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I’ll go first: I got setup XMPP (Prosody) for the family.
Also, less this week (cheating a little), but I’ve setup all my services with SSL (self-hosted root CA), domain names, and (finally) a dashboard (Heimdall.)

I had enough time to install sort of pihole.

I’m redoing everything I have from scratch. This week I have FreeIPA set up from OpenTofu + Ansible configs, and enrolls most of my other servers against FreeIPA. I am still migrating TrueNAS to use FreeIPA’s Kerberos Realm for auth, and I need to chown a lot of files for the new UIDs and GIDs homed in FreeIPA. After that, I’m setting up FreeRadius for auth to switches, APs, and Wifi. And then after that, I’m back to overhauling my k8s stack. I have Talos VMs running but didn’t finish patching in Cilium. And after the real fun begins.

Finally took the time to setup Woodpecker CI to replace Drone. Also finally linked it not only to my self hosted gitea, but also to github, so I can automate a few builds there as well.

In the process I also learned, that I can set up a whole bunch of pods in a single kube definition for podman/quadlets, which allows me to have a much cleaner setup. Previously I was only aware that you can define a single pod with multiple containers. It makes sense, but it never occurred to me before.

I got a test box set up with nixos and a config that runs all of my services. I wanted to test the declarative rebuild promise of it, so I:

1. Filled the services with my some of my backed up data (a copy of the data, not the actual backup)
2. Ran it for a few days using some of the services
3. Backed up the data of the nixos test server, as well as the nixos config
4. Reinstalled nixos on the test box, brought in the config, and rebuilt it.

And it worked!!! All serviced came back with the data, all configuration was correct.

I’m going to keep testing, and depending on how that goes I may switch my prod server and nas to nixos.

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I plugged in an NVIDIA gpu in my server and enabled ollama to use it, diligently updated my public wiki about it and now enjoying real time gpt: OSS model responses!

I was amazed, time cut from 3-8 minutes down to seconds. I have a Intel Core7 with 48gb ram, but even an oldish gpu beats the crap out of it.

Nice, same! Was also really positively surprised by how great the Android app(s) for XMPP feel.

Only thing not working yet for me is group chat creation. Oh well. Maybe this weekend.

On the other hand though, voice and video calls have worked flawlessly.

I finally got around to installing Jellyfin. Still trying to get hardware transcoding working. I think I have it set up, but it still wants to use the CPU. I’m thinking permissions but I ran out of time.

Fun project.

Nice, same! Was also really positively surprised by how great the Android app(s) for XMPP feel.

We’re on iOS and I wish I could say the same. Looking at the Android apps makes me very jealous.

Only thing not working yet for me is group chat creation. Oh well. Maybe this weekend.

What server software are you using? I went with Prosody and it felt pretty easy to setup the muc module for groups, but, on the other hand, I haven’t gotten around to voice and video calls.

Very cool!

Re: the backup / restore of state in NixOS: I found myself writing the same things over and over again for each VM/service, so finally wrote this wrapper module (in action e.g. here for Jellyfin), which confgures both the backup services and timers, as well as adding a simple rsync-restore-jellyfin command to the system packages. In case you find this useful and don’t already have your own abstractions, or a sufficiently different use case 😄

In that same vein I got an AMD Pro V620 32GB off ebay and have been struggling to get it to POST on my x570 motherboard, but I finally tried it on my old ASUS b450-i with a Ryzen 5 2400GE and with a few BIOS setting changes it fired right up.

Now I need to figure out what I’m doing wrong on the x570 board so I can run the V620 combined with my 9060XT for bigger models

This week I saw my 3 machine cluster flailing trying to stay online, digging around identified it as an issue with communication with my NAS. It was running NFS3 and so I swapped that to NFS4.1 and did some tuning and now my services have never been faster!

Ah, too bad. IMO better clients would make it drastically to convince people to switch.

