I think everybody on here is constantly keeping an eye out for what to host next. Sometimes you spinup something which chugs along nicely but sometimes you find out you’ve been missing out.
For me it’s not very refreshing or new: Paperless-ngx. Never thought I would add all my administration to it. But it’s great. I probably can’t find the thing I need, but I should have a record of every mail or letter I’ve gotten. Close second is Wanderer. But I would like to have a little bit more features like adding recorded routes to view speed and compare with previous walks. But that’s not what it is intended for.
What is that service for you?
Recipe manager and meal planner which can pull recipes from the web. I started using it after a few recipes on sites disappeared. My families most used app (besides plex).
I havent done much with it other than get all our paper recipes into it and added some via import. I am looking forward to it as its my next project now that photos are done.
I didn’t know if this was something I was missing, but man this could be my new number 1. The import function is really great. I’ve already added a lot of recipes. Thanks!
Thanks, this looks awesome, last one I tried was tandoor but didn’t really liked it, the import/export capabilities of this one make it a lot more interesting for me, to ensure I can recover the recipes or build them into markdown files if I ever want to migrate away from it.
I landed on Tandoor. I had a bunch of recipes on one of those web sites and they switched to a subscription model and locked me out of my recipes. I don’t remember why I chose Tandoor over Mealie, but having full ownership over my recipes is freeing.
Thanks, installed it right away ;)
been loving mealie too! tied in with home assistant for shopping list and the meal planning calendar has helped us cook more together and stop spending so much on takeout!
Oh I’m going to have to check that out!
The one that was way more useful then expected is immich. I have over 100,000 photos I took during my life and it usually takes me DAYS to find a specific picture I need.
I installed immich and let it AI scan everything for a week or something. Now I can search for something specific like “it’s a black square in the middle of the photo and has a little knob on it” and it finds me the photo I need.
It’s also cool to see photos of people, organized by the individual by searching their name or clicking on their face.
I’ve only just set it up, mainly for the facial recognition. I had no idea that it could do that type of search too. It’s going to be really helpful with my faulty brain and not remembering words 🙂
Pet detection is sorta on the roadmap for 2025… I couldn’t be happier.
+1 for immich, if I didn’t already know I would be doing photo backups it would have been my entry. For things “I didn’t know I needed”
Is this local only? No clouds reported data?
Of course it is.
You can download different models as well. For me, without a GPU, searching for example ‘cat’ takes a few seconds, and it is not the most accurate, but still works OK.
This is exactly why I’d want a GPU in a home server.
That and transcoding. Wonder what the best option would be without breaking the bank/wasting too much idle power. All the GPU talk online seems to be for gaming.
Local only.
Quickly send files, paste images/text snippets between devices.
I’m using the older Snapdrop (which PD was forked from) with some patches I made to:
- Work behind Authelia for SSO + 2FA
- Use the display name provided by Authelia instead of the random usernames it gives out by default
- Send transfers over the internet without dealing with the temporary “rooms” that Pairdrop uses (it’s behind Authelia, so only authorized users can get to it).
It has 100% replaced emailing things to myself or shuffling files to/from Nextcloud. I probably use it to send text (URLs, clipboard contents, etc) to/from my phone as much as I use it for sending files back and forth.
KDE Connect masterrace represent!
I love KDE Connect but I can’t figure out how to get it to work at work. Probably some firewall thing. It works fine at home, but can’t find my phone at work.
Definitely firewall things. Do you connect your personal phone to your work’s Wi-Fi? I would really not.
Somehow this one has had eluded me! Thanks for the req!
I just setup Pairdrop on my home server. Holy crap it’s amazing!
Nice! Yeah, I’ve been a big fan of it. Planning to eventually replace my custom Snapdrop with Pairdrop since they’ve made quite a few other improvements.
Unpopular opinion from what I’ve seen in this forum, but for me it is Nextcloud followed by Jellyfin.
I use Nextcloud setup fory whole family, about a dozen all together. I even sprang for the DavX5 plugin for several people so we can share calendars and contacts as well as files and notes. We backup photos from our phones using the Nextcloud app. Several of us use it as a backend for KeePass.
