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Re: What are your most used self-hosted applications?

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Post by swozey »

ryandrake wrote: post #177

Wow, the headline makes me feel kind of stupid and out of touch. When I think of the applications I run regularly, they're not "hosted" anywhere. They are native desktop applications that I run on my home computer. I do have a single server running 24/7 on my network, but I don't consider a home media NAS to be an "application" that is "self-hosted". It's just a linux box with a bunch of disks running NFS. Is NFS an…

What they're referring to is something like an Unraid NAS where you can host pretty much any docker image you'd like. You can see examples of the "apps" here - https://unraid.net/community/apps

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Post by number6 »

jeroenhd wrote: post #98

We're dong lists? Okay then, here's mine, in order of guesstimated value/effort: PiHole, Jellyfin, Matrix Synapse, Vaultwarden, several Matrix bridges (Telegram and WhatsApp mostly), Mailcow (postfix+dovecot+sogo+rspamd+…), Home Assistant, Gitlab, Keycloak, Selfoss (RSS), Sonarr+Radarr+Jackett, Nitter, Nextcloud, Seafile. I've also got a bunch of smaller services that I don't really use as often. I used to run Grocy…

What do you use Keycloak for in this setup?

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Post by leonroy »

Over time I've tried to whittle down my homelab and move more of it to Microsoft 365/Google Suite/iTunes Store with mixed results.

Currently my must haves are:

* Router - pfSense - https://www.pfsense.org/

* Movies/TV/Home Videos - Plex

* Minecraft Server - AMP - https://cubecoders.com/AMPInstall

* Music - Roon - https://roonlabs.com/

* Automation - HomeAssistant - https://www.home-assistant.io/

* Unifi Controller

* Email - Zimbra - https://www.zimbra.com/downloads/

* Files - Synology

My experience:

* I can't recommend AMP enough for gamers

* Roon is £££ but if you like music it's such a unique piece of software

* Zimbra isn't what it used to be alas and I've been moving this to Microsoft 365

* HomeAssistant is fantastic and allows me to use pretty much any IoT device whether it has HomeBridge capability or not

* Synology - again expensive but after years of using Debian with my own custom setup, then OMV, then Unraid (briefly) then FreeNAS - Synology's DSM offers a level of capability and zero touch that none of the home rolled solutions match

* Plex - I really hope they never mess with this product, I find it super good although I need to check out Jellyfin

* pfSense - again, a top quality product - I'd love to use Unifi's offering but nothing I've seen (apart from OPNSense) competes feature wise

Re: What are your most used self-hosted applications?

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Post by nobody9999 »

I host most of my stuff on ESXi VMs, mostly Fedora.

Local Video/Music: mythtv with fanless minipc for front end.

email: (sendmail/spamassassin/dovecot with Thunderbird front end)

sharing/collaboration: Nextcloud

Chat: Matrix/Synapse with Element web for the past year or so, Openfire (XMPP) for at least a decade.

Ad block: pi-hole

DNS: local recursive resolver (BIND)

spell/usage check: langtool (minimal usage, but interesting)

torrents: deluge/deluge web

proxy (forward): squid (mostly to cache fedora updates)

Podcasts: podgrab (just installed this based on an HN story a few weeks ago. I like it!)

Firewall: Netfilter/IPTables on fanless minipc

I was also running a Diaspora pod for a while, but got rid of it. I may go back to it at some point.

Streaming: Currently I use a Roku stick for this, but have been playing around with kodi and jellyfin. I hate kodi. jellyfin is pretty cool, but can't handle large music collections (jellyfin server crashes when trying to load my 20,000+ music tracks).

I won't use them for video, since both seem to think that I should organize my video files (10,000+) according to their strictures (TV vs. Movies, etc.) rather than allowing me to maintain the organization I've used for decades (genre). What's more, using their clients, I'd likely need to transcode many videos, whereas my mythtv front end (via ffmpeg) handles just about any format I throw at it.

Now that I think about it, I self-host everything and eschew any "cloud" (read: someone else's servers) services, as my data is mine and how/when I use it is my business, not anyone else's.

