Selfhosted

My job let me buy a bunch of Pis to set up a cluster for a demo so I’m having a lot of fun

Helle there ! It's still Saturday here :p !

I recently setup weechat (IRC) and learned about bouncers. From what I understand it's similar to a proxy but with backlogging IRC conversation. I'm still new to it and have a lot a new things to learn.

I'm thinking to self-host my personal bouncer on some cheap VPS.

Other than that was busy with encoding with av1an and encode my bluray library to AV1 codec :).

I also recently self-hosted metube (yt-dlp web frontend) to download some music from RiMusic. Still need to work on a shortcut with HTTPS shortcut on Android !

I have recently setup my paperless-ngx instance and have uploaded all my scanned documents. Now I have to tag all that stuff which seems like a lot of work. So I'm looking into paperless-ai... 🧞

Crazy enough, I have everything going that I want to on my server!

• *arr suite and jellyfin
• traefik reverse proxy with crowdsec + bouncer for some sites (e.g. not documents or media)
• paperless-ngx for documents
• immich for photos
• leantime to manage personal projects
• Book stack for a personal wiki
• calibre-web for my library
• syncthing for file and music syncing so I don't have to stream music
• valheim server for me and my friends
• boinc for turning my server to a productive heater in the winter
• home assistant for my in-renovation smart home

As far as my server goes, I have everything I need. Maybe setting up something for sharing files over the web if needed. I used nextcloud for that before it killed itself completely and I realized I never really needed it.

Next is working on my smart home because we had to fully strip the house to renovate. KNX first, zwave for things that KNX doesn't have or are crazy expensive, ESPHome for everything that the other two can't accomplish. Minimal 2.4GHz interference and don't have to rely as much as possible on flaky wireless in a brick house.

Slowly building up my self hosted test env in a VM on my gaming PC.

Most recently playing with homepage so I don't have to remember as many sub domains.

Eventually I will get the *arr stack going so my jellyseerr instance is more automated.

If hardware service counts. :) I have been fighting for the last few months with my Promxox server telling me a drive went read only , from a SSD and even a HDD, very odd behavior and it finally pulled the last straw with me last Thursday. I had a 4TB drive acting as my Storage/backup drive which this complained about so I put a 1TB drive in which is pretty much 2 yrs old so plenty of life on it.

I went through and tested the SSD with extended tests and it passed with flying colors, so it dawned on me, maybe it's the SATA data cable, and sure enough, it was. When I had run the sudo smartctl -x -T permissive /dev/sdb it only presented very little information on it, swapping the cable and it now presents the full SMART data and stats as it should. Additionally, it's been more stable with the performance so far. So I call that a win.

In the software side, I have been going through the Home Assistant instance and removing dead/old entities I never had gotten to removing

I spun up a new Plex server with a decent GPU - and decided to try offloading Home Assistant's Preview Voice Assistant TTS/STT to it. That's all working as of yesterday, including an Ollama LLM for processing.

Last on my list is figuring out how to get Home Assistant to help me find my phone.

I lost all my inpsiration after my last install. I've literally just got immich and a raid array. I want to add a few things:

• Public facing website
• Jellyfin
• VPN server
• Individuous
• XMPP

I. Build a PC for video editing because it was becoming impossible to do on the laptop. I realized that I can use the GPU also to run large language models myself.

So this week I've been setting up ollama and Open WebUI to be able to move some of my queries I ask ChatGPT and ask them on my computer, even if I'm away.

This way I don't need to send sensitive data to the USA and China. It works quite well but I only can use smaller models up to 14B because of the 12 GB VRAM my graphics card only has.

I'm eternally sitting here putting off migrating my homelab from docker to rootless podman due to some rather janky patterns I use. It might be super smooth or it might not so instead I just wait in endless decision paralysis

I have setup a immich docker container and am slowly moving users and images from google photos.

Looking for a self-hosted period tracking app with companion android app. Have done literally zero investigation at this point but it's on my todo.

I'm currently half way thru building a ZFS array using (5) 8tb Ironwolf Pro drives. I'm modelling and 3d printing a custom drive cage with brackets to hold them all inside the shitty Dell tower case I have dedicated to it. Hoping I can get it done sometime Sunday, I'm on V2 of the drive cage print and it takes like 8 hours to do lol.

Why is it so hard to send large files?

Obviously I can just dump it on my server and people can download it from a browser but how are they gonna send me anything? I'm not gonna put an upload on my site, that's a security nightmare waiting to happen. HTTP uploads have always been wonky, for me, anyway.

Torrents are very finnicky with 2-peer swarms.

instant.io (torrents...) has never worked right.

I can't ask everyone to install a dedicated piece of software just to very occasionally send me large files

I'm starting to see mastodon users on my tiny pixelfed server. It's such a good feeling.

On the sad side, my Lemmy update went south and I had to remove it off my setup. Still looking for a good replacement for max two users. Something dirt simple like GoToSocial turned out to be.

