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Re: Tell me your most exotic selfhosted solution

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Post by liotier »

malfist wrote: post #11
nonrandomstring wrote: post #8

> Future project: I have chickens. They lay eggs. I have cameras. I want to know which hen lays how many eggs. Solution? AI image recognition of the hens (who is who) and if they have laid an egg. Any inputs welcome. What happens to the ones that don't lay enough?

Typically hens slow down their egg production after a year or two of age. By that time, their meat is too tough for us to enjoy eating. Most homesteaders just keep them around, partially as pets, partially because they'll still lay eggs, but much less frequently. In commercial operations, those chickens get turned into animal feed, typically dog food.

> meat is too tough for us to enjoy eating

Won't a long cooking time fix that ?

Re: Tell me your most exotic selfhosted solution

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Post by Hawkenfall »

treyd wrote: post #27
Hawkenfall wrote: post #23

I've built (now improving) a fully automated real-time ML stock trader in Rust. It's hosted on-prem via 6 Raspberry Pis using Kubernetes.

Is it at all profitable? Worth the effort to maintain?

I've only done paper trading so far, but yes it was profitable.

I've learned a lot by building it, so for me the effort has been worth it.

Re: Tell me your most exotic selfhosted solution

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Post by k8svet »

I wired up my deployment GitHub action to trigger a relay switch in an esphome device, whenever it finds that one of my SBCs might be offline prior to deployment.

I also setup an esphome automation on another plug that my space heater is plugged into. The obvious next step is a GitHub Action that fires 30 minutes before I wake up and turns on the heater plug.

Re: Tell me your most exotic selfhosted solution

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Post by drewzero1 »

rcarmo wrote: post #20

Wow. My most permanent temporary solution is a doorbell extender I hacked out of an ESP-01 and a buzzer. Whenever the doorbell rings, a door sensor (with a magnetic reed switch) _inserted into the doorbell_ closes, sends a Zigbee packet to my coordinator, which then turns it into an MQTT message, which then gets picked up by Node-RED and re-mapped to the buzzer, which gets it via Wi-Fi. But some of the solutions on t…

Wow, and I thought my doorbell was complicated! I used an ESP-01 with a button to send an HTTP request to my home server, which would send me an XMPP message (to my phone and watch) and also send an HTTP request to another ESP01 which was connected through a relay to an old elevator bell, which would flash and ding twice. It worked reliably enough but some times it would take up to 30 seconds after pushing the button before the bell would ring.

Now that I'm in a house I installed a boring old wired doorbell which doesn't send me any messages, but does ring instantly every time it's pushed.

Edit: How does the reed switch work inside the doorbell? Very intrigued by this setup.

Re: Tell me your most exotic selfhosted solution

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Post by mikeodds »

axegon_ wrote: post #28

I have a few dozen such things at home. My absolute favorite one though is a bit wild. I am a bit of a security freak. I do however on occasion need to access something on my home network and I also need some redundancy(it wouldn't be the first time my only solution fails and I need a backup). So I use an old raspberry pi as an ssh server with port forwarding with all gimmicks in place(no root, private key only and a…

Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you

Re: Tell me your most exotic selfhosted solution

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Post by hardwaresofton »

BTW if you're looking for even more things to self host, I've got a little site for that: https://awsmfoss.com

There's no categorization (well... there is, but it's in my large behind-the-scenes Baserow[1] list), but there is a LOT of self hosted software in there. It's just a bit annoying to get to right now without search/categorization.

Re: Tell me your most exotic selfhosted solution

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Post by AdmiralAsshat »

wscourge wrote: post #2

I went there today accidentally. My personal favorite one: I have an automation that is triggered by a door open/close sensor that I have attached to the flushing arm in my toilet with a custom made 3d printed mount for the sensor, which triggers a script on the server which connects to the chromecast speaker in the bathroom and plays the final fantasy 7 battle victory theme whenever someone flushes the toilet. It is…

If the toilet clogs, does it trigger the FF7 Boss Battle music?

Re: Tell me your most exotic selfhosted solution

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Post by Throw73747 »

I run bunch of servers on my Android phone using Termux: FreshRSS, Syncthing gateway, ftp, backups, downloads...

I travel a lot, unlimited data, it serves as a hotspot anyway, so it kind of makes a sense. It has 12GB RAM and 1.2 TB storage. More power intensive servers (Syncthing) shutdown if battery is low.

Re: Tell me your most exotic selfhosted solution

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Post by pjc50 »

I connected a raspberry Pi with a photodiode based sensor to my solar generation meter so it could read the LED that flashes once per watt-hour, and made a graph: https://flatline.org.uk/daystats.html

If you click about you can see just how seasonal/weather sensitive it is.

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