I just wish that more developers would focus on ease of installation[0] instead of docker containers or rafts of non-standard dependencies, which would allow less technical folks to self host this stuff -- incentivizing a broader ecosystem for FOSS and self-hosted stuff.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30783477

Edit: Fixed list formatting.

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Post by nolan879 »

Portainer - Docker management via web Sonarr/Radarr/ Bazarr/ Jackett - Linux ISO manager qBittorrent- Linux ISOs Overseer - So my family can request Linux ISOs Plex - Streaming content for family Nginx Proxy Manager - Too lazy to configure reverse proxies by hand Homebridge/ Homeassistant - Home automations and HomeKit integrations Hammond - Vehicle expense tracking Octoprint - Mainly used to check on my printer without standing up Heimdall - Launchpad for all sites hosted above

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Post by colordrops »

SamuelAdams wrote: post #161
colordrops wrote: post #120

My main goal is to replace cloud services so I can be Google-free. I've also got LineageOS + MicroG on my phone. This is all running in docker containers on NixOS (other than OPNSense), with automated restic backups to a NAS as well as Backblaze. One of my goals is to be able to deploy all this again from scratch with minimal effort, and I think I succeeded, though haven't had to test it yet. Nextcloud - for caldav a…

Hey, super interested in your OPNSense install. I also have a ProtectCLI box. However it currently runs PFSense. Whenever I try to install OPNSense it fails to load once installed. Maybe there are some initial configuration steps that I am missing? Last time I tried this, about a month ago, internal DHCP addresses were not getting assigned to clients. Troubleshooted for an hour, no results. So back to PFSense I went.…

Hmm, I installed it a long while ago, and don't recall what guide I used. One of the benefits though of buying a Protectli box rather than the original Qotom version is the is support. Protectli should be able to get you up and running - check their website and get in touch with them.

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Post by colordrops »

aeleos wrote: post #173
colordrops wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just used the standard integration documentation on HA's website.

What functionality do you get out of the media center? Is it just for local media, or do you use integrations for other services?

I described it in another comment:

> I've got an msi desktop gaming PC, an LG CX OLED TV, and a Yamaha RX-A2A receiver and they never played well together. The kids always had a hard time getting them all on at once and set to the right inputs and launching steam.

> So I created a Home Assistant automation that does all that, bought a Zwave button that sits on the coffee table, and now they just turn it all on with one button like it's a video game console.

I also plan to add "scenes" where I can just tap the button and the lights dim, and the media center gets put into movie mode, as well as a "music" scene for when I have parties, which would join the two zones my receiver supports an then start playing a playlist from spotify.

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Post by 0xEFF »

qbasic_forever wrote: post #128
mekster wrote: post #108

People really should give Caddy a try. It's a nice breath of fresh air and make you figure nginx config is such a bloat. my.domain { reverse_proxy 10.0.0.2 } is all you need to get https://my.domain running with automatic Let's Encrypt.

Caddy is great but there sadly isn't anything like nginx-proxy-manager for it. The proxy manager is actually a full little identity provider and authenticating proxy--it's very slick and perfect for simple home self-hosting scenarios with a handful of users.

I use caddy for the oidc/oauth letsencrypt combo. Does nginx-proxy-manager support oidc? Reading the docs, I see only http basic auth.

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Post by dervjd »

aeleos wrote: post #173
colordrops wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just used the standard integration documentation on HA's website.

What functionality do you get out of the media center? Is it just for local media, or do you use integrations for other services?

Not OP, but various automations that fire off commands based on whatever your TV, receiver, Apple TV box, etc are doing are how I find it most useful.

Example: I have some cheap Govee LED strip lights behind my TV for ambient lighting. HomeAssistant can detect when my Apple TV (or Samsung smart TV) is on and automatically turn on the lights for me. I don't have to reach around the back of the TV to try and find the little button to turn the lights on (or remember to turn them off).

I can also control both my TV and Apple TV through HomeAssistant. It's not exactly the most polished/straightforward, but you could definitely string together some automations - something like a "movie night" button that dims the lights, turns on the TV, switches to the appropriate input, and cues up a file. For me that's more hassle than it's worth.

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