Almost forgot before going to bed but I feel bi-weekly is a good rhythm for this.
Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you found.
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I upgraded immich without breaking everything. That’s always reason to celebrate.
How exactly does stuff get broken? Never rly had a problem bumping up the version in docker. The only issue has been the playstore version taking longer to push updates sometimes for the mobile apps.
A few versions ago I upgraded it and some default port configs changed rendering it unusable. Since my upgrades are a docker command, I had to go hunt down the error message. It didn’t take long, but it def broke the setup.
I feel you 😂
I’m running the Immich
FlatpakSnap specifically for this reason. It’s always one version out of date but always self updates without issues :)flatpak
You mean as a client or a server?
I misremembered; I run “Immich Distribution” which is a snap and I run it on a Debian server.
I finally moved from reddit to Lemmy. maybe a 3-4 hour set up time to get it all working lol.
Cool! Which installation method did you use?
I did manual docker. I host some other things as well, so running it through nginx proxy manager that I already had set up.
I also planned to do the same (bare nginx instead of NPM but otherwise the same). Did you just remove the nginx container from docker compose and use the same arguments in NPM or do you double-reverseproxy or something else?
Short answer, yes I removed the nginx container from the lemmy compose file. I followed this guide if it helps: https://www.reddit.com/r/nginxproxymanager/comments/1485y0d/getting_lemmy_running_with_a_separate_nginx_proxy/
Cool, thanks!
Finally moved all my lxc onto a lower-power Xeon D host, consumes 1/3 the electricity of my previous Dell R430, same essential performance.
I plan on setting up the *arr suite and getting rid of Netflix, Crunchyroll, Amazon Prime and Disney+
You can use https://schedule.lemmings.world/ to automate the posts. Or, given the community we’re in, you can selfhost it!
This week I’ve been doing some work on my GOG Downloader to finally back up all my GOG stuff when I buy new disks, that’s pretty much it for my selfhost/homeserver stuff this week.
I didn’t know that, cool! Though I should probably talk to the mods before setting up such a thing.
I’m the one who files the most bug reports on github under a different name. Our instance runs on Lemmy Schedule, so thanks!
Finally got my lemmy instance fully updated.
Been improving my backup scripts in advance of adding backup to a server.
Updated servers and other services.
I’ve had two failed harddrives in the last month. Not sure if bad batch or what. Thankfully the order these were on only were the two drives so may not see more. They are under warranty but it’s still a pain!
Otherwise I’m enjoying Mealie lately for my recipes. Kinda nice having them all in one place but accessible by anyone in the house.
I love mealie as well. My wife and I keep all our recipes in mealie.
I found Mealie to be a bit bloated and not fitting my needs too well. I moved to KitchenOwl. Small project but I love it.
Trying to get my hands dirty with LLM, Ollama and Web Scrapping.
I don’t understand most of it , but hey, that’s the fun. No complaints.
Just swapped VPS hosts from ssdnodes to MassiveGRID. Got a pretty sweet deal, so I’m pretty excited.
Got my services transferred over this week and it’s been fun as hell. It’s interesting because I was discussing Portainer with my buddy and he has Portainer on his local PC to connect to his remote instances and with hindsight it sounds obvious of course, but it’s such a nice little setup. Just finished setting up my Jellyfin reverse proxy so I’m gonna watch a movie and chill.
I used Portainer for a while and still like it for checking out networking stuff, but try out Dockge! It’s more open sourcey and basic, but makes updating easier.
Dockge
Dockage was nice, and it was much simpler, however, I had to leverage more docker commands via my VPS with it, because there weren’t a lot of options, specifically network settings.
Had a hard drive fail my main zfs array. First time I have experienced a disk failure so it was a bit worrying. Thankfully I had added an additional drive to expand the array so I was able to quickly rebuild to that drive. Currently shopping for a replacement. From now on I think I will keep a cold spare just in case this happens again. I just wish hard drives would stop increasing in price.
