Hello there, good people of lemmy world! It was my mistake to never post Dawarich updates here before and I’m here to fix it! I hope you’ll find it interesting and useful.

In case you don’t know what Dawarich is, it’s your favorite free open-source self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline and your memory’s best friend.

Github: https://github.com/Freika/dawarich

Website: https://dawarich.app/

Last 12 months of my movements across Europe (Germany and Norway mostly haha

Oh well, what a journey. It all started as a simple CRUD app with an endpoint to accept data from the Owntracks app for iOS. The first versions didn’t even have authentication! Why bother, thought I, if I’m the only user. And look at us now.

What do we have now

So, let’s have a look at our current set of features, shall we?

As of today, we have: - Location tracking - Via Dawarich for iOS and Android (yeah we have the Android app now!) - Via GPSLogger, Overland, OwnTracks, Homeassistant, PhoneTrack, Colota and whatnot - Location visualization - On a flat surface or on a globe - As points, routes, heatmap, fog of war - As extra layers, such as scratch map - Visits, areas and places - Can be created manually or detected and suggested automatically - Tags for places, including privacy settings (hide my location history in X meters around a place that have a tag with privacy settings assigned) - Family - With full privacy and location sharing only on consent - Map tools - Places, visits and areas creation - Area selection tool (to show visits and manage points in selected area) - Transportation modes - Replay tool (oh I love it, gonna tell a bit more about it below) - Map search: enter place name or address to see when you visited it - Trips - Utilizing photos integration to show photos along the trip route - Stats - Total distance, points, countries and cities - Per-year and per-month distance traveled charts - Insights - Per-year distance traveled - Traveling heatmap - Countries and cities visited - Days traveled - Year-to-year comparison - Monthly insights - Activity breakdown (stationary vs driving vs walking etc.) - Top visited locations - “When do you travel” patterns - Imports and exports - Almost a dozen of supported file formats to import - Export to GPX, GeoJSON and full user account export

Huh, that’s pretty much it, right? I mean, what a progress. All thanks to you and your support guys.

The Android app release

At the beginning of this year we’ve finally released our own Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zeitflow.dawarich

It’s, of course, still rough around the edges, but I see it as a huge win and an opportunity to do more exciting stuff on the mobiles. The main focus, of course, is the tracking quality, and I think with the most recent release we got there and it works pretty stable now, but what do I know, I only yesterday ordered an android phone for internal tests! :D But seriously, please do share your feedback, it’s crucial for the quality of our apps. Once again — thank you.

By the way, we also have an unofficial android app built by sunstep, a member of Dawarich community: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sunstep.dawarich. Check it out as well, he put tremendous amount of work into it. The mobile shift

We’re working on moving the iOS app to the same codebase, as the Android one, so they would effectively share the same UI layer, while keeping native location tracking mechanisms for both platform under the hood. This means that the iOS app will rather soon be updated and both apps will have a green light to receive new features.

This is important, because we want our apps to able to do more. Dawarich started with the idea to bring convenience of the big screen back when Google killed the web-based Timeline, but hey, it’s 2026 and people are running around with phones in their pockets for what, 15 years now? Or more, I didn’t check that, but the idea is that web is awesome, but it’s also very convenient to be able to quickly check your data on your smaller screen while commuting or otherwise not having access to the bigger screen. That’s why we want to bring more viewing functionality to our apps. Trips, stats, insights (they are already there in the Android app by the way) and more.

And, just to make it clear: all 3rd party mobile clients currently supported will be also supported in the future. We have no plans enforcing our users to switch to our official apps. The choice belongs to you. The Replay

Remember I mentioned a replay tool in the feature list? Well, check this out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XiG5Kcevr4

sounds of excitement

I initially called it “Timeline” but the actual Timeline was introduced a few days later, so I renamed it to what it is — the Replay button. Love it.

Supporters Badge

More than a hundred people (I think the number is now closer to two hundreds) supported and keep supporting us financially during these two years, and as a small token of appreciation, we’d like to offer a nice shiny Supported Badge that will be shown in your Dawarich UI, see the screenshot.

It glows and changes its colors!

It’s an optional thing, that can be enabled in Settings -> General -> Supporter Status form. Just enter the email you used to sign in on a platform you supported us through (GitHub Sponsors / Ko-Fi / Patreon), and if it’s in our supporters list, you’ll receive this nice shiny badge. It can be disabled though, in case you don’t like it. No pressure.

The webhooks from GitHub are currently a bit broken, so if you donated via Github Sponsors and verification didn’t work for you, feel free to reach me directly and I’ll add you to the supporters list manually.

What’s next

We already have some new features in progress, so more good stuff is coming. One particular thing I’m super excited about, but I’ll keep it a secret for now. Just wanted to heat up the excitement a bit :D

Aside from the plans for mobile, I’m working on improvements for trips, visits & places (which are begging for an UI/UX rework) and some stuff will be introduced in order to reduce the database sizes of your self-hosted instances. Keep an eye on the releases, it’s all there.

