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- Comment on how are my fellow peeps hosting your music collection these days? 5 days ago:
MythTV for the main storage, stored in folders by my genre.
All metadata updated via Picard.
Syncthing to replicate to a Raspberry Pi (2 or 3, I don’t recall which) running Volumio with a DAC board to connect speakers to.
The Pi is in the bedroom, so I only replicate the genres that I want, which cuts down on storage needed on the Pi, and means I don’t need MythTv / NAS / etc. powered over night.
- Comment on PSA: filebrowser is no longer being actively developed 6 days ago:
I was going to query why fork instead of just maintaining, but after reading theose comments I see the problem.
So, ok, I need to start shifting packages…
- Comment on Part 2 of car Raspberry pi 4 GPS project 1 week ago:
Thanks for the CoMaps pointer, didn’t know about that / issues with Organic Maps
- Comment on Is there any open source tv focused os/ui? 1 week ago:
MythTV - as others have already mentioned. It’s designed to work with the 10’ interface
Even records TV programs (presuming you have tuner hardware of course) - which I don’t think the others can do?
We don’t stream Netflix, but we do watch other various streams (ie BBC iPlayer), yoochoob, etc - all works fine, inc… video files from various sources, and music…
We use it with a Logitech K400 wireless keyboard and it works great for us.
I have played with a more traditional looking TV wand remote in the past, but you still need a keyboard to type in program websites, names, etc. so the K400 became our defacto remote.
MythTV used to come with Ubuntu as Mythbuntu back in the day, but most of the pre-installed distros have fallen away, so you’d need to pick a distro and install it yourself.
It’s a very mature application, so you won’t need to keep updating every time you want to watch anything.
- Comment on Anyone else going basic with their NAS? 1 week ago:
Yes. And No.
I have a home made (arch btw) NAS that stores all our files - mostly via syncthing, even from remote family.
That was it.
Then I installed Immich so that we could see the photos… so… it’s technically just a NAS, but it does now have a web application running on it…
Videos & Music are on a completely separate MythTV box which existed before the NAS - I saw no point in moving ~3TB of data to a separate box that would need to be powered when I want to watch / listen to something… my NAS powers itself up & down throughout the day to save electricity (and it was interesting to learn how to make it know when it was / wasn’t being used)
- Comment on YouTube Music Downloader 1 week ago:
Download with yt-dlp. All of it. Even into a single folder if that’s easier.
Then run it all through Picard and that’ll do everything else for you - albumart, metadata, folders, filenames, the lot.
Anything that Picard doesn’t know about, enter it into the MusicBrainz db to give back to the community.
Done.
- Comment on Open Source Paid Remote Desktop 1 week ago:
We use VNC as we can record the sessions easily for later priof / discussion with our customers.
It’s in a VPN tunnel of course.
- Comment on A bit of my selfhost journey [that no one asked about] 2 weeks ago:
If you’re looking for a different approach, I moved from Nextcloud to Radicale for my family calendars, which includes ToDo functionality.
From an app point, for Android I’m using Fossify Calendar (which I think you’re using?) and Tasks.Org ToDo - and this definitely handles recurring tasks (inc. with different types of schedules)
From a remote access point of view, I have HA Proxy to convert the internal HTTP traffic into external HTTPS traffic (with Lets Encrypt certificate)
(Yes, I also have a VPN for other things… just focusing here for the calendar / todo)
- Comment on Safest CalDAV/CardDAV server 2 weeks ago:
My journey⋮ Nextcloud —> syncthing + radicale
Much simpler, easier to maintain, less resources needed
- Comment on Is there any good decentralized cloud storage for personal backups as a self-hoster? 2 weeks ago:
Got a link for that? Searching for “garage backup storage” doesn’t really get me anywhere…
- Comment on New server for the family, Proxmox or TrueNAS, LXC or Docker? 2 weeks ago:
Nice. I’ll go that way when I next brave the dust and cobwebs where the server’s currently located
- Comment on New server for the family, Proxmox or TrueNAS, LXC or Docker? 2 weeks ago:
Aha! I was considering moving from proxmox to incus too, but incus seemed quite new and not much documentation (at the time)
How do you find it now?
- Comment on PeerTube crowdfunding to develop mobile app 3 weeks ago:
Happy for them to be developing an app (which already appears to exist), but at ~20‰ with 16 days left… wouldn’t it be “better” to collaborate with existing apps like Pipepipe / Newpipe and direct those funds into the platform instead?