Hm, I can create groups (also on a muc subdomain), and the other members are added, but writing a message triggers “x left the group” for everyone. Dunno. Probably something trivial I overlooked. But honestly… Weather is too good today to be bothered 😄

Ah, I already had a TURN/STUN coturn server set up for matrix and jitsi, so it was just a matter of telling prosody about that. So I cheated a little I guess 😄 Here is my full config for that, in the unlikely event that you’re using NixOS.

good bot

I’m curious what alternative to Pi-hole you set up. (I’m planning on installing Pi-hole soon but wanna hear all my options)

The table (dm) might finally make the switch from roll20 to foundry for a campaign!

I have tried out Openclaw in a container, and it wasn’t hard at all.

All the warnings of danger are right, though. But if anything goes wild, I still know how to delete a container :-)

Are you using sturn/turn server? Almost always needed for calls and video, you should join prosody support channel that are really helpful xmpp:prosody@conference.prosody.im?join

Nice, had my XMPP server now running for a couple of weeks, not many users on it so far though. But my highlight of the week was managing to get the slidge whatsapp bridge with Prosody running, so I at least don’t have to use the official app anymore for all those people who resist to get off of it.

The nextcloud AIO instance that hadn’t been working since September suddenly started working after I updated it. This was all after their forums did fuck all to help except tell me to get gud. I knew the problem wasn’t on me or my config and I feel so vindicated

I got gitea running on my VPs cluster that I use to host keyboard vagabond services. I moved my repository from my home PC into it, and set up an action runner to automate a build and deploy of piefed, so it runs my build script, pushes to harbor registry (internal), and then deletes and recreates a job to run db migrations and restarts the web and worker pods.

I’m going to migrate the other build services to it as well, and after that I should be able to finally get all of my services behind cloud flare tunnels and tail scale, and finally remove the last bits of ingress-nginx. The registry was the only thing still on ingress-nginx because I needed to push larger image files than are permitted by cloud flare. since all of that is internal now, I get to finally seal those bits off.

The build is also faster some I don’t have to rely on wifi

I got Terminus for the TRMNL set up using Podman on my server running NixOS.

Although I’m actually planning on replacing Terminus with my own simple server app that way it can be even more declarative (no Postgres database of devices/users/screens) and easier for me to customize. The API I’ll have to implement is extremely straightforward, so I don’t anticipate it taking too long.

All of my apps are running without issue. First time in months

Decided to buy a raspberry pi, it arrived, I installed pihole on it and put it into my dad’s house, all in a few days. Biggest win: I just took action and did it, instead of researching, brainstorming and writing down stuff for weeks and then never execute.

Have you had a look at opencloud? Not many addons, but simple-ish cloud drive and docs and such. Does not use many resources.

Hum. I’ve been smooth sailing for a while now. I’ve tried installing OwnTracks again and made some progress by figuring out cloud flare tunnels are a problem (at least the way I configured them). New to MQTT. So the app still doesn’t work properly but now I have an idea why and I’m not just banging my head on the wall anymore.

Still waiting for my success. Pihole randomly doesn’t answer DNS requests in time, causing a lot of trouble between my services. It’s happening since I switched to dnsmasq in opnsense (which is upstream for my local domain for Pihole), but also for external domains. Can’t nail it down and am this short of reconsidering my whole network setup. It used to work fine for over a year though..

Opnsense dnsmasq is DHCP for my servers and also resolves them as local hosts. (e.g. server1.local.domain) and Pihole conditionally forwards there. Since the issue is also when resolving external domains, it shouldn’t be related, but the timing is suspicious. I also switched the general upstream DNS.

Pihole does have some logs indicating too many concurrent requests, but those are not always correlating with the timeouts.

I know it’s DNS, I just don’t know where yet.

I’ve been running all my apps on my NAS as docker containers, but some get ‘stuck’ occasionally, requiring a reboot of the whole machine. Using the NAS was mostly out of convenience.

I also had an old laptop running k3s, hosting a few stateless services.

This week I picked up three Wyse 5070 devices and started setting up a more permanent Kubernetes cluster. I decided to use Talos Linux, which is a steep learning curve, but should hopefully reduce the amount of ongoing work for upgrades. I’ll be deploying everything with FluxCD this time around too.

