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Tell me your most exotic selfhosted solution, the crazier, the better, no 0815 solutions! (alien.top)
submitted 9 months ago by ElevenNotes@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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I don’t want to hear about your Plex, your NPM, your notes application or science forbid, your budgeting application. I want to hear the most exotic thing you setup to selfhost, that probably only you and a hand full of people around the world actually use or even need. A problem that you solved in a way, that makes people go WTF. Go!

I’ll start: I live in the mountains, and there is snow, lots of snow. I often tell people “We had 3m of snow last year”, but is that really true? So, I thought to myself: Can you measure snowfall? It seems you can, so I setup a USH-9 ultra sound measuring device, connected it via IC2 to my Home Assistant and now I can tell people with confidence, that we had a total of 3.45m of snowfall last season, with max snow height of 60cm on January 5th.

Future project: I have chickens. They lay eggs. I have cameras. I want to know which hen lays how many eggs. Solution? AI image recognition of the hens (who is who) and if they have laid an egg. Any inputs welcome.

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[–] motulakin@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

10 years ago I had a problem: I burn wood to heat the house. The problem was that many times I had something else to do and couldn’t wait for the fire to go out and close the hatch that lets air in the boiler. If the hatch is left open the air goes thru the boiler and cools it down quicker.

The solution: I installed a raspberry pi with a usb cd drive. From the cd drive I tied a fishing line via the adjusting arm to the hatch. When the cd drive opens the hatch closes. I then host a website on the raspberry where I can push for example on ”Close the hatch after one hour” and it would do it.

It was a temporary solution and I have had parts for a better arduino solution for years, but here we are 10 years later.

[–] marxist_redneck@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

This is a PhD level hybrid of r/selfhosted , r/homeautomation and r/redneckengineering 😂. I keep some dead old scanners and printers for eventual projects that might require some little DC motors and such, but there you go and use a CD drive as an actuator. chef's kiss