Since selfhosted clouds seem to be the most common thing ppl host, i’m wondering what else ppl here are selfhosting. Is anyone making use of something like excalidraw in the workplace? Curious about what apps that would be useful to always access over the web that aren’t mediaservers.

  • @[email protected]
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    Headscale

    Matrix server (conduwuit, soon to be tuwunel)

    Matrix bridges (slack, discord, whatsapp)

    Adguard

    Pihole

    Findmydevice

    Redlib

    Linkwarden

    Forgejo

    Ntfy

    Molly socket

    Home assistant

    Uptime Kuma

    There’s probably more that I’m forgetting lol

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    52 months ago

    Actually Budget for finances, Nextcloud for everything office and organization, Home Assistant for home automation, paperless–ngx for storing and sorting documents, freshrss for news, ntfy.sh for notifications.

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      i dont understand ntfy.sh

      you need an app to run to get messages? which you already do with home assistant and companion app or apprise. what is the usecase for ntfy?

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        Home Assistant notifications and almost all other notification services on phones actually route notifications through a cloud service like Firebase because Apple and Google try to railroad apps into their platforms. Ntfy lets you actually self host notifications without a third party, but also without killing your battery.

        That’s not the main thing I care about, though. Mainly I use it as a self hosted replacement for PushBullet, to share links and files with myself across machines and do some light alerting for servers and stuff (e.g. TrueNAS errors). Some of that could he done with HA, but ntfy is just better for some other uses with stuff like its web ui.

        Plus, apart from that ntfy is really easy to integrate with other stuff, like its easy to send a notification from a shell script or web hook so you can hack it into things that don’t otherwise support notifications (there are also lots of things that support ntfy natively, e.g. the arrs).

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          i cant follow your first paragraph. at all. i use companion app from fdroid withouth gsf and a selfhosted homeassistant. you could aswell connect apprise to it, you can uding telegram or whatever…all in homeassistant.

          ntfy iphone and google app from playstore do share your data, right? and you use that to share data in LAN? i am confused.

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            Not entirely sure about the de-google’d version of the Home Assistant companion app, but I know the regular companion app uses Firebase (and whatever the Apple equivalent is called, I forget) to deliver notifications, and it still would using Telegram as Telegram also uses Firebase. Apprise is a bit different as it can use multiple backends. Regardless, there are multiple ways to do things. Ntfy iphone and google app do not route your data through a third party server. I self host the ntfy server on my own machine and domain and my phone connects to it and receives data. It will deliver notifications wherever I am, not just in my LAN. It also provides a nice UI akin to Pushbullet I can use to send myself stuff privately.

            You can’t replicate all of what ntfy does with Home Assistant. There’s more to it than just delivering notifications, it’s the whole app frontend and persistent data etc. If it’s not clear to you what it’s for from my description you might have to go look into it yourself. Look at PushBullet, that’s most similar to what I primarily use it for.

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      Mealie is so underrated. They have meal planning, recipes, recipe parsing from the internet, grocery lists based on recipes and meal plans, like 4 different ways to organize recipes, and OIDC/SSO on top of it all!

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    • Immich backs up photos from my phone and camera with tagging and search
    • Archivebox is like a personal internet archive, I use it to save youtube videos and important memes
    • Homeassistant does home automation stuff, currently I only use it to turn the speakers on/off with the tv
    • Forgejo is a git host like Github, and can regularly pull external repositories to keep a personal mirror
    • Actual budget is a budgeting app, nice for tracking expenses across multiple accounts
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      Homeassistant is like shortcuts? You can have it do stuff if something else does something?

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        Home assistant is lights, switches, sensors, blinds, fans, heat/cooling, and more. I have an automation that tells me 5 minutes after the wash is done so I can move laundry into the dryer, and another one that tells me if anyone left the back door open, telling me to close it. (My dog can open it from outside).

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            Besides using the power consumption there are also various ways to integrate smart devices - e.g. Bosch Siemens HomeConnect directly and let “the house” react to it. For the later a “no cloud” local integration has become available as well.

