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

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Post by lannisterstark »

derkades wrote: post #52
bmitc wrote: post #42

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> 2x of docs.paperless-ngx.com/ (one for me and one for my partner) - I scan and destroy most of the letters I get. Ah, interesting. I have been considering finding a solution like that. How do you like it? Are there other alternatives you considered?

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.

Why not do both? Use rsync to do a one way sync by keeping a filter list to the paperless consume directory so whenever you drop any new documents to your original folder structures, it copies THAT to the consume and paperless consumes it?

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Post by luckman212 »

jstummbillig wrote: post #126
keraf wrote: post #119

Not my home but my parent's (as I'm a "nomad"). They recently built a new house and put me in charge of the tech with a handsome budget, so I built a rack just like it would be my place. Ended up costing 1/4th of what other "smart home" companies quoted. We got way better bang for the buck and software capabilities. On the server/NAS, a QNAP TS-464eU (4x 4TB HDD RAID 5 + 2x 1TO SSD RAID 1), I'm running Container Stat…

As someone who gets caught in the occasional "could you just fix x – what do you mean y is not working? It always worked before you got here"-trap, essentially signing up to run your parents entire smart home setup, indefinitely, feels like some special kind of hell.

My colleagues and I call this the "Ever since you..." and it's one of our longest-running chuckles.

"Ever since you installed that ad-blocker, the Wi-Fi signal in the den is really weak"— uh, that's not how that works.

It's why I make every effort to never touch or even give advice on technical matters to friends and family anymore. Almost zero upside and unlimited downside—getting angry texts and phone calls at all hours of the day and night, and offering free support for life (and almost always accompanied by zero thank you's).

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Jarvy wrote: post #254

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.

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Post by dividedbyzero »

jum4 wrote: post #412
dividedbyzero wrote: post #350

I've pared things down quite a bit lately; the setup here used to be: - A Mac Mini, a Pi 4 with SSD and 8GB RAM and a Pi 3B+ forming a "multi-room" Kubernetes cluster with the idea that sensors and automation for each room (that had one) could be run locally in that room, including wired sensors, all connected by Kafka running on one of the Pis; that way I could just plug in another sensor and the local pod would kno…

What eInk display are you using and in which case?

Waveshare epd7in5_V2 and no case, there's a smallish wood block on the left and right lower corners with a shallow cutout that the display slides into, so it's kinda wedged between the wood blocks. Looks kind of like a post card given its thinness.

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Post by danparsonson »

nkcmr wrote: post #229

Love this thread, here is mine: Hardware: Synology NAS (DS420+) Software: - Synology DSM – Was actually quite impressed by Synology's software. It is a tad quirky but can usually be worked around but all in all pretty good. (https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm) - Plex: not in love, but it gets the job done, definitely gonna use this thread to look in to replacements (https://www.plex.tv/) - Syncthing: i love my magic…

> Plex: not in love, but it gets the job done, definitely gonna use this thread to look in to replacements (https://www.plex.tv/)

I'm sure you've seen it already but Jellyfin is fantastic.

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

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Post by apeters »

pmontra wrote: post #205
apeters wrote: post #69

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Even though I sold mailcow and stopped working on it in the past months, it warms my heart SO MUCH to see people using it. :) Really, thank you. I have some ideas for a proper successor which would be much more scaleable, modern, flexible and would be more focused to use existing transports for piggybacking mail. A fully and safely encrypted mail storage as well as a cool interface to invite for encrypted sessions et…

To the new owners: I googled mailcow, got to the web site and found nothing to explain what it is, not even in the docs. Eventually I noticed the "People also ask" section in the Google results page: > What is Mailcow? > fully managed by Elestio. Mailcow is a Docker-based email server, based on Dovecot, Postfix and other open-source software, that provides a modern web UI for administration. Hopefully this is correct…

Hi, it is now owned by tinc.gmbh

I sold it on 04/2021

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

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Post by apeters »

cientifico wrote: post #257
apeters wrote: post #69

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Even though I sold mailcow and stopped working on it in the past months, it warms my heart SO MUCH to see people using it. :) Really, thank you. I have some ideas for a proper successor which would be much more scaleable, modern, flexible and would be more focused to use existing transports for piggybacking mail. A fully and safely encrypted mail storage as well as a cool interface to invite for encrypted sessions et…

Hi André. First of all, thanks. I used hosted my own email 20 years ago, and when I saw how easy it was with mailcow, I decided to try again. Looking forward to the mailcow successor. Is there anything up already? Cheers.

