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What are your most used self-hosted applications?

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Everything in Docker ofcourse:

- Caddy, very easy reverse proxy

- Authelia, single-sign on for all my services (I prefer that to VPN)

- PiHole, for blocking ads

- Nextcloud, private Dropbox

- Gitea, private Git

- InfluxDB + Chronograf, for monitoring my home

- Jellyfin, media server

- Sabnzbd, NZB client

- Deluge, Torrent client

- IPSec VPN

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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 *…

Is Amp closed source and/or require a license or payment?

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Brownie - lets you branch the head off any EVM blockchain so that you have the current state of all smart contracts and accounts locally, and so you can manipulate the states for free, and if you find a state you like then you switch back to the mainnet blockchain and only pay for that transaction to get the desired outcome you want. also the offline version can just be for educational purposes to understand how and why people developed things a certain way.

For many, this is better than simply spinning up a localhost Ethereum network as offered by Ganache, because those lack any data to manipulate.

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Pi-Hole Tracks (GTD style ToDo webapp, wrote an Android app for it) HappyAPI: I use it to maintain a chat accessible villager trade inventory for our Minecraft server (HappyAPI allows players to associate an IP with there Minecraft name on that server, so you can send "/h RedNifre Mending" and get a response with all villagers that sell Mending)

Have you published the Android app? I used Tracks for years, until eventually switching due to lack of mobile support.

No, it only had the features I needed and I'm also considering moving away from Tracks, maybe to Todoist. Which app did you switch to?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve been considering setting up plex so my mom and brother could access media. Would jellyfin be better for this?

I currently use and host both, plex while non free is more friendly to less advanced users and has native iOS and apple tv apps (which jellyfin does not (the jellyfin ios app is a webview and dosen't always behave well for me)) There are 3rd party apps for jellyfin on apple tv, but it's just not as smooth of an experience as plex. I'm hoping that jellyfin will push plex to get better, as some of the most requested fe…

Have a look at Infuse, it works with Plex, Emby/Jellyfin, and possibly SMB. It’s one of the best and high quality apps I’ve encountered on the Apple TV, and one of the best video players period. For me it completely eliminates the need for transcoding, it plays everything.

There’s also a bare bones native Jellyfin app for tv/iOS called SwiftFin, but it’s currently only (publicly) available in TestFlight.

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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…

Funny, I used smokeping to run regular speedtests on top of pings to establish the cable connection in my neighbourhood was oversubscribed (daily slowdown to a crawl during work hours in WFH mandate, order of magnitude increased ping during the day time vs e.g 3 a.m.). Changed connection/provider and would consistently get max speeds and more consistent ping.

Who was your provider, and who is your new provider?

I was having both bad connectivity to Spectrum as well as buffer bloat, which I think was upstream. Had to get Spectrum in three times, after which the spent several days up on the pole and in the field doing major work, and the problem resolved.

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Listing the docker images. All this is hosted on a 45 Drives unraid server. adguard/adguardhome - Blocks ads on devices that don't support ad block extensions charlocharlie/epicgames-freegames - Bot that will automatically "purchase" free games from the epic game store. I have it setup to telegram me a link to enter the captcha. chuckmacdev/adrfinder - Checks for Disney dining reservations and emails a link to reserv…

I am out of the loop. What is “*arr”?

Sonarr+Radarr most likely

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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.

For auth and identity stuff, try this plugin: https://github.com/greenpau/caddy-security

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Pihole. DNS-level ad-blocking for my network. Jellyfin. Movies/TV/Music server with a variety of clients, including a built-in web client, but also AndroidTV/Shield, Roku, Kodi, and more. It's like having a personal Netflix. Minecraft. The old Java kind. May be leaving for something open-source soon because MS has fucked up the account transitions so badly, and also make buying new copies bizarrely painful, error-pro…

Just make sure your host workstation has automatic security updates turned on, but otherwise yeah letting docker manage all the services is totally fine.

docker is very bad for security due to its large attack surface.
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