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What are your most used self-hosted applications?

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Home assistant. Incredibly versatile and complete home automation software.

Home assistant is fantastic. The number of integrations available is unbelievable (and also somewhat scary, security wise):

What I have right now:

- integration with Tuya lights/electrical outlets

- integration with AirThings air quality sensor

- integration with EcoBee thermostat/presence sensors

- integration with an LG Oven (status only as far as I can tell)

- integration with Garmin ecosystem

- integration with presence detection via the iPhone app

- integration with the sound system/spotify

So far my favourite feature is the ability to tap an NFC tag by my bed and execute the "bed time" workflow:

- ensure the lights are off

- dim the lights in the hallway, for kids

- reduce the speed of the bathroom fans

- sunset the lights in the bedroom for 10 minutes, so that when they finally turn off it's bed time.

Re: What are your most used self-hosted applications?

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I REALLY want to start self-hosting but I can't afford a separate homeserver. I have a personal list of software to self-host and have looked into VPS providers like DO, Vultr, Linode & Hetzner.

While they're cheap, should I really self-host on shared CPUs because that's all I can afford right now.

My basic system would be Pi-Hole, Miniflux, Linkding. Maybe Bitwarden.

What would be a good way to get started? Any suggestions are welcome.

Re: What are your most used self-hosted applications?

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post #25

Home assistant. Incredibly versatile and complete home automation software.

Home assistant is fantastic. The number of integrations available is unbelievable (and also somewhat scary, security wise): What I have right now: - integration with Tuya lights/electrical outlets - integration with AirThings air quality sensor - integration with EcoBee thermostat/presence sensors - integration with an LG Oven (status only as far as I can tell) - integration with Garmin ecosystem - integration with p…

For the bedtime workflow, why NFC tapping and not a button? I use the latter and seems more practical, so wondering why you chose NFC.
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