You save some money by buying recertified drives from Serverpartdeals.
Yea that is what I have been doing. Although it seems the smaller sizes are not a great deal anymore and I am hesitant to buy anything larger due to the long rebuild times
I’ve been working on some bash scripts to help manage my media files. I’ve been slowly working on learning more bash and I’m pretty pleased with my progress. After I finish this bash book I’m reading (can’t remember the title atm), I think I’m gonna jump into awk.
Bash is a really great shell, but consider trying out a functional shell scripting language like Elvish (which is also a shell). Syntatically it’s pretty similar and not hard to pickup, but it’s stupid powerful. A cool example is updating different servers via ssh in parallel using a
servers.jsonfile;[ {"name": "server.com", "user": "root", "identity": "~/.ssh/private_key0", "cmd": "apt update; apt upgrade -y"}, {"name": "serverb.com", "user": "root", "identity": "~/.ssh/private_key1", "cmd": "pacman -Syu"}, {"name": "serverc.com", "user": "root", "identity": "~/.ssh/private_key2", "cmd": "apk update; apk upgrade"} ]and a little elvish magic;
var hosts = (from-json < servers.json) peach {|h| ssh $h[user]@$h[name] -i $h[identity] $h[cmd] > ssh-$h[name].log } $hostsJust run the script and boom, done. You can even swap out
peachwhich isparallel eachforeachif you want to do each command procedurally–but I really love using peach, especially with file operations over many different files. Linux is fast, but peach is fuckin’ crazy fast. Especially for deleting files (fd -e conf -t file | peach {|x| rm $x }, or one thing that I do is extract internal subs (so they play on my chromecast) in my Jellyfin server, using elvish makes it really fast;fd -e mkv | peach {|x| ffmpeg -i $x -map 0:s:0 $x.srt }Find all
*.mkvfiles, pass the filenames through ffmpeg (using peach) and extract the first subtitle asfilename.mkv.srt. Takes only about a few seconds to do thousands and thousands of video files. I highly recommend it for home-labbers.
Pretty dumb example, but
peachis like 6x faster;❯ time { range 0 1000 | each {|x| touch $x.txt }} 5.2591751s ❯ time { range 0 1000 | peach {|x| touch $x.txt }} 776.2411ms
Pihole 6 broke my DNS (dnsmasq), and since I had a fw rule in opnsense to only use pihole’s DNS, and deny public DNS access, it was an early rise for me :)
And that’s why you have either a backup for your DNS or know whats auto-updated ;)
As you mention opnsense:
What do you mean with fw rules to only use pihole dns?
This sounds partly like a DHCP config and partly like a deny (hardcoded) DNS requests and to please use what DHCP supplied (looking at you google/amazon)I did have backups, it was an easy fix. I had a
pihole -upon a crontab for years, probably not the best idea :)FW rule accept :53 from pihole only, deny :53 from all. I had some devices with hardcored DNS settings (8.8.8.8).
Damn… DNS issue early in the morning… What a nightmare 😂! Hope you got enough caffeine.
Unbound broke on both of mine day one of v6 and I’ve still not gone and fixed it. Sigh.
I’m a new selfhoster and reached the limit on what my DS923+ can handle after setting up an Immich instance (on top of qbitorrent, radarr/sonarr, plex). So I picked up a mini PC this week and migrated the Immich stack over (pointing to an NFS mount for the NAS!) and now it’s running super smooth 🙌 Now I’m hype to move over more services and eventually start separating out media services from mission-critical stuff like photos when I have another machine handy.
