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submitted 1 year ago by chandz05 to c/selfhosted

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[–] stevestevesteve 37 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Personal preference: Jellyfin instead of plex

Some that I run that you don't seem to have anything for:

Lancache (if you have several gaming PCs on the network or host any kind of lan party)
surveillance camera software e.g. shinobi
I see grafana, but other monitoring services like icinga, librenms, etc
Mayan EDMS - I've found this really helpful as anything I get in the mail, I scan in, and this makes it all searchable and retrievable.
There's a whole hole you could dig if you start getting into home automation (I use home assistant)

[–] chandz05 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So I do have a jellyfin instance, but for some reason it couldn't play some video formats that Plex could. I haven't looked into it in too much detail yet though. And definitely need to look into Shinobi or frigate! Thanks for the suggestions!

[–] rov3r 3 points 1 year ago

Check your encoding settings! Also if you use an iOS client, I highly recommend Swiftfin, as it seemed to support direct play on some files the Jellyfin app wouldn’t play at first. I’m still new to it too, but after I got my GTX 1080Ti set up on the right encoding settings, it’s been nothing but butter with everything I throw at it.

[–] Windex007 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I've been looking at something for my cameras. I got Zoneminder running but configuring its behaviour was a nightmare.

All I want is to keep a limited rotating backup of a few cameras. Would Shinobi do that?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shinobi or frigate are fine for that.

Frigate markets itself as "AI detection" but it isn't required.

Also frigate is open source and.ahinobi is closed source.

[–] stevestevesteve 4 points 1 year ago

Shinobi is absolutely not closed source: https://gitlab.com/Shinobi-Systems/Shinobi

[–] stevestevesteve 2 points 1 year ago

Shinobi would absolutely do that if that's all you want it to do. It's definitely not a one-click setup either, though, unfortunately.

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[–] ChillPill 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wish I had the time/energy to host this much... Currently I'm running

Plex
Nextcloud (snap on ubuntu VM because its easy)
pihole
pivpn

I'm also running Jellyfin and Navidrome, in an attempt to determine if they are good alternatives to Plex for like 6 months at this point. See comments above about time/energy.

[–] rambos 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Jellyfin ftw

I didnt use any speciall features on plex, but for me the only advantage of plex was the abbility to have all movies/tv shows in one folder. After switching to jellyfin and *arrs the folder structure is sorted so I have 0 reasons to consider plex again

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[–] Hizeh 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is this dashboard?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It’s called homepage

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[–] jsnfwlr 15 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Things I have that I don't see on the list

Home Assistant
Frigate
Mosquitto
ESPHome
Gitea
SyncThing
Weavescope
Vaultwarden
Keyper
Kanboard

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How hard was it to set up homepage to show all of this? This is very cool, well done

[–] chandz05 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So there is a bit of a learning curve, but the Homepage docs are pretty well written. YAML is a bit of a bitch to work with though. Very similar to JSON and easy to read, but God forbid you aad some unintentional whitespace

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My Setup:

DOCKER

Plex (never had good experiences with Jellyfin unfortunately)
Radaar
Sonarr
Lidarr
Readarr
Jackett
Prowlarr
qbittorrent
MariaDB
phpmyadmin
BookStack
LibreNMS
portainer
watchtower
pihole (2)
Nginx

All running in docker on two synologys. Only other things I'm running is an old CloudKey for the Unifi APs and HomeAssistant on HomeAssistant yellow (pi cm4)

[–] lhx 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What software is that?

[–] chandz05 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's called Homepage. Not sure if I'm allowed to link to stuff here. But it's basically a YAML based landing page for your self hosted apps

[–] lhx 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I’ll check it out. (I don’t know the rules wel enough either.)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@chandz05 I'd totally add in Organizr to create a single page solution to access all of your various services. Beats bookmarks any day of the week

[–] chandz05 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Y'know, I've played around with Organizr a little bit and didn't quite like it. I think I had some trouble setting it up or something. I'll probably go back to try it again at some point

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I was searching for a Lemmy Instance in that mix 😅

[–] chandz05 4 points 1 year ago

You know, I considered it. But I would rather set that up on a VPS rather than something under my desk 😂

[–] Windex007 6 points 1 year ago

If you have any smart devices in your home (and even many use cases outside of that) you could run "homeassistant" to pipe all your different smart devices through a common, extensible, scriptable interface.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

My list:

Home assistant
Jellyfin
Lemmy
Lidarr
Pihole
Prowlarr
Radarr
Readarr
Sonarr
Tdarr
UniFi Controller
Windows VMs for domain, and clustered file storage.
Zoneminder

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Shinobi seems to be pretty lightweight though. I’m running it in an orangepi zero recording 4 cameras 24/7 and streaming their feeds with no hardware issues from the orangepi. Would frigate be able to run on light hardware?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Could you share your settings file, or at least the background and icons? I love the aesthetic

[–] Aaronjamt 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seconded, I'd love that Docker UI for my UnRaid NAS

[–] chandz05 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Checkout Homepage in community apps! It's configurable via YAML files

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Plex Jellyfin Plex_debrid Lemmy Home assistant Home bridge Minecraft Valheim Librespeed

[–] chandz05 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whoa haven't heard of plex_debrid until now. How is the quality with the streams? Can quality be controlled like how downloads are with sonarr/radar?

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[–] Hizeh 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is this dashboard?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why not just use bookmarks?

[–] node815 5 points 1 year ago

Bookmarks are cool and all, but having the ability to tap (if on mobile) the link or click on it visually is important. For example, I access my local dashboard via Wireguard on my phone, I can then tap the service I need to access locally. IMO, that is much nicer than hitting the browser's menu to find the bookmark and then clicking on it.

Aside from that, if you are like me and have hundreds of bookmarks, and a significant other less technically savvy as you are and are visual, then having a dashboard to go to makes it a lot easier!

[–] chandz05 5 points 1 year ago

I like the "at a glance" functionality that the various APIs provide. I can view all relevant information on a single page without having to click through different apps. I just set this as my homepage on chrome and it's like bookmarks on steroids

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Looks awesome! How do you use tdarr? Does it transcode all media picked up by sonarr/radarr?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Its...beautiful 🥲

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Good job, now fill the server :)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Movies and TV shows

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Pihole - DNS-based blocker. SearXNG - Customable metasearch engine. Ntfy - Send Notifications to devices. Navidrome - Listen to your music.

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