UK #HomeAutomation folk.

What are the best UK certified smart wall socket options (ZigBee or WiFi) for:

- energy monitoring
- control only

#HomeLab #HomeAssistant #SmartHome

Jeder (Self-)Hoster kennt diesen Moment:
Update klicken, kurz die Luft anhalten und hoffen, dass nicht wieder PHP, Datenbank oder Desktop-Client beschließen, heute kreativ zu werden.
Nach Jahren mit Nextcloud habe ich 2026 für meinen eigenen Usecase die Reißleine gezogen. Nicht aus Dogmatismus. Sondern weil digitale Souveränität für mich am besten funktioniert, wenn Infrastruktur wieder ein bisschen langweilig wird.
Darum bin ich bei #OpenCloud gelandet.
Schlanker, fokussierter, weniger bewegliche Teile. Kein PHP. Keine Datenbank. Go-basiert, unter 200 MB RAM im Idle. Auf K3s mit ZFS-Snapshots dahinter läuft das sehr viel näher an „funktioniert“ als an „braucht Aufmerksamkeit“.
Und dahinter steckt das Team von #mailbox.org,  #Heinlein Support. Kein US-Risikokapital, kein Exit-Druck. Keine fragwürdige Eigentümerstruktur. Einfach Leute, die seit 30 Jahren für datenschutzkonforme Infrastruktur in Deutschland kämpfen. Das ist kein Zufall, das ist eine Entscheidung.
Der schönste Nebeneffekt:
OpenCloud wurde bei mir quasi nebenbei zur souveränen E-Book-Bibliothek. DRM-freie EPUBs auf dem Boox Go 7, ohne Amazon-Ökosystem, ohne Plattform-Lock-in, ohne das übliche „wir kennen deinen Geschmack besser als du selbst“.
Amazon weiß sehr genau, was du liest, wann du liest, wie schnell du liest und wo du aufgehört hast. Das ist keine Paranoia. Das steht in deren  AGB.
Genau da wird digitale Souveränität sehr konkret:
nicht als politische Folie, sondern als gelebter Alltag.
Eigene Dateien - eigene Infrastruktur - eigene Regeln - eigene Verantwortung.
Wie der Umzug lief, wo die kleinen HTTPS-/Traefik-Fallen lagen und warum weniger Komplexität manchmal der eigentliche Fortschritt ist:

🔗 https://www.pandolin.io/warum-ich-2026-zu-opencloud-gewechselt-bin/

One person. One homelab. One less excuse. :-)
#Fediverse #DigitaleSouveränität #SelfHosting #Homelab #OpenSource #Nextcloud #K3s #Privacy #EBooks #Linux #Ubuntu #BigTechAlternatives

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Pandolins Desktop.

High on my #homelab wishlist: I'd sure like it if I could make it so links to homelab resources living on my phone's home screen would use the local IP and fall back to Tailscale if unavailable. Or vice-versa. I want multiple alternate paths contained within this shortcut.

Having a "reflective" afternoon.

On the topic of free operating systems, I have been playing with these lately, and recommend if it suits usage (alpha order).

- Alpine Linux (my daily driver)
- Chimera Linux
- Elementary Linux
- FreeBSD
- OpenBSD
- Solus Linux

Not "mainstream" suggestions per se, and that's kinda the point. Caveats re: glibc/musl, nvidia support, etc. apply.

If I had to have nvidia support for my primary workstation I'd probably go with Solus (KDE), or at least try it, in spite of systemd.

I'm starting to scratch the surface on

- CachyOS

for my son's gaming rig. Pretty much what it says on the tin. I like it. Arch could use a bit of polish. We'll see how it goes on real hardware.

Others that I haven't run much beyond playing with the iso, but am intrigued by, mostly by intended use case tbh:

- Mint
- Zorin

I used to run these for years and years and years but don't nowadays:

- Arch
- Gentoo

Excellent, but the time intensity ...

~20 years ago I used to run Gentoo in a government research agency data centre. Even came up with an "ansible-like" set of deployment scripts/framework and whatnot in /bin/bash to manage them (pre-dates Ansible).

Fun times... the time... the time.

Gentoo was bracketed by RHEL in the past and CentOS as the successor. CentOS was fine but gave up a lot of performance way back then. Shifting priorities, server hardware was still following Moore's, and all that.

I flirted with Ubuntu a bit over the years. Could never really get into it back when it was decent. I won't touch it now.

