Trying to figure out how to get my qBittorrent docker container to route all traffic through my VPS through wireguard. The catch is that the webui needs to be accessible through LAN.
I’m 3 time zones away from my server and it hasn’t crashed yet after being gone for 3 days. I’m very proud of it.
The absolute bliss
Same with me when I was in Brazil, it was chugging along just fine back in New England
I feel you. I did not expect mine to crash but I am in Japan and streamed a movie from my server on the West coast of North America.
That's such a nice feeling
I've gotten a CalDAV server, audiobookshelf, and selfhosted obsidian live sync running on my laptop while I wait for movers to bring my shit to my house. Then gotta migrate it all across to my mini PC afterwards. Doing a modular NixOS setup to replace/complement what I used to have running on proxmox.
Once everything is on a dedicated machine I'm going to make a nice little homepage for it, inspired by a previous thread here.
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?
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 you might have secret ethernet cable behind your landline jacks, even if there's no tidy junction box! :)
It was cool finding out there's already capable infrastructure in the walls, but you gotta replace the wall jacks with RJ-45 using a tone tool to label which one goes where, and then the next trick is figuring out an affordable switch that can handle a garage that could get to 100ºF + in summer...
But anyway, worth checking before you start getting too deeply sunk into other solutions. :)
It was built in the late 80s so I doubt it's cat5. But I also know the basement was finished later, so maybe I'll get lucky at least with those.
I just need to figure out where it's all going to see if I can reuse it.
Another interesting thing is the previous owner ran speaker wire to the master bed, living room, and basement room exactly where I want to go, so maybe can reuse those runs.
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.
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.
Tried to setup custom domains using Nginx Proxy Manager and Let's Encrypt DNS-01 challenges so I wouldn't have to open any ports and it worked!... except not really?
Proxy Manager shows everything was successful but the domains don't go anywhere. It seems to be because the TP-Link router from my ISP does DNS Rebinding protection... with no option to turn it off apparently... why......
So now I don't know where to go. I'm not really fancying hosting DNS myself but if I can't fix this any other way then I guess I'll do it. Or maybe I should ditch the ISP TP-Link and get something I could flash OpenWRT on?
Is the ISP supplied box also your wifi?
If not, IMHO I'd use the ISP equipment as a pass-through modem (if possible on that model?) and have a separate OpenWRT / pfSense firewall do all the heavy lifting for DHCP, DNS, ad blocking, etc
Depends if you'd then need another WAP, of course
It is also my Wifi, yeah. I didn't even consider that'd complicate things further. It does have a "pass-through" option though.
Looking for a self-hosted period tracking app with companion android app. Have done literally zero investigation at this point but it's on my todo.
period tracking app surveillance... how did we as society come to accept this?
That's definitely one of those things I found bizarre and awful yet...entirely unsurprising. I can see how selling that data probably sounds like such a lucrative edge to marketing companies.
how did we as society come to accept this?
By not establishing ethical ~~lines~~ high-voltage containment fences on the advertising industry quickly enough, and letting them convince us "this is just how business works", when their entire existence is about finding the scummiest ways to hack free will for profit.
Still haven't properly set up my backups ... Have my Nextcloud on a zfs (single disk sadly) and want to send it to a server at my parents place (also zfs) but both are behind NAT. While I've successfully set up wireguard between the two, but the connection won't stay up so there's still a ways to go till I got a happy off-site Backup.
Maybe Tailscale could be super useful for this!
I kinda shied away from tailscale because "I wanted to do it on my own" but I've just set up tailscale (while on a train no less) and it was really simple ... Guess I'll run with it for now :D now I'll just have to set up the send/receive scripts but that's just some BASHing my head against a wall ;)
Thanks for the suggestion!
If you want to have more control about it and become independent of the SaaS offering, you can even selfhost headscale, a FOSS tailscale control server. I run it myself with zero issues.
Yeah I saw that. It's definitely intriguing. For now I'm good with the free tailscale but might look into it. What's your experience with headscale? It's mostly a broker right so probably not to Ressource excessive? I have a small public VPS for getting to my selfhosted infrastructure so I might just add in headscale there
Headscale is pretty light on resources, especially since it doesn't come with a webui (there is third-party ones like headplane you can use though). RAM usage is like 70mb for me currently.
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
And that is why I no longer run Nextcloud
I have setup a immich docker container and am slowly moving users and images from google photos.
Replacing Google Photos is still on my to-do list. How do you like Immich so far? Did you compare it to any alternatives?
Interested in this too - immich gets so much viral hype I'm a little suspicious of it
I try to install docker (only docker) on the extern hdd.... I have some tutorials, but I do not get
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.
k. thanks. i see automations are enterprise features. so i think this will end up the same mess as nocodb. their business models are outdated.
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