Submitted 5 days ago by tofuwabohu@slrpnk.net to selfhosted@lemmy.world
It’s Sunday somewhere already so why wait?
Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you found.
I’ll post my ongoing things later/tomorrow but I didn’t want to forget the post again.
Set up paperless-ngx and cannot get my scanner to send a scan to a FTP server. It supposedly supports sending to FTP but doesn’t have much documentation for it. I’ve tried FTPS, SFTP, and unsecured FTP. Both secure types just cause it to error out. But with unsecured the scanner just freezes then reboots. Really annoying me. I’m about to give up and just scan to s USB thumb drive then copy the scans to the server.
Have you tried a packet capture with Wireshark or tcpdump to see what it’s doing? It might give better clues than a general error message.
That’s a good idea. I didn’t even think to do that. Thanks!
I had to have my scanner scan to a windows VM that saves it to a network drive for paperless to injest. Its not my favorite solution but at least I don’t have to manually move the files around
The scanner also supports sending to email. I will try that before setting up a windows VM. I was just tubing i would use USB for the initial import of my file cabinet.
I have a family member across the country that wants to break from Google and really isn’t the type to self-host themselves, and I connect to my self hosted NextCloud solely through TailScale.
NextCloud permissions seem easy enough, but I’m researching how to add them to my Tailnet safely to avoid potential compromise of my network if something happens to their system.
Presuming this involves ACLs, which look intimidating, but I’m doing some research on that.
ACLs are not a bad as they look.
Get your nextcloud instance hooked into tailscale
You just need a sample file
Group for admins, add yourself
Tag owner for internal is admins Tag owner for nextcloud is admins
Action accept, src admin, dst :
Action accept, src nextcloud, dst nextcloud *.
Then tag your nextcloud ts connection as nextcloud in the webadmin
Tag all your other clients admin in the webadmin
Thanks! This is very helpful! I really appreciate it! :D
Is exposing it to the internet not an option? Boarding more family members on could be cool.
I expose mine for convenience, and I use multiple layers of security to reduce risk:
That cuts most of the issues.
It might be some way, however not easily. My mega-corpo ISP blocks incoming connections on common hosting ports, because they want to keep the network safe sell expensive home-business plans. Lol
I’m also very amateur at this as I go along, and I’m not sure I’m ready to deal with the fallout of missing some security step and getting my server botted or ransomwared lol.
I haven’t done the hardware stuff with setting up my own router/firewall box either, for instance.
So Tailscale works really well for me by seemingly magically bypassing a lot of that nonsense and giving me less to worry about. They allow 3 users for free, but have a relatively inexpensive family plan for like 6 users as well, if that becomes necessary.
I mainly just need to tell them not to try and use my server as an exit node if they’re across the country 😂.
But yeah definitely, I’m using this as a way to test the waters for running service alternatives as the web we knew collapses around us lol. I’m not ready to be running something people really rely on yet, though. :)
My NAS and our desktops are all on WiFi, so I’m planning to run some cable or install moca or something. Our uplink is currently only 100mbit (max for this ISP, I refuse to switch) but our city plans to roll out gigabit everywhere in the next couple years, so I want something forward compatible (powerline will probably be too limiting). SO has been complaining about latency, and I think the WiFi card is to blame, so I’m trying this before upgrading the WiFi card.
Our house has the following:
I’m going to try running some cable tomorrow (holiday in the US, just want a test run from bedroom internet source -> basement water heater room), but if that doesn’t work, I’ll need a backup plan.
Anyone have experience with any of the above? Tips?
That’s a massive project that I would like to one day embark on myself. I’m in a ranch with a basement so it should be a breeze. Ha, not! Good luck!
No experience with most of that stuff, but I would also try to avoid powerline. Tried it and had pretty bad performance.
This may sound dumb or be helpful so I’ll toss it in just in case:
Depending on when they’re built, a lot of houses’ RJ-11 phone jacks are actually using CAT-5E. If you’re lucky, they’re individual runs and not daisy-chained!
The way they set up the runs here is weird though, they’re cat-5E but we have no fancy junction box. It all runs to some hatch on the side of the house presumably for telecom/satellite TV installers.