I’ve stumbled a bit with the synology-csi-driver. It didn’t work with Talos out of the box, but turns out the latest commits have a fix. The only thing remaining before I can start porting the apps over is figuring out how to spin up a new CA and generate client certificates for mTLS. I currently do that in Vault but it seems like something cert-manager could handle going forward.

Following this post I installed paperless. It’s amazing.

My servers are up

I have an instance running, but haven’t had a ton of time to dedicate on getting it the way I need it. I need a calendar that is accessible anonymously via the web for people to know my availability. File server, CalDAV, and CardDAV I was able to get separate solutions for.

I managed, without ever trying, to convert a friend to swap to Linux about a month ago.

Today I’m driving over to give him my old old server so he can start self hosting. He’s super keen on getting started.

So not my success, but ours? One more person joins the community today!

I already had Keycloak set up, but a few services don’t support OIDC or SAML (Jellyfin, Reposilite), so I’ve deployed lldap and connected those services and Keycloak to it. Now I really have a single user across all services

I have used Adguard Home before. I found it to be very similar to Pi-hole.

I never tried Technitium.

Currently I use Pi-hole with unbound.

Reconnected my light switches to home assistant. I just had to press the pairing button on the device again for some reason. But it’s inside de Switch box in the wall, not so practical. I wich they thought of another way to put the device in pairing mode, like switch one-off 10 times, something like that.

Managed too get stoat working over I2P.

proxmox backups fixed!

copyparty is really REALLY cool.

self hosted gitea was much easier than expected.

jellyfin updated to latest.

fixed habitica issues (gotta have my goddamn checkmarks!)

self hosted ntfy ssh login scripts EVERYWHERE

i said fuck NUT and passed battery backup straight to truenas VM, the graphs are beautiful.

ive decided that a rclone docker set up to serve webdav will be a tool i keep on all lxcs, for moving shit around easier. turn it on, move the stuff, turn back off. (i can SCP with the best of them but this is so much easier)

i want a self hosted CA 😭😭😭

how did tou migrate your existing accounts to this system? or did you just make a new account?

this is a great thread! this should be a recurring one

Is dnsmasq rate limiting tbe pi’s IP? Or is opnsense intercepting port 53 outbound and sending it to dnsmasq anyway so all pi DNS queries are being resolved in dnsmasq?

I recreated the Keycloak account from LDAP, and then manually patched the databases for all OIDC-based services to the new account UUID, so the existing accounts are linked to the new Keycloak account.

I have two Keycloak accounts, one in the master realm for administrative purposes, and one in the apps realm for all my services, so I didn’t break access to Keycloak

Finally got the time to set up OpenCloud. It is a pain in the ass to wade through their convoluted clusterfuck of compose files, but it is worth it! Sometime next week I’ll refactor my current deployment. If I deem it fine, I might post it here for others to reference.

Managed to finally get around to self-hosting ntfy, added that to uptime kuma as notifications experimenting with Checkcle, stood up a invidious instance for funsies (prob will see how much i use it, but might as well) Less this week: Recently got pangolin up and running and i’m loving it, it’s so seamless and straight forward along with caddy on my other VPS machines.

Opencloud was a weird experience for me. Getting it started was great and having all of the options and features available led me to build it bigger than I initially planned. The downfall was it became too slow with everything I wanted to do with it. Could have been my hardware but it became unusable.

It was a couple of weeks ago for me but I managed to get my docker compose script for all my infrastructure cleaned up and all versions of containers are now pinned.

I have renovate set up to open PR’s when a new version is available so I can handle updates by just accepting the PR and it’s automatically deployed to my server.

Nice and easy to keep apps up to date without them randomly breaking because I didn’t know if a breaking change when blindly pulling from latest.

It may not really be selfhosting but, managed to get a live USB with persistence so that i don’t need to carry a laptop around

I got fedora installed on a refurbished win11 laptop and finally got jellyfin working in my new house after i moved 1.5 years ago.

Kodi got me by in the dark times but its nice to have episode progress saved and being able to resume from any browser on my local network.

