Thank you to everyone working on homebox ! Can’t wait to see the better Tags update whenever it’s ready !

I also hope an option to switch between AND/OR capability for tag searching.

Hello :)

This looked promising, thank you for the hint ! However, the format is probably not what Glance is expecting (ndjson) so there is no way to query the expected key and throws the following error: invalid response JSON !

This would have been so nice and easier than to mess around with a database and postgREST haha ! I think I going to stop here as it gets kinda messy and out of my personal comfort… Maybe in the near future there will be someone adding a widget who knows xD Myself I’m not able to do so… Will probably give also AI a try with copilote as mentioned by another user see if I get better results.

My “half-baked” solution involves a postgREST database container which gets it’s query from my bash script send via curl… It somehow works for simple queries like “Backup failed” but as soon as they are some special characters (from stderr), it just breaks…

Hello thanks for the answer !

What do you mean? Can you elaborate?

I tried to add the json stream to glance via the custom API, but it throws an error… Probably because this is a continuous streams and the custom API can’t handle this ?

Sorry can’t help, I self-host piped and it seems to still work on the version I’m on, however some people report a non working instance even when self-hosting…

Yeah, if you self-host only for yourself you lose the privacy feature public instances provide. The purpose when self-hosting is to watch youtube with no-ads, sponsor block…

As you guessed it, YouTube went on frontend crusade and only a few public instances remain (if any?) and those who still work are kinda janky, unstable.

If privacy is an important feature you’re looking for, you need to wait until those btillant people behind those frontend find a working workaround :)

They are the same thing (YouTube self-hosted frontend alternative) with their own features I guess?

You should test Piped, Indivious and Viewtube and make your own opinion, however Viewtube has been paused so this one is probably not going to have the SABR workaround update Piped and Invidious are working on ?

Right now they are all a bit janky and unstable because of YouTube’s new update (SABR, don’t know the details) so find one that works as self-hosted and keep tuned.

If you’re able to contribute as a dev though, give them some help to speed up the process and contribute to the best YouTube frontend alternatives projects !

I’m interested in why so many downvotes? Because of the gitea instance or something related to the project?

The project seems like a cool idea !

Installation is easy. But the moment you have to explain the chain of action of ffmpeg’s syntax… Grandma goes back to flappybird !

Hey :) I’m not giving you any recommendations but want to give you my personal experience !

5 years ago I had absolutely no clue about Linux/CLI/networking/docker… You name it ! And I also wanted to repurposed and old laptop as a server.

The first distro I installed on my server was Debian ! Why? Because I remembered my brother said something along the line: “Every server infrastructure is run by Debian or a Debian derivative”. So this sounded like the perfect thing to install as a server distro :) !

5 years later I’m still running Debian on this old laptop and it’s going strong ! Never did it failed me except if I did something wrong over the CLI !

As you guessed it, you will need some degree of proficiency on the command line specially if you install your distro without a graphical user interface, which I would recommend… Yes, the CLI isn’t easy to beginning with and you will do some mistakes that will need a full reinstall of your system… But before you learn to move, you learn to stay up right on your legs and this involves a lot a failing !!

It’s not mandatory, you can install a lightweight GUI and take your time. There are a lot of application with good UI which will help you out ! However, not once did I regret to take the harder route and learned so many things along the way ! After this amount of time in the CLI, I can say I’m getting quite good In navigating my system, keeping it healthy and alive :p !

Okay, If it’s a matter of time I get it ! We only have 24h a day and most of this time is already spend at work/school, family time, friends, sleep, eat ! If you’re lucky enough to have 2 hours to spare to tinker arround, a UI is a good idea to keep a healthy balance between all your personal activities ! But keep in mind, both are thorny and have their fair share of issues and debug time.

Last words, have fun with your system :)

While I do agree on the general sentiment to not overcomplicate things, homebox seems rather easy to use and intuitive.

Being able to create qr code to put them on boxes and also have them directly accessible through the web interface is neat !

However, there’s one thing that’s quite cumbersome… There isn’t a one button move everything to a new location. Someone already posted a feature request and got some traction :) so cross fingers this going be implemented in the near futur !!

Not self-hosted so I doesn’t really answer your question… However, if you’re still a student consider the switch to Zotero.

Things you can self-host though, to make your books available everywhere, is some webdav sever to link your books directly to zotero and access them on every device.

If you’re serious about book reading and study, nothing beats Zotero !

Production is my testing lab, but only in my homelab ! I guess I don’t care to perfectly secure my services (really dumb and easy passwords, no 2fa, not hiding plain sight passwords…) because I’m not directly exposing them to the web and accessing them externally via Wireguard ! That’s really bad practice though, but any time soon will probably clean up that mess, but right now I can’t, I have to cook some eggs…

There are 2 things though I actually do have some more complex workflow:

• Rather complex incremental automated backup script for my docker container volumes, databases, config files, compose files.

• Self-hosted mini-CA to access all my services via a nice .lab domain and get rid of that pesky warning on my devices.

I always do some tests if my backups are working on a VM on my personal desktop computer, because no backup means that all those years of tinkering for nothing… This will bring up some nasty depression…

Edit: If have a rather small homelab, everything on an old laptop, still quite happy with the result and works as expected.

Really cool stuff !! Something I need to try out for sure !

Just to bad they didn’t add a multiuser setup example :( !

If you are doing any kind of multiuser mail node, you should have a separate SMTP system in front of this one that performs any necessary validation.

I was quite impressed by how it looks and the free option ! However, seeing Google tag manager and tiktok analytics domains and I’m already out !

For my docker containers I use what’s up docker which not only alerts me when there is an update but also give a link to the changes, so I can have a look what’s happening !

For my system itself… Just doing sudo pacman -Syu. Though that’s not great, cause some updates can potentially break my EndeavourOS system… I keep sometimes an eye on the forum when I see some critical changes like the kernel itself or nvidia updates though.

Yeah, vote with your wallet !! This has way more impact than those stupid presidential ballot! Good call staying behind your belief for so long !!!

I was in the same boat… I just wanted a simple god damn self-hosted cloudStorage without any nitty gritty or all the bloat that comes with most local/self-hosted cloud solution…

Syncthing is good, but not really a cloud storage solution (I love syncthing and I use It to sync all my backups !!).

Give SFTPGo a try :) It also has a WebDAV functionality if you wan’t to use it that way ! It just plain file storage with security features. However, not sure there are any application available, I mostly used it as web application :).

You have already made your choice :) But Traefik is also a good alternative ! Specially if you work with a lot of docker containers !

Once you get how Traefik works, it just simple as adding a few lines into your yaml file and everything is handled by Traefik !

Oho? Didn’t knew that. Thanks for the info ! Do you know what caused the residential IP block ?

• Outside of EU?
• To much API calls from the same source?
• Something else?

I mean, I don’t see way they would block residential IPs with normal api calls from the same source. Or are they full enforcing the account thing on everyone?

Self-hosted piped/invidious still working great if you want to follow this route. Everything from no-ads/sponsor block/comments works without any issues.

One downside however, is that you’re exposing your own public IP to Google/YouTube :/.