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            I’ve got a tp-link smart plug that monitors power. The automation triggers when it draws less than a watt (a few minutes after it completes the cycle, it turns off). I have the duration set to 5m, so a slower soak cycle shouldn’t trigger it (not tested yet).

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              Hmm. Wonder if I can do this with my Eve plug.

              What are you using for the automation?

              Thanks :-)

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                Home assistant, it’s a standard trigger in the automations… Trigger type: power.

                Copying the yml is a pain on the phone

                Edit:
                mode: single Might be important, it feels important.

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      You made me actually check out Immich and I love the tagging feature. That makes it feel much more like a photo library and less like just a giant file storage solution that happens to store photos.

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    KitchenOwl is my latest addition and I am getting a lot of use out of it - s/o and I use it to share a grocery shopping list, slowly starting to add my recipes to it as well. I used to use a shared google keep list but KitchenOwl works a lot better.

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      Was trying this, but I’ve had issues with the app not properly synchronizing with the server. Does that work for you and if so, what’s your setup?

      Was supposed to replace “Bring” and due to the issues, currently using grocy, where sync works, but is otherwise very tedious to manage inventory.

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        Dang sorry to hear that - I just followed the docker compose instructions and setup Caddy (which was also new to me) on my VPS and I was off the races, no issues yet.

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          Alright, might have to do some deeper investigation for why it’s messing up. Anyhow glad to hear it does work in principle and it may be something I’m doing - thanks!

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    Vpn, nas, home assistant, dns, reverse proxy, adblocker, specialty controller units, misc project vms/containers.

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    • Calibreweb
    • FreshRSS
    • Grampsweb
    • Emacs
    • Gitea
    • Stirling-PDF
    • Vaultwarden
    • Pihole
    • Pyload
    • Glances
    • Syncthing
    • Homepage
    • Karakeep
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          Huh, what?

          I see in your link that that image has support for KasmVNC, which is great and you could use to make Emacs work…

          But the whole point of VS Code is that it can run in a browser and not use a remote desktop solution- which is always going to be a worse experience than a locally-rendered UI.

          I kinda expect someone to package Emacs with a JS terminal, or with a browser-friendly frontend, but I’m always very surprised that this does not exist. (It would be pretty cool to have a Git forge that can spawn an Emacs with my configuration on a browser to edit a repository.)

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            Exactly, since KasmVNC can run GUI programs in the browser and the Linux server.io base image is just Debian, it was trivial to just run it with Emacs instead. I much prefer Emacs over VS Code because of Org Mode. While VS Code works well in a browser. It isn’t what I wanted.

            Here is where I have posted my Emacs Dockerfile. It might be a little out of date. Emacs Docker

            EDIT: The Dockerfile also installs the fonts I like for Emacs along with git and hunspell.

            EDIT: You could also probably achieve something similar with a Docker container run ning Apache Guacamole.

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      I don’t often need to mess with PDFs but man StirlingPDF is just fantastic on the odd occasion that I do.

      Also, curious - what do you use a download manager like PyLoad for? I’ve seen stuff like this but never found a use case.

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        PyLoad isn’t a container I run 24/7 because the use cases are a bit limited. Basically, if I have a large list of files that I want to pass to my NAS (perhaps a list from something like DownThemAll) that won’t complete in a short sitting, I will pass that list to PyLoad so it can just run the background.

        I once downloaded about 2,000 or so office files and tools like this have let me do that automatically.

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    Calendar and contacts (i.e. CalDAV/CardDAV). A blog. Media is just remote-mounted since all my systems are Linux.

    I’m always leery of “one app for all” solutions, or in German, “eierlegende Wollmilchsau”.

    Hence, no Nextcloud for me.

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      Which Calendar software do you use?

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        Glad you asked. I left that open on purpose because my server probably got hacked and I have only just reinstalled. So far I’ve been using DaviCAL - for many years - but I’ll revise this choice. It’s a little dated and quirky, and so ist PostgreSQL which it depends on.

