It’s Sunday somewhere already so why wait?
Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you found.
I’ll post my ongoing things later/tomorrow but I didn’t want to forget the post again.
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I know this isn’t sexy but I’ve been working on my documentation. Getting configs etc properly versioned in my gitea instance, readmes updated etc. My memory is not what it once was and I need the hints when things break.
Same here. I got Gemini to write a shell script for me that I can run on my Proxmox host which will output all of my configs to a .txt file. I asked it to format the output in a way a LLM can understand so I can just copy/paste it next time I need to consult AI.
This sounds interesting. Although I’m not even sure of what sort of configuration I would need to keep between reinstalls lol.
Mostly the stuff in /etc/pve, plus whatever you installed in additional software
Pretty cool! I also try to improve my documentation
I’m 3 time zones away from my server and it hasn’t crashed yet after being gone for 3 days. I’m very proud of it.
I feel you. I did not expect mine to crash but I am in Japan and streamed a movie from my server on the West coast of North America.
That’s such a nice feeling
The absolute bliss
Same with me when I was in Brazil, it was chugging along just fine back in New England
My girlfriends phone was having issues connecting to self hosted servers, so I set her DNS from private to network default. Hope this helps any android users that may have issues.
Today I’m experimenting with Ansible. Wanna try setting up a Docker hosted RSS reader with it. Hopefully will write up controls for my whole Docker server with Ansible once I’m more familiar.
Crazy enough, I have everything going that I want to on my server!
- *arr suite and jellyfin
- traefik reverse proxy with crowdsec + bouncer for some sites (e.g. not documents or media)
- paperless-ngx for documents
- immich for photos
- leantime to manage personal projects
- Book stack for a personal wiki
- calibre-web for my library
- syncthing for file and music syncing so I don’t have to stream music
- valheim server for me and my friends
- boinc for turning my server to a productive heater in the winter
- home assistant for my in-renovation smart home
As far as my server goes, I have everything I need. Maybe setting up something for sharing files over the web if needed. I used nextcloud for that before it killed itself completely and I realized I never really needed it.
Next is working on my smart home because we had to fully strip the house to renovate. KNX first, zwave for things that KNX doesn’t have or are crazy expensive, ESPHome for everything that the other two can’t accomplish. Minimal 2.4GHz interference and don’t have to rely as much as possible on flaky wireless in a brick house.
I’ve been trying to learn K8s and more recently the Gateway API. The struggles are that most Helm charts don’t know Gateway (most are barely Ingressroute) and I’m trying to find a solution to one service affecting the other gateways.when a service cannot find a pod, the httproute fails and when one route fails, the ingress fails. It’s a weird cascading problem.
Right now, I’m considering adding a secondary service to each gateway that resolves to a static error page. I haven’t looked into it yet; it cane to me in the brief moment of clarity before I fell asleep last night.
Also, I may be doing everything wrong, but I am learning and learning is fun.
I’m trying to figure out setting up TrueNAS scale and docker for the first time. Building a NAS and self hosting a few things from an old all in one mini PC.
Moved my fediverse apps friendica, lemmy, 35c. (only user is me) to one server since it was overkill having 2 barely using 8% if that if their cpu/ram. Suprisingly easy with yunohost backups, remade users and restored backup if just the apps. Updated enhance panel, switched the sites im making for family to use as a portfolio for local webdev to ols, fairly easy, was using wordpress templates wrong so I fixed that and redid the home pages, now I feel less confident with wordpress and wonder if ive always made sites wrong, think i just forgot since its been years.
Great to hear the yunohost migration worked. What’s 35C?
I initially fd it up because I didnt deselect everything but the apps, but I at least thought to backitup and dload it locally beforehand so it was an easy/quick recovery
I have no idea lmao, prob a typo lol, I had streams and pleroma as well
This is what I found, a Discord bot. Hopefully GP comes back with an answer.
Setting up let’s encrypt auto cert renewal with ACME. Also looking to setup some monitoring service, basic stuff like CPU, memory usage etc. If anyone has recommendations that have an android app available, that would be awesome.
ACME.sh? I love that little tool.
Cert renewal via DNS-01, independent of any other services or ports. Set it up like 7 years ago and haven’t had to touch it since.
I’m personally using Prometheus Stack and like it, but I just check Grafana in my Android browser. I think Zabbix has an Android app but I don’t know if it has as many possibilities as Prometheus.
If hardware service counts. :) I have been fighting for the last few months with my Promxox server telling me a drive went read only , from a SSD and even a HDD, very odd behavior and it finally pulled the last straw with me last Thursday. I had a 4TB drive acting as my Storage/backup drive which this complained about so I put a 1TB drive in which is pretty much 2 yrs old so plenty of life on it.
