• sorakiu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    not sure if this is on topic, but i self-host little apps i’ve made to solve very specific issues via claude code. i also self-host some of the most popular ones like Plex, Jellyfin, Actual, TeslaMate, etc. I think my favorite is Plex, but I feel that it has been going downhill lately. i tried to play a 480p video of futurama s1e1 on my phone. Brand new phone, strong wifi - would not play smoothly. No problem on my ipad, no my problem on my laptop. And even though i have a lifetime pass, i don’t think there’s anyway to report the issue or get support - at least not that I could find. I’m thinking eventually i’ll just move everything over to Jellyfin.

  • Alavi@programming.devEnglish
    3 months

    if hosting on a VPS counts:

    • radicale (DAV)
    • Gitea/Forgejo
    • My websites
  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    Several things. Mosquitto to control an ecosystem of LEGO models, some CALDAV syncer, and a mediawiki engine for D&D worldbuilding.

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todayEnglish
      3 months

      Yeah like the other guy I couldn’t find anything on this Mosquitto either. I’m curious! Haha. (I found some GitHub project with like zero information hah)

      • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 months

        Short version: modified MILS plates carry 12V power across the whole layout. Inside those MILS plates is enough space to hide a Raspberry Pi Pico W, which controls lights and motors on this plate. It communicates with the Mosquitto broker to coordinate actions, e.g light effects.

  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3 months

    Immich
    Jellyfin
    HomeAssistant
    Dawarich
    HortusFox

    In that order.
    Things like the *arrs, traefik/authelia, etc. are just a necessity and not something that gives back like the 5 mentioned at first.

    • hirihit640@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3 months

      what do you mean by “gives back”? To whom? For example, why Jellyfin over any of the *arrs

      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3 months

        Also answered here: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/27309703

        For example, why Jellyfin over any of the *arrs

        Don’t take it the wrong way, the *arrs are an awesome ecosystem and tool. Very cool integration and administration.
        But I could life without or replace them. Things like Jellyfin, immich, homeassistant are more integral in the sense of usage and replacing them would be a whole ordeal I would ideally like to avoid.

      • ElectricMachman@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        3 months

        I think what they mean is that things like Traefix, arr, et al are means to an end. The ideal situation is that you don’t need to touch them after they’re set up. Jellyfin, on the other hand, is something you actively sign into and use

        • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3 months

          Kind of.
          To me they are more like accessories and not services I interact with (interact like homeassistant, immich, jellyfin).

          Services like Traefik/Authelia are infrastructure. Needed but not required.
          They are like a road. Nice to have and receive a smooth ride but driving on the bare ground is possible but uncomfortable ;)

    • Alavi@programming.devEnglish
      3 months

      Selfhosting porn is the most neckbeard gooner thing I’ve heard of :))

    • eletes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3 months

      It’s kinda good the scratch hdd I was using for stash died. I was getting a little too into curating that library and it was changing my relationship with adult content.

      10/10 app though, would recommend

      • Evotech@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 months

        Yeah you can really go overboard i suppose. But i also dontl like scrolling and looking for stuff. So just having some local stuff helps me to not interact with all those sites. Esp these days with bans and vpn bans and tracking and whatnot

  • __hetz@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3 months

    Don’t know if I can pick a favorite but I’m often the most happy when I’m actively using Homebox and LubeLogger. I track my tools with the former and track service records, parts inventory, mileage and such with the latter. If I’m using those services extensively it’s because I’m wrenching on something and adding more RockAuto magnets to my collection. Even when the circumstances suck, I genuinely enjoy an opportunity to take things apart, tinker and repair them.

