPS counts:
- radicale (DAV)
- Gitea/Forgejo
- My websites
Jellyfin, Navidrome and Nextcloud. I use them all every day!
I still love getting messages via xmpp from friends and family using my own snikket/ejabberd instances after years of use. Calls as well.
Video conferences via jitsi meet fill my heart with joy since the covid epidemic. These are also xmpp based. It’s just a cool lightweight protocol.
XMPP is nice but even with all of the quality of life extensions it definitely feels clunky. I tried switching to it recently from matrix and while matrix leaves a lot to be desired I found it was more useful in its current form than XMPP.
I use a jmp.chat # w Snikket server on Cheogram. Calls handling through native dialer. Works pretty well minus kicking off group chats with mixed users.
You got your friends and family to switch to XMPP and Jitsi? impressive
I wish Snikket could work on Yunohost! 😢 I have a core i5-10500T and 32GB RAM Ynh server with planty of resources to spare. Would be nice!
I wish Snikket could work on Yunohost! 😢 I have a core i5-10500T and 32G
Well yunohost seems to support prosody, that should work very well. Snikket is basically just prosody with some extensions preinstalled. If you want an xmpp server on yunohost you could just install prosody or alternatively run snikket in a docker container. Prosody might even be easier to setup if you can install it via the yunohost gui.
My own art gallery. Started feeling the ick about posting on social media and just moved everything to my own hand-coded home page in Lustre. Feels nice to have a little space that’s just mine.
It ain’t much, but I’m also pretty proud of my Forgejo+actions setup. Pushing a commit and seeing my services update, knowing it’s all happening on “my” (VPS, but still) infra gives me such a warm fuzzy feeling.
Same!! I don’t trust other sites to preserve my photography indefinitely, and definitely not in the quality I want, so I built this from scratch https://p.drkt.eu/ and it’s just sitting on a box in my living room. Feels nice to watch the traffic tick by in the logs :)
This is your photography? Man that’s good stuff. I like this one a lot. It appeals to me.. I also see you too like exploring abandoned structures.
My own art gallery
What kind of art? Do you paint, create pottery, etc. My lady friend is a self taught painter, and does some mind blowing stuff. Hell, I can’t even put paint on a wall or draw stick figures. LOL She tells me I am biased, but I respond that I know good art when I see it. I always wanted to get into pottery. That seems like it would be super cool.
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Game servers that my friends can enjoy
Which ones get he most play?
Whatever is the most popular at the time of the games release or update. Valheim/terraria/Minecraft/satisfactory/palworld to name a few.
Plex. Right now we’re on vacation and can chill out with our current shows before bedtime, watching on the TV of the relative hosting us. No fuss. Aside from Movies and TV Series it also holds my music collection, Plexamp is awesome.
I’ve not gotten very deep into selfhosting due to priorities and time but I look forward to trying Immich as well as Home Assistant in the future.
Several things. Mosquitto to control an ecosystem of LEGO models, some CALDAV syncer, and a mediawiki engine for D&D worldbuilding.
control an ecosystem of LEGO models
Please elaborate.
Short version: modified MILS plates carry 12V power across the whole layout. Inside those MILS plates is enough space to hide a Raspberry Pi Pico W, which controls lights and motors on this plate. It communicates with the Mosquitto broker to coordinate actions, e.g light effects.
Yeah like the other guy I couldn’t find anything on this Mosquitto either. I’m curious! Haha. (I found some GitHub project with like zero information hah)
Mosquitto is a MQTT broker.
PiHole on old laptops started the journey for me
Now I’ve got all sorts of things, most visible are Plex and Audiobookshelf. The most useful to me personally is Headscale for what at I assume are obvious reasons.
I’d like to use Matrix more but that requires some buy-in from friends.
I ostensibly use this as a means of continued education for myself, but really it’s because I enjoy using/learning about open-source software and creating my own ecosystem outside of “big tech”
I’ve got it all set up in a way that really works for me, which is all that really matters in the end.
sftp, few of my friends have access to a shared directory where we upload random stuff
Man I miss the days of my friend group FTP server. I might have to look into this, but getting anyone to participate is going to be the real trick
