Simple little thing I have started doing. Writing my home server's ip address to a text file on my Dropbox account. I also have a text file of whitelisted ips on Dropbox I check and add to the server's firewall if necessary. All made simple by rclone.
Ask HN: What's on your home server?
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#422NextCloud, Home Assistant, Paperless NGX, Minecraft, Caddy for some Hugo sites/blogs, Unify Controller, Vaultwarden, Traefik, Sabnzbd. Used to do WireGuard but now I use Tailscale, AdGuard home and FoundryVTT. It's all docker-compose. I'm thinking of taking some services off the internet using TailScale, some already are just on the Tailnet (Home Assistant and Paperless NGX), all my SSH ports are now only open to the…
> docker-compose How do you deal with backups? That’s my main struggle with docker.
I use Borg (https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) with some Python and Bash scripts.
All my containers write to the same volume mount (e.g., /mnt/docker_share/$service_name), the scripts shutdown the LVM, run the backups from Borg, sync the files to rsync.net and turn the LVM back on when the backups finish.
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#423Earlier quoted context omitted.
Been using Jellyfin almost since it forked from Emby. Was a bit rough early on, but works a treat for me these days - I think there's a balance point where I've adapted myself to its idiosyncrasies as much as it has improved stability and compatibility throughout version upgrades. I primarily use it via the Android TV app, and it's been a pretty smooth experience for at least the last couple of years.
I had to use my TVs internal (amazingly slow) web browser to access Jellyfin. Until a couple of months ago, when I was surprised with them announcing that they will release a Jellyfin app for LG WebOS. Works great, the only slightly annoying thing is that they don't seem to cache the posters. Every time I scroll through my library, all the posters load again. Other than that, the things which don't quite work for me:…
How about adding another audio stream to your Video files with ffmpeg? You could even automate it with a script on a cronjob or make a Jellyfin Add-on. You would first have to detect if there is already a mono or stereo stream. Then invoke something like
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v copy -c:a copy -c:a aac -rematrix_maxval 1.0 -ac 2 output.mp4
(haven't tested this and it would drop subtitles)
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#424I'm curious if there are guys designing ~offgrid ultra low power homelab. Most efficient redundant storage with a bit of compute.
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#425Earlier quoted context omitted.
I used paperless for a while but ended up just saving pdfs to directories instead. I can find what I need without fancy OCR features by organizing and naming files sensibly. And I am fairly certain this will still work in 40 years, while paperless, or even Linux, might no longer exist.
That was sort of the approach I had been planning on going for (manual scanning and putting it in directories that get cloud backed up). I have a pretty good scanner app on my phone, and so just scanning after opening the mail for some important document or invoice, uploading to the document storage, and then shredding seemed to be pretty low fanfare.
Which scanner app are you using?
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#426Jellyfin (video), Navidrome (audio), Deluge, Paperless (document management), tt-rss, Wallabag (web clipping/archiving), Huginn, Syncthing+restic+rclone for backups, and I host a static blog generated with Jekyll.
I see Navidrome mentioned a lot. Why use that instead of just Jellyfin?
Honestly, I had Navidrome installed for music before I had Jellyfin set up for video, and now I'm used to it. :)
When I originally picked it, I really liked Navidrome's UI and the simplicity of installation, setup, upgrades, speed/performance, etc.
I have heard that Navidrome handles large libraries better (e.g. faster scanning), and I like that it's purely tag based and doesn't rely on any (slow) scrapers (I just used Musicbrainz Picard to clean things up before adding music to my collection).
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#427Earlier quoted context omitted.
10th-gen i5 could not handle a single stream with most of the 4k content I tried, even though it was benchmarked as working. So if you're trying to transcode from varying sources I would imagine most people will end up wanting a discrete GPU. If you're ripping your own content and can ensure that everything is set up right so that the integrated GPU can handle it, sure, it will probably work. That being said they cou…
As I mentioned elsewhere, check the details of that transcode you tried. Are you doing tone mapping? That happens on the CPU (even with many discrete GPUs). Is it in a supported container format? Did you validate that the GPU was being used for the transcode? Other 10th gen I5 users get multiple simultaneous 4k streams going at > 1x speed. Even with tone mapping it should only use like 45% CPU for a single stream. Un…
Or I could just solve the problem by putting an old 1070 in the box and not have to babysit something I have literally zero interest in.
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#428HPE Microserver Gen8
- Jellyfin: Netflix alternative for local files
- Nextcloud: Mainly used as Dropbox alternative
- Borgbackup: Deduplicating backups to my other Mivroserver at my parents home
TP Link AC1200 router
- Running OpenWRT with a dedicated, isolated WiFi for "smart" devices
Raspberry Pi - Pi hole
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#429Great thread. My setup...
Hardware: Intel NUC, running Proxmox Synology DS920, 16 TB - used for storage and file services only. I avoid the Synology installed apps to keep this decoupled. A pile of custom Wemos devices - sprinkler controller, digital radio to listen to my weatherstation, landscape lighting control, sensors, etc. Zwave devices - light switches, mail delivery sensor, garage door status Security Cameras - been happy with the Amcrest ones Tablet - fixed display of Home Assistant status, using fully kiosk UPS
I gave up on Pi's after suffering too many SD card corruptions, nice for playing around, but not good for stable deployments in my experience. Didn't want to bother with the usb stick approach as by then I was on a NUC and it's been great.
Apps & Services: Home Assistant Mosquitto Plex Pi-hole Unifi Wiki.js sftp VPN Server Syncthing: primary use case is for syncing Obsidian vaults Veracrypt: encrypted store of info, keys, credentials, financials, etc.
Hosted services: $50/yr VPS in Netherlands - 1 TB storage, absurd amount of transfer Uptime monitoring - healthchecks.io
I follow the reddit selfhosted sub to learn about developments in this area.
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#430I use my home server also for serious stuff in terms of data protection and archiving rules. Storing tax things, that need to be archived at least 10 years, backup of databases from my dedicated server in the internet and backup of private data, like photos and so on. For this I use an encrypted ZFS mirror running on Ubuntu. The board is a power saving ASRock J4105M with soldered low power CPU. For each HDD I use an…
How do you manage the encryption keys?
The keys have a password, so, yeah, if the machine reboots I need to ssh in. :-)