I am trying to capture costs for starting into homelab/selfhosting.

VPNs, search engines, absolutely everything and anything.

MakeMKV gives you a pile of VOB files. Sonarr wants a clean named MKV in the right folder. The gap between those two is always a manual dance. Figure out which season it is, rename it, drop it in the right place, trigger a rescan.

Discarr fills that gap: it's a small Node.js web UI (no npm packages, pure built-ins) that handles the VIDEO_TS / BDMV / ISO → arr import chain.

What it does:

• Scans disc structure automatically (VIDEO_TS, BDMV, multi-disc, ISO)
• Reads IFO chapter data to split multi-episode DVD discs correctly
• Browser UI to map disc titles to the right Sonarr episodes or Radarr movies
• Queues HEVC encodes via ffmpeg or HandBrake (locally or over SSH to a remote box)
• Notifies Sonarr/Radarr via custom script hooks on import/delete/completion
• Optional: qBittorrent hook triggers a scan on torrent completion; Tdarr ping after encode
• Persistent job queue. restarts resume automatically

Requirements: Node.js 18+, ffmpeg + ffprobe. HandBrake optional. Docker image bundles both plus openssh-client.

Still early, issues and PRs welcome.

Forgejo (primary): https://git.opensourcesolarpunk.com/Circuit-Forge/discarr GitHub (mirror): https://github.com/pyr0ball/discarr

Hi all !
I want to use xcp-ng for my homelab because why not, terraform and I like to use more uncommon tools (it often bites me afterward but it's funnier this way). Right now, I am on a road block because I can't set a management interface, and I can't do it because using DHCP times out and I can't set static IP on my ISP's router. Anyone with an idea ?

Edit : an emergency network reset solved the issue. I think I plugged and unplugged multiple time during the uptime, maybe it caused the issue

Operation:

• sudo vgs: ubuntu-vg 1 1 0 wz--n- 462.69g 362.69g
• df -T / : /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv ext4 102626232 24338224 73028744 25% /
• sudo lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/ubuntu-vg/ubuntu-lv
• sudo resize2fs /dev/ubuntu-vg/ubuntu-lv

Never did this before on an encrypted drive. Is this the proper procedure? Obviously a complete image back up is in order, however, are there any gotchas, caveats, pitfalls that I should be aware of before proceeding?

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/40322414

Still in progress. Open to suggestions! Current idea is to offer a dark and light mode switch, plus get some fun icons. Want to introduce variations with visual glitches and such, for more of a cyberpunk aesthetic, that can be generated through a pipeline. This is an excuse to learn a lot of little, technical things.

I just recently stumbled on this and I've never heard anyone here that uses it. It looks quite interesting. A dash for your Proxmox server.

The live demo looks jammy: https://demo.proxcenter.io/

The docs look quite comprehensive: https://docs.proxcenter.io/

Github: https://github.com/adminsyspro/proxcenter-ui

Runs in a Docker container. There is an community version and an enterprise version. I think I'm going to bump this up the Projects list to the top.

For the longest time, I've been trying to figure out a way to "survive" in this new AI age without having to fork over a ton of money just to keep up. I've tried using local models via Ollama, and while they definitely work to a degree, they're (unsurprisingly) not as good as the big model providers.

The local models tend to

• Forget what they're doing
• Struggle to break larger tasks into smaller ones
• Lose focus easily
• Have weaker coding performance
• Drift over longer sessions

So to improve the reliability of fully local, smaller models (and to keep all my data local and in my own network), I created Loki.

It's a local-first, batteries-included command line tool and runtime for building and running LLM workflows locally. It's model agnostic and supports things like

• Agents and agent delegation
• Roles/personas
• MCP Servers
• RAG
• Custom tools
• Macros
• Workflow Scripting

A lot of the features it supports are specifically designed to compensate for weaknesses in smaller local models. For example:

• Auto continuation to keep pushing models to completion instead of stopping halfway through problems
• Parallel agent delegation so tasks can be split into smaller, focused scopes
• Workflow-based execution ("If this, do that") for building more reliable and repeatable automations

It also supports the major cloud providers if you want them (which definitely helped while testing 😄), but my long-term goal is simple:

Get as close as possible to Claude Code-style reliability using fully local models.

I'm always open to feedback, questions, or ideas.