Today, I think I'm done with Debian. Too static for my tastes - stuff gets too stale. Sure, there's Testing/Sid but there's also other options at that point.

Now that I'm a sysadmin just for myself I can embrace using whatever I want. Ha.

I'm all about community projects nowadays.

Corporate software will eventually disappoint you so it pays to just not go there in the first place.

Deep thoughts.

#Linux #RunBSD #HomeLab #SelfHosted #SelfHosting

Sortarr just hit 0.8.10. If you run Sonarr or Radarr and your media folders are a mess, this tool automatically organizes everything so you don't have to. Simple, effective, and self-hosted. #selfhosted #homelab

https://github.com/Jaredharper1/Sortarr/releases/tag/0.8.10

Just updated my MikroTik L009 router to arm64 mode.

I've never used netinstall before, so that was a bit of a challenge.

Since the video below was published, RouterOS version 7.22.1 has been released. I used stable versions.

#mikrotik #homelab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnktg6SD6T8

Server hat sich diese Woche zweimal verabschiedet - einfach tot. Kein POST, nichts. Nach stundenlanger Diagnose stellte sich raus: die CMOS-Batterie war schuld. Eine 2€ CR2032 hat den Spuk beendet.

Zwischendurch lief alles auf einem Laptop als Notfall-Proxmox. Heute frische Installation auf neue SSD, der rote Wächter passt auf.

Nächste Woche kommt ein zweiter Server - nie wieder Single Point of Failure.

#selfhosted #proxmox #homelab #serverlife #linux

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Alt text: HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9 Server offen auf dem Schreibtisch, Gehäuse abgenommen mit Blick auf Mainboard, RAM und Lüfter. Daneben ein Monitor mit dem Proxmox CLI. Davor ein roter Roboter-Deadpool als Deko.

So that's it. I've retired. Well, technically not quite because I'm still being paid for another week. However, my two work laptops have been wiped and handed back along with my security pass, and my development desktop machine has been cleaned up and shut down. I've deleted the various TOTP entries for my work accounts from my phone.

It's over. I'm free.

I'll keep myself mentally active with some #FOSS development, and will continue to enjoy tinkering with #SelfHosting on my #HomeLab , hopefully with a bit more mental energy available than before. Good times lie ahead, I hope.

Question: how hard it is, to migrate a #Mastodon instnace from local storage to an S3 compatible storage? I'll soon have to migrate #Tutter to another machine and I'm thinking if it's a good idea to use S3 storage... 🤔

#Question #HomeLab #Fediverse #Sysadmin #migration

I recently connected my single-user instance to just 3 new relays to improve federation. This is the infrastructure cost of that visibility.

In just 10 days, my S3 bucket for media storage jumped from roughly 50GB to almost 190GB. The total number of objects doubled, going from 280k to over 560k, and the curve is still going up.

It is fascinating to observe the physical weight of the Fediverse traffic translated into raw data. I will definitely need to configure a stricter media retention policy and tune it to keep this background process from eating my storage budget.

#Mastodon #Fediverse #SelfHosted #AWS #S3 #DevOps #HomeLab #Blog #Thoughts #AWS

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Two AWS CloudWatch line charts side by side, showing S3 bucket metrics from roughly April 5 to April 15. The left chart, "Total bucket size," shows a steady upward trend from roughly 50 GB to almost 190 GB. The right chart, "Total number of objects," shows the count growing from around 280,000 to over 560,000 objects in the same time period.

As a #Proton user I really can't say anything bad about the services they offer.

Stable, secure, transparent, and EU hosted.

Here is an invite link for 2 free weeks on a paid plan if any one wants, and it will also give you $20 to redeem on the next bill

https://pr.tn/ref/A9BDZE0Y

#selfhosting #selfhosted #homelab #security #mail #vpn #ProtonMail #ProtonVPN

https://proton.me/

I recently discovered ntfy.sh and it is brilliant in its simplicity. I am currently rewriting my bash scripts to drop AWS SNS in favor of it.

Getting a direct push notification to my phone (and not only this) via a simple curl command is so much cleaner than setting up IAM roles and SNS topics.

I still absolutely love email as a primary protocol, but my inbox really does not need to know every single time a cron job finishes successfully 😅

#SelfHosted #Bash #DevOps #Linux #ntfy #HomeLab #AWS #Fediverse #Linux

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@badnetmask/115786742434227283

Hey folks, if anyone ever followed my blog post about enrolling the Talos UEFI keys into the Lenovo M720Q Tiny, you might want to look at it again.