    No longer directly related to self hosting

    I like busting out the jack and stands, reefing on a breaker bar, field repairs that succeed in getting out of a bind without waiting 2 hours for a tow bill in the hundreds of dollars, then making it home safely and doing it the right way, meticulously cleaning gasket surfaces…

    It’s zen for me and I don’t know why. The same reason I enjoy stripping down a firearm and cleaning it more than the day at the range leading up to that point. Or why I’ll go through the trouble of disassembling a $30 tower fan to extract every bit of dust and pet hair that has found it’s way trapped inside. I couldn’t pay someone else to do that for less than the damn thing costs… I just know that I can do it and feel compelled to. I might be an overgrown gnome.

    I’ve got the family’s vehicles in LubeLogger, having become the mechanic for anything short of transmission problems or requiring welding or a machine shop. The riding mower is in there too just because. It’s never often enough and I’m tempted to find a bike or an old beater I can tune up just to have a project that doesn’t have me sitting at the keyboard.

    • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
      3 months

      Does it have any particular benefits over using a random public instance? All I’ve heard is mostly needing heaps of bandwidth and storage.

      • xthexder@l.sw0.comEnglish
        3 months

        Since I already host a bunch of stuff, it hasn’t been a big burden for me. I get to laugh any time one of the popular instances goes down or has some admin/mod controversy, but the tradeoff is I have to manually subscribe to everything since I don’t have an “All”.

        I mostly did it because this is the only way to truly own your lemmy identity. I hope one day it will be possible to link accounts on different instances together so that migrating doesn’t lose your history.

        • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
          3 months

          That’s a good point… was just looking into how I’d go about backing up my post+comment history and the only answer is basically “you need to use a special tool that pretends to be a lemmy client and fetches your history item by item”. I guess “host your own instance and migrate to that” is another one.

          Which is surprisingly silly for what was supposed to be a more open platform than others. Heck, I can submit a GDPR request to Reddit and get a full dump of my account within the hour.

  • Reannlegge@lemmy.caEnglish
    3 months

    I was going to come in and say pihole, hands down as it got me into home labbing. But then I got reading some of the responses and my thoughts changed to Home Assistant because I can automate so much. An app that I had purchased to help me stay on top of my medications decided to go subscription so I was able to use HA to set up reminders to take my drugs go off on my watch which I would turn into reminders to do so much more. Than I thought Docker, because it is so much easier to install things with docker. Than I thought OpenWRT because I now have a real firewall that I can do so much more with than my ISPs dinky little thing. I was almost ready to reply when I read your question over again and I saw you mention the *arr stack and Jellyfin, which got me thinking how much I love that. Which reminded me of someone saying immich. I have to go for some blood letting today so I keep my blood req in paperless. I self host nextcloud and that is one thing I am looking at finding alternatives to but all that being said picking one is like picking a favourite family member, sure some you may like more than others but you are never going to tell which one.

    • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3 months

      100%. Home Assistant has proven to be incredibly useful in my house. My wife loves it for the laundry notifications, the fact that I essentially replaced Life360 with it (Traccar, really, but it ties into HA so nicely), and the automated lighting: our basement (the younger kids’ play area), and themed lighting for the outdoor lights.

      We’ve been fighting tangled toilet flapper chains over the last few years. The tangled chain keeps the flapper from closing, which causes the tank to continuously run into the bowl, which causes my water bill to skyrocket if gone unnoticed (we have 5 kids, 4 toilets, and the chains get tangled no matter what I do: new chain, longer chain, shorter chain, different type of chain/string/twine, etc… I blame the hard water). I finally got fed up, so I bought and installed a zigbee water level sensor for each toilet tank, then whipped up an automation which notifies us via Android’s “alarm_stream” notification channel if a sensor has been dry for longer than a few minutes. That channel overrides DND, and I am going to add an entry to ping my HA Voice thing as well in case we don’t have our phones on us.

      • InputZero@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 months

        I had the same problem with a toilet. I replaced the chain with a rod made from thick copper wire I had leftover. Works like a charm, doesn’t get jammed open anymore.

      • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3 months

        You should really up your game and buy some ESPs and servo motors to jiggle the toilet handles when the toilets are running.

        • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3 months

          I did, actually! Got a couple ESP32s set up for Bermuda, but I’m having a hard time figuring out how to make it…work.

          • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            3 months

            Maybe use ESPHome on to run the servo back and forth a few times and have an automation in Home Assistant to trigger the servo when it detects the toilet running. The hard part would probably be getting power near the toilet and connecting the servo to the handle in some fashion.

            https://esphome.io/components/servo/

  • communism@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3 months

    Email’s probably the most satisfying. I learnt a lot in setting up my own email server, and it’s nice being in complete control (well, of my end of things at least, ofc not of the other person’s end) of such an essential service.

    • weps@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      Damn, never heard anyone enjoy hosting e-mail servers

      that’s crazy though

      • communism@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3 months

        Tbh was quite painless for me! Had a few hiccups but it was educational to troubleshoot them, and once it’s up and running, I haven’t had to touch it for the most part. Had to update my Dovecot configs when they changed the config syntax but that’s all I can think of. And will probably see about switching from spamassassin to rspamd because I swear spamassassin has so many false positives no matter how many false positives I feed to it to train it. But it’s really not so bad, and I would recommend it as a decent learning opportunity for folks who like tinkering with computers.

      • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 months

        There are some decent packages out there like MailCow, Mailu, there’s another one for Docker, but it escapes me. I’ve tried, and failed. From what I understand, it takes a level of dedication.

  • amorpheus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    Plex. Right now we’re on vacation and can chill out with our current shows before bedtime, watching on the TV of the relative hosting us. No fuss. Aside from Movies and TV Series it also holds my music collection, Plexamp is awesome.

    I’ve not gotten very deep into selfhosting due to priorities and time but I look forward to trying Immich as well as Home Assistant in the future.

  • EonNShadow@pawb.socialEnglish
    3 months

    PiHole on old laptops started the journey for me

    Now I’ve got all sorts of things, most visible are Plex and Audiobookshelf. The most useful to me personally is Headscale for what at I assume are obvious reasons.

    I’d like to use Matrix more but that requires some buy-in from friends.

    I ostensibly use this as a means of continued education for myself, but really it’s because I enjoy using/learning about open-source software and creating my own ecosystem outside of “big tech”

    I’ve got it all set up in a way that really works for me, which is all that really matters in the end.

  • idk (she/her)@szmer.infoEnglish
    3 months

    sftp, few of my friends have access to a shared directory where we upload random stuff

    • whelk@retrolemmy.comEnglish
      3 months

      Man I miss the days of my friend group FTP server. I might have to look into this, but getting anyone to participate is going to be the real trick

  • lemonuri@infosec.pubEnglish
    3 months

    I still love getting messages via xmpp from friends and family using my own snikket/ejabberd instances after years of use. Calls as well.

    Video conferences via jitsi meet fill my heart with joy since the covid epidemic. These are also xmpp based. It’s just a cool lightweight protocol.

    • unitedwithme@lemmy.todayEnglish
      3 months

      I wish Snikket could work on Yunohost! 😢 I have a core i5-10500T and 32GB RAM Ynh server with planty of resources to spare. Would be nice!

      • lemonuri@infosec.pubEnglish
        3 months

        I wish Snikket could work on Yunohost! 😢 I have a core i5-10500T and 32G

        Well yunohost seems to support prosody, that should work very well. Snikket is basically just prosody with some extensions preinstalled. If you want an xmpp server on yunohost you could just install prosody or alternatively run snikket in a docker container. Prosody might even be easier to setup if you can install it via the yunohost gui.

    • motruck@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3 months

      XMPP is nice but even with all of the quality of life extensions it definitely feels clunky. I tried switching to it recently from matrix and while matrix leaves a lot to be desired I found it was more useful in its current form than XMPP.

      • unitedwithme@lemmy.todayEnglish
        3 months

        I use a jmp.chat # w Snikket server on Cheogram. Calls handling through native dialer. Works pretty well minus kicking off group chats with mixed users.