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      Currently working to move away from Nextcloud myself, it’s PHP nature causes IO storms when it tries to check if it needs to reload any code for incoming requests.

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        Eh, my Nextcloud LXC container idles at less than 4.5% CPU usage (“max over the week” from Proxmox). I use PostgreSQL as the backend on a separate LXC container that has some peaks of 9% CPU usage, but is normally at 5% too.

        I only have two users, though. But both containers have barely IO activity.

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          Oh yeah, CPU usage is basically zero, and memory usage of the PHP code itself is also basically nil compared to other software I run. It’s just the sudden storms of IO requests that causes issues, and since those come over a network pipe it causes issues for other pieces of software as well.

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            I see some CPU and memory usage on my setup… but I don’t even see any IO!

            Literally, the IO chart for “week (maximum)” on Proxmox for my Nextcloud LXC container is 0, except for two bursts, of 3 hours of less each. (Maybe package updates?)

            The PostgreSQL LXC container has some more activity (but not much), but that’s backing Nextcloud and four other applications (one being Miniflux, which has much more data churn).

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              Are you looking at data rates or IO operations? Because this is almost exclusively stat queries, i.e. inode queries.

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                I was looking at the Proxmox graphs. Now, looking at iostat, r/s measured over 10s hovers between 0 and 0.20, with no visible effect of spamming reload on a Nextcloud URL. If you want me to run any other measurement command, happy to.

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                  Interesting, that’s definitely not what I’m seeing from regular use. Are you running any added applications? LDAP? SSO? External mounts?

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          Yep, those values are actually somewhat tame compared to my own cache tuning, the issue remains that the code requires reloading PHP files from disk during runtime in order to support applications and updates, which - even if it doesn’t happen often - causes IO storms that temporarily break both Nextcloud as well as other software.

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            No. That is why I shared my configs. With opcache and opcache.validate_timestamps = 0 you don’t have this problem anymore.

            Of course you also need to enable opcache itself as well.

            Or you have really slow spinning disks or something. Also be sure to use php 8.4.

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              Again, it works until it requires reloading, i.e. the next update of any component or the next restart of the server.

              I’m also running an inode cache on the client side, on top of the persistent opcache, but due to the sheer number of files that Nextcloud consists of it still generates a frankly ridiculous amount of calls when it needs to invalidate the cache. If you’re running on local drives then that’s likely much less of an issue, regardless of what kind of drive it is, but this is hosted on machines that do not have any local storage.

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    I like to seed legal torrents for archival purposes. And run a comic server for syncing with my kobo ereader . Oh and rss

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    Storyteller, ever wish you could listen to an Audio book and read an ebook at the same time.

    Storyteller can combine an Audio book and and ebook to create a single ebook that can be read like a normal ebook or you can listen to it and watch the actively spoken sentences highlighted in real time like a karaoke song lyrics.

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      ever wish you could listen to an Audio book and read an ebook at the same time.

      Lol no? Absolutely not.

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        I don’t mean actively reading and listening to the audio book, think of it like English subtitles for a English movie. You can ignore them for the most part, until you hear something you didn’t quiet catch or you were not paying attention and missed something, it’s much easier to scroll back a little and read the text to catch up rather than play the part again. Happens a lot for me when listening to audio books. And rewinding the book to catch up on the part I missed is annoying, it’s better to just quickly read the last few lines instead.

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        Yes you need to provide both an Audio book and an ebook as inputs, if you only have one of these, you could try getting the other from your local library, or you could sail the seas. It’s not a fool proof process, so sometimes you have to try different formats of Audio books to make it work, also depending on how beefy your computer is, it will take some time to process, 1-2 hrs for big books like Stormlight Archive on my laptop

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    Besides a media server, I self host my email, a blog, an IRC bouncer, syncthing, SPFToolbox, and in my house I run ADS-B plane tracking.