You, the people

Once again, I want to say thank you to all of you: for reading my posts, for installing Dawarich and trying it out, for providing feedback, for creating issues with thorough bug reports on GitHub, for testing our Android app during the beta period, for being part of our Discord community. Thank you to all of our contributors: we have a few PRs with meaningful contributions opened and some already merged, one of them reduced time of our docker images build from ~70 mins to roughly 25 mins. We have a lot of low-hanging fruits waiting to be fixed in our code, simply because I don’t always have time to address all the known issues. Don’t hesitate to dive in and open a PR if you feel like you can improve something in Dawarich.

To save you a scroll, as always, the links one more time:

Github: https://github.com/Freika/dawarich

Website: https://dawarich.app/

The work continues, and there will be more, better and faster.

~ Evgenii from Dawarich—

Truely amazing. If only there is an app that won’t completely deain 69% of bayyery in 3 seconds on Android.

Please get the app into f-droid.

Also this is packaged for NixOS, yay!

I’ve been working on Habitat for the past two years. It all stemmed from this idea that I posted in April 2024.

Habitat is a free open-source, self hosted social platform for local communities. It is aimed at fostering local community discussions and discovery of areas of interest. This is why it is built primarily around location. A Habitat instance centers on a specific area, and the local community can make generic posts about that area, or they can make posts about specific locations in that area. More about what I’ve been building and the future plans here.

Features

• Habitat specification of location and size - enabling posts related to the local area
• Home feed - Displays the most recent posts
• Nearby feed - Displays posts sorted by proximity to the user
• Create posts - Upload photos, set locations, comments
• Categories - Location rules
• Amazon S3 image storage option
• Personalisation - Overrides Habitat defaults per user: kms/miles, hidden categories
• Moderation tools - User, post, comment moderation, block email addresses
• Announcements - Scheduled announcements
• Public moderation log - Keep moderator actions visible for 30 days

If you’re interest in this at all, please give it a spin and let me know how you get on. I’ll keep an eye here on Lemmy, but you can also post to the Habitat discussion board on GitHub.

Did you even understand the problem?

The answer is no, not yes.

Thanks for this. Regarding your point on on making people care, I’ve just written up a post that touches on this: https://feddit.uk/post/45292700

Federation is not yet built in, but I have a plan. There are some details here: https://carlnewton.github.io/posts/location-based-social-network/#connecting-instances

Hi,

I an currently trying to add remote access to 2 of my servers but didn’t manage to get a working setup as is.

Right now I want to access 2 servers: * one is for media stuff (navidrome, jellyfin, managing the arr stack) * one is for my data syncing with rsync and after set a backup from borg to another server not on my domain

I was trying at some point to add stuff such as tailscale, but somehow I always had issues with having both servers reachable within the IP range I use on my local network, so everything would work as is with the current config at home being away. I have also heard of cloudflare tunnels as well, but that I didn’t try yet. At some point I tried to do just a regular wireguard from my opnsense, but I would prefer not to have open ports to worry about (and also had issues with internal IP not being assigned from wireguard as well).

Does anyone here has experience with this? If so, what was your solution and/or caviats to it?

Yup. It gets more involved once you start adding DNS and SSL. But if you’re ok typing IPs and you’re not opening your firewall to the public, it’s all you really need.

You should keep trying with tailscale, did you read the docs? (tailscale provides amazing documentation), you dont need to install the client on every device, for that use subnet routers, all is in the docs. Give it another try and post back what issues you are having.

Hello everyone,

i am thinking about getting a ugreen DH4300, however I don’t trust the company with their is so I am thinking about installing something like OMV on it. Has anyone here done that to this line of machines? I found no one saying anything about this online.

On another note. Currently I have a raspberry running my services. Would it even worth it to get that ugreen? Or should I just upgraded my pi with some hats or a DAS?

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

[Thread #128 for this comm, first seen 2nd Mar 2026, 12:30] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

If that helps I just got a Aoostar WTR Pro (Ryzen version) to replace my NAS. But I had 2x 16GB RAM left so that was pretty cheap for a rather powerful home NAS. With 8c/16T abf two 2.5Gb NIC it’s powerful enough to replace a small hypervisor.

BUT careful, while it has quickswap slots the hardware itself doesn’t support it.

Hey selfhosters 👋

A few weeks ago I shared Ideon here and got great feedback that shaped a lot of what I’ve been working on since.

Since my last post here, Ideon crossed 200 stars on GitHub and I wanted to say thank you ❤. It means a lot to see people interested in what started as a side project. It motivated me to work on it literally every day since then.

