Selfhosting Sunday - What's up?
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As we received new network hardware from our ISP, and inevitably are getting a new IP address again with that, I'm looking into setting up a DDNS. I've wanted to check out DuckDNS. They run their (free) service on AWS CE2 instances, though, and as I am currently also trying to end my reliance on Google and Amazon, I've got some more digging to do. If anyone has a good, European (or heck, federated?) solution, hmu!
I have been very happy with desec.io, they are a nonprofit based in Berlin.
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Hey, we're also thinking about setting up authentik. Could you answer the following, where I haven't found answers to yet: does introducing SSO impede logging into Jellyfin on a TV / phone app at all?
no, works fine. there’s an LDAP plugin for jellyfin so you can use the jellyfin internal login page and the server will verify the login against authentik. took some setting up though.
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What's up, what's down and what are you not sure about?
Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you found.
I really want to self host a system that will let me upload documents to be indexed by a vector DB, then run natural language queries using some kind of RAG approach. Classic problem: Having a software product and technical knowledge base and wanting quick answers to questions like "How should screen X behave if I am not a registered user?".
Closest I've found is LlamaIndex but this is still more of a foundation than a turn-key solution and right now I'm too time poor to do the assembly required... I realise I'm describing close-to-frontier tech, but anything more turn-key out there yet?
Thanks for any suggestions!
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As we received new network hardware from our ISP, and inevitably are getting a new IP address again with that, I'm looking into setting up a DDNS. I've wanted to check out DuckDNS. They run their (free) service on AWS CE2 instances, though, and as I am currently also trying to end my reliance on Google and Amazon, I've got some more digging to do. If anyone has a good, European (or heck, federated?) solution, hmu!
I'm using the Hetzner nameservers, it's not exactly DynDNS but they have a DNS API and I just have a cronjob set up that checks every five minutes if the IP is still correct and updates otherwise.
Using this in the cronjob: https://github.com/FarrowStrange/hetzner-api-dyndns
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no, works fine. there’s an LDAP plugin for jellyfin so you can use the jellyfin internal login page and the server will verify the login against authentik. took some setting up though.
Alright, thank you!
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What's up, what's down and what are you not sure about?
Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you found.
I am currently arguing what to do with my gaming rig and home theater. Either get a long cable which would need a DP-to-HDMI adapter or get a used mini PC (which is currently cheaper than a Raspberry Pi?) and setup Sunshine and Moonlight (but over WiFi and not LAN) to be more flexible when I eventually move the two into separate rooms. Does anyone have some experience with that? Maybe also latency over wireless network?
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I really want to self host a system that will let me upload documents to be indexed by a vector DB, then run natural language queries using some kind of RAG approach. Classic problem: Having a software product and technical knowledge base and wanting quick answers to questions like "How should screen X behave if I am not a registered user?".
Closest I've found is LlamaIndex but this is still more of a foundation than a turn-key solution and right now I'm too time poor to do the assembly required... I realise I'm describing close-to-frontier tech, but anything more turn-key out there yet?
Thanks for any suggestions!
I think I found my jam! AnythingLLM self-hostable
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I self-host my email and use a VPS for it. I don't trust my home server to be reliable enough, and the VPS providers have nicer equipment (modern AMD EPYC CPUs, enterprise SSDs, etc). I use a separate VPS just for my emails - it's the one thing I want to ensure is secure, so I didn't want any other random software (that could potentially have security issues) running on it..
I also use an outbound SMTP relay to avoid having to deal with IP reputation. SMTP2Go has a free plan for sending <1000 emails per month.
It kind of amazes me that, in this day and age, email has turned out to be the lynchpin of security. Email as a 2FA endpoint. Email password reset systems. If email is compromised, everything else falls. They used to tell us not to put anything in email that you wouldn't put on a postcard...how did this happen?
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More incus:
- mounting persistent storage into containers (cheating by exporting NFS from my proxmox zfs into the incus host.
- wrote a pruning backup script for containers, runs daily
- passed through hardware (quicksync) into jellyfin container (it works!)
- launched an OCI container (docker home assistant) natively in incus (this is a game-changer!)
Next:
- build 2nd incus node
- move all containers from proxmox to incus
- decom proxmox
- setup Debian with NFS export
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Caddy is the way.
Caddy! I am embarrassed to think about how long it took me to figure out caddy. I kept cracking away at it tho, and one day it was like the clouds rolled back, and the sun shone on my face, a alien ship came down and this green little dude gave me the secrets, and it was all so simple. Now I can have caddy up and dishing out certs in about 5 minutes. When I look back, I cringe.
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What's up, what's down and what are you not sure about?
Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you found.
I'm switching my immich instance to an SSD one and switching my VPN from zerotier to tailscale.
Hopefully that means my Immich will be a little more reactive.
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I've been learning bash and working on scripts to automate stuff in my homelab. It's been a lot of fun. I'm currently working on a script that will rename the movies and TV shows I rip from my DVD collection.