So it was cool finding out there’s already capable infrastructure in the walls, but you gotta replace the wall jacks with RJ-45 and then the next trick is figuring out a switch that can handle a garage that could get to 100ºF + in summer…
Currently trying to figure out how to create and maintain an internal CA in order to enable pod to pod TLS communication, while using letsencrypt for my public ingresses.
Scripting enlarging 2400 10x10 png files to 512x512 Stable Diffusion generated images that look like high resolution cityscapes in the style of Salvador Dali. I can’t get the API to spit out a single image.
I changed my proxmox server from zfs raid pool to software raid with mdadm. Saved me a ton of ram and cheap ssd’s don’t really like zfs, so it’s a win win. And while messing around with drive setups I also changed the system around a bit. Previously it had only single ssd with LVM and 7x4TB drives with zfs but as I don’t really need that much storage it’s now running 3x1TB SSD + 4x4TB HDD, both with software raid5 so 2TB of fast(ish, they’re still sata drives) storage and 12TB (or 10,6 in the real wold, TB vs TiB) of spinning rust storage.
Well enough for my needs and I finally have enough fast storage for my immich server to maintain all the photos and videos over 20+ years. Took “a while” to copy ~5TB over 1gig lan to other system and back, but it’s now done and the copying didn’t need babysitting in the first place, so not too big of a deal. Biggest unexpected issue was that my 3,5" hdd hotswap cradles didn’t have option to mount 2,5" drives so I had to shut down the server and open the case to mount the drives.
And while doing that my piHole was down, so the whole network didn’t have DNS server around. I’d need to either set up another pihole server or just set up some scripts to the router to change DNS offerings to dhcp clients while pihole is down and shorten the lease time to few minutes.
I’ve got a project to look forward to. Have my Proxmox server with a UPS, running NUT to watch the battery percentage and power down gracefully if the % gets too low. I have Home Assistant watching that so it’s supposed to notify me before that happens. It’s not notifying me though, so I gotta look into that. I know it’s not working this morning because the power went out, so now I’m just sitting here theorizing instead of actually looking at it. 🙃
Oooo can you tell me more?
I have a UPS and it’s connected to and communicate with my Synology, but the NUC could also benefit from a safe shutdown in case of power outages.
I used mostly this, but had to customize it a bit I think to get things working right. NUT feels like a super finicky system, but in the end it does work. My biggest issue right now is that it only reports a new status update to Home Assistant every few minutes, so the actions don’t really get a chance to trigger before the server shuts down. It also shuts down with the UPS at way too high of a percentage remaining, so I need to figure out how to make it wait just a little bit longer before the power down. It wants to power off like < 2 minutes after the power goes out…
I’m currently half way thru building a ZFS array using (5) 8tb Ironwolf Pro drives. I’m modelling and 3d printing a custom drive cage with brackets to hold them all inside the shitty Dell tower case I have dedicated to it. Hoping I can get it done sometime Sunday, I’m on V2 of the drive cage print and it takes like 8 hours to do lol.
I’m running Nextcloud and PaperlessNXG on my servers. Over the last few months I tested out my remote management. Now that I’m back home, I’ve been making a few adjustments based on my learnings. Firstly, Wireguard is slower than a turtle, while Tailscale has been a little bit faster. I’m guessing this is due to my upload speed and switching to fiber may fix this.
I’d also like to add TubeArchivist back in since there’s some great videos that I don’t trust Google to preserve given the direction things are going.
The folks on the “privacy” Lemmy gave me some good tips on app replacements and after making a big spreadsheet with all my apps, their licenses, etc., I cut down my remaining proprietary apps by at least 50% and I only have a few proprietary essentials that still depend on Google Play. I’ve been meaning to do this for a long time and I almost have a path towards completely removing all Google, Amazon, and Microsoft products from my life.
Next, I’d like to set up Wander to eventually get rid of Garmin/Strava but I haven’t been able to figure it out and I’m still locked in to some degree because of my hardware (Garmin watch). The Ring doorbell has to be the next thing to go, but I’m exhausted and haven’t had the motivation to start a new project until the dust settles from the last one.
I finally set up Joplin server. It is a revelation after too long using Syncthing to sync databases. I wasn’t able to use Joplin on Android anymore- the sync to file system had gotten too slow. Now everything syncs pretty much instantly!