We use Jellyfin for streaming; movies, tv, music videos and music. It is the backend storage and library organizer for four Kodi boxes, five browsers, several phones and tablets and a couple of Roku’s. It works like a champ, even with the occasional library re-sync.
Syncthing. Decentralized data backup that works with minimal setup. Now I can add cloud sync to most any app.
I setup my own with a bash script for backup years ago that uses rsync, feel too invested in that now to change
Watch out to enable “keep on delete” features. I didn’t do that and didn’t see that gigabytes of personal photos got deleted which I had to recover from an old backup. Still don’t know how it happened as I only found out a few weeks after the fact.
Sync is not backup! If there’s a software bug or a wrong setting sync can delete your files. Syncthing is pretty mature so I doubt this was a Syncthing bug, however you shouldn’t only trust Syncthing. I’m doing btrfs snapshots weekly and delete them after three years for important folders nowadays.
Also the “auto normalize” option (true by default and only shown in advanced settings) can mess-up with your source files. Mouting source files read-only won’t work either as it is creating files in source folders.
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thought it was overkill. now does tons of things.wouldnt wanna live without it.
https://github.com/Waterboy1602/Addarr
I use this all the time instead of opening Radarr and Sonarr
Posted above, I’ll drop it here as well, requestarr performs the same service but via discord.
Isn’t this a bit more steps than using Overseer?
It’s more work to set up, but a much easier experience if you have users who can’t remotely access Overseerr. You always have to account for the “mom factor” when hosting services; Will your mom be able to learn how to use it? My mom can use Discord, but good luck getting her to learn Tailscale to access my Overseerr remotely.
Forgejo. There are so many things that can use a git repo but I don’t want to have them out in the wild, so I host them myself, safe and sound behind my firewall.
I also mirror other github forks so they don’t go away whenever those services decide to rugpull them.
Do you manually mirror and keep the forks up to date? Or is there an automation for it?
There’s automation and you can do it manually if needed. For example I have a couple of emulators that pull every 24 hours from GitHub just in case nint tendo gets a little lawsuit heavy. I also have one offs from GitHub that pull down when I want.
You can also mirror a public repo from GitHub into a private repo so it does not gets indexed/ai trained.
I host foregejo, but I have a small problem. I can’t get my ssh keys to work for cloning repos. I can’t only use https.
I use API tokens. Seems to work fine for mirroring.
Is port 22 accessible and pointed at it? You could also run it on an alternate port and specify that port in your ssh config.
I’m using a different port and have it in my config. Sadly that didn’t work too 😭
In both client config and forgejo config? And docker config?
It’s working for me, but I had to add a config to my ~/.ssh/config file
I’ll check my docker config when I get home to make sure.
I started with gitea but found it difficult to backup. I’ve been using gogs for a while now and find it minimal and easy to administrate.
Easily set up, and easily attached to other things. Simple notifications about whatever is needed, like service health or updates, new posts on public platforms, etc. A simple
curlis plenty to send and receive notifications, and it works on Android without requiring FCM (Google infrastructure).Alternative: Gotify
Sadly it doesn’t work with CrowdSec which is the biggest thing I would want notifications on (bans and such) and Gotify isn’t the pub/sub MQTT-style that I like about ntfy…
Ntfy can act as an email server if you configure it. So if an application is not supporting ntfy directly but email, you can go that route. Ntfy will then simply forward the email as push notification. Its also pretty simple to set up, used this as a workaround because authelia doesn’t support it directly. Here is the link to the specific ntfy documentation: https://docs.ntfy.sh/config/#e-mail-publishing
I used the local variant (https://docs.ntfy.sh/config/#local-only-email) which does not require any DNS entries, as I only use it for sending notifications between my self hosted containers (all on the same host).
I’m a long time Pushover user and recently set it up with CrowdSec.
If a curl is sufficient for ntfy as well, you should be able to adapt the http-plugin.
Another alternative: https://pushover.net/
Tangent to this, “Apprise lets you send notifications to a large number of support notification services.”
PaperlessNGX Syncthing
Paperless is rEally awesome… Scan to folder, it will automatically be sorted and categorized, full text search and one neat thing: It just stores the pdf in subfolders which makes backup also usefull without paperless
I second paperless-ngx. I’ve gotten rid of almost all paper docs, just scan everything in. It makes taxes so much easier because I can easily filter year to year for comparisons.
