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

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Post by afavour »

- Home Assistant

I "smart home"-d my apartment a little and prioritized aesthetics/tactile feel over technical simplicity. So I have some Lutron light switches (proprietary protocol), a couple of Zigbee ceiling fans and an Ecobee thermostat. I'm not crazy about Home Assistant itself but it lets me bring all those things together and export it all to HomeKit, which the means by which everyone actually uses the stuff.

- Plex

Most of our media consumption these days is via streaming services. I use Plex as a DVR for over-the-air TV and it's mostly competent at it. I'd much rather be using Channels but it's a $60/year subscription (vs a $120 lifetime pass for Plex) and we just don't watch enough OTA TV to justify it.

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

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Post by idealmedtech »

My home server is connected to my TV, so I can have a fully functional desktop environment when watching media. Probably the most useful thing on it is a little Arduino that's hooked up to a Django REST API that I can use to control my TV (lost the remote years ago).

Also the server itself is my ancient T530, which is still quite snappy on Arch!

Here's the remote code, for anyone interested: https://github.com/ijustlovemath/arduino-remote

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

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Post by blodkorv »

The real need of any home server has really dissapeard now when there are cheap services for everything and all of them do it better than any setup am willing to dedicate my time on. If you really want something just buy a cheap NAS and it will run everything you want with minimal setup.

Unless you want to learn how to setup a server ie "home lab", but then its more cheaper and more efficient to rent a cheap vm on linode.

The era where you had an old computer from your office in a closet to host your website, music, email, and such is long gone.

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

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Post by holsta »

newuser46547 wrote: post #45
isoprophlex wrote: post #31

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…

Do the cheap NUCs let you install more than 8GB RAM?

I have a 6th generation with 32GB:

    hw.model=Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-6100U CPU @ 2.30GHz
    hw.physmem=34227793920

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

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Post by ogre_battle »

AndroidKitKat wrote: post #224

I've got a slew of different computers doing different things. All of them are networked together via Tailscale. Ubuntu 22.04 Server for the host, everything else runs in LXC containers. This is all setup on ZFS. - https://znc.in/ IRC bouncer - https://caddyserver.com/ Caddy Webserver for a few personal websites - https://github.com/AndroidKitKat/waifupaste.moe/ My personal pastebin - https://transmissionbt.com/ Torr…

> Torrent client that I actually use for Linux ISOs

It's okay boss, plenty of us pirate stuff too. You can just admit it.

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

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Post by bravetraveler »

Lots of virtualization, for what varies by the day.

Usually testing something -- automating building the latest trend, or getting an understanding for why a particular upgrade went poorly.

My longstanding VMs are... a general purpose 'game server', a couple DNS resolvers (spread among two nodes), and a password manager

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

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Post by chrisdhal »

asim wrote: post #86

Reading this thread, someone needs to put the home server in a tiny box, preinstalled with all the apps and put a slick user interface on it. I think https://umbrel.com is a thing but it's not packaged with hardware. Something that packages the hardware and software together would be pretty killer. Plug and play. Instant email. All the apps. Easy migration from existing services.

unRaid is basically this.

Happy user of unRaid for years, just chugs away, easy updates, lots of apps available.

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

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Post by csixty4 »

There's a NUC in my basement connected to my router over gigabit ethernet:

- Caddy acting as a reverse proxy in front of the other apps

- Wallabag to capture articles I want to read later on my e-reader

- Calibre Web to manage my ebooks & PDFs

- Two Minecraft Bedrock Edition servers for my kid & their friends

- Yopass for secure password & secret sharing

Prior to this, I had a Raspberry Pi in the closet for hosting and it was frustrating. Not only did I have a hard time finding Docker containers for some apps that were actively maintained for ARM, but one time my SD card died and took everything with it. Since then, I've started mounting directories on my Synology NAS and using that as RAID-enabled storage that gets backed up to the cloud every night.

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