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?)

  • KalistoCA@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I was going to say … someone who knows what to do when it all comes crashing down …

  • -quakeguy-@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Caddy. A reverse proxy / web server with automated LE certs that is easier than this does not exist.

    • puckpuckgo@alien.topOPBEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Why did you choose Caddy instead of Traefik or Nginx? I’m on Nginx, but wondering if I’m missing out on anything.

      • -quakeguy-@alien.topBEnglish
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        11 months ago

        1. Automated certs (from 2 different CAs, not just LE) are baked in and require ZERO configuration.

        2. Configuration simplicity, most of my proxied services take 3 lines total each.

  • Extremist_Enterprise@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Vaultwarden for me and my gf. No more compromises on password length and the peace of mind of having everything stored on your machine

    • SnooPets20@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Whenever I counter a site that’s like “no more than 15 characters and no special characters” I cringe heavily.

  • seidler2547@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    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”.

  • bufandatl@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    Awareness of security and vulnerabilities.

    Hosting anything is easy doing it secure is the hard part.

  • natriusaut@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    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?

  • MarcSN311@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I think Immich is now able to work with pictures in an existing folder structure.

    • Redditburd@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Tried Immich and immediately uninstalled it after a number of problems. My photos are too valuable to be screwing around.