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Offsite backups.

I was going to say … someone who knows what to do when it all comes crashing down ..

What should every self-hosted household have? a back up

Caddy. A reverse proxy / web server with automated LE certs that is easier than this does not exist.

A proper firewall

Pi-hole

It's the simplest and most useful addition.

I don't have anything to share about services around the house, but to answer your question about Immich import of existing libraries, it looks like you can do that now according to the latest update!

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/170owzc/immich_selfhosted_photos_and_videos_backup/

Home Assistant and LMS (Logitech Media Server) are the two things that are permanently displayed on the hallway touchscreen and they are used all the time by everyone in our household. There are more things like Seafile and E-Mail that are being used heavily, but HA and LMS are the most "visible".

Pi-hole, Home Assistant and Jellyfin.

Mealie is nice and useful but it’s not been updated in a while and mine doesn’t import from 3rd party sites correctly very often these days. It could do with a little TLC to be fair.

/u/puckpuckgo LibrePhotos can import photos. There is a nice Linux client for it.

Jellyfin! It was the reason why I got into self hosting in the first place.

Awareness of security and vulnerabilities.

Hosting anything is easy doing it secure is the hard part.

DNS blockers (AdGuard or PiHole).

Vaultwarden for me and my gf. No more compromises on password length and the peace of mind of having everything stored on your machine

I like Mealie too, just installed it the other day. I also found a companion app for Android that add it to the Share-with button so if you are browsing a recipe on your phone, you can share it to Mealie and it will import it for you.

well don't forget backups...

The wife (or whoever does the cooking and shopping) is actually so organized that he/she uses an app to plan everything?! My wife wouldn't even have her windows desktop tidy.

Sorry off topic. I haven't found one that's impactful for the whole family. The most important might be the photo backup app (currently synology photos, might be immich later on), but I just configure it for my wife so that she forgets about it and the backup runs silently in the background. I recently retired an old synology nas to my parents and configured it for them too.

UPS and Backup system

Vaultwarden. With all the password breaches who trust anyone with your passwords?

Tested Backups 🤣

Adguard here

Homer - as your dashboard with links to everything you host. My wife has it bookmarked and from there can access anything else we host.

Does mealie have a simple storage-system? Like, whats the stock on rice and noodles and whatever at home for the recipe?

I looked at grocy and its incredible bloated and complicated to set up. If grocy would have a set of default-stuff included it would probably be amazing but the set up process is... annoying.

/u/apperrault as well maybe?

I think Immich is now able to work with pictures in an existing folder structure.

Immich (yes you can add external libraries now), pihole, jellyfin, backups.

Pihole or DNS-Blocker at all. My girlfriend tells everyone that she can watch content on the internet without ads. I guess I can’t get a bigger approval rating than that.

Some kind of photo management and backup system. I never went the Google Photos route and am now very happy with using Synology Photos and doing backups of my entire diigital life with Synology Hyperbackup. Works great even when NOT exposing it to the internet.

And of course Jellyfin for media streaming.

Photo backup I use Amazon photos for that since it’s free with my prime account I just pay for the video space I back that up at my house and my wife’s office

I'm also on the Mealie train, it's a great little program.

What version are you running? For whatever reason I have had a heck of a time getting v1 to run, though I haven't dedicated too much time for troubleshooting it yet.

Does Mealie have a setting for European measurements? I have no idea how much a cup is.

Tandoor recipes is another good meal planning app. I picked it because it seemed to have more features than mealie at the time. Don't know how it compares now.

My number one is going to be my firewall, OPNsense. I would not use the ISP provided one. I'm, also, using this firewall VM as my reverse proxy, radius, ad blocker, DNSSec, DoT, etc.

The second one would be my hypervisor, Proxmox. I use three NUC8 cluster with ZFS replication for my critical VMs such as the OPNsense, FreePBX, and some.

I'd say that a local storage for family photos is essential. With backups.

Dpending on where you live, CCTV

Shinobi CCTV works great - it's just a fancy wrapper around FFmpeg

Immich is another great recommendation for when you've used up all of your Google Photos storage

Cloudflare Tunnels. Let’s you take anything fun you find at home and use it anywhere. Opened the doors for Home Assistant, immich, and more!

Ad blocking at the network.

Backups. Make sure everyone knows iCloud, etc, are syncs and not backups.

Syncthing + Cryptomator

And Pi-Hole. Everyone else saying it is right. It’s a must-have.

Hasura

I have separate db instances for all my containers, and having a graphql I can hit on all the databases is nice for integrations

Arr arr arrrrrr ;-) The full stack with qbittorrent and sabnzbd + Jellyfin. Winter is coming after all.

Proxmox (or any Hypervisor). Without it, my life would be miserable.

This is exactly the thread I love to see. Thanks for sharing.

Syncthing, VPN, firewall/adblocker

Backup strategy

Photoprism to keep your photos out of the cloud :)

Immich actually got the import existing feature very recently. Changelog here

We have Plex running a lot most days between my large cache of FLAC music and TV/Movies in the evenings.

I also feel the pain of having to exclude the spouse from my AD blocking devices as it annoys her.

The family has been using Kavita a lot for all our ebook collection and I can lock down things for my younger readers nicely.

Home Assistant

Definitely the best next step

It's amazing how simple automations with some cheap ir motion sensors and self hosted tracking phones to see who is home /no one home to save energy on lights and heating

Add the internet DVR *arr + jellyfin stack and you have a true smart home

Homeassitant, Vaultwarden, omv, AdGuard, Jellyfin, NPM, Nextcloud…

Pi hole for all phones