I realized I forgot one step, which is completely optional, and may vary according to your security posture, but doing so provides better security.

After you enroll the Talos key, the BIOS switches to "User Mode", which allows the OS to change the keys. Ideally you should go back into the BIOS and change to "Deployed Mode". This way you can only change the keys by physically booting the machine.

Sorry about that.

#HomeLab #TalosLinux #Lenovo #blog @homelab

There is a package for #Caddy reverse proxy for obtaining certificates using DNS challenge through #Hetzner's new Cloud API.

https://github.com/caddy-dns/hetzner

#homelab #reverseproxy #selfhosted #selfhosting #selfhost #ssl

You don't need to pirate if you want to own your media and self-host Jellyfin #homelab

Here's my guide: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/how-i-rip-dvds-and-blu-rays-my-mac-2022-edition/

I've been running two degraded ZFS arrays for the last few weeks (Debian host).

Yeah, I know. Whatevs.

One of the pools was basically "scratch" backup space and one of the spindles died (breaking the utility of the mirror). Pulled the drive, wiped the remaining, put back in service with minimum fuss as a single drive. I'll throw another spindle at it when drive prices drop again.

The other array had the SSD cache die and it's been chugging along fine ever since. Not a big deal, but from a "experience" point of view it "feels slow" like a working md array.

New SSD arrived in the mail so that'll get sorted sometime today/tomorrow.

So, what's this post about?

Linux peeps, if you are thinking about md arrays, just stop, take the time, and throw 'yer leg over the zfs horse. It's worth it.

#Linux #RunBSD #zfs #md #mdadm #raid #homelab #SelfHosted #SelfHosting

is anyone running their small #mastodon instance entirely locally (#homelab) and then exposes it via #cloudflare or #tailscale tunnels? really thinking about doing that to save some cloud/vm costs

A day of using Docker and I'm now properly self hosting:

• Syncthing
• Jellyfin
• Aria2
• AriaNg
• Karakeep
• Libre Closet
• Immich
• Journiv
• Anchor Notes
• Meerkat CRM

What else should I grab? I have unlimited power now. I still need a calendar, but that's all I have planned right now.

#selfhosted #homelab #FOSS

Want to do what you can to get out of the Google/Meta etc aquarium?

Check out The Opt Out Project

https://www.optoutproject.net/about-the-opt-out-project/

#privacy #degoogle #Homelab
@cyberlyra

I don’t use Twitter or Microsoft Edge, but my network logs tell a different story.

Following my post on why I’m skipping the proprietary "Little Snitch" port for Linux, I spent Saturday evening watching the "invisible conversation" between my family’s idle devices and Big Tech servers. Even with no one actively online, the telemetry never stops.

The receipts are now on the blog:

https://the.unknown-universe.co.uk/privacy-security/my-logs-disagree/

#Privacy #FOSS #HomeLab #Linux #SelfHosted #AdGuardHome

So, gestern noch den OPNsense Fehler wegbekommen, dass keine Pakete akzeptiert wurden übers WAN Interface. Notiz an mich: Nicht zwei Stunden debuggen, sondern einfach mal neustarten.

Die Lösung ist trotzdem kacke so. Der mPCIe Intel I220 Adapter, den ich beim NUC nutzen wollte anstatt der WiFi-Karte, funktioniert nicht, weil der Slot da wohl nur WiFi akzeptiert.

Dh. ich hab jetzt RealTek internal NIC für LAN und USB RealTek NIC für WAN, was so die bescheuertste Kombi ist für OPNsense...
Router-on-a-Stick will ich nicht machen, ich hätte das schon gerne physisch separiert.

Irgendjemand eine Idee für nen:
- MiniPC / dedicated FW Kram
- der Suricata schafft im IPS mode
- bei Peak 1G WAN (8C/8GB RAM wahrscheinlich), LAN reicht 2.5G
- Bonuspunkte für SATA SSD Port, wenig Leistungsaufnahme (<=15W) und bezahlbar ~200-300€

❓

Alternativen bisher:
- Komische Chinarechner mit zweifelhafter Firmwareunterstütztung und keine Ahnung was da an Power ausreicht (N350?)
- Lenovo m720q (220€) mit PCIe Riser (20€) und Intel PCIe NIC (55€) (295€ total)

#opnsense #homelab #homenetworking

Took another step towards #DigitalSovereignty today! I'm now self-hosting my own instance of #Immich to store all my photos, officially saying goodbye to Apple's iCloud. It feels great having everything entirely under my control, running on my own hardware using CentOS-Stream 10 and #Podman.

