What is the one thing every self-hosted household should have?
Let's keep it simple. I'm sure most of us are proud of Docker CPU cycles charted in Grafana via Prometheus, but I'm talking about the house as a whole.
My personal favorite is turning out to be Mealie.
I self-host a bunch of things for my personal use, but Mealie definitely takes the cake in terms of benefitting the entire household. I like the meal planner and the ability to hit the supermarket once to get all the necessary groceries for the week (I've never been able to achieve this before). I don't think there is anything in my stack that even compares with the benefits my house gets of out Mealie.
My runner up would have to be any of the self-hosted media players (Plex, Jellyfin, etc.), but we also have Netflix and a bunch of streaming services, so not that impactful. Home Assistant would also be a close runner up, but it only provides great benefits for me, not the rest of the house. I think Immich will be on this list shortly, when it matures a bit more (are we able to import existing photos yet?)
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I was going to say … someone who knows what to do when it all comes crashing down ..
Offsite backups.
What should every self-hosted household have? a back up
My number one is going to be my firewall, OPNsense. I would not use the ISP provided one. I'm, also, using this firewall VM as my reverse proxy, radius, ad blocker, DNSSec, DoT, etc.
The second one would be my hypervisor, Proxmox. I use three NUC8 cluster with ZFS replication for my critical VMs such as the OPNsense, FreePBX, and some.
I don't have anything to share about services around the house, but to answer your question about Immich import of existing libraries, it looks like you can do that now according to the latest update!
https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/170owzc/immich_selfhosted_photos_and_videos_backup/
DNS blockers (AdGuard or PiHole).
Pi-hole, Home Assistant and Jellyfin.
Pihole or DNS-Blocker at all. My girlfriend tells everyone that she can watch content on the internet without ads. I guess I can’t get a bigger approval rating than that.
Vaultwarden for me and my gf. No more compromises on password length and the peace of mind of having everything stored on your machine
Syncthing, VPN, firewall/adblocker
Did you try Tandoor? If yes: what made you choose Mealie vs Tandoor?
Immich actually got the import existing feature very recently. Changelog here
Pi hole for all phones
Homeassitant, Vaultwarden, omv, AdGuard, Jellyfin, NPM, Nextcloud…
Pi-hole
It's the simplest and most useful addition.
Some kind of photo management and backup system. I never went the Google Photos route and am now very happy with using Synology Photos and doing backups of my entire diigital life with Synology Hyperbackup. Works great even when NOT exposing it to the internet.
And of course Jellyfin for media streaming.
Syncthing + Cryptomator
And Pi-Hole. Everyone else saying it is right. It’s a must-have.
Proxmox (or any Hypervisor). Without it, my life would be miserable.
I like Mealie too, just installed it the other day. I also found a companion app for Android that add it to the Share-with button so if you are browsing a recipe on your phone, you can share it to Mealie and it will import it for you.
Tested Backups 🤣
Backup strategy
Dpending on where you live, CCTV
Shinobi CCTV works great - it's just a fancy wrapper around FFmpeg
Immich is another great recommendation for when you've used up all of your Google Photos storage
UPS and Backup system
Home Assistant
Definitely the best next step
It's amazing how simple automations with some cheap ir motion sensors and self hosted tracking phones to see who is home /no one home to save energy on lights and heating
Add the internet DVR *arr + jellyfin stack and you have a true smart home
I think Immich is now able to work with pictures in an existing folder structure.
Tried Immich and immediately uninstalled it after a number of problems. My photos are too valuable to be screwing around.
Ad blocking at the network.
Backups. Make sure everyone knows iCloud, etc, are syncs and not backups.
Arr arr arrrrrr ;-) The full stack with qbittorrent and sabnzbd + Jellyfin. Winter is coming after all.
Automatic Fire extinguishers
Adguard here
Home Assistant and LMS (Logitech Media Server) are the two things that are permanently displayed on the hallway touchscreen and they are used all the time by everyone in our household. There are more things like Seafile and E-Mail that are being used heavily, but HA and LMS are the most "visible".
Photo backup I use Amazon photos for that since it’s free with my prime account I just pay for the video space I back that up at my house and my wife’s office
Jellyfin! It was the reason why I got into self hosting in the first place.
Cloudflare Tunnels. Let’s you take anything fun you find at home and use it anywhere. Opened the doors for Home Assistant, immich, and more!
Does mealie have a simple storage-system? Like, whats the stock on rice and noodles and whatever at home for the recipe?
I looked at grocy and its incredible bloated and complicated to set up. If grocy would have a set of default-stuff included it would probably be amazing but the set up process is... annoying.
/u/apperrault as well maybe?
Crowdsec for security.
Awareness of security and vulnerabilities.
Hosting anything is easy doing it secure is the hard part.
/u/puckpuckgo LibrePhotos can import photos. There is a nice Linux client for it.
Mealie is nice and useful but it’s not been updated in a while and mine doesn’t import from 3rd party sites correctly very often these days. It could do with a little TLC to be fair.
Immich (yes you can add external libraries now), pihole, jellyfin, backups.
I'm also on the Mealie train, it's a great little program.
What version are you running? For whatever reason I have had a heck of a time getting v1 to run, though I haven't dedicated too much time for troubleshooting it yet.
Adguard is probably the one I like the most has it's used by everyone but no one sees it and better for kids.
Otherwise i don't see what mealy have to offer compare to tandoori and other similar apps ?
Most issue i have is with french recipe (we are french canadian) with theses tools vs books. It would be great if I could have Amazon tell me the recipe while cooking..... Any that does that ?
I'd say that a local storage for family photos is essential. With backups.
Does Mealie have a setting for European measurements? I have no idea how much a cup is.
We have Plex running a lot most days between my large cache of FLAC music and TV/Movies in the evenings.
I also feel the pain of having to exclude the spouse from my AD blocking devices as it annoys her.
The family has been using Kavita a lot for all our ebook collection and I can lock down things for my younger readers nicely.
Homer - as your dashboard with links to everything you host. My wife has it bookmarked and from there can access anything else we host.
Hasura
I have separate db instances for all my containers, and having a graphql I can hit on all the databases is nice for integrations
A properly configured router/firewall.
Nextcloud
Photoprism to keep your photos out of the cloud :)
The wife (or whoever does the cooking and shopping) is actually so organized that he/she uses an app to plan everything?! My wife wouldn't even have her windows desktop tidy.
Sorry off topic. I haven't found one that's impactful for the whole family. The most important might be the photo backup app (currently synology photos, might be immich later on), but I just configure it for my wife so that she forgets about it and the backup runs silently in the background. I recently retired an old synology nas to my parents and configured it for them too.
well don't forget backups...
This is exactly the thread I love to see. Thanks for sharing.
Vaultwarden. With all the password breaches who trust anyone with your passwords?
Tandoor recipes is another good meal planning app. I picked it because it seemed to have more features than mealie at the time. Don't know how it compares now.
Electricity.
Electricity is a must have