#selfhosting

danie10@squeet.me

10 of the best add-ons for Home Assistant — In case your setup has stagnated a bit

A Home Assistant screen showing various Add-ons listed such as Advanced SSH & Web Terminal, ESPHome, Frigate, Grafana, InfluxDB, Log Viewer, Assist microphone, File editor, Google Assistant SDK, Home Assistant Google Drive Backup, Jellyfin server, and Mosquitto broker.
Home Assistant is an incredible platform that reduces the complexity of managing all your smart appliances. From its remote monitoring features to compatibility with most smart gadgets and IoT devices, Home Assistant can turn any dull living space into an automated fortress.

What’s more, it has a robust list of integrations and add-ons, and you can even add more plugin repositories to take your smart home setup to the next level. But since it can get tough to sift through the barrage of integrations on the web, XDA Developers has compiled a list of the best plugins for most users.

There are actually a mass of plugins available for HA, especially if you include the HACS ones. HA Can be one of the more useful services in the home. There are one or two in this list that I’ll also be trying out.

See xda-developers.com/best-add-on…
#Blog, #homeassistant, #selfhosting, #technology

danie10@squeet.me

6 Really Good Docker Containers to use on your NAS

Top of a black plastic cover with cut-out letters showing "Synol". Covering the rest of the word is a smartphone resting on top showing a screen with the title My vault. Down the screen is a list of options such as Login, Card, Identity, Secure notes, Business, Education, Email, etc.
Docker containers are a great way to add functionality to your NAS outside the available app store. Whether you’re running a Synology enclosure or a DIY server, it’s possible to download and manage container images.

There are thousands of container images available for various services and apps. I’d suggest searching for frequently used services and see if there’s a container. Load it up on your NAS and have fun!

Those covered in the linked article are:

  • Portainer
  • Watchtower
  • Flame Dashboard
  • Jellyfin
  • IT Tools
  • Vaultwarden

See xda-developers.com/these-are-t…
#Blog, #docker, #selfhosting, #technology

danie10@squeet.me

How to Change Docker’s Default Data Directory

Pink colour background with the docker logo on it (a wahle with some blocks on top representing containers). Title says Change Docker Data Location.
I’m getting ready to do this on my home server as it’s main boot drive is a 128 GB SSD, and it is always around 80% full.

This article will guide you through the steps to relocate Docker’s storage path for images, volumes, containers, etc., ensuring that your projects continue smoothly without the hassle of disk space limitations.

See linuxiac.com/how-to-change-doc…
#Blog, #docker, #selfhosting, #technology

danie10@squeet.me

Overview of Memories Advanced Photo Management Suite that installs inside Nextcloud

Memories open-source selfhosted photo management with an image showing a whole lot of polaroid style photos scattered on a table
Memories is a fast, modern and advanced photo management suite, that installs quickly and easily inside Nextcloud. My video contrasts it with the Photos app that comes with Nextcloud, and highlights some reasons why you may want to use it instead of Photos. This app has face, object, landmark, place, and human action recognition capability through the Recognise app. It’s not that obvious, but albums can be shared, and photos commented on, with other Nextcloud registered users using the underlying Nextcloud file commenting system.

Memories is a great way to collaborate and share photos privately with friends and family, and even to share public links to some of your albums. It can even work on a Raspberry Pi hosted in the home.

It also has apps for iOS and Android, which can optionally auto-upload photos into Memories.

By saving/reading titles and descriptions into the photo’s EXIF headers means that importing or exporting out of Memories is a lot less of a chore with migrating between photo services.

Watch https://youtu.be/2A6u0AluCnI
#Blog, #opensource, #photomanagement, #selfhosting, #technology

reverendelvis@spora.undeadnetwork.de

Bildet Banden – YunoHost for a self-determined digital life

Your own federated sever for your squat, rocker gang, syndicate. Runs on a raspi or an old computer or on a dedicated server that you can rent cheaply. Easy to install and you can install all the wonderful federated services with just one click. Peertube, Element, mastodon, diaspora*, nextcloud, invidious and many more. Free yourself and your friends.

https://yunohost.org

https://word.undead-network.de/2024/01/31/bildet-banden-yunohost-for-a-self-determined-digital-life/
#anarchy #anon #banden #federated #FOSS #oss #rocker #SelfEmpowerment #selfdefence #selfhosting #squat #Yunohost

danie10@squeet.me

Immich Self-Hosted Photos and Videos Solution – My Warts and All Video Review

Title in white text stating Immich self-hosted photos and videos solution on teal background, with Immich logo to the right.
Immich is a really modern looking and responsive self-hosted solution for your photos and videos. It has a number of similarities to Google Photos and is often promoted as being the closest alternative right now to Google Photos. I’ve installed Immich on my VPS, connected it to my 13,000+ Piwigo photos, and been testing it out for the last week.

