Hi, just recently it’s foss had an article about homelabs. Of course I digged in, since there is a small nuc working tirelessly in the corner of my routers closet. So far it just crawls some web pages for me and sends emails accordingly to my filters. So I hoped to find new exciting stuff to let it crunch through. The articles content did not spark my interest though.
Well, I’d like to know what you are using on your homelab. In hope you’ll do something I’d like to follow. Cheers
Thank you all for your recommendations. You are awesome. I really need to go through it one by one.
To make it easier for myself, this is a small summary of all your recommendations. Thanks again.
Virtualization and Infrastructure:
- Proxmox VE - Virtualization platform
- NGINX Proxy Manager - Reverse proxy manager
- Tailscale - Secure network access
- apt cacher NG - Package caching tool
- neko - Virtualized browser for secure browsing
Monitoring and Notification:
- Uptime Kuma - System monitoring tool
- Netdata - Real-time monitoring
- Zabbix - Enterprise monitoring solution
- Ntfy - Notification tool
Media Serving and Management:
- AudioBookShelf - Audio book management
- Jellyfin - Media server
- Syncthing - File synchronization
- Calibre-Web - Ebook management
- Spotweb - Usenet indexing
- Plex - Media player
- Komga - Comics and eBooks
File Sharing and Collaboration:
- Syncthing - File synchronization
- Gitea - Git hosting platform
- Sharry - Secure file sharing
- Vaultwarden - Password manager
- Stash - Data repository
- Baserow - Database management
- wiki.js - Wiki platform
- Wordpress - Content management system
Development and Version Control:
- BOINC - Distributed computing
- Forgejo - Git repository
- Gitea - Git hosting platform
- Development environment LXCs with VS Code
Networking and Communication:
- Traefik - Reverse proxy
- Portainer - Container management
- Matrix (dendrite) server - Chat server
- Navidrome - Music server
- Joplin server - Note-taking server
- RSS-Bridge - RSS feed aggregator
- SearXNG - Metasearch engine
- Dashy - Homepage for services
Miscellaneous:
- ActualBudget - Budget management
- SabNZBd - Usenet downloader
- Traccar - GPS tracking
- Restic server - Backup tool
- dump1090 + fr24feed + pfclient + piaware + rbfeeder + adsbexchange - ADS-B data tools
- Stirling-PDF - PDF management
- Miniflux - RSS feed reader
- Pihole - Network-wide ad blocker
- Huginn - Automation tool
- LimeSurvey - Survey software
- Omada controller - Network management for TP-Link devices
If you’re interested in self hosting checkout !selfhosted@lemmy.world
Nice, looks like the perfect community to join. Thank you.
Infrastructure:
- Proxmox VE - everything’s virtualised on Debian, mostly in docker inside LXC’s for neat backup/restore and moving between nodes
- NGINX Proxy Manager - in front of most of my homelab services so they have https certificates
- Tailscale - access everything, everywhere, including on phone, securely
- Uptime Kuma - monitoring, with ntfy notifications
- apt cacher NG - unnecessary caching of apt updates
Apps:
- AudioBookShelf - Audio books (download them from here into BookPlayer (iOS) to listen in the car)
- Kavita - eBooks.
- BOINC - curing childhood cancer
- Forgejo - git repository. I do a bit of dev, but everyday self-hosters should probably still learn git to manage their configs
- Jellyfin - TV/Movies
- Syncthing - I replaced dropbox with Syncthing and FileBrowser, and Evernote with Syncthing and SilverBullet
Currently in testing on the dev server:
- neko - virtualised browser. Been experimenting with this in a container with a VPN for really simple secure browsing - ie launch it, do your online banking and then destroy the container.
- Dashy - I go through periods of wanting a pretty home page with all my services, set it all up, then fail to actually use it and eventually delete it, then hear about another cool one…
- Sharry - securish file sharing. I don’t love just emailing my accounts off to the accountant.
- LimeSurvey - survey software (like Survey Monkey) - just something I’m testing for work
- Omada controller - I’ve got a TP-Link switch and WAP that don’t really need centrally controlled, but you know, can be.
- A couple of development environment LXCs I use VS Code in
I still have not landed on a music system. I’ve put some of my library on Jellyfin, and tried a couple of apps with, but haven’t hit on a good combination yet. [edit:formatting}
Wow, that is an extensive list! Impressive. I guess, your home lab doesn’t live just in an pi or old nuc. What kind of hardware are you using for all that?
I’ve got three of these little 1L HP’s, one for production, a spare, and one for development. But really, it’s a small load - that list would happily run on an old nuc. The constraint is really memory which I’ve mostly addressed by moving from VMs to LXCs. And I could be even more efficient by just running all the docker containers on one host if I had to.
Storage for media and backups is a Synology NAS.
Thanks for sharing. That is not what I expected. My nuc sometimes seems sluggish, even with a fairly small load. Guess i have something hogging the resources. 🤨
I love Neko. Right now I’m trying to find a decent VPS to host Neko rooms
I like Jellyfin for my media server, including music.
On Android I use Symfonium (works with Jellyfin as well as other backends). Nothing comes close to this app imo.
On desktop I use Feishin which serves me well (Jellyfin only afaik). It’s not perfect and it does have a bug where adding an album to queue will actually add all albums with that exact name to queue (even from different artists), but that issue is being tracked on GitHub and otherwise I run into few issues.
I’m on iOS. I’ve been testing a beta of Jello that looks really promising, but as a beta has a bit of distance to go. I’ll check out Feishin though - thanks for the recommendation.
I’d love Jellyfin to turn out to be the solution, but I suspect it’s not, at least yet.
If not then there’s always Navidrome which is built specifically for music. Haven’t used it myself but lots of people seem to love it.