Hi :) Not yet. I’m in a very burned out mode right now. Need to settle a bit.

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

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Post by apeters »

cientifico wrote: post #257
apeters wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even though I sold mailcow and stopped working on it in the past months, it warms my heart SO MUCH to see people using it. :) Really, thank you. I have some ideas for a proper successor which would be much more scaleable, modern, flexible and would be more focused to use existing transports for piggybacking mail. A fully and safely encrypted mail storage as well as a cool interface to invite for encrypted sessions et…

Hi André. First of all, thanks. I used hosted my own email 20 years ago, and when I saw how easy it was with mailcow, I decided to try again. Looking forward to the mailcow successor. Is there anything up already? Cheers.

Oh, and thank you for your kind words!!

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Post by 4ggr0 »

eddieroger wrote: post #326
4ggr0 wrote: post #101

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I always CTLR + F these threads for Jellyfin, because most people I know use Plex and don't even know Jellyfin. Are you happy with it? I've been using it for like half a year now and am pretty satisfied.

I'm Jellyfin-curious, and hear a lot about it, but I'm not really unhappy with Plex, and it passes the family-user test with ease. How easy it for the techno-novice to use Jellyfish? I think Plex's biggest advantage is it's already everywhere, from browser to smart TV. How does Jellyfin compare there?

Hm. As a disclaimer, I've never setup a Plex instance or used one, but from what I've heard, it seems to be very stable.

I think the Jellyfin UI is easily understandable for users, but what you might have to be prepared for is supporting them with technical issues. Jellyfin has apps for Android[-TV], iOS, webOS, Windows and probably more. I gave my dad access to Jellyfin and he had some issues with it related to Chromecast and his TV. On my end I can't use the Android app because I run into audio issues (could be my fault).

Jellyfin is awesome when it works and I really love it, but I've had to dive into the logs quite a few times. Sometimes it was my fault, but other times it's noticeable that Jellyfin is a smaller OSS. Stuff breaks, especially edge cases.

AFAIK you can just install Jellyfin and point it to the same libraries which your Plex uses. That way you can test it for yourself without bothering the people who use Plex. It might add some pictures, but the rest will be fine.

I think if you already have a Plex setup which works and you're happy with, I'd stick with that. I chose Jellyfin because Plex seemed too commercialized to me and I heard some things about it I didn't really like. But most people I know use Plex over Jellyfin, the only people who use Jellyfin are the ones who I managed to convince to use it :)

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Post by MrOwnPut »

raybb wrote: post #177
MrOwnPut wrote: post #29

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# Automation - https://n8n.io/ (script i/o for services) - https://www.home-assistant.io/ (script i/o for physical world) - https://homebridge.io/ (bridge homekit for above) # Federation - https://misskey-hub.net/ (social network [used for game community]) - https://glitch-soc.github.io/docs/ (social network [used for biz]) - https://lemmy.ml/ (custom news aggregator for fan site) @%4$! ADHD segfault, IOU sequence ac…

When you say you're hosting Lemmy [0] for a fan site does that mean you're hosting it for others to use? How/why did you pick Lemmy? What's your experience with it so far? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_(software)

Yes. It's the only federated news aggregator, which works well for a community that wants to share links related to their common interest, and discuss them.

Being federated allows them to use their existing identity or create one for the fediverse, and general or like minded communities to see the discussions as well. The same reason people use subreddits for fanbases, but not being beholden to reddit.

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