My review shows what is working well, and what I see as some potential shortfalls (as at Dec 2023) compared to Piwigo and other solutions. Immich is under very active development, so I’m sure some of these issues will be addressed in the coming year.

But if you are considering Immich, and are wondering how it compares to something like Piwigo, this video may be of help to you. Likewise, if you’re trying to get Immich to connect to external libraries.

Watch https://youtu.be/dQqrVzgnf2E
#Blog, #GooglePhotos, #Immich, #opensource, #selfhosting, #technology

azurecerulean@diasp.org

Self-host Zulip

Organized team chat

The calmer, more efficient way to work

Self-host Zulip

  • Free
  • Retain full control over your data.
  • All Zulip Cloud features included
  • Friendly community support
  • SAML, OIDC, Google, social SSO
  • LDAP/Active Directory sync
  • Advanced roles and permissions
  • Easy installation and maintenance

Zulip is 100% free and open source, with no proprietary version.

Only #decentralized, #OpenStandards based on #OpenSource implementations will survive in the long term.

That is why #AIM, #ICQ and #Skype are dead, #WhatsApp and #Telegram are on the verge of extinction and why @matrix is only slightly less bad than #signalapp because it has #SelfHosting functionality just like #Zulip

https://zulip.com/self-hosting/

caos@anonsys.net

🌐 🚀 Fediverse-Fachtag: „Die Welt nach Facebook, Twitter und YouTube. Eine neue Generation des Internets?” am 22.9.23 in #Köln
https://fsfe.org/news/2023/news-20230712-01.de.html

💬 mit @Ückück /S. Henkel 😛pdd: :af: @Katharina Nocun @Tobias @SIN - Studio im Netz @𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼

"Immer mehr Menschen wollen ihre Kommunikation nicht Plattformen wie #Facebook oder #YouTube anvertrauen, sondern wechseln zu Alternativen wie #Mastodon und #PeerTube. Wieso sind diese anders? Wie verändern sie das Internet? Und wie kann man im #Fediverse aktiv werden? Um diese Fragen geht es am 22.09.2023 bei unserem Fachtag mit Vorträgen und Workshops.

Der kostenlose Fachtag ist eine Präsenzveranstaltung der Free Software Foundation Europe @Free Software Foundation Europe, der Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung Nordrhein-Westfalen @LpB NRW und der #Volkshochschule Köln. Er richtet sich an Multiplikatorinnen der politischen #Bildung, an #Lehrkräfte , Vertreterinnen öffentlicher Institutionen und #Bildungseinrichtungen sowie an alle Interessierten.

Vorkenntnisse und Erfahrungen rund um dezentrale soziale Netzwerke sind nicht notwendig, denn ein Überblick über verschiedene dezentrale Dienste, die oft als „Fediverse“ bezeichnet werden, gehört zum Programm. Weitere Themen sind Potenziale und Probleme dezentraler Dienste und ihre Bedeutung für die demokratische Gesellschaft. In drei Workshops geht es ganz praktisch um die Nutzung von Fediverse-Diensten, um den Betrieb eigener Instanzen und um Wissensvermittlung zu dezentralen sozialen Netzwerken im Bildungskontext.

Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos, eine Online-Anmeldung ist jedoch erforderlich. Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Teilnahme!"

📅 22.09.2023
⏰ 10:00 - 16:00 Uhr
📍 FORUM Volkshochschule im Museum am Neumarkt, Cäcilienstraße 29-33, 50667 Köln
✅ Anmeldung: https://registration.fsfe.org/FediverseFachtag

aus dem Programm
- Die Infrastruktur der offenen Gesellschaft im digitalen Zeitalter
- Was ist das Fediverse? Überblick und Abgrenzung
- Potenziale und Probleme zentralisierter und dezentraler Dienste
- Aus dem Alltag von Fediverse-Admins
- Dezentrale Netzwerke als Gegenstand politischer und schulischer Bildung
- Aller Anfang ist spannend: Nutzung dezentraler Dienste für Privatpersonen und Institutionen
- Mitmachen, aber richtig: Der Betrieb eigener Fediverse-Instanzen
- Wie sieht die Zukunft des Fediverse aus?