- Jellyfin
- Audiobookshelf
- Navidrome
- wiki.js
- Joplin server
- Wordpress
- Matrix (dendrite) server
- Ntfy
- Vaultwarden
- Baserow
- Forgejo
- more that I can’t think of off the top of my head
edit: added Forgejo
I see the mentioning of Navidrome everywhere, but the reality is that if your music collection has the slightest issue with the id tags (and who doesn’t), Navidrome will fuck you up big time.
I am still a fan of OG Airsonic, (not Airsonic - Advanced) which is folder based. Works all the time.
This is entirely anecdotally just my experience. I’m using musicbrainz Picard for my id/tagging and so far I haven’t had any issues.
I’ve got my music in Jellyfin as well, and I can always use that as a fallback if Navidrome does end up fucking me.
That’s a great list. Thank you. I thought about vault warden, it is great as a self hosted alternative to bit warden. At the same time, I am not sure if I would be able to properly secure it.
I just read about forgejo, while reading up on Codeberg, which seems to be very popular here.
I am intrigued about baserow. What are you using it for?
I’m really happy to be hosting my own password manager.
Regarding baserow, I use it in a couple of ways. First is as a replacement for Google Sheets. For my use case, I only ever really used sheets as a dumb database, (home inventory, etc…) so I don’t need the spreadsheet parts of the spreadsheet much.
The other thing I use it for is a backend for my automations for data. Baserow has wonderful api documentation right in the gui, and I use that a lot with data logging for myself.
I’ve been looking for stuff to install and ran across this list, it’s pretty comprehensive. https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
Right now I only have jellyfin and pi-hole with unbound.
Wow, you found the mother lode!
Pretty much the first thing that comes up in every thread on every platform concerning this topic. Its also the thing I used. Here‘s my setup in case you‘re interested.
Yes I am interested. It is very insightful. I have a follow up question, if you don’t mind. I like the idea of getting off-grid… or off-mega-corp. You use home assistant for heating and lightning. With heating you mean, by any chance, automatic thermostats on single radiators? I dabbled a bit with that but had a hard time to find some without the necessity to Link them via telemetry sending apps. What is your take from that?
Thats a good question. Since I have pihole, most of my telemetry goes down the drain anyway. but I‘m not that paranoid. Having the ability to use my thermostats offline is enough for me. I use avm fritz dect 301 I think and for lighting I use fritz dect 500.
I also have shelly plugs for my terrarium. Good you reminded me. I need to put them into the setup because they‘re also smart. I even wrote a script for hybernation (with help though).
What didnt work well was comet dect because they seem to be of quite bad quality and shelly led bulbs but that might be due to metal lamp casing.
RSS-Bridge
Thank you, i will get myself one of those 301 and check it out 👍
Good luck! :)
I’m kind of addicted to miniflux.
I use it to aggregate my RSS l, GitHub release notes, & YouTube feeds so I can stay up to date
Interesting, this one needs definitely a deep research from me. I love rss feeds, at the same time the summaries tend to be click baity. I was fantasizing to get the full articles and use ollama to boil them down. Remove all the bloat text.
I saw in the feature list the possibility to play yt videos directly in miniflux. What is your typical use Case miniflux<->YouTube wise?
There are tools like rss bridge that can be a big help: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge
YouTube wise I use invidious rewrite rules
It’s kinda standard but Pihole is how I got into the general realm of home labbing.
Oh yeah, that was it for me as well. Great recommendation! That reminds me to check, if there is a release for the new version yet. I think they rewrote a lot of code.
Had some “conversations” about why Google shopping doesn’t work anymore… Wasn’t able to convey the reason properly :/
Jellyfin, the Arr-stack, Transmission, FreshRSS, Audiobookshelf, Komga, Syncthing, WG-Easy, Joplin-Server, Netdata, Portainer, Watchtower last thing I spun up was Stirling-PDF.
Found this recently:
And of course the classic is:
Found this recently:
it became a thing yesterday lol
Wow, a lot to dig through. Thank you! Joplin server catched my eye immediately. I use Joplin as my … Well, to write everything down. Didn’t know there was a server version for it.
Yeah, with the server you can share notes with your partner.
Since BOINC is on your list, I want to ask—is there a version of it that will display the cool screensavers via web UI? I would run BOINC 24/7 if I could show off those cool data processing screens, but there is no use for a screensaver on my server.
What do you use to crawl webpages and email them to you?
One possibility would be Huginn I guess https://github.com/huginn/huginn
That looks very neat. It is also a great resource for more inspiration. I will definitely try it out. Thank you.
To crawl I use playwright and cheerio to traverse through the html. I startet with another library, but playwright is more stable in my opinion (or just in my use Case). After the crawl I use nodecron to send Mails with nodemailer to myself, on a daily basis. All together it is a node.js app I wrote, inside a docker container.
I love Neko https://neko.m1k1o.net/#/
The mascot is … something I did not expect. °_°
But why the cat butt? Because cats are assholes, but you love them anyway.
So true !
Kyoo – Self-hosted media browser (Jellyfin/Plex alternative)
I guess it’s good to mention alternatives but imo Kyoo seems to be overkill for a homelab use case as its design goal appears to be to scale much better and serve a high user base and huge library. Just looking at the dependencies or
compose.yml
should make this apparent.
Consequently the setup is much more complex and heavy to run compared to Jellyfin e.g.
I’m a big fan of Nebula. It’s sorta like Tailscale, but not quite.
- dump1090 + fr24feed + pfclient + piaware + rbfeeder + adsbexchange - ADS-B data tools
That’s rare. Would you mind to elaborate how do you actually setup when you are free? Ty.