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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Personal preference: Jellyfin instead of plex

Some that I run that you don't seem to have anything for:

Lancache (if you have several gaming PCs on the network or host any kind of lan party)
surveillance camera software e.g. shinobi
I see grafana, but other monitoring services like icinga, librenms, etc
Mayan EDMS - I've found this really helpful as anything I get in the mail, I scan in, and this makes it all searchable and retrievable.
There's a whole hole you could dig if you start getting into home automation (I use home assistant)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've been looking at something for my cameras. I got Zoneminder running but configuring its behaviour was a nightmare.

All I want is to keep a limited rotating backup of a few cameras. Would Shinobi do that?

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

Shinobi or frigate are fine for that.

Frigate markets itself as "AI detection" but it isn't required.

Also frigate is open source and.ahinobi is closed source.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Shinobi is absolutely not closed source: https://gitlab.com/Shinobi-Systems/Shinobi

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

So I do have a jellyfin instance, but for some reason it couldn't play some video formats that Plex could. I haven't looked into it in too much detail yet though. And definitely need to look into Shinobi or frigate! Thanks for the suggestions!

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

Check your encoding settings! Also if you use an iOS client, I highly recommend Swiftfin, as it seemed to support direct play on some files the Jellyfin app wouldn’t play at first. I’m still new to it too, but after I got my GTX 1080Ti set up on the right encoding settings, it’s been nothing but butter with everything I throw at it.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Wish I had the time/energy to host this much... Currently I'm running

Plex
Nextcloud (snap on ubuntu VM because its easy)
pihole
pivpn

I'm also running Jellyfin and Navidrome, in an attempt to determine if they are good alternatives to Plex for like 6 months at this point. See comments above about time/energy.

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

What is this dashboard?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It’s called homepage

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

This is awesome, thanks! Going to install it on my Odroid HC2 running OpenMedia 6!

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Things I have that I don't see on the list

Home Assistant
Frigate
Mosquitto
ESPHome
Gitea
SyncThing
Weavescope
Vaultwarden
Keyper
Kanboard

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do they do?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Home assistant is a home automation hub that integrates with almost everything.

Mosquitto is an MQTT message queue.

Frigate is an NVR that works with many camera systems and offers AI detection

ESPHome is a platform for programming ESP32/ESP8266 based devices for home automation

Gitea is a self hosted alternive to GitHub and includes an action runner

SyncThing is a peer to peer sync tool that allows you to sync PC to PC, mobile to PC, and mobile to mobile.

WeaveScope is a tool for detecting and monitoring containers across multiple hosts

Vaultwarden is a rust-based alternative server for BitWarden

Keyper is a container that manages SSH key authentication in a great way

Kanboard is a kanban board

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

Do you run homepage next to HA?

I mean homepage looks very sleek and I had a sudden urge to set it up :-) , but tbh, having HA set up for both browser/tablet and phone, I don't think I'd ever actually look at homepage...

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How hard was it to set up homepage to show all of this? This is very cool, well done

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So there is a bit of a learning curve, but the Homepage docs are pretty well written. YAML is a bit of a bitch to work with though. Very similar to JSON and easy to read, but God forbid you aad some unintentional whitespace

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My Setup:

DOCKER

Plex (never had good experiences with Jellyfin unfortunately)
Radaar
Sonarr
Lidarr
Readarr
Jackett
Prowlarr
qbittorrent
MariaDB
phpmyadmin
BookStack
LibreNMS
portainer
watchtower
pihole (2)
Nginx

All running in docker on two synologys. Only other things I'm running is an old CloudKey for the Unifi APs and HomeAssistant on HomeAssistant yellow (pi cm4)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@chandz05 I'd totally add in Organizr to create a single page solution to access all of your various services. Beats bookmarks any day of the week

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

Y'know, I've played around with Organizr a little bit and didn't quite like it. I think I had some trouble setting it up or something. I'll probably go back to try it again at some point

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

If you have any smart devices in your home (and even many use cases outside of that) you could run "homeassistant" to pipe all your different smart devices through a common, extensible, scriptable interface.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What software is that?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Plex Jellyfin Plex_debrid Lemmy Home assistant Home bridge Minecraft Valheim Librespeed

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

Whoa haven't heard of plex_debrid until now. How is the quality with the streams? Can quality be controlled like how downloads are with sonarr/radar?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Could you share your settings file, or at least the background and icons? I love the aesthetic

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

Seconded, I'd love that Docker UI for my UnRaid NAS

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Checkout Homepage in community apps! It's configurable via YAML files

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Shinobi seems to be pretty lightweight though. I’m running it in an orangepi zero recording 4 cameras 24/7 and streaming their feeds with no hardware issues from the orangepi. Would frigate be able to run on light hardware?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Good job, now fill the server :)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

My list:

Home assistant
Jellyfin
Lemmy
Lidarr
Pihole
Prowlarr
Radarr
Readarr
Sonarr
Tdarr
UniFi Controller
Windows VMs for domain, and clustered file storage.
Zoneminder

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I was searching for a Lemmy Instance in that mix 😅

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

You know, I considered it. But I would rather set that up on a VPS rather than something under my desk 😂

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

Movies and TV shows

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why not just use bookmarks?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I like the "at a glance" functionality that the various APIs provide. I can view all relevant information on a single page without having to click through different apps. I just set this as my homepage on chrome and it's like bookmarks on steroids

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Bookmarks are cool and all, but having the ability to tap (if on mobile) the link or click on it visually is important. For example, I access my local dashboard via Wireguard on my phone, I can then tap the service I need to access locally. IMO, that is much nicer than hitting the browser's menu to find the bookmark and then clicking on it.

Aside from that, if you are like me and have hundreds of bookmarks, and a significant other less technically savvy as you are and are visual, then having a dashboard to go to makes it a lot easier!

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

Its...beautiful 🥲

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Looks awesome! How do you use tdarr? Does it transcode all media picked up by sonarr/radarr?

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

I understand none of this but I do find it cool looking and very interesting.

I use Plex and even then it’s on a seed box.

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

Nothing I can see. But definitely things I’m missing!

So Thankyou!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Looks breddy gucci

holy mother of pimples, 39% blocked sites on your pihole? Where is it being used, on your phone?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that a lot? It's usually between 30-50%. I've set it up as my routers DNS server so it blocks ads across my entire network. Everything that connects to my router get pihole ad blocking

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Not that crazy. I think I’m sitting at 23.5%?

Alexas phone home… a lot. My TV does the same. As do many random devices in my network.

I have IoT devices that would love to phone home but I’m controlling them locally so have disallowed them connecting to the internet.

It adds up quickly.

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

Pihole - DNS-based blocker. SearXNG - Customable metasearch engine. Ntfy - Send Notifications to devices. Navidrome - Listen to your music.

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