I went through and tested the SSD with extended tests and it passed with flying colors, so it dawned on me, maybe it’s the SATA data cable, and sure enough, it was. When I had run the
sudo smartctl -x -T permissive /dev/sdbit only presented very little information on it, swapping the cable and it now presents the full SMART data and stats as it should. Additionally, it’s been more stable with the performance so far. So I call that a win.In the software side, I have been going through the Home Assistant instance and removing dead/old entities I never had gotten to removing
I dealt with a lot of time sinks like this running on consumer hardware. I got a Dell R720 and those problems all went away. Now I have a power and cooling problem. :D
Sounds annoying to debug, glad you found the culprit!
I setup a VPN for my moms Synology so I can request and download media for her through my local qbit instance and using Radarr/Sonarr to move the files over.
I have a problem where both arrs don’t auto start when I power up the debian VM in Proxmox even though the daemon is running and restart policy is set to always…
She doesn’t make a lot of requests so I just go and start them manually but I would eventually like to get it fixed…
Looking for a self-hosted period tracking app with companion android app. Have done literally zero investigation at this point but it’s on my todo.
period tracking app surveillance… how did we as society come to accept this?
That’s definitely one of those things I found bizarre and awful yet…entirely unsurprising. I can see how selling that data probably sounds like such a lucrative edge to marketing companies.
how did we as society come to accept this?
By not establishing ethical
lineshigh-voltage containment fences on the advertising industry quickly enough, and letting them convince us “this is just how business works”, when their entire existence is about finding the scummiest ways to hack free will for profit.Did system76 doing cosmic lit fire under gnome devs asses?
Hehe I think you might have been replying to a different thread. :)
No idea how this happened lol
IMO you should stick with a local device store only. If you’re worried about the state getting hold of the data, having any backups is gonna be a liability.
I spun up a new Plex server with a decent GPU - and decided to try offloading Home Assistant’s Preview Voice Assistant TTS/STT to it. That’s all working as of yesterday, including an Ollama LLM for processing.
Last on my list is figuring out how to get Home Assistant to help me find my phone.
Got any links for howtos on this?
Sure! I mostly followed this random youtuber’s video for getting Wyoming protocols offloaded (Whisper/Piper), but he didn’t get Ollama to use his GPU: https://youtu.be/XvbVePuP7NY.
For getting the Nvidia/Docker passthrough, I used this guide: https://www.bittenbypython.com/en/posts/install_ollama_openwebui_ubuntu_nvidia/.
It’s working fairly great at this point!
I have setup a immich docker container and am slowly moving users and images from google photos.
Replacing Google Photos is still on my to-do list. How do you like Immich so far? Did you compare it to any alternatives?
Interested in this too - immich gets so much viral hype I’m a little suspicious of it
I set it up a couple weeks ago. It’s alright; facial recognition works pretty well, the files are easy to manage, and setup was pretty straightforward (using docker).
Searching for images works fairly well, as long as you’re searching for content and not text. Searching ‘horse’ for example does a pretty good job showing you your pictures of horses, but often misses images containing the word horse. Not always, but it’s noticeable to me.
The mobile apps work well too; syncing files in the background as they appear, optionally creating albums based on folders. Two things I find missing though are the ability to edit faces/people in an image (you’ve gotta do that from a browser), and the ability to see what albums an image is in and quickly navigate to one.
It’s a developing project that’s well on it’s way. A good choice imo.
I’m running Nextcloud and PaperlessNXG on my servers. Over the last few months I tested out my remote management. Now that I’m back home, I’ve been making a few adjustments based on my learnings. Firstly, Wireguard is slower than a turtle, while Tailscale has been a little bit faster. I’m guessing this is due to my upload speed and switching to fiber may fix this.
I’d also like to add TubeArchivist back in since there’s some great videos that I don’t trust Google to preserve given the direction things are going.
The folks on the “privacy” Lemmy gave me some good tips on app replacements and after making a big spreadsheet with all my apps, their licenses, etc., I cut down my remaining proprietary apps by at least 50% and I only have a few proprietary essentials that still depend on Google Play. I’ve been meaning to do this for a long time and I almost have a path towards completely removing all Google, Amazon, and Microsoft products from my life.
Next, I’d like to set up Wander to eventually get rid of Garmin/Strava but I haven’t been able to figure it out and I’m still locked in to some degree because of my hardware (Garmin watch). The Ring doorbell has to be the next thing to go, but I’m exhausted and haven’t had the motivation to start a new project until the dust settles from the last one.
