It’s been a while! Let us know what you’re currently working on, what exploded, what cool stuff you found, or just brag that everything is running fine unattended.
I haven’t been doing a lot, renovate auto upgrades for patches and sometimes minor updates work great so far. I got involved in my union to spin up a mastodon server soon, so there’s a new project, but I already run mastodon so it shouldn’t be much of a deal, I just need to get comfortable with the infrastructure. I also set up ntfy but only sent some test notifications and didn’t configure any app yet - planned for Element Chat.
[Meta] I’m not sure how to apply the new tags. In the recent versions of this thread, people sometimes posted about their ollama setup or the like, but I’m not mentioning AI in the post body (except this meta thingy) and it shouldn’t be much of the discussion, but it’s an open post. Maybe curbstickle can chime in to let me know if I should apply one of them.
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I found the best thing to deal with a device that won’t work…
I’m trying to get the 3.5" adafruit touchscreen working and it’s being stubborn…
So… I went outside and split a large pile of logs.
Problem still not fixed, but I feel a hellofalot better
I set up oauth for my sites
How was the experience? And worth the pain?
It was a pretty huge learning curve but it was great learning to troubleshoot stuff i also set up oauth2-proxy and that was also a bit of learning curve but worth it in the end
Can only speak for myself. I went with PocketID for oidc. The learning curve was a little steeper than most other homelab services i try, but its 111% worth the setup and time. Logging into services now happens automatically. And if you’re distributing services to friends and family then oidc is a lot more seamless than 10 different accounts on 10 different services.
I went with PocketID because it looked the simplest out of the bunch. Authentik does provide more customization but afaik this is more needed for enterprise graded stuff.
All in all, very happy with it, not going back to traditional logins any time soon.
Woah, thanks for the tip.
I just tried pocketid and it’s actually not that complicated. Nice.
We’re on the first Sunday of the month, mdadm raid array be scrubbing… With Debian 13 came a crazy complex systemd scheduling for that, I liked the awkward cron job better. It’s now using some kind of random delay before start, and cut in chunks of 6 hours or so over multiple days Edit: typos
I scored an old HP Microserver Gen10 from work with 4 4tb wd reds. Spent the weekend putting in an extra SSD for the OS and testing the drives. So far so good. Now I just need to figure out what I’m going to do woth it…
Setup an XMPP server for family and friends to use. While I really like it, I can’t seem to get Jitsi to play nice for group calls with the Openfire server. Atleast 1 on 1 calls seem to work fine with Dino and Conversations anyway.
Slowly uploading my media collection from a slowly dying TrūNAS box up to B2… slowly 😬
spent some time last week adding metadata to my mp3 music obtained with yt-dlp. used musicbrainz Picard.
I’m actually really surprised how comprehensive that database is, and how easy it was to manually tag the tracks that didn’t get picked up automatically.
Discovered you can self host Joplin and I can’t wait to set it up in the next days.
Also I tried some alternatives to ActualBudget, because I didn’t need to many functionalities. Long story short, I went back to it cause none offers a neat interface and multiple accounts at the same time.
After a lot of trial and error, I managed to get rsgain working with Lidarr on my raspberry pi. I might actually be fully satisfied with my music piracy/streaming setup now (until I find the next silly addition :3 ).
Not working on anything particular, but I’m going on a road trip on Tuesday to this regional airport that is giving away two racks perfect for my use case. Deep enough for my larger machines, sound proofed and 42U tall.
Finally my hardware can have a proper rack instead of being in a stack/pile in this harrypotteresque locker under my stairs.
Giving away? As in free? Luckyyy
Free except from the drive to get there. But the drive is a lot cheaper than those racks would cost.
Sound proofed… wow… does that also mean heat can’t escape?
Vent fans at the top and the bottom. But it can be next to my work desk without the hardware getting annoying.
Ah… nice
I built a dashboard themed around my dog. It uses the Home Assistant API to get various stats from the house. I’m pleased with it!
Care you share any more details? Looks very aesthetically pleasing. I think I should make one themed around my cat.
It’s a PHP container On the front end I’m using Bootstrap and theming it with Catppuccin. The data for the home energy charts are populated from the Home Assistant API. They’re drawn with chart.js. The server stats are pulled from PHP exec commands, and drawn with Bootstrap progress bars. The temperature card also takes data from the Home Assistant API, which also has an endpoint for local weather data. This doesn’t update as often as I’d like. But it compares the outdoor temperature with the reported temperature of my thermostat, and then the messages below that are determined by a comparison of those values. I’m also using HTMX to load each card, and each tab of the energy card separately so that I don’t have no wait on all requests for the dashboard to load. Not that it’s slow - the home assistant API is surprisingly efficient at loading a great deal of logs. When you click my dogs face, she says WOOF WOOF WOOF in a modal to offer me a search with searxng.
There’s not nearly enough dog metrics on that dashboard
I’d add “time to next meal” but she seems to know that already down to the minute!
Mealie, recipe manager and Social to Mealie. Scrapes recipes from instagram reels, tiktok, youtube shorts.
Bar Assistant, bar and cocktail management. You can add your ingredients and it shows what can you make, you can share a menu to your friends, its cool
I’m really enjoying mealie. I just wish there was an easier way to input nutritional information
I thought I’d take a shortcut and use AI to help me setup an arch thing I’m working on. Jokes on me, took two days and in the end the thing was so fucked its irrecoverable. What a waste of a weekend.
Over the last few weeks I’ve been making the horrifying leap from PHP5 to PHP8. I knew it was going to be a lot of work to upgrade all my various scripts and web pages but I’m nearing the end, just have some random CLI scripts still failing that I have to work through.
I’ve been making a big push this year to get all my servers caught up to supported operating system levels. Debian will truly run forever even when it really shouldn’t. I was happy to finally get my mail servers modernized last month. The old code I had relied on for managing spam scanning and such had been abandoned but I finally discovered rspamd which replaced everything plus does so much more. The first couple weeks saw an awful lot of server emails being marked as spam while I trained the new system, seems to be settling in nicely now though, and I created some new spam-trap mailboxes and sprinkled the addresses around several web pages. Nice to see their activity picking up again.
What’s up? Not Grafana. I did
docker compose pullon the stack (without version pinning) then recreated the containers, and now it’s fucked. Or maybe it’s not because the logs are fine but it only serves the web app but 404s on any connection to the Grafana backend.Now I need to do some investigation into any recent changes to try to work out what’s going wrong.
