Thinking of self-hosting some basic tools; SearxNG, Bitwarden, Lemmy.
What kind of tools are you self-hosting right now? Which ones are easy to manage, which ones are awkward? 👀
- Plex
- Tautulli
- Jellyfin
- Transmission
- Pihole (and DoH proxy)
- npm proxy manager
- Flexget (similar to radarr)
- bedrock minecraft servers
- Home Assistant
- TPLink Omada controller
- Netdata dashboard
- Portainer
- VSCode (web version, to easily edit files on my servers)
What’s the reason for both Plex and Jellyfin?
Sometimes one or the other has a recent updates that causes problems, or a random movie won’t play right. It’s rare, but since both connect to the same NAS where all of my media is stored, running both is pretty easy and it’s nice to have a backup.
I use Plex on a daily basis, but Im testing Jellyfin from time to time. so I keep it htere
I’ve never got what the point of Home Assistant is, seems to be it’ll talk to a load of smart devices and advertises you can control it with Alexa but at what point why not just have Alexa itsself control the devices?
Home assistant has plenty of use cases. it is not only controling devices but also a very powerful automation system. A couple of things I use it for:
-start my laundry only when I have enough solar power to power it
-notify me when my laundry is done
-track energy usage of many devices (heaters, washing and dishwashing machines, A/C,etc)
-let me know when to open or close my windows based on inside and outside temperature
-Force my water heater to turn on when I have solar power
-Expose non-homekit devices to homekit
Solar power? That’s pretty cool, do you use it exclusively or just to bring down energy bills?
Im still connected to the grid. The idea is to use as much as I can from my panels instead of the grid.
Fair the dream is to be completely off grid
Probably the same for a lot of people here to be honest
If you share your Plex library with friends and family like I do, highly recommend looking into Overseerr! I had tried using OMBI before but it was a pain to get set up–actually I never succeeded and gave up. Overseerr was very simple, just another Docker container like so many others, really. Integration with Radarr and Sonarr was seamless for me.
the watchlist sync feature is amazing, I dont even go to overseerr anymore I just browse directly in plex now and add to watchlist
thanks. I think I tried it some time ago but we end up never using it. we only watch it at home and my mother’s and she just text me when she wants something.
I believe I’m at 42 Docker containers now, lol. Some of the notable ones:
- Plex
- Vaultwarden
- Home Assistant (plus Node-RED, zwave JS, and mqtt)
- NPM
- Pihole
- All the “arr” stuff
- Nextcloud
- Portainer
- FreshRSS
There is a lot of support stuff too like MariaDB and orbital-sync.
I’m going to be working on Lemmy when I get back from vacation but I leave in like 2 hours so that’s going to have to wait, lol.
By in large, the docker makes it stupid easy for the vast majority of my containers and portainer makes it even easier since you can manage everything through a web UI.
Chad.
NextCloud and Pihole are definitely being added to my list. Does self-hosting NextDNS seem worthwhile to you? 👀
I don’t know that it’s really necessary to use both nextdns and pihole. You may look at a couple of comparisons and decide what’s best for you. I just use pihole (two of them actually, one in docker and one on an actual pi).
Is there something killer about FreshRSS that makes you host that rather than using the Nextcloud RSS reader support? I used to have TT-RSS before I dropped it and my filesyncinc stuff for Nextcloud.
Can home assistant be used without the ad-ons (I want to learn some smart home stuff, but do not want the overhead of a vm)
Yes it can, though it is easier to set some things up with the built-in addons. Most addons can be set up independently as docker containers (like z2mqtt or node-red) but may require additional configuration.
Question about Vaultwarden. How does sync work? My browser extension for Bitwarden auto syncs to their server, is that possible with Vaultwarden? Or is it more for manual backup?
It’s the same thing. There’s an option before you sign into the extension to choose a different server.
If you are using the arr stuff to download your Linux iso’s which vps you use or it is homelab?
FreshRSS
On an unrelated note, does anyone know if lemmy has rss?
Not by default that I am aware.
- PiHole
- NextCloud
Lemmy Jellyfin Wireguard so I can access my home network from outside
All three are easy to manage(so far).
