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

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My RPi is just a torrent box and media server. I use SMB to drop .torrent files downloaded from my Windows desktop directly to a directory on the Pi, and Transmission immediately starts downloading it.

My router forwards port 22 to it as well, so I can SSH to it remotely and then tunnel VNC connections to my desktop through it. It's exceptionally rare for me to do this, but it HAS come in handy before.

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

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Home Server: Raspberry Pi 4 with an HDD (I've had bad luck with trim support on USB adapters for SSDs) Open source software: Home Assistant, Home Intent, pihole, miniflix, pinry, and bookstack. Small self developed software: Chore tracker, Package tracker, Chromecast radio streamer, and a simplistic Trello board I'm just happy that all that works as well as it does on a single pi with a few users.

> I've had bad luck with trim support on USB adapters for SSDs

Can you expand on that? I have also had trouble getting USB3 to SATA to work reliably.

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I've been using a Raspberry Pi as a home server, and it's been holding up amazingly well, given everything I've thrown at it: - The excellent Home Assistant, for unifying across Homekit and Google Home and tracking historical temperatures and a couple of automations. The RPi has Bluetooth built in, so I can capture the data from a few Bluetooth thermometer/hygrometers running custom firmware ( https://github.com/pvvx…

i'm trying to buy rpi but can't decide which configuration. what are minimum requirements to run airplay bridge, home assistant?

I'm using a Model 4 with 4GB of RAM, but 2GB would probably also be ok. (I haven't measured peak memory usage, but I imagine that having some spare memory for file caching reduces read contention for the SD.)

Home Assistant can take a minute or two to start up, keeping all four cores quite busy, so I wouldn't recommend trying this on an older model myself.

If you want to use the Pi's internal Bluetooth module, obviously you'll also need one that has one and supports Bluetooth LE. Again, I can only speak for the Model 4 here, which works great for that.

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

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I have some services:

- my portfolio website https://blmayer.dev with my mail server on the m. subdomain, a web interface on mail.

- one git host on https://derelict.garden with a git. subdomain.

I plan to add more services and a database to it. All hosted on a pi zero w. In the past I got 77 days of uptime. I think the mail part is the nicest: I can have as many emails as I want, so I create one for each website I signup.

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

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QuiteRSS is great desktop program for reading (or more like aggregating) RSS, but I found myself in a need to have RSS reader available on more than one device. Thus I'm right now on the quest to find a self-hosted alternative. So far CommaFeed [0] wins. If you haven't already, start using RSS before this great method of content delivery get crushed down too.

[0]: https://github.com/Athou/commafeed

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

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Running k3s on a small cluster of mini pcs and RPis. Use Tailscale for MagicDNS and access from any network. Have a custom wildcard domain pointing to my tailscale k3s node ips, and a traefik ingress controller. This means exposing a service from my cluster on a subdomain just requires creating an ingress object in k3s, and it's only accessible via tailscale. cert-manager and let's encrypt handle TLS. All services ar…

> changes are automatically synced after a git push, so I almost never SSH into the servers directly. Can you elaborate how you're doing this?

I'll answer in his place, he said he's using ArgoCD and running everything on k3s. ArgoCD watches the files in a repo (kubernetes yaml manifests for example) and applies them in the cluster, so that the state of the running cluster (applications) is synchronized with the git repo.

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I've been using a Raspberry Pi as a home server, and it's been holding up amazingly well, given everything I've thrown at it: - The excellent Home Assistant, for unifying across Homekit and Google Home and tracking historical temperatures and a couple of automations. The RPi has Bluetooth built in, so I can capture the data from a few Bluetooth thermometer/hygrometers running custom firmware ( https://github.com/pvvx…

Which AirPlay to Google Cast bridge are you using? Thanks

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

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Rather than listing everything I'm hosting at my home server, I'll just share what saved me the most time, repeatedly: Mirrors of various package repositories I use. I'm currently mirroring npm, crates, Arch packages, clojars, maven and some other things, then all my machines (desktop, servers and laptops) point to the mirror rather than directly to upstream. Some of them are mirroring dynamically (basically a cache…

I would be interested in doing some sort of hybrid mirror / cache of a few repos, if I could do them just in time style. I don't need all of pypi (nor do I want 13.5TB of packages). I probably only ever use a few hundred packages at most. I would like to point all my systems at my server. And if I `pip install pandas` and its not on my server the server grabs it and passes it through and syncs that package locally fr…

Maybe DevPi would work?

https://devpi.net/docs/devpi/devpi/stable/%2Bd/index.html https://blog.jcharistech.com/2022/08/13/how-to-run-a-pypi-mi...

another option is https://pypi.org/project/python-pypi-mirror/

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

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post #305

I've been using a Raspberry Pi as a home server, and it's been holding up amazingly well, given everything I've thrown at it: - The excellent Home Assistant, for unifying across Homekit and Google Home and tracking historical temperatures and a couple of automations. The RPi has Bluetooth built in, so I can capture the data from a few Bluetooth thermometer/hygrometers running custom firmware ( https://github.com/pvvx…

Which AirPlay to Google Cast bridge are you using? Thanks

This one: https://github.com/philippe44/AirConnect

And here's a containerized version that works with the Pi: https://github.com/1activegeek/docker-airconnect

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