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Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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Post by isoprophlex »

I ran a raspberry (model 1, then 2, 3, 4) since forever, which has been fun. Switched to an intel NUC recently as I had a spare and needed the compute power. Being able to run on 32 gb ram with an nvme disk feels good, but the pi has served my needs pretty well...

- plex for streaming media

- external hdd that a friend uses as offsite backup (he has mine)

- home assistant, mostly fed by data from the...

- mqtt broker, that ties the sensors around my house together

- postgres, for long term reporting and predictions, mostly with data from...

- some cron jobs that scrape weather data and energy prices (they change hourly, sometimes going negative)

- security camera (a shell script saving an RTSP stream)

- a docker container that I can ssh into from anywhere, that allows backing up the iphone photo roll using the "photosync" app into my photo backup folder

Soon (I tell myself) I will analyze the security camera stream with YOLO or something to detect the cats that piss against my bikes... hehehe

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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Post by gorgoiler »

Every digital asset I’ve ever created and backups of every machine I’ve had since graduating college. I have a rule of forbidding remote access so it’s not really a server — you can only get onto this host if you are sat in front of it. Everything is backed up offsite by a combination of borg and USB “tapes”.

It was very liberating to put all my data on one filesystem (ZFS zpool) instead of having it littered over many decades of hard and floppy disks. It felt like a great tidy up, even if it was really more like bundling all my junk into a storage unit. Not having to worry about losing it took a weight off my mind.

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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Post by deckard1 »

Navidrome is my favorite, by far. It's like a personal Spotify. It also has built-in subsonic support.

Syncthing is another I could not live without. All devices upload to my server and my server gets backed up to S3/backblaze type service.

Plex for movies. But I may look at Jellyfin soon.

I use Calibre-web, but it's really not my favorite. Okular is so much better. And Calibre is a chore to use and overkill for my needs. Books organized into folders is about as far as I care to organize. Thumbnails are nice though.

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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Post by phreeza »

tomatocracy wrote: post #27

I would highly recommend paperless-ngx (organising scanned documents) and photoprism (organising photos). Both are excellent. I have an FTP server running (open only to the local network) which allows me to have my scanner and camera upload directly to my server for ingestion into them. Similarly on my Android phone I have foldersync set up to send my photos to my server via sftp.

Which camera allows you to do that. I wish my Sony Alpha had that ability instead of using the horrendous app they require.

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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Post by lukassoukup »

MrOwnPut wrote: post #21

# Work - https://gitea.io (repos) - https://discourse.org (forums) - https://github.com/nektos/act (CI) - https://www.goatcounter.com (analytics) - https://bestpractical.com/request-tracker (support) - https://couchdb.apache.org (a slave db to backup https://rxdb.info [client db]) - deps: nginx, redis, postgres, mqtt # Life - https://matrix.org (comms) - https://www.teamspeak.com (p2p voip for gaming) - https://nextc…

Nice list, thanks!

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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Post by MrOwnPut »

lukassoukup wrote: post #35
MrOwnPut wrote: post #21

# Work - https://gitea.io (repos) - https://discourse.org (forums) - https://github.com/nektos/act (CI) - https://www.goatcounter.com (analytics) - https://bestpractical.com/request-tracker (support) - https://couchdb.apache.org (a slave db to backup https://rxdb.info [client db]) - deps: nginx, redis, postgres, mqtt # Life - https://matrix.org (comms) - https://www.teamspeak.com (p2p voip for gaming) - https://nextc…

Nice list, thanks!

Glad it could be of use!

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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Post by malux85 »

divbzero wrote: post #23
malux85 wrote: post #17

Docker containers for: Minio : object store sdftosvg : Molecular renderer Observability stack : (Grafana, Prometheus, exporters) Postgres: molecular metadata (9 billion molecules) Molecular relaxation workers Quantum Monte Carlo simulators Dask workers Websocket message pump Insilico virtual lab server + 3 clients Vscode server Deep Learning model server (inference) Deep learning model training server Most of these a…

What is a molecular relaxation worker? Is that a scientific or a computing term?

It’s a colloquial term for structure optimisation

https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/ase/ase/optimize.html

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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Post by tomatocracy »

phreeza wrote: post #34
tomatocracy wrote: post #27

I would highly recommend paperless-ngx (organising scanned documents) and photoprism (organising photos). Both are excellent. I have an FTP server running (open only to the local network) which allows me to have my scanner and camera upload directly to my server for ingestion into them. Similarly on my Android phone I have foldersync set up to send my photos to my server via sftp.

Which camera allows you to do that. I wish my Sony Alpha had that ability instead of using the horrendous app they require.

I have a Canon R5 but I think all the Canon DSLR/mirrorless models with WiFi have this ability too. Its a bit fiddly and only supports FTP/FTPS but it works.

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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Post by verpeteren »

- logitech media server (streaming for squeezebox devices, the .ogg files are also shared via samba)

- cgit (git webinterface pointing to git-bare repos that are accessible via ssh)

- some static webpages via nginx+zola

In the past:

- some prototype webapps hosting

- dnsmasq + tftpboot

- nagios

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