It’s Sunday somewhere already so why wait?

Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you found.

I’ll post my ongoing things later/tomorrow but I didn’t want to forget the post again.

  • verstra@programming.devEnglish
    37·
    9 days ago

    OpenWRT on a new router. The wifi works better, ethernet works up to 980Mbit/s and I don’t have all my traffic routed trough a Huawei device.

    And it allows you to configure everything.

    • kat@orbi.campEnglish
      131·
      9 days ago

      Running opnsense here and just plain having my own firewall is the coolest thing.

      • xantonin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        8 days ago

        I need to switch to OPN. Was on pfSense Plus until they csncelled the free licenses so I finally “downgraded” to pfSense CE and now I’m finding it hasn’t been updated in 2+ years and I’m really missing having DHCP hostnames being added to local DNS automatically.

    • jimmy90@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 days ago

      i just transitioned from a dedicated pfsense machine to openwrt LXC container in proxmox machine

      the idea is to have 2 or more openwrt instances in different proxmox machines for some HA routing to my self hosted subnet(s)

      going well so far and i think i know a lot more about routing (ha). openwrt is pretty great though.

      ps. i think i’m having issues with udp port forwarding but not sure

  • walden@sub.wetshaving.social
    21·
    9 days ago

    A couple of days ago, after testing it myself for a few months to make sure I understood how everything works, I made the switch to NextCloud Calendar, and will no longer use Google Calendar.

    This is the best part though… I somehow convinced my wife to do the same. She let me install the NextCloud app(optional for Calendar stuff but makes the setup easier) and DAVx5 on her phone (both from F-Droid, so DAVx5 was free). I exported and imported her calendar, and made sure the notifications were set up to her preferred default.

    It’s multiple days later, and she hasn’t complained!

    I’ve also moved all of my contacts over to NextCloud, but have yet to coerce my spouse to do the same.

    • Jeena@piefed.jeena.netEnglish
      8·
      9 days ago

      This sounds good, the partner acceptance factor is always one of the biggest struggles. Technology is easy :D

    • non_burglar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      9 days ago

      Which calendar client did you use?

      I thought the switch to nextcloud calendar was going to be simple, but davx is … Not a clean-cut app.

      • Did you find a way to sync from device to NC?
      • Were you able to merge Google’s dumb export of 3 calendars?
      • walden@sub.wetshaving.social
        2·
        9 days ago

        In a web browser I use the NextCloud one. It’s functionally very similar to Google and I like it a lot.

        For our Android phones, my wife uses the Google Calendar app, and I like Business Calendar Pro.

        Both apps you just have to go into the settings once DAVx5 has done the initial sync and uncheck all of the Google calendars so they aren’t shown, and check the boxes next to the new Calendars.

        Exporting and Importing I could only really easily do via the web browser for both.

        • non_burglar@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          9 days ago

          Sorry to pester you, but I’m confused: my google calendar app does not allow removing the original google calendar. How were you able to do so?

          And both of your installs can sync from device to NC? I have not been able to get around this… Only one-way sync from NC to davx to 3rd party android calendar.

          • walden@sub.wetshaving.socialEnglish
            3·
            9 days ago

            The Google account is still there, I’ve just hidden each of those calendars. New events seem to default to whichever calendar you used last (citation needed) so once you’ve created an event under the NextCloud account, it should default to that. The app I use (Business Calendar Pro) doesn’t even give the option if a particular calendar is disabled.

            As far as DAVx5, the default is to only sync every 4 hours. Phone to NC is instant (once DAVx sees the change), but NC to Phone has a delay. However!..

            I just set up the ntfy app to create instant two way sync both ways. It’s pretty slick. Dig around in the DAVx5 documentation about how that works. You install the DAV Push app on the NC server, ntfy on your phone, enable UnifiedPush in the DAVx settings, do a little dance, and then NC notifies DAVx every time there’s a change.

            Edit: you can also delete calendars from Google Calendar settings on the web, but this is obviously permanent. I think you can also totally remove Calendar from your account.

            Edit2: You can’t remove calendar from your account, only delete individual calendars.

    • riot@slrpnk.netEnglish
      7·
      8 days ago

      I feel you. I did not expect mine to crash but I am in Japan and streamed a movie from my server on the West coast of North America.

    • BigDaddySlim@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      The absolute bliss

      Same with me when I was in Brazil, it was chugging along just fine back in New England

  • N0x0n@lemmy.mlEnglish
    13·
    9 days ago

    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 !

      • N0x0n@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        9 days ago

        That’s wechat, and this confusion made it really difficult to find the right info on the web… Most search results were linking to the Chinese thing, uhhg !

  • EarMaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    9 days ago

    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… 🧞

    • tofuwabohu@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      6·
      9 days ago

      (pre ai) I found that adding a few, tagging them correctly and then adding the rest worked pretty good with auto tagging. Don’t know how much of a difference paperless-ai is going to make but it sounds interesting. I would just make sure to only plug in a selfhosted thing

  • node815@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    9 days ago

    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

    • kalpol@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      I dealt with a lot of time sinks like this running on consumer hardware. I got a Dell R720 and those problems all went away. Now I have a power and cooling problem. :D

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nlEnglish
    121·
    8 days ago

    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.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    9 days ago

    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.

  • pezhore@infosec.pubEnglish
    10·
    9 days ago

    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.

  • potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fishEnglish
    9·
    9 days ago

    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
  • OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.mlEnglish
    8·
    8 days ago

    I’m trying to figure out setting up TrueNAS scale and docker for the first time. Building a NAS and self hosting a few things from an old all in one mini PC.

  • Owljfien@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    9 days ago

    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

  • hiddenSin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    8 days ago

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

    • xantonin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 days ago

      Replacing Google Photos is still on my to-do list. How do you like Immich so far? Did you compare it to any alternatives?

      • kalpol@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 days ago

        Interested in this too - immich gets so much viral hype I’m a little suspicious of it

        • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          8 days ago

          I set it up a couple weeks ago. It’s alright; facial recognition works pretty well, the files are easy to manage, and setup was pretty straightforward (using docker).

          Searching for images works fairly well, as long as you’re searching for content and not text. Searching ‘horse’ for example does a pretty good job showing you your pictures of horses, but often misses images containing the word horse. Not always, but it’s noticeable to me.

          The mobile apps work well too; syncing files in the background as they appear, optionally creating albums based on folders. Two things I find missing though are the ability to edit faces/people in an image (you’ve gotta do that from a browser), and the ability to see what albums an image is in and quickly navigate to one.

          It’s a developing project that’s well on it’s way. A good choice imo.