#fediLZ #Workshop #Digitalisierung #SocialaMedia #Netzwerke #FOSS #Bildung #PolitischeBildung #Medienpädagogik, #Medienkompetenz #Medienbildung #Lehrerbildung #Weiterbildung #Privacy #Friendica #Hubzilla #SelfHosting

//cc fyi: @Stadtbibliothek Köln @Bildungsradar @Die Teckids-Gemeinschaft @Hey, Alter! Köln e.V. @GEW NRW :verified: @Kölner:innen im Fediverse

danie10@squeet.me

LibreTranslate is Free and Open-Source Self-hosted Machine Translation

Webpage showing a left-side box with text in it, and on the right-side a box with translated text
LibreTranslate is a machine translation API which is entirely self-hosted. This software lets you use open source machine translation in your projects. It uses Argos Translate for its translation engine.

It supports quite a few commonly used languages, but for example, for my own country it only supports English and none of the other 10 official languages. They provide two links at the end of the review to a test site as well as the open source code project. When I tested it for English to Dutch, it did not recognise everything and showed about 95% accuracy. So not quite in Google’s league, but if you want a free and self-hosted alternative then it does do a pretty good job.

That said, to add new languages, you first need to train an Argos Translate model. They provide a video link for details. First you need to collect data, for example from Opus, then you need to add the data to data-index.json in the Argos Train repo.

I see also you can enable all languages by turning on –debug mode, which includes the non-reviewed languages too.

If you don’t want to self-host, you can also opt to use their cloud API for production use for a fee. But a docker image is available, which would make self-hosting pretty simple.

See https://www.linuxlinks.com/machine-learning-linux-libretranslate-self-hosted-machine-translation/
#Blog, #opensource, #selfhosting, #technology, #translation

danie10@squeet.me

How to make your own self-hosted VPN in under 30 minutes (and why you’d want to, or not, do this)

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Self-hosted VPNs can be quite good if you are hosting them from a hosting service, but network traffic is often limited to about 1 TB (and you have to count it both ways) and many streaming services will still detect it as a VPN connection and maybe block it.

Hosting from home solves the network traffic issue, but exposes your home IP address.

So this is a good article to understand where and how a self-hosted VPN may help you or not. In many cases, especially for Netflix and similar types of streaming, the only reliable option is a paid VPN service that specifically works around streaming services.

See https://www.androidpolice.com/how-to-make-personal-vpn-30-minutes/
#Blog, #privacy, #selfhosting, #technology, #VPN

danie10@squeet.me

Docker Mailserver (DMS) is an open-source production-ready full stack mail server that you can self-host in a Docker container

Red postbox
This is a simple containerised mail server (SMTP, IMAP, LDAP, Antispam, Antivirus, etc.). Only configuration files, no SQL database. Easy to deploy and upgrade. I see it is often recommended to others, as I noticed in a Lemmy forum today.

It is receiving regular updates and has quite extensive documentation. It has over 11,000 likes on Github.

See https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver
#Blog, #email, #mailserver, #opensource, #selfhosting, #technology

danie10@squeet.me

Veloren is an open-source multi-player voxel role-playing game that can be self-hosted (and has more adventure and fun than Minecraft)

A hillside covered in trees with houses in the foreground.
It is inspired by games such as Cube World, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft.

You can play single player or multi-player, standalone or use an online server, or even host your own server in a Docker container, or on a Raspberry Pi. Plenty of options!

You start by creating your character, you can collect items for your inventory, you can craft items, there are weapons and combat, you develop skills, can tame creatures, you can trade with merchants, you can socialise, and lost more. There is no single, specific goal or focus, and the idea is to keep exploring and have adventures.

The game is community driven and actually updates quite regularly.

It is clearly no clone of Minecraft. It is fun and adventure!

See https://veloren.net/
#Blog, #gaming, #opensource, #selfhosting, #technology, #Veloren