Repo: https://github.com/Dark-Alex-17/loki

I've been thinking about this more and more. According to the sidebar, this community is "A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don’t control." Based on that I don't think Plex qualifies.

Privacy: Plex clearly records the metadata of what you watch. When I used it, it would send me a report by email of what my "friends" were watching. Even with that turned off, their services still track telemetry.

Control: Plex has all of it. They can (and do) make unilateral changes to the service, how authentication works, where you can run it, etc.

So I ask, when you are hosting something that is entirely dependent on a commercial entity to function, is Plex really selfhosting in the spirit of this community?

Hey lemmy, I got the app I built for my Frigate instance to a place where I think it's good enough to share. It's currently in testing on the play store. It's a fully native android app built in flutter. DM me your email if you'd like to be added as a tester.

• Live viewing
• Live camera grid
• Sub-stream switching
• Pinch-zoom and pan (with double tap to fullscreen) on all videos (recorded or live)
• Detections and reviews
• Recent detections
• Events feed
• Reviews feed with grouped detection clips
• Recordings
• Timeline scrubbing w/ previews
• Tuned for mobile networks
• Export and download clips directly to your device or share sheet
• Push notifications via UnifiedPush (ntfy and other distributors)
• PTZ controls for supported cameras
• Birdseye view when enabled on the server
• System stats
• Live logs viewer
• Works with HTTP, HTTPS, or HTTPS with self-signed certificates
• Widgets for home screen

link for mobile: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.tinius.albatross

link for desktop: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/me.tinius.albatross

I currently run all my self-hosted apps either on Podman in a VM or in LXCs on Proxmox. For hardware, I'm using a Chinese-made mini computer with an Intel N150 and 16GB of DDR5 RAM that I bought before the whole AI hype started. I also have a Synology NAS that I use mainly for media and photo storage.

I've been thinking about tinkering with Kubernetes in my homelab for a while now (I already use it extensively at work, so I'm quite familiar with it), and I started looking around for used hardware to use as bare metal nodes. Nothing fancy—I'm looking for 1 or 2 mini servers or SFF with at least 16GB of memory and a decent CPU (4–6 cores). But with current prices, even decently priced used hardware (~200–250€) is quite difficult to find in Europe, and most of it is HP stuff with Lenovo being a rare breed around here. I won't even get started on newly bought hardware...

If you've bought hardware in this market recently, how did it go for you? Or are most of you holding out for now, waiting for better times?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/47843635

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/47843624

I have been working on an Android App quite a while now, starting from a simple idea.

A messenger where messages travel directly between phones with no servers in between. Using direct WebRTC encrypted connections (SRTP/DTLS), there are no servers that stores, reads, or relays content. Group chats use a gossip protocol where members relay to other members.

The only infrastructure the app touches is a signalling relay to set up the connection (no message content), a push notification to wake up a sleeping phone (also no content), and a TURN relay for restricted networks (encrypted packets only).

I wrote a detailed white paper explaining the full architecture: https://www.mindtheclub.com/white-paper.html

The app is in Open Testing on Google Play (1,000 tester cap): https://www.mindtheclub.com/beta-signup.html

I’m interested in this community's perspective on whether the architecture holds up.

Hey everyone! I've been building BritChat (britchat.co.uk) — a completely free, no-adverts social chat site for British people across all four nations.

It has live chat rooms (Lobby, The Snug, The Lounge), 15+ British games you can play to earn coins, a daily British content card, Poker tables, a daily wheel spin, posts and private messages, and The British Vault — 74 sections of British culture, history, music and icons.

No sign up needed to try the chat. Would genuinely love to hear what Brits think of it!

🇬🇧 britchat.co.uk

Hello self-hosters,

I have been building Journiv, a self-hosted, privacy-first journaling app for people who want to own their personal memories, journals, mood/activity tracking, photos, and related life data.

A few months ago I added Immich integration, which allows you to browse your Immich library from Journiv and attach photos/videos directly to journal entries. That integration was focused on connecting self-hosted photos and videos to the written story behind them.

I just added the next piece: People Tracking with optional Immich face sync.

The idea is simple:

Immich is great at preserving the photo/video itself. Journiv is meant to preserve the story around it. Now Journiv can also help track who was part of that memory.

