Well, the radio on the countryside sucks (here at last). At home i use raspberry-pi's with mpd to listen to internet radio or my mp3 collection. But on the road .,..... Radio apps are loaded with ad's and/or you need a periodic deny all cookies.

So I m looking fore something else on my phone similar to my pi with mpd. Anyone implemented (re)stream internet from home to android?

Edit! I’ll answer to past me, because apparently he was blind: https://git.lolcat.ca/lolcat/4get/src/branch/master/docs/docker.md#custom-banners

Hi all,

I’m running the official Docker image of 4get. The homepage shows the default “4get” banner, while I’ve seen other instances with custom banners.

I’d like to replace it with my own image. Has anyone here figured out the best way to do this with the prebuilt Docker image? Mounting a volume ? Rebuilding the image. Any guidance would be appreciated.

I’m asking here because I can’t contact the maintainer directly. The Git repository is closed for new accounts due to bot attacks. So I hope someone in the community might know.

Thanks in advance!

Please read the whole question carefully, I am looking for a very specific functionality

I am looking for a self hosted pocket alternative

There are quite a few out there that I've looked at however I have quite a specific requirement..

When using pocket I used a firefox extension / add-on: In My Pocket

This extension / add-on had a relatively simple feature which is essential to me

It has a buttons which summons a little drop-down menu which lists all your saved url

It has a search box and every url has a button to remove it from the list

Does anyone have any recommendations for a self hosted application which has a Firefox extension / add-on including this functionality? (Dropdown, search box, button to remove url / bookmark)

Thanks in advance!

Hello, so, I have been self-hosting some basic stuff recently, including data storage so i don't have to rely on external services like google drive.

It's working fine, but I wondered what would be the best backup solutions in case something unexpected and unfortunate happens (accidentally wipe out everything, drives dying, electrical issues, house burning down, that sort of thing).

I was wondering if more experienced self-hosters had recommendations about that ?

Maybe storing a physical drive in an especially sturdy box ? Perhaps using distant cold storage solutions ? Or even something I have never heard of ?

Is there software that tracks movies and TV shows I've watched and lets me manually add them to my library?

I use Jellyfin, but it lacks this feature. I'm looking for a solution that allows me to create placeholders for shows or seasons I've watched elsewhere, without having to download or create empty MP4 files.

It would be even better if this software integrates with Jellyfin.

I use KeepassDX on family mobiles with Syncthing for copies between laptop and phones. What would i gain moving to Vaultwarden, knowing that i would never open my network to the outside world? It would be easier to manage for sure, as im having to setup phones and laotops myself in the family and worry that they do silly things like turn off syncthing. But what about offline access to passwords? Does Bitwarden mobile client keep a local copy of database until it can sync?

So I'm using bit warden self hosted and now I'm freaking out about the very real possibility of my passwords getting stolen or lost in a fire. Having passwords on my phone makes no sense.

We need some sort of distributed password manager safety net. Like I keep your passwords safe if you keep mine. But how can I trust you? Can you trust me?

Looking for a self hosted, web search trends monitor. I have looked at Plausible Analytics, OpenSearch, Matomo, and some other website analytics platforms, but I'm not necessarily wanting to monitor a specific website(s). Rather, I want to monitor what people are searching for on the internet.

Is such a thing possible?

I kept bouncing between two annoying extremes: “just edit markdown files in a folder” (great) and “use a notes app” (suddenly you’re managing accounts, syncing, databases, exports, and whatever the app feels like today).

So I built MarkdownManager: a small self-hosted tool that lets you browse and edit a folder of .md notes in your browser, with a preview right next to it. The important part: your notes stay as normal files on disk. No database, no vendor-shaped gravity well. If you stop using it, nothing breaks and your files are still just… files.

Repo: https://github.com/Henkster72/MarkdownManager

If you try it and hate something (UI flow, mobile layout, how it handles folders, whatever), I’m genuinely interested in the sharp feedback.

Folks,

I have an Intel N5095 2 GHz box, with 16 GB RAM and 500 GB sitting below my desk. It's a teeny tiny box with no fan or anything.

I'm currently running Debian server on it with Portainer on top to run some *arr services. I'm thinking of running some more. But the device seems to groan under the weight of the services already running.

Was just watching a video about proxmox, and it seems to be a better solution if I don't need to run Portainer on top of an OS. Maybe it'll be lower resource usage?

So, thoughts? Should I change it up from Debian to proxmox? Or should I stick to what is already running? I am running Debian because I read somewhere that it's the lowest resource hog of all Linux server options.

Alternatively, should I stick to Debian and portainer but use it with something like podman as it might use less resources than docker-ce?

Most of the threads I've found on other sites (both Reddit and the Synology forums) have basically said "go with Docker". But what do you actually gain from this?

People suggest it's more up-to-date, and maybe for some packages that's true? But for Nextcloud specifically it looks pretty good. 32.0.3 came out 1 day ago and isn't yet supported, but the version immediately preceding that, from 3 weeks ago, is.

