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This thread got me to switch from Ombi to Overseerr for my Plex requests front end, good stuff. Probably worth including HomeAssistant in the OP (Home Automation Thread) since one of it's biggest features is the ability to self-host your home automation. I can also add Muximux as another Heimdall/HOMER dashboard app. Nothing fancy but it's easy to set up and use. I'll add my newbie endorsement of nginxProxyManager. I tried getting Traefik/LetsEncrypt set up as a reverse proxy when I was first getting into my home server stuff and was constantly banging my head against the wall trying to get the config files set up right and really just struggling with the concept of a reverse proxy in general. Ended up just port forwarding a lot of stuff since I knew how to do that already. Then I tried NPM and it made way more sense and allowed me as a beginner to actually get my networking set up the "right" way. That was a couple years ago so Traefik and LetsEncrypt might be much improved now but I can definitely speak to NPMs user friendly-ness. Scruff McGruff fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Nov 17, 2021 |
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tuyop posted:Thanks for dropping Overseerr here. I added it today and it loving rules. It does! It's near the bottom of the table here. ![]()
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Overseerr also led me to LunaSea which is basically a mobile app version of HOMER/Muximux that supports the *arr apps, Tautulli, and NZB. Pretty nice.
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Matt Zerella posted:From a security standpoint, I only expose things that support SSO or MFA. So for me it's just Overseerr (with only Plex login enabled). And yeah everything else sits behind wireguard. Completely agree, the only things I have exposed are Overseerr (Plex OAuth), Tautulli (Plex OAuth), Nextcloud (MFA), and HomeAssistant (MFA). Everything else lives behind Wireguard. I always die a little inside when I see posts on the Unraid forums asking how to expose their server UI externally even after being told about Wireguard, which is insanely easy to set up on Unraid. Scruff McGruff fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Nov 18, 2021 |
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Matt Zerella posted:Iberocorp has a bunch of videos for Authelia on YouTube. It's UnRAID focus but will work fine for any docker based deployment. Came here to say almost exactly this. Can definitely recommend both Ibracorp and Spaceinvader One's tutorials for all of this, from NGINX Reverse Proxy to DuckDNS to Cloudflare to Wireguard to Authelia. I can also say from personal experience that unRAID is pretty great if you're new to Linux/Docker, but like Matt said, you can still use the guides with regular docker deployments.
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That Works posted:I don't know what's what with google renaming lots of different things over the years. Does this mean that a regular gmail account is going to become a paid service? No, this is just for people using the G-Suite for Business service, regular personal Gmail accounts fall under their "Google One" product and aren't being changed.
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Just set up a VM with your games and Parsec, passing through your GPU, and connect in from whatever other computer you want. I haven't tried it with any FPS or other response time dependent games but I play Indie and RTS games streaming from my desktop to my laptop all the time now and it works pretty great.
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tagesschau posted:Just make sure that all of your homes have an MX in them. How likely is it that both your summer and your winter home would lose power at the same time? brb, gotta amend my taxes to declare my second residence as a DR site so I can write off the mortgage as a business expense.
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nine16thsdago posted:didn't see this in the thread so far, so: how about self-hosting some sort of chat? anyone have any experience there? i've set up and played with a matrix protocol server (synapse) and have in the past played with different jabber servers as well. it seems like the consensus is something like, "use matrix to replace slack/IRC - use jabber for instant messaging." Nextcloud has "Nextcloud Talk" that can do both video and text chat, and I've had co-workers talk about using Mattermost to replace Slack, but I haven't tried either so I can't speak to their features or ease of use.
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Zapf Dingbat posted:I've got Nextcloud on an old PC that I'm using as a Proxmox host. I'm running a few things on that but Nextcloud is the only thing I expose to the world. I'm certainly not an infosec expert but my understanding is that Cloudflare with "SSL/TLS" set to "full" and the CNAME records set to "proxied" will resolve all requests to a Cloudflare IP and obfuscate yours. That's what I'm currently using along with a reverse proxy. But if you're the only person requiring that external access then like odiv said, WireGuard is ideal. Scruff McGruff fucked around with this message at 05:22 on Jun 1, 2022 |
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I'm using Nginx Proxy Manager locally.
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My extended family send out an email asking about a good low/no cost solution for creating a sort of family photo repository. Basically a place where family can share photos with each other. After watching them all fight about the standard cloud hosts I'm at the point where I'm willing to just host it myself on my home server. I was planning on just using Nextcloud but I wanted to know if there were other options I should consider. Requirements: -Easy user management/account creation/permissions -UI/UX that is non-tech/old people friendly Nice-to-haves -Ability to upload multiple photos all at once -Desktop/Phone client -Ability to comment on photos
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Mr Shiny Pants posted:Continuing the Ceph talk, how doable would it be to host it on a RPI cluster? Like a couple of OSDs and the like. What would I need and how fault tolerant could I get it? Jeff Geerling did this in one of his recent videos. Now, he was clustering them on a dedicated board so I'm not sure how different would be to cluster them independently but he gives a decent overview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecdm3oA-QdQ
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What's everyone using for PDFs these days? I've been using Drawboard PDF on my SurfaceBook forever and it's great but I'm finally replacing the laptop and figured I'd see what's out there since the new machine doesn't have a touchscreen (the main reason I went with Drawboard initially).
