Topic per title, basically.
For me: after setting up all the integrations and fall overs using the arr stack and Jellyfin (inc Sabnzdb etc)… I keep circling back to Nova video player.
https://github.com/nova-video-player/aos-AVP/releases
It’s arguably not even self hosting…but there something undeniably cool about sticking a USB stick into a router, installing a single app on your TV and boom, done. EDIT: of course, it can consume the *arr stack, integrate with Ombi etc
IOW, I really like stuff that simple to set up and punches above its weight class.
not sure if this is on topic, but i self-host little apps i’ve made to solve very specific issues via claude code. i also self-host some of the most popular ones like Plex, Jellyfin, Actual, TeslaMate, etc. I think my favorite is Plex, but I feel that it has been going downhill lately. i tried to play a 480p video of futurama s1e1 on my phone. Brand new phone, strong wifi - would not play smoothly. No problem on my ipad, no my problem on my laptop. And even though i have a lifetime pass, i don’t think there’s anyway to report the issue or get support - at least not that I could find. I’m thinking eventually i’ll just move everything over to Jellyfin.
Jellyfin, Navidrome and Nextcloud. I use them all every day!
I love Immich. I’ve pulled in all my photos going back to high school in the early 2000s and it’s so awesome having a timeline of them.
Big fan of Immich.
I have a couple thousand photos that were taken since around time When blackberry was big and before. Older family photos I’ve scanned. Home videos from vcr tapes. Stuff I wouldn’t want to use up my space on cloud drives but it’s sooo nice having them in Immich and organized.
I have local backups and offsite backup btw, and redundancy in the server itself. But Immich is great. Paid supporter.
I love Immich for the fact that since I cannot hold peoples name in memory for more than a minutes, and I meet a lot of new people, so being able to take a photo and save their name is big for me.
Helps me when I study people’s names periodically too
You study people’s names?
Let me give you mine too Donald Trump
PieFed and Navidrome
Fediversing with the whole world from my own server while listening to music that no “rights holder” can revoke the license to. It’s a liberating feeling.
So hard to pick a favourite. I’m especially proud of having the mail server.
Mail gang in da house.
Everyone should hoat mail. These corps started there for a reason. Take it all back.
Immich
Jellyfin
HomeAssistant Dawarich
HortusFoxIn that order.
Things like the *arrs, traefik/authelia, etc. are just a necessity and not something that gives back like the 5 mentioned at first.what do you mean by “gives back”? To whom? For example, why Jellyfin over any of the *arrs
Also answered here: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/27309703
For example, why Jellyfin over any of the *arrs
Don’t take it the wrong way, the *arrs are an awesome ecosystem and tool. Very cool integration and administration.
But I could life without or replace them. Things like Jellyfin, immich, homeassistant are more integral in the sense of usage and replacing them would be a whole ordeal I would ideally like to avoid.I think what they mean is that things like Traefix, arr, et al are means to an end. The ideal situation is that you don’t need to touch them after they’re set up. Jellyfin, on the other hand, is something you actively sign into and use
if hosting on a VPS counts:
- radicale (DAV)
- Gitea/Forgejo
- My websites
Beszel as monitoring tool, super simple to install and it just works
I don’t really have a favorite; I offer a lot of software to the public for free use. Ansible and Proxmox are really helpful for me in doing that.
Proxmox really helped in improving my homelab needs and I only really have about 10 apps hosted.
I didn’t expect to even need a NAS, but I can no longer live without two now. Having all my data in one place, automated backups on my secondary NAS. I found a cloud storage provider I like. Just the whole stack is wonderful and I’m never going back.
Could I ask what cloud storage you went with? Looking for recommendations for potential backups.
Navidrome for me. I have a physical collection of around 2000 albums across CD, vinyl, and cassette, plus a lot of digitally only purchases over the years. Finally getting it all on my own server and being able to just tap a button to shuffle the entire collection is just about everything I ever wanted.
May I ask why Navidrome over Jellyfin or Plex? I’ve been considering it, but I have no good reason to switch if it’s working right now the way it is.
Mostly because I’m a lot pickier about my music collection than video. There is no chance of Navidrome overwriting my tags. It just doesn’t have the ability.
With a large collection (getting up toward 28,000 tracks), I also wanted to make sure that whatever I was using had a comfortable, music first interface. Jellyfin felt cumbersome in contrast to Navidrome.
My own art gallery. Started feeling the ick about posting on social media and just moved everything to my own hand-coded home page in Lustre. Feels nice to have a little space that’s just mine.
It ain’t much, but I’m also pretty proud of my Forgejo+actions setup. Pushing a commit and seeing my services update, knowing it’s all happening on “my” (VPS, but still) infra gives me such a warm fuzzy feeling.
My own art gallery
What kind of art? Do you paint, create pottery, etc. My lady friend is a self taught painter, and does some mind blowing stuff. Hell, I can’t even put paint on a wall or draw stick figures. LOL She tells me I am biased, but I respond that I know good art when I see it. I always wanted to get into pottery. That seems like it would be super cool.
Same!! I don’t trust other sites to preserve my photography indefinitely, and definitely not in the quality I want, so I built this from scratch https://p.drkt.eu/ and it’s just sitting on a box in my living room. Feels nice to watch the traffic tick by in the logs :)
This is your photography? Man that’s good stuff. I like this one a lot. It appeals to me.. I also see you too like exploring abandoned structures.