I wanted to set up local domain resolution for my devices in order to stop having to visit sites with the local 192.168.1.x IP, so I started following some guides to run dnsmasq on the mini PC (Ubuntu Server) and add entries to /etc/hosts. It was pretty easy to get working OK, but for whatever reason the DNS doesn’t seem to be working on a fresh boot. My local workstation can’t ping the custom DNS entries for my devices until I
sudo systemctl restart dnsmasqon the mini PC, after which everything works fine, which leads me to believe it’s some weird boot order problem? I’m trying not to screw with it too much before bed, but hopefully I can figure out what’s going on this week.Highly suggest putting Caddy on a machine, forwarding port 443 and 80 to caddy, and then letting it do your reverse-proxy stuff. Register a domain name, give it your IP address, and then tell caddy that ‘immich.yourdomain.bleh’ goes to port 78789 and plex goes to ‘media.yourdomain.bleh’ port 89898 – Caddy handles all of the TLS stuff, handshaking, you name it - so you can have secure sites with proper certs.
Then make sure those things are isolated from your home network through vlans if your router supports it.
You can get fancier with it using a tailscale and getting some datacenter IP to forward into your network
I set up DNS challenge with Let’s Encrypt with Caddy, and now I don’t need to forward anything to it if I don’t want to.
DNS challenge so you can get a wildcard cert? Or is it still per domain? I haven’t looked recently but it seemed difficult but I’d like to avoid transparency log installs where I can.
You can do both (not sure how wildcard works through Caddy though), I did it per domain. I prefer doing TLS trunking per device, hence no wildcard.
Thanks for the advice, I didn’t know a reverse proxy was what I was setting up though I’ve seen that term all over. I think Caddy is likely in my future but I already have basic access to my home network through a Wireguard tunnel for now so I was hoping dnsmasq could solve for my case without getting too fancy or exposing any ports. I think I should probably try to learn about reverse proxies more generally to figure out the next steps forward.
If you want to have domains assigned to local IP addresses, you can also use Pihole as a local DNS! It’s a very nice tool for adblocking on network level anyways, can only recommend it.
Awesome thank you, this is what I ended up setting up today. It’s a bit of an awkward solution for now, I would very much like to use it for its ad blocking functionality but I’m unsure if I want to make it my only DNS provider while I’m still migrating services over to the mini PC and messing with the server config. I had set up Pihole years ago and my wife ran into problems using some apps on her phone so I think I’d need to be more proactive about making sure that’s working this time around too.
I get that, I plan to add another pihole ad some point so I can enter 2 nameservers at my router. There are solutions to sync all config between the piholes.
I feel bi-weekly is a good rhythm for this.
What does biweekly mean to you? Twice a week, or once every two weeks? If it’s the latter, I prefer to use fortnightly, since it’s not ambiguous.
Yeah, nobody other than Brits use fortnightly anymore.
And Aussies. We use it here a LOT
I mean every other week. I wasn’t aware of the other interpretation, but I think in combination with “The Sunday thread” it’s unambiguous?
I have never heard fortnightly, but then I’m not a native speaker. Is that commonly used?
I have always heard bi-weekly be every other week, and semi-weekly be twice a week
I think in combination with “The Sunday thread” it’s unambiguous?
Perhaps, though I guess it could also be that there is “The Sunday thread” and “The Wednesday thread”.
As for whether fortnightly is common or not, I think it is, but the other commenter suggests that only the Brits use the term. Fairly certain I’ve heard that from an Aussie friend though, could be that US Americans don’t use the term.
Perhaps semimonthly is the most unambiguous term? That’s what Mariam-Webster seems to suggest.
Semi monthly sounds like “monthly, or not” to me. Not sure about the alternatives I’ve seen so far
True, didn’t think it that way. I don’t know what would be best, English is such a wierd language.
A third, and hopefully final attempt at getting an iredmail setup going. SPF, DKIM & DMARC all checking out fine. It’s actually working this time. Need to get the ISP to change our PTR record though, last bit of the puzzle.
Also picked up a used negate device, so we now have pfsense fronting everything. That’s allowed me to move the original router to a better location and put it in AP mode.
Emby media server moved off a Synology and into a proxmox container. Finally, we can stream high def with the hardware acceleration we weren’t getting before.
