hello!
I’m not sure if this is the correct place to post this (sorry if it isn’t) but I recently got really interested in selfhosting because I got mad about Spotify for various reasons. I ended up asking for a family member to help make a media server for me, because I was overwhelmed with all the information.
I ended up with Jellyfin, which I really like, but it only has music on it right now. the first song was one that is floating around but was never released, and Spotify keeps deleting it when people put it up. understandable, I suppose, but frustrating.
I have a few other things I’m trying out, I had asked for KitchenOwl and Shiori, as well as PhotoPrism. it’s hosted on what I’m guessing is some kind of HP thin client, I wasn’t able to get specifics out of the family member. they said that Tailscale was overkill for what I’m doing, but I’m sharing the servers with a partner who’s long distance, and I feel better about it than trying to manage exposing stuff to the internet.
I’m not crazy about KitchenOwl so far, and I was considering trying Mealie instead, does anyone have experience with that one?
I started playing with my Raspberry Pi 3, which I had sitting around doing nothing, and I’ve installed DietPi on that one and a new Raspberry Pi 4. before my family member got involved, I got pi-hole on the RPi 3, but I broke it once, and had to use the bash command before I started understanding what I was doing.
been going between apps, not able to find an RSS feed one I like, but I’ve managed to figure out Portainer a little, so I’m trying them out one by one.
most recent addition is Homarr, which I’m really enjoying so far! (despite having trouble installing it in Portainer) I like that it has little status icons for if an app is up or struggling. anyone else use a homepage?
I’ve been eyeing newer hardware for the main server but I don’t think it’s needed yet, so far I don’t seem to need transcoding? but we’ll see.
if anyone selfhosts, what’s your favorite app you have?
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I have been using Vikunja instead of Google Keep. I like the mix of todo list and kanban board. I also use audiobookshelf for podcasts and audiobooks, then calibre for regular books. And a very lightweight rss app.
I’m a little more advanced with selfhosting at this point though. I use a combination of intel NUCs (RIP) locally and Digital Ocean to run Kubernetes clusters. I have a whole setup with argocd, gitea, authentik, tekton, prometheus, loki, grafana, etc, etc. But its a been a learning process that started with a rpi too.
I highly recommend mini pcs for selfhosting. Especially the intel ones since they have quick sync which is a pretty good hardware transcoder. Not sure about AMD ones, they might have something similar.
Oh, I use homepage as a homepage, but there as so many and I sometimes switch around a lot. Its good to have variety there.
Termux so I can ssh into my server to see what I screwed up this time
valid, one day I’ll figure out ssh! until then I physically hook up my Raspberry Pis to my monitor.
Why not make that day today? Ssh is incredibly powerful, and for most use cases, really simple. Remotely managing the pi is certainly better than plugging it into a monitor
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-ssh-to-connect-to-a-remote-server
Jellyfin and Kavita are essentially the entire reason for my homelab server. I wish Kavita had an official reader app, but apart from that it’s absolutely perfect for my needs.
Like @DarkKronicle@beehaw.org, I’m using Mealie and it works for my needs. Another popular recipe app is Tandoor but last time I looked the setup was more complicated that what I wanted to get into.
For RSS, I’m using Miniflux which is very lightweight but has nice features.
Here’s a whole list of selfhosted apps: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted. I would recommend looking for apps that solve a problem you’re having vs. installing everything that looks interesting.
I don’t agree that Tailscale is overkill, it’s very quick to set up and allows me to connect with all of my services no matter where I am. I often check the ingredients for a recipe on Mealie while I’m at the grocery store for instance.
Here’s a few other communities to check out related to self hosting:
- !selfhosted@lemmy.world
- !selfhost@lemmy.ml
- !homelab@lemmy.ml
- !selfhosting@slrpnk.net
- !homelab@lemmy.cloudhub.social
Edit: Fixed my links. Thanks @BrikoX@lemmy.zip
