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I've tried this a few times, so I know I've added more hits to your counters! I know it can be run on non-pi devices which is cool, ever think of changing the name to suggest it's not just for the 'ol pi? :)

Folder Sync Pro - if you have a NAS or extra server, you can upload backups from your phone to there for safe offline storage. I use it to hold my photos and Tasker profiles.

SMS Backup and Restore - Likewise, this backs up your SMS and call records, useful if you are needing to preserve records for legal reasons or otherwise. They have an IAP purchase for pro - I think

Solid Explorer File Manager pro - Hands down, this by far for me has been nothing short of awesome. Well worth the $$ for it. They use the Unlock file

(Solid Explorer Classic UnlockSolid Explorer Classic Unlock) for this. Or at least used to - to enable the pro functions.

If you have Android Wear - pretty much any of the watchfaces you desire can be there or even make your own with some of the apps there for it. :)

Great job on the cabling and the setup! As an Apartment dweller, I hope you don't mind my living vicariously through your setup!

Let me preface this with that I am an experienced CLI user and with Docker, so this really is not in my interest generally, but getting older and dealing with a variety of other personal issues, having a nice dashboard to deploy things sometimes is just really nice ya know? So I figured I would put on my dusty beginner's hat to get this a run.

For the beginner, it's a nice system to get started and get your feet wet with a no-nonsense app install experience. I tested this in a VM on my desktop and installed Sonarr and Sabnzbd which if you use Docker with these, you know the proper volume mapping is key. They take the hassle out of doing this for the end user. With that said though - file permissions are a bit off and both Sonarr and Sabnzbd needed the proper permissions set for the folders. Not a deal breaker for someone accustomed to the CLI, but for a new self hoster, this can be a bit frustrating.

Their app store is pretty impressive and I guess growing, the install on the server was painless to get running. It's something to keep an eye on, it's in good company with the other ones like Umbel and CasaOS, each has their own qualities.

For those wanting more fine grained control over the apps and installs, Tipi is a bit more opinionated to the port numbers and paths used and you can't easily modify those (at least from what I could tell). In the long run, this is a non issue for the most part if you are starting on a freshly installed server and don't want to handle the challenges of proper path mapping, reverse proxying and so forth. (They include Traefik in the install). Not having to worry if port 3000 is already taken or 8080 is, you can trust that it will handle it and it does!

I'll admit, I'm not a huge fan of Traefik (It's too big of a hassle for me and I use Cloudflare tunnels anyway). I couldn't get past the login even after literally copy pasta of your example for the user test as a last resort. So, I'm not sure if it's because I'm not using Traefik or some other reason. (Username tried was test Password Test) I also tried at first my username/password combo I set for it using the command to generate the passwd file.

Your page links 404 out, but if you reduce it to https://klay.gay/self-host/ it works and shows v.0.9.2 so you may want to edit your post. :)

I use Purelymail for mine. I have Uptime Kuma integrated with it using the SMTP server and also have different things like my password vault connected through it. It's generally lightning fast and budget friendly too.

Everyone's comments here made me realize just how bad it is still with employers trying to get warm bodies in the office. My company used to be "Everyone who works from home wastes time and is less productive" They quickly realized when their hands were forced and the pandemic hit, there were much less sick days, and productivity has never been higher!

We have a Moto G7 Power which we turned into an e-reader for my wife. She was constantly chewing through her primary phone battery doing this so I offloaded it to the Moto which has been great. With the 5000mah battery (I know, that's standard these days), and it's primary responsibility of displaying text on screen, ti's made a good stand in.

As other's have said, Android webcam, there are plenty of apps out there, I use "IP Webcam" by Pavel Khlebovich from the Play store which is no cost and does the job quick and dirty.

If you are into home automation, some people have placed old phones near windows and taken advantage of the light sensors built in (Which regulate the auto screen brightness), and used those to trigger indoor lighting events based on the light level where if it's darker inside, then lights on or gradually turn lights on accordingly. . Or, use the proximity sensor used to turn screen of when near your ear and create a trigger if something came close to it, IDK what you'd want to monitor being close by, but let your imagination fly! Home Assistant is great for this, their companion app, reveals soooooo many sensors on the Android device which can it can act upon. It's crazy.

Donate the phone to a non profit charity. This is a good list of places: https://www.androidauthority.com/where-to-donate-old-cell-phones-3311699/

Use older apps on the old phone which aren't compatible with newer Android OS api's. For example, Prior to them yanking the app, I used an old Samsung phone to use Rockstar's Ifruit appa as it wasn't compatible with newer Android phones, to take care of my dog in GTA V.