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What's your favourite thing to self host and why? (aussie.zone)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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
DNS	Domain Name Service/System
ISP	Internet Service Provider
MQTT	Message Queue Telemetry Transport point-to-point networking
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
PiHole	Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
Plex	Brand of media server package
SSO	Single Sign-On
VPS	Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
XMPP	Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol ('Jabber') for open instant messaging

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[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

I was going to come in and say pihole, hands down as it got me into home labbing. But then I got reading some of the responses and my thoughts changed to Home Assistant because I can automate so much. An app that I had purchased to help me stay on top of my medications decided to go subscription so I was able to use HA to set up reminders to take my drugs go off on my watch which I would turn into reminders to do so much more. Than I thought Docker, because it is so much easier to install things with docker. Than I thought OpenWRT because I now have a real firewall that I can do so much more with than my ISPs dinky little thing. I was almost ready to reply when I read your question over again and I saw you mention the *arr stack and Jellyfin, which got me thinking how much I love that. Which reminded me of someone saying immich. I have to go for some blood letting today so I keep my blood req in paperless. I self host nextcloud and that is one thing I am looking at finding alternatives to but all that being said picking one is like picking a favourite family member, sure some you may like more than others but you are never going to tell which one.

[–] Tealk@rollenspiel.forum 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

Ansible Scripts: https://git.rollenspiel.monster/ansible-playbooks

[–] nfms@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Proxmox really helped in improving my homelab needs and I only really have about 10 apps hosted.

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

if hosting on a VPS counts:

radicale (DAV)
Gitea/Forgejo
My websites

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Hey could you just zip up your arr stack and send it to me? I don't know if it's just me or if it's just understood that it doesn't work the way it's advertised, but I cannot for the life of me get any one part if it to run 100% right.

[–] loanrangerofpeanuts@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

TRaSH guides do a very good job explaining how to set up the file structure and configure each app. YAMS (yet another media server) is a script that automates the arr install. Looking at their docker compose file and guide could also help.

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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

https://nixarr.com/

Works a treat for me!

But 100% is a big ask. There are always things to improve or fix

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Several things. Mosquitto to control an ecosystem of LEGO models, some CALDAV syncer, and a mediawiki engine for D&D worldbuilding.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah like the other guy I couldn't find anything on this Mosquitto either. I'm curious! Haha. (I found some GitHub project with like zero information hah)

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Mosquitto is a MQTT broker.

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[–] archy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

What's Ombi?

[–] SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Its a simplied front end for people to request shows / movies. Normies find Radarr / Sonarr somewhat perplexing.

https://github.com/Ombi-app/Ombi

[–] archy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Ha, been into self-hosting for several years and never heard of it. But I've been happy with (jelly)seerr for quite a while

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[–] sorakiu@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 3 points 2 months ago

freshrss most recently, very no hassle and easy setup, haven't had any issues.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Jellyfin, Navidrome and Nextcloud. I use them all every day!

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I host a lot of things I use daily, but as far as really enjoyable, Navidrome. Like @BruisedMoose@piefed.social, I have a large physical collection of music that dates back to 1937 starting with a song by Lucille Bogan called 'Shave 'em Dry' and 'Till the Cows Come Home (WARNING: Very NSFW). I've been collecting for decades and everything is converted out to flac and resides on a NAS. I'm a mediocre musician on my very best day, but I've had a life long love affair with music, so Navidrome fits right in.

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