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What are your most used self-hosted applications?

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

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Post by eloisius »

Syncthing. Amazing tool. I keep media and documents syncted between two computers and a Pi home server. I want to add an "untrusted" VPS to the mix, but haven't done it yet. The only weak link is my iPhone. Luckily, one of the computer's in the mix is a Mac, and it keeps things synced via iCloud.

icloudpd. Pulls photos from iCloud onto the Pi and Syncthing takes care of it from there.

Prometheus/Grafana. Monitor indoor air quality with nice dashboards. I have other ideas I'd like to dashboard, but never get around to doing it.

Pi-hole.

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

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Post by tra3 »

sofixa wrote: post #28
tra3 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Never got around to getting a physical button, but I got a few dozen NFC tags from amazon a while back. They are quite unobtrusive so it's no bother to just quickly tap the phone.

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

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Post by tra3 »

avanai wrote: post #54
tra3 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 my bedtime routine I have it fire when I start charging my phone. There’s an iOS shortcut that fires an HA event when I plug or unplug my phone, and if we’re all home and it’s after bedtime it turns everything off and sets the alarm

Huh, that's a pretty great idea/workflow! I'm still figuring out HA's scripting. I find the JSON based DSL to be pretty awkward so far, so I haven't experimented with it much.

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

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Post by Ourgon »

I've self-hosted more or less everything from the get-go back when I was working at a telco which provided me with a 4 Mb/s fixed line back in 1996. One of the first things I did was change to a self-hosted mail server with my own domain, the rest quickly followed. Just to name a few, used daily:

- Proxmox to run all mentioned services

- Software router to bind them all together (OpenWRT in a container)

- Database services (Postgresql, Mysql, Redis) used for many of the mentioned services

- Backup services (rsnapshot, custom backup scripts)

- mail services (Exim, Dovecot, Spamassassin, greylistd, dovecot-managesieve)

- web-related things (first Apache, then lighttpd, then nginx) running:

- "Cloud" (first Owncloud, then Nextcloud) with functional equivalents of e.g. Google Docs (Nextcloud Office), Google Reader (Nextcloud News), Google Meet (Nextcloud Talk, Jitsi Meet), Gmail (Rainloop app in Nextcloud, Roundcube), Google Maps (OSM app in Nextcloud), Calendar etc.

- Wiki (first Twiki, then Mediawiki, now Bookstack)

- Media (mpd, Airsonic, Jellyfin, Peertube, Pixelfed)

- version control (first CVS, then Subversion, then Gogs, then Gitea)

- Search (Searx and Recoll)

- big-tech proxies (Invidious, Nitter, libreddit, Spodcast, searx (see Search))

- Video surveillance (Zoneminder)

- Remote application/desktop service (X2go, NoVNC, now experimenting with Kasm)

- P2P services (Transmission, IPFS, MLDonkey (when needed))

- "Chat" services (first Prosody, then ejabberd, then back to Prosody)

- Timelimit service + app on my daughter's phone to keep her screen time in check, I can remotely give her more time when required

- a "stable" and "development" build server (Debian running in containers)

- ...and a lot more

Basic services are divided over a few containers - base, mail, auth. Most services run on a single container - serve. Some get their own container because they are only started irregularly (bookcook, the bookkeeping service) or they should be separated from the rest - p2p, session (remote application/desktop services). I tend to shun docker, preferring to tailor services to my own needs. Currently the only services using docker are Kasm Workspaces [1] and some linuxserver.io instances which I'm experimenting with.

[1] ...with the database (postgresql) and cache (redis) services being redirected to the 'base' container which runs all database services

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

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Post by rabbitofdeath »

OH man I love finding new apps like this! Here is my list: Pihole LOVE it. Paperless-ngx minidlna (can't bring myself to use jellyember or whatever) NextCloud synapse/matrix - about 10 active users element-web archivebox vaultwarden duplicati baikal home-assistant navidrome nginx-proxy-manager photoprism syncthing ttrss gitea

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

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Post by teejmya »

avanai wrote: post #54
tra3 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 my bedtime routine I have it fire when I start charging my phone. There’s an iOS shortcut that fires an HA event when I plug or unplug my phone, and if we’re all home and it’s after bedtime it turns everything off and sets the alarm

Thank you for this wonderful idea

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

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Post by joeyrobert »

Seafile. Locally hosted Dropbox alternative which works well for my needs (300GB+ stored).

Emby. Network media streaming.

qBittorrent with the web server enabled. Downloading Linux ISOs.

Airsonic. Music library streaming, though I find myself using Emby for this more often.

All running on Ubuntu 20.04 on an Intel NUC with 16GB RAM.

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

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Post by erulabs »

Photostructure, Actual, Tandoor Recipes, and a load of media stuff. If anyone is interested in home hosting, but not sure where to start, we’re trying to make it easy with custom hardware https://pibox.io ! I maintain a ton of Kubernetes templates for various self hosted apps as well!

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

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Post by tombert »

kretaceous wrote: post #26

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 sugg…

I haven't seen them be mentioned, another good option is to buy a thin client or multiple thin clients.

You can get them on eBay for Just an example: https://www.ebay.com/itm/154783701325?hash=item2409d3d94d:g:...

You can pretty easily install Ubuntu or something on there and treat it like a normal computer.

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