Selfhosted

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

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

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've been slowly, but steadily, migrating the services I run on my TrueNAS CORE (FreeBSD) from Jails to Debian VMs so I can migrate to TrueNAS 25 (no more SCALE it seems, and Linux) around April without many hurdles, hopefully.

Besides having to learn some systemd, it has been a smooth ride.

Now I'm down to the last 2 services, which I think are the most complicated setups I have and with no nice deb packages to ease installation: Paperless-ngx and Photoprism.

I'll probably look into playing with Containers (LXC/Incus) to have the same lightweight and efficiency as Jails once the migration to Linux is done. But honestly, if everything is running nicely, I won't be very motivated to do so, let's see.

I’m 3 time zones away from my server and it hasn’t crashed yet after being gone for 3 days. I’m very proud of it.

Set up an instance of Supabase for an application I'm building that needs a REST backend. So far, so good, using it's Auth functions for OTP login and they work well.

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.

I bought a coral tpu and setup frigate. I've been tweaking the alerts and motions. Moving home assistant notifications from reolink to frigate. Was thinking of singing up for frigate+ for additional animal objects. Has anyone signed up for frigate+? Is it worth it?

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

Tried to setup custom domains using Nginx Proxy Manager and Let's Encrypt DNS-01 challenges so I wouldn't have to open any ports and it worked!... except not really?

Proxy Manager shows everything was successful but the domains don't go anywhere. It seems to be because the TP-Link router from my ISP does DNS Rebinding protection... with no option to turn it off apparently... why......

So now I don't know where to go. I'm not really fancying hosting DNS myself but if I can't fix this any other way then I guess I'll do it. Or maybe I should ditch the ISP TP-Link and get something I could flash OpenWRT on?

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.

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.

Still haven't properly set up my backups ... Have my Nextcloud on a zfs (single disk sadly) and want to send it to a server at my parents place (also zfs) but both are behind NAT. While I've successfully set up wireguard between the two, but the connection won't stay up so there's still a ways to go till I got a happy off-site Backup.

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.

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?

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

We finally got our music server set up after a lot of finagling with wireguard. It's really cool; we have slsk-dl set up to batch download our playlists from Soulseek, which we can then play in Jellyfin. Next I'm gonna set up Nextcloud for backing up photos, projects, the whole shebang.

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.

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.

still learning truenas. i think I've figured out nextcloud which is basically a nightmare whenever I've had to install it

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 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... 🧞