#SelfHosted #HomeLab #Privacy #CentOS #OpenSource

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A split-screen screenshot. The top half shows the dark mode web interface of the Immich photo management app, displaying a gallery of landscape and architectural photos. The bottom half shows a Linux terminal window (Konsole) running the command 'podman ps' filtered for 'immich', displaying four active containers indicating the Immich server, database, machine learning, and Redis services are all successfully running.

Who uses #DeltaChat and what do you think of it?

Also, any #HomeLab'ers?

There are so many p2p e2ee chat thingies these days I don't have time to look at one let alone compare them. 😱

I like that #DeltaChat seems to have a community that supports it with cash and relays. But is it any good?!

Last I tried was #Jami which kindof worked but at least one mate had problems with it and these things need to work for everyone.

First of probably many posts about my wacky and wonderful new homelab setup. This is a high level overview of the setup. I’ll cover more specifics later. Maybe interesting if you’re curious about other ways of hosting besides the usual Linux and Docker setup.

https://blog.ianwwagner.com/overview-of-my-new-homelab-setup.html

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #HomeLab

I've been experimenting with using Arcane to manage docker projects on my #homelab. To day I went to go look and it turned my my four projects into 1728... I guess the git sync feature does not work.

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screenshot of Arcane projects dashboard listing many projects starting with the name "renovate" and end with incrementing numbers

Próximo projeto vai ser testar instalar o UmbrelOS em um servidor caseiro rodando Debian, e usar o Tailscale caso precise acessar algum serviço de fora de casa.

É um projeto com um escopo menor do que eu tava planejando, mas acho que é melhor dar um passo atrás do que um maior do que a minha perna :P

#blambers #selfhosting #homelab

Tosconf[6], apresentação do Tiago Serrano.

TOSCOBREAK: Construindo seu próprio No-Break/UPS

Nesta talk será abordada a construção de um no-break/UPS caseiro com conectividade e controle remoto via Wi-Fi. Parece chique? (Não é!)

A ideia é explorar as possibilidades para a criação de um sistema de backup de energia caseiro, construído com componentes disponíveis no mercado nacional.
Sem abrir mão da robustez, vamos explorar algumas opções e aprendizados ao longo dessa jornada, incluindo como integrá-lo ao Home Assistant.

🔗 Assista na íntegra: https://peertube.lhc.net.br/w/8UToXkoczpt4HpDJx2zzaa

#tosconf #hackerspace #campinas #sistemas #ups #nobreak #diy #homelab

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Tiago apresentando durante a Tosconf[6]

Does anyone know of a good self-hosted Kanban board and/or project management software that works as similar to Jira as possible?

I know my question is going to make someone mad, but I just don't want to switch context way too much when managing my personal projects.

Something similar to Trello is also acceptable.

I currently use Kanboard, but the interface is way too limited. I understand their choices, but I would like something more rich/responsive/automated.

#HomeLab #SelfHosted #Jira #Kanban @homelab

Running Podman in production for years now, and I don't miss the Docker daemon one bit.

I just published a deep dive on managing OCI containers the Unix way: daemonless, rootless, and natively integrated with systemd via Quadlets.

I cover:
- Real secrets management
- Auto-updates via systemd timers
- The Docker compatibility layer

This is the guide I wish I had when making the switch.

Read it here: https://blog.hofstede.it/podman-in-production-quadlets-secrets-auto-updates-and-docker-compatibility/

#Podman #Linux #DevOps #Systemd #Homelab #Sysadmin #Containers

If you wonder, a long time ago (early 2000s), this Mac mini G4 has been hosting https://www.tumfatig.net for quite some time. #HomeLab #RunBSD

@neil I just fell down the rabbit hole of #HomeLab. Actually no, I jumped in feet first and in a less than a week am having more fun with tech than since the 70's-80's.

We can do this!

There's never been a better time to build your own router—a practice which the FCC will hopefully not *also* ban for US #homelab consumers :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04oL0qVSWJE

En attendant de voir si ça finit en article ou en vidéo, je vous ai déjà préparé le terrain. Si vous voulez le déployer proprement (testé et validé en LXC Docker), mon Docker Compose et son fichier .env sont dispos sur mon ByteStash.