If you don’t mind me asking, how/on which criteria does auto-sort and -categorization work? Scanning file name and contents? But then you’d have to pre-define some sort of keywords, no?
It’s actually quite simple - not sure how it does work under the hood, but take a look at your documents. Every insurance, employer or company has its own letterhead with logo, contact information and legalese. You just tell paperless on one document “hey, that is my insurance, please tag everything like this as insurance” and it will do that.
Yes, you have to set attributes and clients. First documents you have to set everything yourself but it gets usefull really fast. I just scan a letter, and look througout the day if it was correct recognized and maybe correct it
You can predefine keywords/phrases, yes. But there are many other options. You can tag different documents based on how they wherer ingressed (which e-Mail they came/were sent to from for example). I have it set up so that my scanner has a few different quick action buttons which atomatically upload the documents into different folders (think bills, helthcare, bank, etc.) Then paperless tags and sorts them based on those folders.
I also does machine-learning when enabled which works ok in my experience.
Kavita for my ebook collection—mostly tabletop RPGs, but some comics and sci fi as well.
I don’t actually use the web interface that often. I add books to my Kavita library, then scan the OPDS feed into my scratch-my-own-itch mobile app, Bookoscope, and download whatever I want to read onto my tablet from there.
Side note, PDFs are the absolute worst. Even reading them on a full-sized tablet is incredibly annoying. Anybody have any tips/tricks/apps for that?
Side note, PDFs are the absolute worst. Even reading them on a full-sized tablet is incredibly annoying. Anybody have any tips/tricks/apps for that?
Try KOReader. It’s mainly for e-ink devices (initially, Kobo devices) but it handles PDFs better than most applications and gives you various options to address them.
It’s still not going to do miracles on smaller screens like phones, but I use a Kobo tablet/ereader and it works very well there.
I usually convert pdfs to epub if its something I actually need to read and not just scan/browse. Often I would bother to even edit the epub in Sigil to fix any problems with the conversion.
Actual Budget a selfhosting budget software. It helps me keep track of my finances
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That looks nice. Added it to my list to look at. Thanks.
Yeah I left the massively overpriced closed source YNAB and Actual is actually better.
That’s easily Home Assistant. It got me into the whole home automation stuff and I have gradually included more and more parts into it - including some health related stuff. It really makes my family’s life easier and helps us organizing it.
You’ve got a good point with Home Assistant. I have automations setup so that I barely have to do anything manually. So I almoat forget that Home Assistant runs quite a lot in my home. And especially in the beginning it was nice to setup but not really needed. Know it is needed.
Are you able to provide a few quick examples? I have it installed but don’t know what to do with it really.
The easiest thing: We use a motion sensor to automatically turn on the light for the stairs. You wouldn’t need Home Assistant for that, but with a little more configuration you can adjust the light levels and colour temperature based on the time of day (not as disturbing at night). We have two rooms which have problems with humidity in one a fan is automatically turned on (basic) in the other a dehumidifier is triggered based on the outside and inside temperature because there are large windows which are producing a lot of condensation otherwise. Now the really specific stuff: My daughter has Diabetes and we need to manage her blood glucose levels. There are alarms but ideally you would act before they are triggered. So we hooked her blood glucose levels to a light in our bedroom which turns on at night if her levels are getting out of bounds at night. That way she isn’t woken by the alarm, but by one of us and can go back to sleep mich quicker.
Damned, I have to say that the glucose surveillance is quiet impressive, and the outcome is both unexpected and so sweet ! And shows how much can be done.
Bump and definitely saving this thread!
Same! Lots of good stuff that’s been mentioned so far, so much to look up and into :D
discord bot for my families group chat server. I know it doesn’t really mesh well with the mentality of selfhosting but it works for us.
I’m able to do silly stuff like each person getting a ‘score’ that gets taken down or up when they say something good/bad and people react to it
Love that
Y’all get a lot of good use out of Discord?
I have so many shitty little discord bots I’ve tossed together, I love self hosting them lol
Why not Matrix via Conduit?