The script queries the tmdb api, presents me with a mwnu of matches if there's multiple matches, renames the media files according to jellyfin spec, and then places them in the proper folders to be indexed by Jellyfin and Kodi.
automate stuff in my homelab.
Love me some homelab automation. It puts a smile on my face when I get a little ding from telegram giving me a summary of this morning's email, what the weather will be for the day along with a summary of established connections to my servers 'cause I'm paranoid like that. LOL fun stuff
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I'd appreciate some feedback on what I'm looking to do.
I'm wanting to follow the FUTO guide, but I don't want to build a router, to save on some money for now.
So I'm planning on buying a Mikrotik MT RB750Gr3 and putting OpenWrt on it, then using my current TP-Link Archer C6 as a wireless access point. (will buy a dedicated AP in the future).
One thing I wonder is, if there is a Mikrotik model that would be better?I'm using the rb5009 but im using RouterOS not openwrt. Any reason why you'd want to do that?
I personally think if you're buying a purpose built hardware and then putting your own software on it, you should move to a mini computer with OpnSense.
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What NIC are you looking at and what OS have you chosen?
It's a complete experiment with cheap network gear from China. I have a HP T730 mini PC that serves as my router. I'm installing a cheap 2.5 Gbps NIC for LAN side. Then there's a switch with 4x2.5 Gbps Ethernet and 2xSFP+ ports. My two main machines (PC and home server) are getting 10 Gbps SFP+ cards that I'll attach with DAC cables.
OS is OpenWRT, because I've been connecting over WiFi to the Internet in both old and new locations. OPNsense just will not work with any wireless adapter I've tried. I will try agan once I route Ethernet to my room.
I'm curious if all of this works with cheap network gear. Today I'm configuring a fresh OpenWRT installation on the router.
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The computer I'm using currently, I set the BIOS in 2012. WHen I built it, I stuffed every last piece of cutting edge tech of the time into it. Dual CPU, SLI, started with 64gb ram then later on maxed the board out at 128gb. It's still a workhorse tho. It's one of the three I use all the time for music production, selfhosting etc.
My machine is not a workhorse. I got it second hand. It has around 8gb of RAM, and an 80gb HDD I found in a laptop.
But it's enough to work as a testbed, so it's fine with me.
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What's up, what's down and what are you not sure about?
Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you found.
i run coolify and I have to make my own solutions so I'm learning a lot about docker.
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I am currently arguing what to do with my gaming rig and home theater. Either get a long cable which would need a DP-to-HDMI adapter or get a used mini PC (which is currently cheaper than a Raspberry Pi?) and setup Sunshine and Moonlight (but over WiFi and not LAN) to be more flexible when I eventually move the two into separate rooms. Does anyone have some experience with that? Maybe also latency over wireless network?
I don’t have the quantitative metrics, but I will say that I had the flu last year and I just laid on the couch with my steam deck and streamed cyberpunk using Moonlight. The latency was imperceptible to my flu brain, and it was a much better experience than playing for an hour at a much lower quality natively on the deck. I have a friend who also streams his desktop to his Apple TV (hardwired desktop, wireless Apple TV) and he beat metal gear solid V like that.
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What's up, what's down and what are you not sure about?
Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you found.
Recently been working on setting up forgejo to migrate away from GitHub. My open source stuff I’ve actually put onto codeberg and I’ve set up a handful of pull mirrors on my local instance for redundancy. This weekend I’ve been testing out woodpecker-ci for automating pushing files to s3 for some static websites for repos on codeberg as well as my forgejo instance. Today will tell if that is successful!
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I am currently arguing what to do with my gaming rig and home theater. Either get a long cable which would need a DP-to-HDMI adapter or get a used mini PC (which is currently cheaper than a Raspberry Pi?) and setup Sunshine and Moonlight (but over WiFi and not LAN) to be more flexible when I eventually move the two into separate rooms. Does anyone have some experience with that? Maybe also latency over wireless network?
I use sunshine and moonlight using a pi 5 running Android TV as the client. It works perfectly for the occasional video stream but latency for games is a bit rough. You'll probably be fine playing something relaxed like Stardew Valley but platformers (I've tried Ultimate Chicken Horse) and racing games (Mario Kart Wii running in Dolphin) are just bad enough to be unplayable. This is with both devices connected over Ethernet (albeit through a powerline adapter and my router is fairly cheap) so WiFi will probably be worse.
Not sure if sunshine and moonlight just have loads of overhead or if there's a part of my setup causing the latency.
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I'd appreciate some feedback on what I'm looking to do.
I'm wanting to follow the FUTO guide, but I don't want to build a router, to save on some money for now.
So I'm planning on buying a Mikrotik MT RB750Gr3 and putting OpenWrt on it, then using my current TP-Link Archer C6 as a wireless access point. (will buy a dedicated AP in the future).
One thing I wonder is, if there is a Mikrotik model that would be better?It looks like the hEX refresh is the same price from that vendor.
RB5009 is better but more expensive. There's a PoE version that can power your WiFi APs in the future.
I also question the decision to put OpenWrt on it. RouterOS is solid. There's a learning curve, but it's worth it if you're a nerd.