🌍 Site officiel : https://proxcenter.io
🔥 Le snippet ByteStash : https://bytestash.blablalinux.be/s/849d4b39f08647dbff1cfee83d681f2f

Affaire à suivre... 😏

#Proxmox #HomeLab #Docker #SelfHosted #ProxCenter #BlablaLinux #SysAdmin

Hi Fedi, how do y'all group and sort your media and data? Especially those of you who have sorted this out, what does your system or tree of content look like in your NAS and/or personal home directory? (Boosts welcome! :3 🔁)

e.g. where do you put Work, Other Important Documents, Not so important documents, Repos, Non-Coding Projects, Projects with both types of sub-projects, Random Office Documents, Music, Photos, Memes, Saved YouTube Videos, Recordings, Screenshots, Papers, eBooks, Scans, Audiobooks, Movies, Podcasts

I guess some of those are easy, e.g. most of the non-personal things, but then again, Audiobooks? group them with other Audio (Music) or other books?

Do you group file type or semantically by topic? or doing both depending on the situation? Or one content-based and one file type based directory tree hardlinked to the same data?

#DuckduckFedi #Askfedi #homelab #datahoarder #selfhosted #selfhosting #organize #organizing #collection #archive

I have an #xmpp server now. A #prosody instance. And I need to make a statement.

There are no good clients for macOS and iOS.

I think I tried all of them. #Monal is a lesser evil.

There is also #Fluux that is very good and really looks like software from the current century, but it still doesn’t support encryption.

This is sad 😔

#selfhosting #SelfHosted #selfhost #homelab #jabber #chat

Anybody out there backing up mariadb / mysql databases? It seems to me that mariadb-dump is the right way to do it, but it generates one big fat file for the entire database server.

The most common use I have for a database backup is to restore either an entire table or an entire database. I super rarely restore an entire database server.

I can't seem to find anybody's simple python or shell script to basically call show databases;, get the list of databases, and then dump them one database per file. It seems like such an obvious solution, but my Internet searches are coming up empty. Anybody got a pointer?

I have some servers that have multiple databases. Some are like 10Mb or 100Mb, and then one database is 6Gb. If you have this 6Gb backup file and you want to restore the 10Mb database, that's a PITA.

How has nobody done this yet? Am I thinking about it wrong?

#homelab #selfhosted #mariadb #mysql

I'm Blake — reintroducing myself as I'm back on the timeline.

I'm a Cloud Engineer working in Site Reliability and DevOps in the healthcare industry. I design and build highly scalable, resilient infrastructure that powers modern healthcare systems. Day-to-day I work with .NET, JavaScript, and TypeScript to deliver reliable platforms.

Outside of work, I build with Go — creating tools that prioritize performance, privacy, and user empowerment.

A couple things I'm working on:

RideAware — A cycling training platform for building structured training plans, analyzing ride data, and completing indoor workouts all in one place.

Arcline Hosting — A self-hosted web hosting service for people who want to know exactly where their data lives. It runs on hardware I own and operate — no AWS, no Cloudflare, no third-party CDN. Shared, WordPress, and VPS plans with personal ticket and email support.

My core interests span SRE, cloud infrastructure, DevOps/automation, and network engineering. I spend a lot of time with Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and enjoy digging into routing, firewalls, and secure network design.

I'm here because I care about privacy, self-hosting, and building things that give people more control over their own data. Good to be back — looking forward to reconnecting with this community.

#reintroduction #CloudEngineering #SRE #DevOps #Go #Golang #Linux #Docker #Kubernetes #Terraform #SelfHosting #HomeLab #Privacy #DataSovereignty #WebHosting #Cycling #HealthcareIT #FOSS #BSD

Automate the most repetitive operational task in Proxmox: keeping cluster nodes updated! ProxPatch drains, migrates, patches, and reboots nodes in a controlled rolling fashion — no downtime, no manual intervention.

ProxPatch is written in Rust and fully #opensource.

Website: https://proxpatch.de
GitHub: https://github.com/gyptazy/ProxPatch

#PVE #homelab #enterprise #Debian #PatchManagement #ProxmoxVE #Security #ProxLB #SecurityUpdateManagement #Automation #Rustlang

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ProxPatch for Proxmox VE Clusters logo

matrixOS is a new immutable, Gentoo-based distro built with gaming and homelabs in mind.

https://itsfoss.com/matrixos/

#linux #gentoo #matrixos #gaming #homelab