- Comment on Ansible Playbook - How do I reverse engineer a running system? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, at least others are confirming what I had assumed, rather than everyone pointing me to a blindingly obvious tool that did it all for me!
- Comment on Ansible Playbook - How do I reverse engineer a running system? 3 weeks ago:
Ok, good point on not writing from scratch - which is what I had been doing for the first few… whixh is rewarding to learn how it works, but it is slow.
Thanks
- Comment on Ansible Playbook - How do I reverse engineer a running system? 3 weeks ago:
Hmm, that’s not a bad shout actually…
I can fire up VMs to replicate the real system and maybe (depending on space) keep them as a testbed for future mods.
Thanks, good idea.
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- Comment on How do you document your Homelab? 5 weeks ago:
A combination of Logseq (what, why, hiw) and KeePass for IPs and passwords (obviously)… I use the heirarchy in Keepass to show a device and then the services on it and then their configs, ie
- Hypervisor1
- VM1
- root user details
- VM2 (Etc)
- VM1
I used to do Visio drawings, but they were always out of date.
- Hypervisor1
- Comment on self hosted browser sync? 5 weeks ago:
Have a look at Vivaldi
According to their help page it’ll do what you want.
- Comment on Recs: Calendar and Contacts? 5 weeks ago:
It’s just another calendar…
So, we have:
MeThemUsHouse Stuff(ie bin day reminders)- I use this for Home Assistant
Birthdays- I don’t recall at the moment, but an app used this for contact’s birthdays…
I then setup DavX to sync to
MeandUson my phone andThemandUson their phone.In Fossify Calendar it’s really easy to show /hide separate calendars as well as selecting the correct calendar when adding / editing events.
- Comment on Recs: Calendar and Contacts? 1 month ago:
Definitely Radicale
We have separate calendars (ie we individually sync between our phones and other devices) plus joint calendars that we also sync…
On Android I use davx to sync and Fossify Calendar which allows me to see multiple calendars but only sounds reminders for my personal & joint appointments, not others.
On my laptops I’m currently usong Vivaldi’s built-in calendar and that’s working well for me.
- Comment on 3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup? 1 month ago:
Ah, ok if Tom Lawrence has made a video then I know it’ll work!
Thanks
- Comment on 3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup? 1 month ago:
Just a friendly reminder that RAID is not a backup…
Just consider if something accidentally overwrites some / all your files. This is a perfectly legit action and the checksums will happily match that new data, but your file(s) are gone…
- Comment on 3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup? 1 month ago:
This is exactly what I’m about to do (later this week when I visit their house)
I’ve been using syncthing for years, but any tips for the encryption?
I was going to use SendOnly at my end to ensure that the data at the other end is an exact mirror, but in that case, how would the restore work if it’s all encrypted?
- Comment on Self Hosted Network Analyzer? 1 month ago:
It varies of course, but most of my torrents are movies and linux ISOs (for real)
I seed any Movies I leech at a 2:1 ratio… most are leeched from Europe, but I’ve had them from Canada, South America, Asia, but weirdly not many from North America.
I like to give back more to the Linux community, so I’m constantly seeding Arch & Mint ISOs (as that’s just what I’m using… maybe something Raspberry-ish) - they go everywhere.
I had a weird instance once where the same Chinese IP address was constantly re-downloading the same ISO. Could’ve been a VPN endpoint, but after I’d shared something like 40:1 there, I started using GeoIP to block it and similar regions I was uncomfortable with… so the world’s becoming smaller for me.
- Comment on Spottarr: A modern spotnet client and index for your *arr apps. 1 month ago:
So, I’m a little behind the times here… should I be moving away from torrent search sites to this new fangled spot stuff?
- Comment on Self Hosted Network Analyzer? 1 month ago:
+1 for this.
You need to see all the data flowing through a sensor to be able to map it, so a router / firewall is often the central point.
I run it as an addon for pfSense and it’ll show me all sorts of info.
If you setup the GeoIP you can see which countries your network’s connecting too… interesting for torrents…
- Comment on CrowdSec vs Fail2Ban - What to use? 1 month ago:
Crowdsec will block external, public, IPs
Fail2Ban will block login attempts (ie from anywhere)
I have a similar setup with pfSense, pfBlockerNG, HAProxy, etc, but I keep F2B running on my DMZ server in case something is ever compromised as it’ll block / slow down anyone trying to move around the network.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Maybe, I’m self hosting several trees, so… 🤷♂️
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Depends on the variety of course… my Willows need cutting down, whereas the acorns I planted before the willows are still tiny oaks in pots 🙂