I don’t want to hear about your Plex, your NPM, your notes application or science forbid, your budgeting application. I want to hear the most exotic thing you setup to selfhost, that probably only you and a hand full of people around the world actually use or even need. A problem that you solved in a way, that makes people go WTF. Go!
I’ll start: I live in the mountains, and there is snow, lots of snow. I often tell people “We had 3m of snow last year”, but is that really true? So, I thought to myself: Can you measure snowfall? It seems you can, so I setup a USH-9 ultra sound measuring device, connected it via IC2 to my Home Assistant and now I can tell people with confidence, that we had a total of 3.45m of snowfall last season, with max snow height of 60cm on January 5th.
Future project: I have chickens. They lay eggs. I have cameras. I want to know which hen lays how many eggs. Solution? AI image recognition of the hens (who is who) and if they have laid an egg. Any inputs welcome.
Newsweek Poland has pdf version and I am a subscriber. Unfortunately there is no mechanism on their page to schedule sending newest magazine to subscriber email. There is only a button in subscriber section to send selected pdf (link) to email. I wrote client which is logging in, bypassing captcha, gets listing of current issues, looks into history of downloaded issues and downloads newest issue for me. They offer in the same subscription other magazines too, so I extended this tool to also download others too.
Second one. I use IPTV service which has time shift functionality. I wrote app which allows me to download any tv program within this 3-4 day window of past tv show. It is using ffmpeg and some logic.