Recently set up Nextcloud, but ran into trouble getting it to connect with a domain because of Starlink being the ISP. Found out about tailscale and have been getting things connected and accessible with Tailscale’s magic DNS that it uses.
Currently trying to figure out how to use the iOS tailscale app to connect to an exit node, which will be my server at home, but it’s not easy. Apparently it can be done through the shortcuts and automation on the iPhone, but can’t sort out a way to connect easily that doesn’t throw errors with no good documentation to say what I’ve done wrong.
Anyone know how to set up NPM on truenas scale? I’ve spent all day trying to get my SSL certs and it fails every damn time. Just says the donation is unknown or that it can’t find my npm install 😮💨
I’m using a freedns domain tho so maybe I’m gonna need to try buying a domain.
I had a bit of a hiccup with my Unraid server. It wouldn’t turn on, and I got so fed up that I decided to get rid of it. But now, I’m back on the hunt for a new home server OS, and I’m hoping to find one that’s easy to use and has a GUI. If you were in my shoes in 2025, which one would you pick?
Been impressed with Proxmox, super versatile.
What are your thoughts on something like Zimaos and Cosmos Cloud?
I’m still a noob but I have been shocked at how easy Cosmos Cloud has been to set up compared to my old docker/portainer/nginx architecture. Things just work right away
What is the licensing? Doesn’t look open.
Thanks for the recommendation. It’s looking pretty interesting. I’m surprised I haven’t heard about it until now. How’s your experience overall? What other OS’s have you tried? I’ve tried Proxmox, then TrueNAS, but I settled on Unraid. (The Unraid server died on me. When I turned it on, I couldn’t access the web UI. Sometimes, when I press the power button, it doesn’t turn on. )
Finally managed to set up tvheadend with rebreoadcasted IPTV from a private group witg functioning and automated import into jellyfin.
Works very well (if the IP stream doesnt crash)
My 8GB soquartz CM4 has a broken memory chip and I can’t return it, so I am contemplating whether I should throw it in the oven and hope for the best or whether somebody wants to buy a half broken one unbaked …
What’s the going rate for half broken vs very broken?
Might be time to shake and bake.
I’m still using Docker Rootless, which I want to change for Podman since Rootless is second-class for Docker, but I haven’t been able to read the documentation enough to understand Podman Quadlets to migrate my compose files, and there are some incompatible configurations so even if using podlet, I have to edit some things manually.
I also want to migrate to MicroOS if possible in my server, but I’m still testing things in a VM to understand enough and the cost-benefit u.u
I’ve been looking into airtable alternatives. Came across teable, which I liked, but it doesn’t seem production ready. 🤔
any you did like? nocodb?
Yeah, i did tbh. It’s just that the SSO feature is behind the paywall. If it wasnt, i’d easily go with it.
Teable is promissing sso for the community users.
I have yet again broke a Nextcloud server By trying to upgrade it (from 27 to 30) . Even after hours of debug i’ll have to remake it from scratch ….again
I guess updating it regularly in small steps really is the best working thing. Switched to nc-aio with Auto-Updates half a year ago and didn’t have any troubles with updates since.
Well i guess my fondamental issue was to procrastinate
I run it on BSD and just use the pkg and never have any trouble. Clients are all in the Tumbleweed repos so are the latest which I think helps. Update, run occ update and it always works fine.
Yeah they fucked up v30, i updated from v29 a few weeks back and had to restore it and now I’m back at 29
I’ve been slowly, but steadily, migrating the services I run on my TrueNAS CORE (FreeBSD) from Jails to Debian VMs so I can migrate to TrueNAS 25 (no more SCALE it seems, and Linux) around April without many hurdles, hopefully.
Besides having to learn some systemd, it has been a smooth ride.
Now I’m down to the last 2 services, which I think are the most complicated setups I have and with no nice deb packages to ease installation: Paperless-ngx and Photoprism.
I’ll probably look into playing with Containers to have the same lightweight and efficiency as Jails once the migration to Linux is done. But honestly, if everything is running nicely, I won’t be very motivated to do so, let’s see.
Isn’t one of the main benefits of scale(/25?) that you can run docker containers? Makes paperless pretty easy
Yes it is!