With the new People feature, you can create and manage important people in your life family, friends, kids, parents, coworkers, etc. Attach them to journal entries. Later, you can filter your timeline by a person and see the memories you’ve captured with them over time.

If you also use Immich, Journiv can use Immich’s people/face data to make this easier.

When you attach an Immich photo to a Journiv entry, Journiv can check the Immich people/faces associated with that asset. If those Immich people are linked to people you track in Journiv, Journiv can automatically suggest or add them to the journal entry.

The goal is not just to store photos or journal text separately, but to connect them together into a more meaningful personal archive: what happened, when it happened, where it happened, and who was part of it.

Would love feedback from the self-hosted community on this feature.

• Watch the demo video
• Blog post with more context
• Get started: Install Journiv
• Immich integration docs
• Release notes
• Demo images from Pexels

I currently have a secondary pool (with raidz2) that I was originally going to use for my important documents, such as storage for Paperless-ngx, as raidz offers corruption detection and repair. The pool is encrypted.

However, I'm concerned about rebuild times (it's a pool of 4 22TB drives). Is btrfs a better choice for this use case, or should I just go with raidz like I originally planned?

Edit: I should have mentioned that I already have 4-3-2 backups configured - I'm primarily interested in the "self-healing" aspect of ZFS so that I don't have to recover from backups unless necessary, and to resolve corruption on the fly without me having to notice that a file is corrupt.

I decided to try Nextcloud after not using it for 10 years, and after testing it a bit I find myself turned off by the email (and other profile options) being visible to "everyone" by default.

I found how to disable the profile by default : email still visible Hide the email in profile settings of user manualy : still visible completely remove email : no notifications

In addition to that, from what I understand, even if I change the default setting to private the other profile options, they are automatically shared with anyone you connect to the Talk app?? I was really hoping to try it out, but that's another turnoff.

It does not seem to be a problem to most users so they have not done anything since 2019 about it (from the github issues and forum threads I found). It is an instant turnoff to me, I am questionning using it only for myself and use something else to share with family.... if you have a solution for the user info privacy, I am all ears.

I just want a multiuser file sharing app that works with authentik and works with android/windows/linux. Bonus points if it does not encrypt files on the server.

Edit to add : I tried seafile and it kept going down and corrupted a lot of files after an unexpected server shutdown. It shared the corruption to all the local files on every app/pc I had it shared to. Never figured out a way to restore the healthy files from a backup (that's a me problem but still not a fun experience). Thankfully I was the only user, I try to test out the apps a few months/year before sharing.

TLDR : what alternatives do you have to nextcloud or seafile ?

Hey everyone,

We've built an open-source, privacy-preserving alternative to Ring cameras using a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W (called Secluso). It uses end-to-end encryption to send videos from the camera to a mobile app, which is available both in Google Play Store and Apple App Store. We also support Obtainium for people that do not wish to use Google Play.

We've put in a lot of effort to make it easy to set up! You can set up our camera on your own Pi in less than 5 minutes with minimal technical expertise using our easy-to-use GUI deploy tool. Here are our setup guide and open source release.

The image shows a Pi in an official Raspberry Pi enclosure that you can use for your camera. We've also been working on a HAT for the Pi to add night vision, audio, temperature monitoring for safety, all in a compact form factor. You can see the HAT and an enclosure for the whole camera in the photo.

We've been working on this for almost 2 years now, and we look forward to we look forward to seeing what you all think! If you're interested in our efforts in general outside of DIY, our main website with our pre-built offering is here: click to see our website

GitHub: https://github.com/TechSquidTV/Cliparr

Major Updates:

• HLS Streaming (Now uses the media server's transcoded stream as the default source, which better matches expected behavior)
• Subtitle Burn-in. Use any font on your system to overlay subtitles on the output. Subtitles come from your media server; ensure to download or select them.

Just made LiftTrace public after months of development. It's a self-hosted weightlifting / training log that runs in a single Docker container on your own hardware, with a PWA frontend and a signed Android APK. Sister app to NutriTrace under the same TraceApps umbrella.