Self hosting our budget with Actual has been a game changer for my partner and I. No other budget app really worked for us but this was super easy and the PWAs really make a difference.
The thing that really kills me with actual budget instead of firefly philosophy differences is that a “budget per month” app needs to have some flexibility with dates and categorization which I don’t find in actual budget. At the very least, setting a different “beginning of the month”.
I get paid on the 27th-30th of the month, that is my budget for the following month but according to actual budget, that is my budget for the month of money I have already spent. Likewise with bills, I transfer money to an account where all the bills automatically come out of after I get my paycheck, but those are bills coming out of the budget for the following month.
You can’t budget with money you don’t have yet… Especially for people with variable salaries (Belgium pays money for the days you bike to work, getting expenses paid back, etc…)
If I transfer my bills money on the 1st of the month (last possible day) and then before the 1st of the month the next month, then all metrics and budgeting for 2 months are fucked up and inaccurate with no way to fix it.
I switched the setting from “envelope budgeting” to “tracking budgeting” to address this. Budgeting based off what I anticipate making the following month. The Actual peeps will tell you that in envelope budgeting you should have enough money for the next month ahead of time so it’s working as designed. I get that, kinda, but tracking budgeting has just made more sense for me.
I was using Wealthica before they started charging and Actual Budget + Simplefin is so much better. I’m really happy all my financial info is just mine and not exposed to any other company. The expense for Simplefin is worth it and minimal.
Would you mind sharing more about your experience with Simplefin? I’ve been looking to make the jump, but I’ve read a fair amount of feedback that seems to indicate it might not be worth it given issues with instability, inconsistency syncing, etc.
It’ll be down to your bank’s rules. My main bank and brokerage work flawlessly, sync everyday. My secondary bank and Amex need to be reauthenticated every week or two. So I just update those once a month. Just go on simplefin and run the 2FA plus some waiting.
It doesn’t sync non-bank stuff, so there’s some RRSP providers I just enter manually.
For $20 cad a year its fine. I wouldn’t use it to track daily expenses unless you know everything will work. I do all my finances once a month so its fine for me.
I’m going to have to check this out!
Glad to hear people like it because I thought it was really cool…
…But not having that European easy bank import option and having to manually download your sheets and import them is probably why I didn’t stick to it very well…
…but then again it imported those sheets like magic so there’s that!
GoCardless or Enable Banking don’t work? I see both on the Actual Budget website. One doesnt take new customers? Weird
I’ll have to look again, I should have specified I’m in the US but it used some kinda integration that was common for EU banks but not US ones, so I had to import reports manually.
Oh, Simplefin does that. Really solid.
I had the same issue. Then I found https://sure.am/ . It has easy bank integration amongst others. Been using it for a bit now.
I looked quickly, but didn’t see an answer. Does Sure.am let you download your transactions into something like Actual or Firefly-iii or is it all within the hosted platform? I saw an option to self host, but didn’t see the integrations.
I’m trying to find something to pull into my firefly-iii instance and am currently abusing the Monarch API but it has some issues. I also wrote my own scrapers but they are fragile and I’d rather just integrate directly with plaid.
Maybe the website makes it hard to find, but it is completely self hostable. Here is their GitHub: https://github.com/we-promise/sure
Providers that are in the app are: Lunch Flow, Plaid, SimpleFIN and Enable Banking
You can also import directly raw CSV and others
Since the last big update you can enable experimental support for enable banking, which support quite a lot of European banks!
Oh sorry, what I meant was there’s a standard to do that with European banks, yeah, but US banks don’t have it, so you gotta manually download and import stuff. At least that’s how it was last I checked.
Something fish, something fin? I forget what it’s called, but there was some integration I found for, like, $2/month(?) and it worked pretty well from what I remember. I think this was around 2 or 3 years ago.
Every few years, I try installing Actual Budget, and have my wife compare it to how she uses YNAB, just to see if we can finally make the switch to fully self-hosted. Plus YNAB has become obsessed with new features and new customers while ignoring many of the issues that still haunt those with legacy knowledge of the platform. All while continuing to raise the price.
SimpleFIN, I currently use it and it works well
for me personally, Firefly III works much better and it works with importing from my bank
Game changer is a great way to phrase it. It’s no exaggeration to say it changed my partner and my lives. It gave us the confidence to save for and buy a house. I’ve never felt more in control of my finances before.
Everything, from Nextcloud to gaming servers!
I run many of the usual suspects, but I would say Home Assistant is on the top of the list.
- Integrates with seemingly endless smart home devices
- Make automations that make your house seem like magic
- Make it look just how you want it to
- and best of all, it costs
numerous hours of tinkeringnothing!
Hook it up to a UPS and it basically has 100% uptime regardless of internet connectivity or power. I love how resilient it is.
The only drawback is that most smart home devices aren’t on the UPS, so if power goes out, you still lose most connected devices.
Kind of. A lot of my stuff is also on battery and the security camera and router is on UPS so during a power outrage I still have access to cameras, per room sensors and all the door and lock sensors. I would say ~50% of devices are still accessible.