I've never done Nextcloud before, but I would assume installing it via the Package Center would be way easier to install and to keep up-to-date than Docker. So what's the reason everyone recommends Docker? Is it easier to extend?

EDIT: Oh my god, sorry, I'm an idiot who forgot that the Jellyfin subtitles setting menu had a save button you needed to press. ALSO, Simultaneously, I posted this earlier than I intended; I thought to myself "OK I'll try this one last thing and if that doesn't work then I'll give up and ask for help", and then went and wrote this post while I waited for the DVD to rip - and then I went and posted it as soon as I was done writing, without waiting for the one last attempt to finish. It turns out that removing the --subtitle scan flag fixes the problem. So I double shouldn't have posted this. Sorry for taking up your time, I saw an option to hide this post so I think I'll be doing that now.

First, this doesn't seem like quite the right community to post this in, but I couldn't find a better fitting one on Lemmy, and I'd prefer not to dust off my Reddit account if I don't have to. If you know of somewhere better for me to post this please let me know

I'm trying to use Automatic Ripping Machine (ARM) to copy my DVD collection onto my home server for playback with Jellyfin. I want the subtitles on the Jellyfin versions of my shows to work the same as playing the DVDs on my blu-ray player: Off by default, available when desired. After some googling I found that in order to have the subtitles on the disc to be retained in the files output by ARM (and thus be displayable in Jellyfin) I needed to put the --all-subtitles flag in the HB_ARGS_DVD section of the config file, so that it'd be passed to HandBrakeCLI in the transcoding stage. That worked, the subtitle selector appeared in Jellyfin and had all the options as the DVD does in my blu-ray player, but it introduced a new problem: The first subtitle track gets incorrectly marked as "Forced", and is selected by default in Jellyfin even when I set my Jellyfin user's subtitle settings to "None".

I have tried and tried and tried but no search term I've come up with has found me somebody who had this same problem. I found that the -F option that was included in HB_ARGS_DVD by default is short for --subtitle-forced, which marks the first subtitle track as forced when given without an argument, but removing the -F from the config file and recreating the ARM docker container did nothing to fix the issue. Replacing the -F with --subtitle-forced='none' or --subtitle-forced=none also didn't work, and neither did adding --subtitle-default=none or --subtitle-default='none'

My current setting for HB_ARGS_DVD is --subtitle scan --all-subtitles --subtitle-burned=none --subtitle-default=none, which still has the issue. The only lead I have left is to use an external program called "MKVToolNix" to manually set the subtitle track as not forced for every single video file, but

1. I'd rather fix the tool I'm already using than add an extra step to the DVD ripping process if possible
2. I tried using MKVToolNix earlier and couldn't get it to do what I wanted

A way to make Jellyfin disregard the "Forced" flag and treat the subtitle track normally would also work in my case but that seems less likely to exist than a way to fix HandBrake.

Cross posted from: https://lemmy.nocturnal.garden/post/407947

Hi everyone,

I built a CLI tool to bring reliable, enterprise-grade backup automation to CyberPanel and Linux servers.

CyberTools Admin 1.5.0 includes:

• Automated project & system backups
• Safe Restore (restores into a test directory first)
• Direct Restore with confirmation
• Auto-Healing Startup (.bashrc fix)
• Unified logging
• Zero telemetry
• Pure Bash

More details + install guide: theusaseo[dot]com/cybertoolsadmin/

Would love feedback from the self-hosting and Linux communities.

My parents are looking into getting their own NAS to replace iCloud. I don't really have much experience with that, and zero experience with apple stuff. They are also not very techy, but at least enthusiastic.

Can sombody recommend easy NAS products where you basically just buy a device, do some basic setup, and then it functions as your at-home cloud? I don't want to get roped into doing too much admin for them, but they do already have DDNS for some other smart home crap. Bonus if it's non-US tech.

Personally I run a nextcloud server on a VPS that I could expand, that's not quite selfhosted, I don't know if that integrates well with apple though, are they better off if I just onboard them onto that?

Cheers in advance

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/31997776

Join in on the DURP Challenge, where you finish a project you are otherwise ignoring for the Winter season. Putting this out as part of Linux Prepper podcast, which is a DIY and technology-focused show on struggling to accomplish things while still enjoying life.

Keep in mind you are welcome to submit any sort of project you are otherwise putting off! I'll be happy to share them on the show once we hit Spring. This gives you a solid three month window to get it together! 100% completion is not required, but you'll share whatever progress you have made.

The challenge is simply about clout, and sharing in what we've accomplished, over any actual prizes. If you've already finished a project in the recent past and want to proudly share it, that is fine!

Hi all!

Just a quick update on Scatola Magica - a self hosted file transfer and management system I built - it's almost out of beta and I'd love to have people test it out and raise issues on github in case something is incredibly off.

