Let’s keep it simple. I’m sure most of us are proud of Docker CPU cycles charted in Grafana via Prometheus, but I’m talking about the house as a whole.
My personal favorite is turning out to be Mealie.
I self-host a bunch of things for my personal use, but Mealie definitely takes the cake in terms of benefitting the entire household. I like the meal planner and the ability to hit the supermarket once to get all the necessary groceries for the week (I’ve never been able to achieve this before). I don’t think there is anything in my stack that even compares with the benefits my house gets of out Mealie.
My runner up would have to be any of the self-hosted media players (Plex, Jellyfin, etc.), but we also have Netflix and a bunch of streaming services, so not that impactful. Home Assistant would also be a close runner up, but it only provides great benefits for me, not the rest of the house. I think Immich will be on this list shortly, when it matures a bit more (are we able to import existing photos yet?)
I was going to say … someone who knows what to do when it all comes crashing down …
Offsite backups.
Caddy. A reverse proxy / web server with automated LE certs that is easier than this does not exist.
Why did you choose Caddy instead of Traefik or Nginx? I’m on Nginx, but wondering if I’m missing out on anything.
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Automated certs (from 2 different CAs, not just LE) are baked in and require ZERO configuration.
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Configuration simplicity, most of my proxied services take 3 lines total each.
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A proper firewall
I don’t have anything to share about services around the house, but to answer your question about Immich import of existing libraries, it looks like you can do that now according to the latest update!
https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/170owzc/immich_selfhosted_photos_and_videos_backup/
Homer - as your dashboard with links to everything you host. My wife has it bookmarked and from there can access anything else we host.
Dpending on where you live, CCTV
Shinobi CCTV works great - it’s just a fancy wrapper around FFmpeg
Immich is another great recommendation for when you’ve used up all of your Google Photos storage
Tandoor recipes is another good meal planning app. I picked it because it seemed to have more features than mealie at the time. Don’t know how it compares now.
This is exactly the thread I love to see. Thanks for sharing.
Nextcloud
Jellyfin! It was the reason why I got into self hosting in the first place.
Home Assistant and LMS (Logitech Media Server) are the two things that are permanently displayed on the hallway touchscreen and they are used all the time by everyone in our household. There are more things like Seafile and E-Mail that are being used heavily, but HA and LMS are the most “visible”.
I think Immich is now able to work with pictures in an existing folder structure.
Tried Immich and immediately uninstalled it after a number of problems. My photos are too valuable to be screwing around.
Pi-hole, Home Assistant and Jellyfin.
Crowdsec for security.