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I've been using Cloudflare for a while and it's great. I didn't really appreciate it enough until a friend of mine needed help troubleshooting his business website that he registered through GoDaddy and that was a miserable experience.
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Nitrousoxide posted:To automate It also makes library cleanup and standardization easier. So if you have a ton of rips but never standardized how they were named or organized it's a godsend. Way better than manually renaming every episode of a TV show so Plex recognizes it
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Nitrousoxide posted:Nextcloud probably sees the most use from me from its webDAV server which I use to sync my ebook reader (Moon+ Reader) on Android across devices, sync Joplin, and automatically backup Aegis. You can just create a dotfile in your home and then point your services to that via the webDav and it'll stay hidden from your web viewer unless you specifically set it to show hidden files. If you just want a self-hosted Dropbox for files it's pretty good and having apps for Windows/Android/iOS is handy but everything else it has just seems extremely niche or doesn't quite work the way it should.
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fletcher posted:Are there any self-hosted imgur clones? Not looking to open something up for public use, this would just be for personal use. Awesome-selfhosted has a lot of options listed. I've heard good stuff for Piwigo. The Nextcloud one is the only one I've tried and it was... fine?
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bawfuls posted:This week I got my first home server/NAS build up and running on unraid. The main function (Plex) is working well, so now I’m exploring other possible uses. Not sure about the hardware side, but in terms of being able to securely see the camera feed assuming it's being fed to the server, Unraid has Wireguard built into it which makes it easy to set up a VPN link from your server to your mobile devices so you can get to any app without needing to expose any ports. Or you can install Tailscale which uses the same tech but eliminates the need for any Public IP updates (though this means it's a semi-cloud service). So as long as you can find a camera that can be fully locally hosted you can definitely do this securely.
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So I'll use my setup as an example, I have Wireguard set to point to a web domain I own and use Cloudflare to handle DNS. So in Cloudflare I have an A Record that points to my public IP address so traffic gets routed to the right place. Occasionally my ISP will change my public IP and that A Record needs to get updated with the new IP (in the app store is a containerized script called Cloudflare ddns to do this automatically for me). If you don't have a domain you can configure Wireguard directly with your Public IP but you have to update every device's config when that IP changes. Tailscale basically handles all that DNS stuff for you, so their app is Wireguard plus a service that calls out to Tailscale's servers occasionally with your public IP so that if your IP changes it gets updated automatically at their end. It means setup is super simple but it also means that if Tailscale goes down you'll lose connection because the traffic basically routes through them. I actually also have Tailscale implemented on my PiKVM as a backup, it is fantastically simple to set up. Also, I'm not sure if this is just because of how I have it configured but Wireguard lets me connect and then have regular access to my home network, Tailscale is device to device.
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bawfuls posted:I thought I saw in a spaceinvaderone video that there’s a way to do the wireguard setup, and have the IP updated automatically when it changes, without your own domain, by using duck dns. But maybe I misunderstood what he was explaining there? bawfuls posted:For now I’m not interested in off site backups of the camera feeds as this is just dog monitoring while we’re out of the house for a few hours at a time. Down the road if we decide to add exterior security cameras I could see the benefit of off site backups there.
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Well Played Mauer posted:You can do the same thing with Tailscale if you have a pihole set up. Their documentation assumes you’re running it on a Raspberry Pi but it works on anything that can run the software. I have it set up this way so I can access my home network remotely without having to run Tailscale on every machine. Good to know! I sort of assumed this was possible since, again, Tailscale uses Wireguard, but I haven't poked around enough in it to really understand what it can do. I did the "install from the CLI and it just works" and declared that good enough since really the purpose it to get me into the PiKVM so I can then get my Unraid server back online with it's Wireguard, lol.
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Just started using Proxmox a couple of months ago and it's pretty great.
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Zapf Dingbat posted:I have a 1000 generation Nvidia card passthroughed on proxmox and it works fine as a remote Steam machine. I considered using it for Plex but I've never had a problem using CPU only for encoding. Same here, I have a 1060 passed through to a VM in Proxmox for a remote gaming computer and it was dead simple to set up. I haven't tried Plex there but I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work or would be any more difficult, it works just like a regular PC with a GPU in it.
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Flyndre posted:I've finally got around to set up Radarr, Sonarr, Prowlarr, Jellyfin and Jellyseerr on my Synology NAS, and it seems to work well. For older shows/seasons it's usually a game of "see what it can find on its own and then manually hunt down any others." Sometimes this can be done via the manual search in Sonarr but there are still times I have to do it the old fashioned way.
