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Post by tbyehl »

anotherevan wrote: post #328
philjohn wrote: post #280

Unlike others here, my goal isn't to be "google free" or "apple free" but instead to have backups so that I'm not reliant on a cloud platform going away. To that end, my main server (self built around an Asrock Rack mITX motherboard with a low power Core i3 9100T which supports ECC RAM and 6 4TB IronWolf NAS drives in ZRaid2) has: - Urbackup - backup client and server for all desktops and laptops in the house - Seafi…

Urbackup looks interesting for backup of my kids Windows laptops. Does it take an "opportunistic" approach rather than a rigid schedule? I.e.: If the laptop and backup server notice they're on the same network, and there hasn't been a backup for a while, then initiate an incremental backup?

Not precisely. If you configure the Backup Window to always (1-7/0-24) then they'd get backed up whenever they're available and their backup interval has been exceeded. The backup window can be adjusted per client or group.

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Post by fudgefactorfive »

fudgefactorfive wrote: post #284
leonroy wrote: post #193

Over time I've tried to whittle down my homelab and move more of it to Microsoft 365/Google Suite/iTunes Store with mixed results. Currently my must haves are: * Router - pfSense - https://www.pfsense.org/ * Movies/TV/Home Videos - Plex * Minecraft Server - AMP - https://cubecoders.com/AMPInstall * Music - Roon - https://roonlabs.com/ * Automation - HomeAssistant - https://www.home-assistant.io/ * Unifi Controller *…

I really really loved Plex, then suddenly my networks internet connection went down, no biggie I thought, I have my collection on Plex. Plex no longer worked offline at all. Not sure if that’s fixed, but I always saw it as a file server with a UI and webplayer. Plex also doesn’t let me pay for one premium subscription for the server so my family can watch old family guy episodes longer than 30 seconds on a phone. The…

Well nevermind! The HN community just literally solved my complaints!

I’ll set up my users as managed and pay for them, that’s really perfect. Since all users are accessing via a vps I control I can just whitelist that and my home networks CIDR and might be back in business!

Thanks for the help folks!

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Post by fudgefactorfive »

flatiron wrote: post #339
fudgefactorfive wrote: post #284

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really really loved Plex, then suddenly my networks internet connection went down, no biggie I thought, I have my collection on Plex. Plex no longer worked offline at all. Not sure if that’s fixed, but I always saw it as a file server with a UI and webplayer. Plex also doesn’t let me pay for one premium subscription for the server so my family can watch old family guy episodes longer than 30 seconds on a phone. The…

I have a plex server with plexpass and not a single person user my server has ever seen ads streaming my content.

I’ve never seen ads thank god, I sincerely hope they never take that step.

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Post by slipperlobster »

number6 wrote: post #393
slipperlobster wrote: post #147

I have a _terrible_ memory and am constantly forgetting things about friends I have known for almost a decade. I host this in a container that I am likely going to move to a RPi: https://github.com/monicahq/monica

Igf in reinstall it; this will be my 3rd try on monica... if only someone else would fill it for me - oh how is the mobile support for it nowadays?

I'll be honest - since I host it in a Docker container on my main desktop PC, I rarely rely on mobile, so I can't really say. I don't fill _everything_ in on Monica, I just try to hit the high-level items (e.g. they mentioned X, I should get them Y, etc.).

Monica really needs some sort of smart insertion system - just a free-form field that can parse a full sentence and handle the logistics.

For example, "Mary and I spoke on the phone last week and said she was going to Italy for a vacation and offered to show me photos" - Monica should be able to parse the conversation, the event and a follow-up somehow.

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Post by mwint »

Handytinge wrote: post #381
ornornor wrote: post #368

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> a 45 Drives unraid server You run this at home? How’s your power bill? And why so many drives?

45 Drives is a brand ;). Modern servers are reasonably power efficient, and solar helps a lot. I've got a high density 42RU rack at home, it's a fun hobby.

Could you share some details on your solar setup?

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Post by mmmcurry »

colordrops wrote: post #120

My main goal is to replace cloud services so I can be Google-free. I've also got LineageOS + MicroG on my phone. This is all running in docker containers on NixOS (other than OPNSense), with automated restic backups to a NAS as well as Backblaze. One of my goals is to be able to deploy all this again from scratch with minimal effort, and I think I succeeded, though haven't had to test it yet. Nextcloud - for caldav a…

Looks sweet. Is your nixos configuration public? I've been looking for a good example setup for running a bunch of containers like this.

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Post by atentaten »

colordrops wrote: post #120

My main goal is to replace cloud services so I can be Google-free. I've also got LineageOS + MicroG on my phone. This is all running in docker containers on NixOS (other than OPNSense), with automated restic backups to a NAS as well as Backblaze. One of my goals is to be able to deploy all this again from scratch with minimal effort, and I think I succeeded, though haven't had to test it yet. Nextcloud - for caldav a…

As a happy Jellyfin user, thanks for putting me on to Finamp.

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Post by mholt »

core-utility wrote: post #408
mekster wrote: post #108

People really should give Caddy a try. It's a nice breath of fresh air and make you figure nginx config is such a bloat. my.domain { reverse_proxy 10.0.0.2 } is all you need to get https://my.domain running with automatic Let's Encrypt.

The one thing keeping me from moving to Caddy, and maybe it's a user error, is that I can't figure out how to request a wildcard cert once and use it in multiple places. I have several subdomains that are not exposed to the internet and so without a wildcard I wouldn't be able to get an SSL certificate for them.

We have a section for exactly this in our docs: https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/patterns#wildcard-cer...

Hope that helps!

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Post by dawnerd »

ornornor wrote: post #368
dawnerd wrote: post #112

Listing the docker images. All this is hosted on a 45 Drives unraid server. adguard/adguardhome - Blocks ads on devices that don't support ad block extensions charlocharlie/epicgames-freegames - Bot that will automatically "purchase" free games from the epic game store. I have it setup to telegram me a link to enter the captcha. chuckmacdev/adrfinder - Checks for Disney dining reservations and emails a link to reserv…

> a 45 Drives unraid server You run this at home? How’s your power bill? And why so many drives?

Actually not bad. I’m Not sure of the actual power draw but it can’t be too bad. Has just a single Corsair 650 watt psu. But the server also has two xeons so I’m probably at least 400 watts.

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Post by dawnerd »

matthberg wrote: post #330
runjake wrote: post #243

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am out of the loop. What is “*arr”?

I was curious about this too, and looked into it. It's referring to a suite of piracy apps, for automatically building libraries from trackers. Wiki (linked from one of the githubs, has links to all apps and more info than the githubs): https://wiki.servarr.com/ Lidarr (Music): https://github.com/Lidarr/Lidarr Radarr (Movies): https://github.com/radarr/radarr Readarr (Books): https://github.com/readarr/readarr Sonarr…

Need to note that you don’t have to use them for piracy. They also work great if you rip your own media and throw it into an import directory. As long as it’s named close enough the apps will pick it up, organize and apply and meta it needs. I use a dedicated instance just for hand ripped UHD.
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