What GPU and model you use?

Opnsense is only between the servers and the pi, the pi is in the same subnet as our consumer devices and the opnsense (directly connected to the router). The issues are both on the consumer devices and on the server, so the opnsense should not be the direct issue.

Started my self-hosting journey a couple of year ago with a Raspberry Pi, OpenMediaVault and a couple of Docker containers. This week i finally managed to move my Adguard Home container and my DNS setup over to my NAS, which was the final thing that kept the Pi running. I also synched all the data to the NAS.

The next step I am trying to figure out is a decent backup setup. Read about Borg, Restic and Kopia, but haven’t decided on one of them yet. What are you guys using?

NVIDIA Corporation GA104GL RTX A4000

From lspci

It has 16gb of VRAM, not too much but enough to run gpt:OSS 20b and a few other models pretty nice.

I noticed that it’s better to stick to a single model, I imagine that unload and reload the model in VRAM takes time.

I deployed ntfy and traefik, and adapted a few composes to use it.

I’ve been self-hosting for years, but with a recent move comes a recent opportunity to do my network a bit differently. I’m now running a capable OpenWRT router, and support for AdGuard Home is practically built into OpenWRT. I just needed to configure it right and set it up, but the documentation was comprehensive enough.

For years I had kept a Debian VM for Pi-Hole running. I kept it ultra lean with a cloud kernel and 3 gb of disk space and 160MB of RAM, just so it could control its own network stack. And I’d set devices to manually use its IP address to be covered. AGH seems to be about the same exact thing as Pi-Hole. With my new setup the entire network is covered automatically without having to configure any device. And yes, I know I could’ve done the same before by forwarding the DNS lookups to the Pi-Hole, but I was always afraid it would cause a problem for me and I’d need an easy way to back out of the adblocking. Subjectively, over about 6 years, I only had a couple worthless websites that blocked me out.

I haven’t yet gotten to the point where I’m trying to also to intercept hardcoded DNS lookups, but soon… It’s not urgent for me because I don’t have sinister devices that do that.

I migrated openaw from docker running on my raspberry pi to an old nuc I had lying around. Backed it with mainly models off of OpenRouter or my local Ollama instance. For very difficult tasks it uses anthropic. Added it to my GitHub repo and implemented Plane for task management. Added a subagent for coding and have it work on touch up or research tasks I don’t have personal time to do. Made an sdlc document that it follows so I can review all of its work. Added a cron so it checks for work every hour. It ran out of tasks in five days. Work quality: C+, but it’s a hell of a lot better than having nothing.

It helped research and implement SilverBullet for personal notes management in one shot.

I also migrated all of my services’ DNS resolution to CloudFlare so I get automatic TLS handoff and set up nginx with deny rules so any app I don’t want exposed don’t get proxied.

This weekend I’m resurrecting my HomeAssistant build.

I just replaced the piece of junk XFi router with a proper Ubiquiti dream router 7. I didn’t think it would make this big of a difference, but wow. Had to keep the old thing in bridge mode though. I want to next replace the cable modem built into the thing, but Comcrap requires you either use their equipment for $20/mo or you have to pay for unlimited data for $30/mo. They actually change you more to have the pleasure of not using their junk equipment.

Setup my audiobookshelf server successfully. Also, just realized that the Synology NAS that I’ve had running for a couple of years now without really using it much, can be mounted onto my Debian server, that I use a lot, as a mass storage and will work just fine. Mind blown. I now have plenty of storage after struggling for a while. Lmao.

Nothing broke

Set up my audiobookshelf server successfully.

I’ve been meaning to do this for a while. Do you put ebooks in it too, or just audiobooks and podcasts? I’ve been using BookLore for my ebooks, and really like it – I just wish it was a little faster.

This week - Apache Airflow setup to automate running backups (replacing cron).

copyparty is really REALLY cool. (i use the phi95 theme)

Wow. That’s amazing!

i want a self hosted CA

It’s totally worth it. I was putting it off for a very long time, but it was actually kind of easy.