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Nitrousoxide posted:Does anyone have any recommended super cheap video cards for a server who's cpu doesn't have an integrated GPU? The super old gpu I had dropped in there to let me access the bios/uefi if needed kicked the bucket and now I need a new one. If all you need is video out then you can find old Radeon HD cards for like ![]()
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flappin fish posted:Personally, I use and like Immich, but they're not kidding when they say it's under active development - I've had to go in and tinker with the docker-compose.yml file a few times to keep it working after updates. It might be worth mentioning that SpaceinvaderOne just released a tutorial for Immich. I haven't watched it since it's not something I use but his stuff is usually really helpful for getting stuff up and running.
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Aware posted:Yes this is how Plex sharing works, however if you don't allow them to hit your Plex server directly via port forward you are limiting your users to 1-2mbps of transcoded poo poo quality via plexs proxy servers. I have mine behind a reverse proxy. As long as you set a custom server access URL in your settings you don't need to open anything other than 80/443 and they don't have to suffer through the Plex proxy.
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Aware posted:That's cool but it doesnt really add much unless you want people to access your Plex via your own domain directly (vs via Plex.tv) I gotcha, I thought you were saying that the only way to avoid being banished to the Plex relay was to specifically forward 32400. Matt Zerella posted:Is it only the port thing for you? Are you exposing other service on that reverse proxy? Otherwise this seems a bit pointless and you're adding encryption stress to your reverse proxy (Plex already encrypts data via the plex.direct letsencrypt cert). Yeah, I have a couple of other externally accessible services. Setting all of that up just for Plex would probably be excessive. Scruff McGruff fucked around with this message at 16:25 on Apr 15, 2024 |
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lobsterminator posted:Also, have you checked if your IP actually changes? I have a dynamic IP in theory, but in practice my IP has remained the same for years on my cable modem. and even if it does there are containers you can spin up to update your A Record automatically.
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Cyril Sneer posted:Here's the thing. I'm not looking into self-hosting for any deep philosophical reason, I just want to host a simple personal/hobby website. And the reason I'm pursuing the self-hosting option is that I found the cloud deployment path even *more* inscrutable. The amount of layers, glue, 3rd party tools, shell interfaces, opaque pricing tiers...where does the madness end!
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hogofwar posted:Managed to shut down my wireguard VPN VM while I'm away from my server. I run a pikvm on Tailscale as a backup to my regular wireguard VPN. It's nice to have especially because it auto-powers on which is something my main server struggles with for some reason. So I've had more than one occasion where the power went out at my house while I was out of town but I was easily able to get the main server powered back on remotely from the pikvm. I also have it running through an ezcoo kvm switch so I'm able to manage the three separate hosts in my rack from one pikvm. It does take some work initially to get it running, but they released a new version of pikvm since then that's supposed to be much easier to use which is cool.
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hogofwar posted:Thanks for the info! Do you use it to power up your server via ATX or WoL? The main server has both ATX and theoretically WoL. I basically only use ATX for it because, like the auto power on, the WoL is very inconsistent. I think I've gotten it to work like twice? Clearly MSI took great care in creating the BIOS (also it was the cheapest motherboard I could find that had the bare minimum connectivity for what I needed). WoL works fine for the other two.
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corgski posted:So hobbyists can have yet another thing to break and “fix” instead of learning how to use vim? Hey now... no need to learn vim when I can just install VS Code Server and edit all my configs with that ![]()
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Well Played Mauer posted:I should probably switch over to caddy from NPM but... lazy? ![]()
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Warbird posted:How much of a PITA factor is chucking a GPU into a Proxmox server and passing it on through to a Windows VM? I understand that Nvidia drivers in Linux are…. not great. Or does passing that through to try VM automagically let you just worry about letting windows handle all that? I did this about a year ago sending a GPU through to a Windows VM in Proxmox and it was pretty straight forward right in the GUI. No need to mess around with Linux drivers since you're just passing the whole PCIe bus through to the VM so it's Windows that needs to understand how to talk to the card. IIRC you just go to "add hardware > add PCI Device" and then select it from a dropdown. You might need to run a command in the shell just to be sure which PCIe device it is if all the dropdown gives you is a pcie address instead of like a device ID/name but that process should be easy to google.
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Mr. Crow posted:Is there any app that supports like, "secure" image sharing? Something like a secure webserver that only listens to randomly generated share links and just drops everything else? Nextcloud's photo app can do this I believe.
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Azhais posted:I just use cloudflare for everything Same, moved my domains over from Lithium Hosting about two years ago.
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ConanThe3rd posted:So, dumb question, does anyone do the whole “tv capture card to record ota” thing and if so whats the going recommendations. Might want to crosspost in the Plex megathread, I'm sure there's some people over there doing this.
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