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Since selfhosted clouds seem to be the most common thing ppl host, i'm wondering what else ppl here are selfhosting. Is anyone making use of something like excalidraw in the workplace? Curious about what apps that would be useful to always access over the web that aren't mediaservers.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

I like seeing the same question pop up at least every few months to get fresh opinions, thats like 2 years old ppl could have scrapped their setup and have new ones now

[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago (2 children)
  • Matrix server
  • Element web GUI
  • NocoDB for various Mini databases and forms
  • Joplin server
  • KanBan Board
  • Mealie to store recipes
  • Grocy as a home ERP
  • Grafana for various metrics
  • Home Assistant
  • NodeRed(non HA, different node)
  • InfluxDB
  • Zabbix for monitoring
  • Vaultwarden
  • etherpad
  • Technitium DNS
  • A NTP server
  • Mesh Central
  • A win11 VM with RDP
  • paperless NGX
  • calibre Web (or does that count as Media already)
  • Agent DVR
  • Spoolmann
  • OrcaSlicer via Browser(linuxserver.io)
  • Omada Controller
  • Univention to bring everything together
  • netbox to document half of the shit
  • wiki.js to document the other half

Honestly,I think I have a problem.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

You have all the solutions lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

It sounds like it, but there are a few things I still need to do.

  • AMP Gamemanager to get better control of the servers for the kiddos

  • Codeproject AI for better image recognition with agent dvr

  • A proper voice AI setup with HA

  • I need to get my PBX setup going again

  • I will soon clean up my media and storage solution and move to TrueNAS

And I need to automate more. One day....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Can confirm you have a problem. I mean, you have two services to document your stuff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Yeah, but Netbox is really really neat to document cabeling, IPAM, the rack and does asset management as well with a plugin.

But it's really hard to document HOWTOs in it. And wiki.js is really a bad idea for the former.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

Joplin. I have it as a sync server. But have it tucked away in a cloud server for the times when I'm traveling so j always have a way to access data in case my phone gets stolen/confiscated.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Storyteller, ever wish you could listen to an Audio book and read an ebook at the same time.

Storyteller can combine an Audio book and and ebook to create a single ebook that can be read like a normal ebook or you can listen to it and watch the actively spoken sentences highlighted in real time like a karaoke song lyrics.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

This is pretty neat!

https://storyteller-platform.gitlab.io/storyteller/docs/intro/what-is-this

Sounds like you need both the audio and the ebook to make it work?

I typically only have one or the other.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

Yes you need to provide both an Audio book and an ebook as inputs, if you only have one of these, you could try getting the other from your local library, or you could sail the seas. It's not a fool proof process, so sometimes you have to try different formats of Audio books to make it work, also depending on how beefy your computer is, it will take some time to process, 1-2 hrs for big books like Stormlight Archive on my laptop

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Ombi for media requests.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Depends on what you consider self-hosted. Web applications I use over LAN include Home Assistant, NextRSS, Syncthing, cockpit-machines (VM host), and media stuff (Jellyfin, Kavita, etc). Without web UI, I also run servers for NFS, SMB, and Joplin sync. Nothing but a Wireguard VPN is public-facing; I generally only use it for SSH and file transfer but can access anything else through it.

I've had NextCloud running for a year or two but honestly don't see much point and will probably uninstall it.

I've been planning to someday also try out Immich (photo sync), Radicale (calendar), ntfy.sh, paperless-ngx, ArchiveBox (web archive), Tube Archivist (YouTube archive), and Frigate NVR.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Immich and Radicale definitely recommended. I've still got paperless-ng and plan to move to paperless-ngx as soon as I find the time. I've also got firefly-iii which is a big revolution to how I manage personal finance. Even my 17 old son has got into it ... He couldn't understand where all his hard earnings were going.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

SearXNG, Forgejo, Linkwarden, Vaultwarden, copyparty, all the Servarr apps, qBittorrent and SABnzbd for downloads, Syncthing, Mastodon, and all the various containers like databases and other tools that support the aforementioned.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

searxng an matrix both on a vps an public an everything else i host local an are not on the web

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