No, not yet, that’s why I haven’t set it up yet. Hopefully its a this-week thing.

Oh yikes! I’ll see how it goes.

got a link? I’ve been falling to get vaulTLS to even start

Looks like it just have to be like that with all open source projects in this space with a name ending in “cloud” ;)

I also just setup a cluster using Talos!

I’ve never used kubernetes before, but decided it was time to learn so I picked up 4x HP EliteDesk Mini systems and dove in.

Here’s what I went with: https://github.com/tgangte/LocalCA. I don’t know anything about VaulTLS though.

I dockerize FileHunter: https://github.com/ikidd/file-hunter-dockerized

The truest answer :)

Building to this week. A few months ago, I was given a broken nas. I took it, thinking I’ve at least got 16TB of storage if it won’t work. Fixed it. Saw the software includes docker, and then saw it has just 2GB ram and before I installed anything it would complain about low memory. Got 16GB, and installed it last weekend.

Spent the week installing and setting up Immich, navidrome, and integrating my other server running arrs.

I finally buckled down and built a music server. I had a ton of FLAC from before sources but never found the right software stack to make it a good replacement for the typical streaming services.

It took about a month of beating/breaking/resetting and removing unnecessary software. In the end it was way simpler than I originally thought and required very minimal resources.

looks cool! I’ll check it out later!

here’s what i had tried a little

https://github.com/7ritn/VaulTLS

In recent weeks samba became unstable for using external storage, finally came around this week to use sshfs instead. Seems stable for now, all I could ask for 👌

16gb. So you got a $300 nas

I settled on Kopia myself but I always seem to see the others mentioned

Discovered and got psittsa up and running, a cool little project that combines Piper (TTS engine) with a web frontent that allows users to copy-paste text or URLs and to either stream the audio from the browser or download it as mp3. Apparently it even does clean-up of old files behind the scenes.

This is great! Thanks

Samba is great, but it’s hell when you need multiplatform support… I have some weird fruit thing going one to support MacOS :/

I can’t remember why, but I gave sshfs a try but stayed why samba.

Started running arr stack, started running music assistant, improved home assistant dashboards, and fixed uptime tracker

Pulled 8 out of an old laptop, and bought 8 for about 30€.

Use the one that makes most sense to you for restores.

Backup a folder, then restore it somewhere else… if any of the applications causes you problems for your setup, move on.

Good point. I was going to set 1-2 of them up and find out what suits my needs.

I survived another week without using LLM in my self-hosted servers.

Just looking at my NAS now…

I used to use Kopia to backup to a Backblaze B2 bucket, but I’ve moved to Restic as I can backup over ssh to a NAS at a family member’s home and to a Hetzner storage box.

Absolutely nightmare to set up, especially with OIDC, but once it was finally up it was such a night and day difference from Nextcloud. Worth setting up for sure

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/b0738418-da40-4483-8900-271315da03b0.jpeg

Reinstalled Dropbear for remote LUKS unlock after a SSD failure.

SSD failure was two weeks ago or I’d say rebuilding the server from backups and further polishing my Ansible playbook.

Purely from reading about the different tools Restic is also my favourite at the moment. I mainly want to use it so my clients can do backups on my NAS and maybe at some later stage backup my NAS to a NAS at a family members home just like you do.

https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/e8dde6e4-a381-4e6c-9058-17ebae9b66e6.avif

I stepped away from the keyboard and riced my elitedesk g4 SFFs.

I solved my no display issue on my server. I couldn’t even get the BIOS on output. After taking the entire thing apart and testing all the components it turns out my Tv broke itself with a firmware update and couldn’t receive input on any of the HDMI ports..

Strictly audiobooks. Mostly for my wife because that’s all she listens to. For me, it is 90% ebook on my kobo and 10% audiobooks. Only when I’m doing something around the house or driving do I listen to an audiobook. I’ve also built my own android ABS client that I made to my liking.

Name and shame the brand?

I cannot claim the same.

LG OLED ~2019. Nintendo Switch video wouldn’t even come through, which is how I figured it out