Have you tried tailscale? It uses wireguard under the hood, but is much easier to connect multiple devices.
Yes, i have used tailscale. I just use wireguard alone because I find it has better performance in my experience.
That’s good to know. Perhaps I will start using wireguard for direct connections
Just Nextcloud on an intel NUC at the moment, bare metal.
Nginx Nextcloud Lemmy Emby HomeAssistant Paperless-ngx Podgrab Gokapi Snippet box Opnsense Deluge Pihole 3CX Omada SDN controller Gitea iredmail Hashicorp Vault Portainer Heimdal Firefox browser
- a few ancillary databases and management tools
I’m pretty happy with this lot and at the moment I’m not sure what I want to add. Perhaps some RSS reader, but I don’t think that’ll see much use tbh.
All Dockerized:
- Pihole
- Plex
- Lemmy
- Matrix
- SimpleLogin
- Ntfy
- Plex
- Photoprism
- FreshRSS
- Linkding
- Paperless
- Nextcloud
- Wallabag
- Syncthing
definately adding ntfy to my list
It is amazing, especially when you are on Android and use it as a unified push provider for other apps to circumvent Google as much as possible while saving battery power.
Off the shelf stuf:
- Lemmy
- Mastodon
- Tinc VPN (for retro gaming with friends)
- Nextcloud
- docker-mailserver (including roundcubemail)
- feedbin
- GitLab
- MediaWiki (set to private for personal notes)
- Minecraft
- Etherpad
- Munin
- Several wordpress instances for friends
Selfwritten:
- Discord bot that implements the basic rules for some TTRPGs
- Character generation tools for some niche TTRPGs
- Personal blog
- Signup website for a local community meetup
Not as much as I probably should be! I have a nice little Proxmox cluster, backed by a UPS and a beefy NAS, but mostly I use it for fussing around with stuff, playing with instances, nothing really mission critical.
- Debian
- ArchiveBox
- PostgreSQL (for my own stuff)
- Syncthing
- Miniflux
- GitWeb
Navidrome music server is really the only thing that I actually use. I love it.
Do you have any recommendations for Android clients? I use song titles rather than albums and I couldn’t find a client that was title oriented.
I use Symfonium. I typically organize and listen by album, but there is functionality for listing by title.
Not a ton of stuff, but I’m currently looking at some more, thanks to this thread.
At home:
- Open Media Vault on an RPi 4, with some containers, namely:
- qBittorrent
- PhotoPrism (not especially functional, more a proof-of-concept)
- mariadb
- PiHole on an RPi 3
- Volumio on RPi3s + DAC (x2)
On a Singapore-based VPS:
- Nextcloud
- Open Media Vault on an RPi 4, with some containers, namely:
I’ve got a Synology NAS running Home Assistant and basic NAS stuff (mostly backing up NextCloud).
I’ve got a Linode (might move if I get less lazy) running NextCloud, and a setup for a Minecraft server I haven’t run for years. That NextCloud server replaced BTSync/Syncthing and TTRSS servers, and also now does my password syncing via KeePass, and contacts through webdav.
- Nextcloud. Not too complex but I feel like it’s getting heavier month by month and I’m scared of having it turn into full-fledged bloatware. It already has an autoplaying video in the about screen so the slope is getting ever so much slippier…
- Forgejo, swapped from Gitea just a while ago. They’re more or less identical but I have stronger trust in Codeberg
- Nitter
- Some half-assed nginx build with nginx-http-flv so I can stream stuff between friends. It works OK but it feels like there’s newer better options, I just haven’t cared to look into it
- Weird half-assed email setup that does conform to all funky modern bells and whistles somehow despite being an unholy mixture of Postfix, rspamd, Dovecot and Maddy. I’m scared to touch any part of it. Not used for anything too overly serious
- Headless qBittorrent but I don’t think I’ve actually used it in years
Ha, sounds like you’re doing alright. Just don’t poke anything XD
- Owncloud (want to migrate to nextcloud)
- Plex
- Gmod Server
- Mc Servers
- Home Assistant
- Pihole
- Gitlab
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- Mastodon
- Kbin
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- Simple Website (grocery list, notes, etc…)
