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Tell me your most exotic selfhosted solution, the crazier, the better, no 0815 solutions! (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I don’t want to hear about your Plex, your NPM, your notes application or science forbid, your budgeting application. I want to hear the most exotic thing you setup to selfhost, that probably only you and a hand full of people around the world actually use or even need. A problem that you solved in a way, that makes people go WTF. Go!

I’ll start: I live in the mountains, and there is snow, lots of snow. I often tell people “We had 3m of snow last year”, but is that really true? So, I thought to myself: Can you measure snowfall? It seems you can, so I setup a USH-9 ultra sound measuring device, connected it via IC2 to my Home Assistant and now I can tell people with confidence, that we had a total of 3.45m of snowfall last season, with max snow height of 60cm on January 5th.

Future project: I have chickens. They lay eggs. I have cameras. I want to know which hen lays how many eggs. Solution? AI image recognition of the hens (who is who) and if they have laid an egg. Any inputs welcome.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have 4 kids. I had a kid-management app running at home for a while.

It assigned chores in a rotation, including periodic chores like cleaning out the fridge which didn't need to happen every day. The kid interface had a simple green button they could click to say they'd done their chore.

When THAT happened, their fake bank allowance balance would increase.

The server side piece would track how long they were logged in and lock their screen after 30 minutes of screen time a day

The parent side included a form to track spending (decreasing their balance) and to enable and disable their user accounts on the computer. It could also grant additional screen time if needed.

The kids are older now and like hoarding cash instead of a balance, and they aren't as motivated by screen time as they used to be. So the app is no longer in use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Do you have a packaged version of this that could be deployed elsewhere? I know someone who could use exactly this.