What it does:

• Diary with sets, reps, RPE, warm-up flagging, supersets, rest timer
• Smart Add — type or speak your workout ("bench 3x5 @ 225, A1: curls 3x12, A2: pushdowns 3x12") and the AI parses it into structured sets
• Programs with mesocycles, weekly templates, coach prescriptions for trainer / athlete pairs
• Exercise library seeded from wger + Free Exercise DB (~1,500 exercises with images), plus your own custom uploads
• Statistics: volume, PRs, frequency heatmap, body weight trends
• OIDC SSO for Authentik, Keycloak, Pocket ID, Authelia, Auth0, Google, etc.
• Workout History Import from Strong, Hevy, FitNotes, and Jefit CSVs (so you don't lose your history switching over)
• Radio player built in for Subsonic / Jellyfin / Plex / Emby plus internet stations (because lifting and lockscreen media controls > switching apps mid-set)
• AI coach with live workout context — bring your own Claude / OpenAI / Gemini key, or point it at Ollama / LM Studio / any OpenAI-compatible endpoint
• Android app with offline-first SQLite, biometric sign-in, native ExoPlayer, optional WorkManager reminders

Self-hosted principles:

• AGPL-3.0, source is open, no telemetry, no central server, no analytics, no cloud sync to anybody else
• Single Docker container + bind-mounted volumes for DB and uploads
• Your data stays on your hardware. Back up with cp, restore with cp.

Quick start:

services:
  lifttrace:
    image: ghcr.io/traceapps/lifttrace:latest
    ports: ["3002:3003"]
    volumes:
      - ./data/db:/data/db
      - ./data/uploads:/data/uploads
    environment:
      - DB_PATH=/data/db/lifttrace.db
      - UPLOADS_PATH=/data/uploads
      - JWT_SECRET=change-me

Assuming the user will not be connecting over vpn, but is both remote and non-technical, how would you expose Jellyfin to them securely?

For the past few years I’ve been building and maintaining website/blog at www.pragmaticcoding.ca. It has mostly about programming, and more specifically it’s ended up having a lot of content about JavaFX with Kotlin.

Lately, I’ve been spending all of my time building out my own homelab and self-hosting the services that I need. I’ve got a little stack of M910Q’s running in a Proxmox cluster with an HP T740 running OPNSense.

One of my big successes so far has been to replace my Google Home devices streaming music all over the house with a SnapCast network using RaspberryPi Zeros as the streaming clients. I've been working on documenting how to do this, and the result is a three part series that explains what SnapCast is, how it works and how to combine it with Mopidy to stream music around the house.

I have to admit that this one got away from me. It was all one article until I noticed that Jekyll was estimating it at oven 1/2 hour to read, which is way, way too long. So it became three parts, which also gives me the opportunity to release it over time, and make sure that each part is nice and clean before I post it live. Part I is an introduction to SnapCast and explains how it works and how to set up a SnapCast server in Proxmox.

If you're interested, take a read and let me know what you think.

So I go starlink as Openreach can't reach us with full fiber, in the starlink app I looked at our first month's data and we had used nearly 500gb. This month so far, we are up to 765gb.

Is that a lot for a homelab house?

I also don't have all my services here, I have most at OVH.

If you haven't seen it yet, we recently made the announcement that starting July 1, 2026, the price of "Jellyfin Premium+ One Super Unlimited (with Ads)" will increase to $0.00 USD*. There has been a lot of enthusiasm regarding charge backs, and we're simply blown away by the community's response.

As we've had a high volume of inquiries, I'd ask if you could please wait until I'm off the support email shift to reach out about this issue. I've attached our schedule so you'll know when it is safe to reach out.

Thanks, and happy streaming!

*Example price in USD. Exact pricing in other currencies may vary.

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/40125235

Picked up an ix500 scansnap and wondering about suggested workflows for going paperless. My intention is to scan a bunch of documents, but haven't delved deeply into how this will actually flow on the software level. I know I'll need to OCR the scanned documents, and my base setup is:

• Pi with SSD storage running compose version of Paperless-ngx to filesystem mounted folders.
  • Folders can also be accessed over Samba
• ix500 statically assigned over wifi as network scanner.
• A literal filing cabinet, for things I should keep physically.
• Ubuntu computer for browsing

I feel a bit overwhelmed, but am excited to get started. Will be scanning personal document, work docs, whatever else I need to digitize and recycle. All suggestions appreciated!

Honest question, because I know multiple people who are not looking to jump ship since they already have the Plex Pass.