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? 👀

  • sanzky@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago
    • 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)
    • flashgnash@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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?

      • sanzky@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        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

        • flashgnash@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Solar power? That’s pretty cool, do you use it exclusively or just to bring down energy bills?

          • sanzky@beehaw.orgEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Im still connected to the grid. The idea is to use as much as I can from my panels instead of the grid.

            • flashgnash@lemm.eeEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Fair the dream is to be completely off grid

              Probably the same for a lot of people here to be honest

    • QHC@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • sanzky@beehaw.org
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.

      • variants_of_concern@lemmy.one
        1·
        1 year ago

        the watchlist sync feature is amazing, I dont even go to overseerr anymore I just browse directly in plex now and add to watchlist

      • sanzky@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I use Plex on a daily basis, but Im testing Jellyfin from time to time. so I keep it htere

      • QHC@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.