For those who missed it: Ideon is a self-hosted visual workspace where you lay out everything about a project on an infinite canvas: notes, Git repos, code snippets, checklists, sketches, links and connect them together. Two containers, no external dependencies.

Since then, a lot has changed and I wanted to share an update.

Self-hosting got smoother. Docker permission issues with bind mounts are gone, build times are faster, and there’s a new GIT_ALLOWED_HOSTS env variable so you can whitelist your internal Git servers (Gitea, Forgejo, GitLab behind a VPN, etc.) without the SSRF filter blocking them.

Collaboration got real structure. There are now 4 project roles (Creator, Owner, Editor, Viewer), a Request Access workflow for private projects, and the canvas supports real-time multiplayer with conflict-free editing.

The canvas got a lot more usable. Keyboard navigation (arrow keys + vim keys), a command palette, freehand sketch blocks, drag-and-drop checklists with progress bars, markdown tables and task lists, emoji reactions on blocks, edge labels, and a bunch of stability fixes for large projects.

Where this is going next:

Right now Ideon lets you see your project. Git stats, issues, PRs show up on the canvas, but you can only look at them. For the v1 I want to move from visibility to control. Merge a PR from the canvas. Trigger a deployment. Restart a service. Turn the workspace into an actual cockpit where you operate your project, not just view it.

That’s the direction. Curious what this community thinks about it.

If you tried it and hit something rough, or if you’ve been waiting to try it, now’s a good time. Feedback always welcome.

GitHub: https://github.com/3xpyth0n/ideon

Docs: https://www.theideon.com/docs

Yes it is.

As OP said, stars correlated with their own posting on Lemmy. So your affirmation is not absolutely true. It’s all relative… same applies to posting on reddit vs. lemmy… There’s a dilemma between popularity vs. a smaller niche population with ethical concerns.

In a similar vein, PRs might be more in quantity but less in quality when comparing any foss project on github vs codeberg…

My goal is to to fully ditch Google Photos for Immich. I have about ~3TB of photos and videos. Looking for a super simple way of backing up the library to cloud storage in case of a drive failure.

Ideally, this will require nothing on my part besides copying files into a given folder. And ideally the storage will be encrypted and have basic privacy assurances.

Also if it matters my home server is running Debian.

I think they are analogous. If you like your setup keep using it ;)

JFYI - after many years of trusting Borg with my backups, I found Kopia to be MUCH faster, in both snapshots creation time and browsing/diffing. I backup my whole home every 6 hours, so going from ~20min down to ~3min is an appreciable win. There’s also a web endpoint to Kopia that may make backing up on the go easier when you can’t trust your tunnel to home.

Hi,

I want to make some of my services (like Nextcloud, Immich, Komga, Jellyfin and FreshRSS for example) on my home server easier accessible from remote. For that I want to use a VPS where I install Nginx and Wireguard on it and establish a VPN connection between it and my homeserver. So far so good.

My first question: For the services that I don’t want to expose for remote access over that setup, can I just keep my Nginx instance that I have running now for these services. For example my budgeting service is available under finance.example.com as long as I’m in the same network as my home server right now. Would that still be possible when I have 2 Nginx instances running (one on the VPS and one on the home server directly) or would I need to configure it differently for that to work?

My second question:
Do I need to install Fail2Ban on my VPS or can I also install it on my homeserver?

Install yes, configure not really.

It has to be setup therefore it has to be configured.

Hi. I’m kinda of a noob in the world of self-hosting and matrix, for that matter. But I was wondering how heavy is it to host a matrix server?

My understanding how matrix works is each participating server in the room stores the full history and then later some sort of merging happens or something like that.

How is that sustainable? Say in 5 years matrix becomes mainstream and 5 people join my server and each also join 3 different 10k+ people rooms with long histories. So now what I have to account for that or people have to be careful of joining larger rooms when they sign up in a smaller-ish server?

Or do I not understand how Matrix works? Thanks.

Its not “targeted at old school”, its an open, extensible protocol.

If devs focused on extending the protocol instead of building an app to handle things like this, it could do it.

Mucking about with dozens of extensions instead of just installing an app seems pretty old skool, lol, brings me back to bbs life

I have created a tech content platform with thousands of tech feeds from individual bloggers, open source projects and enterprises.

The content is organised into spaces. In the Selfhosted space, you can find the latest articles about selfhosted apps. In each space you can control the filtering with a threshold parameter.

There is also an RSS feed that you can subscribe to: https://insidestack.it/spaces/selfhosted/rss

Really? Have not noticed anything, but will check metrics at home… And thanks!

Looks like it’s back up, may have been a temp issue.

Tonight 😬

#kernel #Linux #proxmox #meme #homelab #selfhositng @homelab @selfhosted

The kernel can wait. Kernels are good at that.

My guess is it’s an Independent Beer Maker.