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[–] 52 points 7 months ago (3 children)

1% CPU usages, 50% RAM usage. That checks out.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I'm guessing that a good chunk of that usage is coming from the TrueNAS VM.

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  • [–] 25 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    I'm always at awe when people do this for their home like I've been managing infra for almost two decades and don't have even quarter of the things some people install and manage. It looks overwhelming to be honest.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I've been managing infrastructure for over 3 decades and I don't have this.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I have something like homegrown pihole (dnsmasq with block lists) , jellyfin, qbittorrent and nfs/smb share. Everytime when such a post appears there is this irrational desire to create cool monitoring and homepage and homeassistant. Never materialises into anything, after all there is always emacs that requires tinkering if needed. :3

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    A lot of professional chefs I know, when at home, either don’t cook much or eat garbage. Might the same principle haha.

    If it’s your job, it’s probably the last thing you want to do when you’re off the clock.

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  • [–] 18 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    How are your backups doing?

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    I only backup specific folders in my NAS and some of my service DBs. I have test restored some files from Backblaze without issue. With Backblaze you pay for pulls, so I only chose to restore some small files to test restoral. TrueNAS encrypts the data before it goes to Backblaze and then Backblaze also encrypts the data in the buckets on their end, so double encrypted. I don't have another on site copy so not really following the 3,2,1 rule. I figure RAID and an off-site backup is enough for me.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago

    That’s pretty sick, kudos!

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    This is such a good way of organizing services. Thanks!

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    The most difficult part of homepage is trying to search if someone else has difficulties/ideas with it, outside of its github issues.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Looks great OP! If I hadn't chose Homar long ago, it would definetly be the one I'd use. Homarr will do some metrics like Homepage. What kind of 3d printer do you have?

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    I have a Prusa Core One+ that I just got and built recently, don't have anything for it on the homepage. Then the Octoprint is on a Pi 3B plugged into my Prusa MK3S+. I've been trying to sell the MK3S+ because I don't have room for them both, but not getting any takers.

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  • [–] [B] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    HA Home Assistant automation software
    ~ High Availability
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage
    SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
    VPN Virtual Private Network
    ZFS Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity

    6 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 14 acronyms.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    How do you find dockge over portainer? I tried it but it uses more resources and i couldn’t individually start/stop apps in a stack. It was all or nothing.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 7 months ago

    I only recently started using it, honestly couldn't say. I've never used portainer. I just started using dockge because that's what the guide I was following for the arr stack was using. Still haven't finished the arr stack setup yet. I did stand up changedetection with dockge though because trying to set it up in TrueNAS was a pain in the ass when trying to get it to play with playwright correctly.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    How do you find dockge over portainer?

    I've used it briefly, and then went back to Portainer. I had no real complaints about dockge, other than I could drive the Portainer bus more efficiently and it just seemed to fit my flow. There are quite a few here that use dockge tho, so it must be a capable app.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Are you hosting a calendar?

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Honestly I would love to, but getting my family off of all of the other corpo cloud stuff is still a work in progress. Also, I only have VPN access configured currently so when they need to access self hosted stuff remotely they have to remember to turn on the VPN and that seems to be hard for them to remember. I have Tasker configured on my phone so it just auto VPNs when I leave my house. I would set that up for them, but they complain whenever I try to help.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    How have they been with accepting Home Assistant (assuming you use it for home automation)?

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 7 months ago

    Really the only thing I use it for currently are 2 smart plugs to turn my turtle's lights on/off on a schedule. Replaced some amazon plugs with some ESP32 plugs. I plan on doing more if/when we move into our forever home.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (12 children)

    Could you point to how you get something like this started?

    I run Home Assistant on a RPi4 but have a capable computer I would love to use for self hosting, especially immich.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Look up some youtube videos on self hosting. For Immich I just mostly followed their guide on their site. Really depends on what you want to do and how you want to do it.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    Look into docker containers in general. If I was going to start from scratch in your position this is what I'd do:

    Install a Linux distribution on the computer you plan to use for self hosting. I found Debian with the KDE plasma desktop environment to be pretty familiar coming from Windows. You could technically do most of this on Windows but imo self hosting is pretty much the only thing that a casual user would find better supported through Linux than Windows. The tools are made for people who want to do things themselves and those kinds of people tend to use Linux.

    Once you have a Linux distribution installed, get docker set up. Once docker is set up, install portainer as your first docker container. The steps above require some command line work, which may or may not be intimidating for you, but once you have portainer functional you will have a GUI for docker that is easier to use than CLI for most people.

    From this point you can find the docker installation instructions for any service you want to run. Docker containers have all the required dependencies of a given service packaged together nicely so deploying new services is super easy once you get the hang of it. You basically just have to define where the container should store it's data and what web port you want to access the service on. The rest is preconfigured for you by the people who created the container.

    There's certainly more to be said on this topic, some of which you would likely want to look into before you deploy something your whole family will be using (storage setup and backup capability, virtual machines to segregate services, remote accessibility, security, etc). However, the above is really all you need to get to the point where you can deploy pretty much anything you'd like on your local network. The rest is more about best practices and saving yourself headaches when something breaks than it is about functionality.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    Dont do this. OP built a security nightmare

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (5 children)

    OP built a security nightmare

    How so?

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Docker will happily download malicious containers. It doesn't use cryptography to verify what it downloads during the layer pull.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Just speak to me like I’m a dumb person, but what the hell is the point of hosting proton stuff? I’m a proton user and never once has this thought ever crossed my mind. What am I missing out on?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I honestly don't understand the need for bentopdf. Why is hosting PDF manipulation useful?

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

    You basically get all of the things an adobe subscription would get you for free? Also, I'm on Linux so no Adobe anyway. It all runs in the browser so no need to install software.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, I see the tooling and it seems nice. I've always used the CLI tools and scripts I've built over the years to get this done, but having unified functions in one place is great.

    I just don't understand the hosting part... Is there an advantage to having it hosted rather than in a local appimage or flatpak? Maybe I'm misunderstanding the premise....

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    can you share the config?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Very nice. This brings back memories of when I fled around with homepage. This would be about what I'd see if I kept it up. Kudos!

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    I have been debating on making a home page out of my core service bookmarks. Have you explored many options? At one point I just considered making an HA dash

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    That looks awesome.

    I want to set up something like this as well, I just don't have that much free time

    Any recommendations on getting music and podcasts? I'd like to self host my current Spotify list to dump that service too

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