Repo: https://github.com/fccview/scatola-magica

Quick youtube demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvn0KHxzesE

enable subtitles in the demo for some commentary

Some quick highlights on the features I wanted that made me build this:

• Drag/drop anywhere to upload files/folders (yes even unzipped folders)
• Copy a file and paste it straight on the UI to upload it
• Copy some text and paste it straight in the UI to create a .txt file with the pasted text
• Click on the recursive button to see all files within all folders, multi select them all and download as zip (regardless from if they are in the same folder or not)
• Full on, easy to use encrypt/decrypt of files using the keys generated from the app OR any random public key I may want to use
• Encrypted file transfer
• (for my own taste) Slick UI.

The latest update features full on PGP encryption, transfer encryption (I don't want to call it e2e because files do end up decrypted on the server unless you purposely upload them via the "upload encrypted file", but it's effectively e2e, they get encrypted on your browser - requires https/localhost - are transferred encrypted and get decrypted once safe on your server).

I also have added some fun theming options for people who, like me, grew up in the late 90s, bit of nostalgia never hurts. This is fully featured in the demo video

Some of you may know me for my two other apps I have published here jotty and cronmaster, been a developer for half my life and all I do in my spare time is code and create open source apps. Been into self hosting for quite a while and I have very specific tastes and want very niche features, so I always end up building my own applications, it's a good way to keep up with latest tech and keep the love for my job alive.

Let me know if you like it! Super proud of this one, I am really enjoying using it in my homelab.

By 'Git instances' they mean Gogs instances that allow open registration. I know most of the community moved from Gogs to Gitea, and then to Forgejo, but thought this was still worth noting.

Hey folks. My understanding of the self-hosting world is that Proxmox is kinda the king of the roost, and deservedly so. I use it myself both for personal and work projects, and love what it provides. I've also used TrueNAS Core/SCALE, and of course just traditional Linux desktop or server distros of various sorts for projects, but out of the corner of my eye has always been sitting XCP-NG. It seems like it could be a real contender in the space.

I've tried installed it a handful of times, and each time it felt like something with a lot of potential, but the freemium model just felt too onerous to make it worth investing too much into learning it. My initial observations were:

• (Plus) It may just be my imagination but in my limited interaction with VMs, they felt a little snappier in terms of interactivity compared to Proxmox/KVM. The console clipboard is a bit weird if you're used to NoVNC but I assume I could adapt to it.
• (Plus) The console for the dom0 and guest VMs is completely persistent, which is awesome. The xsconsole manager program is also a really great management TUI as well, looks great and nice alternative to needing to do things in the GUI or command line. The dom0 console is password protected by default, which I see now in Proxmox 9.x also does. Good security practice, at least there.
• (Plus) I like the incremental backup system. It's very efficient and I'm not aware of any equivalent in other systems.
• (Minus) It seems difficult (maybe not impossible?) to manage some things e.g. VM disk allocations, etc from the main XCP web instance only. They really seem to want you using Xen Orchestra.
• (Huge Minus) The licensing seems extremely expensive compared to Proxmox, to the point where it seems out of reach as a homelab solution. I also really don't like that they don't push updates to the Community edition XO. I know there are some scripts on github to work around this, but it just seems like such a bad look for them to not send security updates to the community edition, even if it's at a slower rate than for the paid customers, which I believe is how Proxmox works.

Does anyone use xcp in homelab environment, or only in enterprise given the cost issues? What do you like about it compared to proxmox or other multi-VM hosting solutions?

Hi, I have a problem accessing Paperless-ngx when I'm connected to my home network from a VPN. I've tried to make a simple sketch of my setup: Phone --> Wireguard --> Public Internet --> Unifi Wireguard server --> Home Network

Paperless-ngx is hosted on my server at 192.168.1.10:8000 But I can easily access all other services hosted on my server (192.168.1.10), e.g. homer (:8888) and Immich (:8080). It is just Paperless-ngx which doesn't work.

When at home and connected to my home WiFi I can also access Paperless-ngx.

Anyone having ideas to figure out, what is wrong in my setup? Or how to debug?

There are a few Docker projects I haven't been able to properly implement in my homelab, only because their images need to be user-compiled and Dockge doesn't seem to have an option to include the entire repository required for the project compilation in its interface or in the stacks directory. I know I could just host them in a separate directory but I would like my services to be manageable from a single place and following this approach isolates the service from being controlled from Dockge.

Is there some workaround or a solution for this I am unaware of? I initially thought I could deploy Coolify within Dockge and store the applications under it but apparently Coolify is meant to work on its own and I fear running both Coolify and Dockge will break stuff.

https://status.tailscale.com/

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What things do you self host (or know about) that are fun/interesting/useful to you? I'm thinking of setting up a home server and am looking for things that would be useful or fun for me to run on it. I want to host things that are useful/fun, but not a project itself (I've got enough projects), if that makes sense.

Most of the lists I see online are mostly lists of technical projects like docker, kubernetes, grafana, nginx, etc. I see these as infrastructure rather than the interesting project itself. ETA: the infra is important, but not "interesting" in this context as I deal with infra at my day job.

Examples of the type of service I'm looking at: a media server, photos app (to replace Google Photos), game servers, recipe management, home automation... What other things do you know about that are fun/interesting/useful?

Edit: thank you everyone for your awesome responses!