Although I can’t migrate from CORE and have the service migrated seamlessly unless I use VMs.
And I don’t know docker containers, so it is something else I’d have to learn and understand. If I have to choose, I’d probably learn LXN/Incus instead.
Set up an instance of Supabase for an application I’m building that needs a REST backend. So far, so good, using it’s Auth functions for OTP login and they work well.
Trying to get headrest working in docker. But backups end up filling my host drives docker volume with cached chunks.
Tried setting and volume mounting the cache dir but it still fills up.
Duplicacy worked though so might just stick with that. Just gotta try restoring files now.
We finally got our music server set up after a lot of finagling with wireguard. It’s really cool; we have slsk-dl set up to batch download our playlists from Soulseek, which we can then play in Jellyfin. Next I’m gonna set up Nextcloud for backing up photos, projects, the whole shebang.
Attempting to get my lemmy instance going properly. Got it running on digital ocean but they don’t allow outgoing email and reccomend a third party service. I decided to try out Hetzner and am getting errors saying that docker compose isn’t installed when running the ansible script.
I’ve been using OVH without issues. How big is your drive space though? Lemmy uses quite a bit. Federation can take some time too.
DO lowest tier i’m on is 20gb, but hetzner is slightly cheaper with more ram and 40gb.
still learning truenas. i think I’ve figured out nextcloud which is basically a nightmare whenever I’ve had to install it
I’m iterating again on my lab setup and moving a few apps that I expose externally to their own VM so I can lock that sucker down even further. Right now I have a few different servers with podman/docker containers grouped by application type. e.g. critical apps: foregjo, nextcloud, vaultwarden. My arr stack. Media consumption. Knowledge & tracking apps, and general apps.
I eventually intend to throw the external apps into a DMZ VM but my network isn’t setup to do that right now, so instead I’m getting them set up on their own host and will lock down the firewall to only allow it to communicate with my reverse proxy and nothing else.
It’s been fun reworking my Ansible playbooks to do all my server provisioning (still need to figure out Terraform) along with running app installs and updates automatically at the press a button. Working with firewall rules via Ansible was a bit of a headache at first but now I’m in a really good spot.
I’m also testing out linkwarden and hoarder to finally replace what I lost with Omnivore a while ago.
I had my VPS go down due to a PSU issue. Os there any legal recourse for getting my 0.14% of the monthly cost back?
Depends on your contact but most hosters have service agreements where a few days of downtime over the year are covered
Recently set up OliveTin on a pi zero w for some automation scripts I wan to be able to trigger from my mobile. I’m loving it.
Working on testing stalwart… And will need to organize and document properly my various nft rules and routing tables, because its slightly getting out of hand…
My big problem is remote stuff. None of my users have aftermarket routers to easily manipulate their DNS. One has an android modem thing which is hot garbage.
Chrome, the people’s browser of choice, really, really hates http so I’m putting them on my garbage ######.xyz domain. I had plans to one day deal with Https, just not this day. Locally I just use the domain for vaultwarden so the domain didn’t matter. But if people are going to be using it then I’ll have to get a more memorable one.
System updates have been a faff. I’m 'ssh’ing over tailscale. When tailscale updates it kicks me out, naturally. Which interrupts the session, naturally. Which stops the update, naturally. Also, it fucks up dkpg. I’ll learn to update in background one day, or include tailscale in the unattended-upgrades. Honestly, I should put everything into unattended-upgrades.
Locally works as intended though, so that’s nice.
System updates have been a faff. I’m 'ssh’ing over tailscale. When tailscale updates it kicks me out, naturally. Which interrupts the session, naturally. Which stops the update, naturally.
Have a look at Screen. You can create a persistent terminal to start your update in, disconnect (manually or by connection loss), and resume the session when you reconnect, with it having completed the update while you were gone.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
Considering moving my stuff into a VirtualBox VM or two rather than running directly on my PC. Then at some point in the future when I have the hardware for it I can fairly easily move it to proxmox. Also means installing a clean OS on my main PC is a quicker task as it would just be install virtual box, load up the VMs and a lot of stuff would already be done.
csm10495@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Consider using containers. I used to think this way, though now my goal is to get down to almost all containers since it’s nice to be able to spin up and down just what the one ‘thing’ needs.