Installed grocy on a server and magic mirror on a pi. Now we can track all the daily tasks of life which makes my wife happy

I've gotten a CalDAV server, audiobookshelf, and selfhosted obsidian live sync running on my laptop while I wait for movers to bring my shit to my house. Then gotta migrate it all across to my mini PC afterwards. Doing a modular NixOS setup to replace/complement what I used to have running on proxmox.

Once everything is on a dedicated machine I'm going to make a nice little homepage for it, inspired by a previous thread here.

Working on Smart Playlists for Pinepods I'm the developer of the self-hosted podcast management server and Sunday is always my new feature day. I've had a lot of fun adding in new features lately. Like designing a homepage and adding OIDC login support. Don't let anybody tell you auth isn't fun.

Set up paperless-ngx and cannot get my scanner to send a scan to a FTP server. It supposedly supports sending to FTP but doesn't have much documentation for it. I've tried FTPS, SFTP, and unsecured FTP. Both secure types just cause it to error out. But with unsecured the scanner just freezes then reboots. Really annoying me. I'm about to give up and just scan to s USB thumb drive then copy the scans to the server.

I changed my proxmox server from zfs raid pool to software raid with mdadm. Saved me a ton of ram and cheap ssd's don't really like zfs, so it's a win win. And while messing around with drive setups I also changed the system around a bit. Previously it had only single ssd with LVM and 7x4TB drives with zfs but as I don't really need that much storage it's now running 3x1TB SSD + 4x4TB HDD, both with software raid5 so 2TB of fast(ish, they're still sata drives) storage and 12TB (or 10,6 in the real wold, TB vs TiB) of spinning rust storage.

Well enough for my needs and I finally have enough fast storage for my immich server to maintain all the photos and videos over 20+ years. Took "a while" to copy ~5TB over 1gig lan to other system and back, but it's now done and the copying didn't need babysitting in the first place, so not too big of a deal. Biggest unexpected issue was that my 3,5" hdd hotswap cradles didn't have option to mount 2,5" drives so I had to shut down the server and open the case to mount the drives.

And while doing that my piHole was down, so the whole network didn't have DNS server around. I'd need to either set up another pihole server or just set up some scripts to the router to change DNS offerings to dhcp clients while pihole is down and shorten the lease time to few minutes.

Scripting enlarging 2400 10x10 png files to 512x512 Stable Diffusion generated images that look like high resolution cityscapes in the style of Salvador Dali. I can't get the API to spit out a single image.

I've got a project to look forward to. Have my Proxmox server with a UPS, running NUT to watch the battery percentage and power down gracefully if the % gets too low. I have Home Assistant watching that so it's supposed to notify me before that happens. It's not notifying me though, so I gotta look into that. I know it's not working this morning because the power went out, so now I'm just sitting here theorizing instead of actually looking at it. 🙃

I had a bit of a hiccup with my Unraid server. It wouldn’t turn on, and I got so fed up that I decided to get rid of it. But now, I’m back on the hunt for a new home server OS, and I’m hoping to find one that’s easy to use and has a GUI. If you were in my shoes in 2025, which one would you pick?

Recently set up Nextcloud, but ran into trouble getting it to connect with a domain because of Starlink being the ISP. Found out about tailscale and have been getting things connected and accessible with Tailscale’s magic DNS that it uses.

Currently trying to figure out how to use the iOS tailscale app to connect to an exit node, which will be my server at home, but it’s not easy. Apparently it can be done through the shortcuts and automation on the iPhone, but can’t sort out a way to connect easily that doesn’t throw errors with no good documentation to say what I’ve done wrong.

My 8GB soquartz CM4 has a broken memory chip and I can't return it, so I am contemplating whether I should throw it in the oven and hope for the best or whether somebody wants to buy a half broken one unbaked ...

Finally managed to set up tvheadend with rebreoadcasted IPTV from a private group with functioning and automated import into jellyfin.
Works very well (if the IP stream doesnt crash)

Edit: Spelling mistake.
Additional info: Took me 3 weekends to figure out how it all works together, finding out that firefox browser neither on desktop nor android can play live tv on jellyfin (even with transcode) and that EPG is a bitch to get right with obscure tv stations.
And webgrabplus has asinine documentation. Meaning: non existant. Go figure it out yourself what each parameter means, lol)

Currently trying to figure out how to create and maintain an internal CA in order to enable pod to pod TLS communication, while using letsencrypt for my public ingresses.

Trying to get headrest working in docker. But backups end up filling my host drives docker volume with cached chunks.

Tried setting and volume mounting the cache dir but it still fills up.

Duplicacy worked though so might just stick with that. Just gotta try restoring files now.

Working on testing stalwart... And will need to organize and document properly my various nft rules and routing tables, because its slightly getting out of hand...

Attempting to get my lemmy instance going properly. Got it running on digital ocean but they don't allow outgoing email and reccomend a third party service. I decided to try out Hetzner and am getting errors saying that docker compose isn't installed when running the ansible script.