Any recommendations for my Homepage setup or services to add/replace?
1% CPU usages, 50% RAM usage. That checks out.
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I'm guessing that a good chunk of that usage is coming from the TrueNAS VM.
Correct, most of that is ZFS cache. All of my containers are barely using 2-3GB.
This is such a good way of organizing services. Thanks!
Yeah, Homepage is great.
That’s pretty sick, kudos!
I honestly don't understand the need for bentopdf. Why is hosting PDF manipulation useful?
You basically get all of the things an adobe subscription would get you for free? Also, I'm on Linux so no Adobe anyway. It all runs in the browser so no need to install software.
Yeah, I see the tooling and it seems nice. I've always used the CLI tools and scripts I've built over the years to get this done, but having unified functions in one place is great.
I just don't understand the hosting part... Is there an advantage to having it hosted rather than in a local appimage or flatpak? Maybe I'm misunderstanding the premise....
How are your backups doing?
I only backup specific folders in my NAS and some of my service DBs. I have test restored some files from Backblaze without issue. With Backblaze you pay for pulls, so I only chose to restore some small files to test restoral. TrueNAS encrypts the data before it goes to Backblaze and then Backblaze also encrypts the data in the buckets on their end, so double encrypted. I don't have another on site copy so not really following the 3,2,1 rule. I figure RAID and an off-site backup is enough for me.
I'm always at awe when people do this for their home like I've been managing infra for almost two decades and don't have even quarter of the things some people install and manage. It looks overwhelming to be honest.
I've been managing infrastructure for over 3 decades and I don't have this.
I have something like homegrown pihole (dnsmasq with block lists) , jellyfin, qbittorrent and nfs/smb share. Everytime when such a post appears there is this irrational desire to create cool monitoring and homepage and homeassistant. Never materialises into anything, after all there is always emacs that requires tinkering if needed. :3
Looks great OP! If I hadn't chose Homar long ago, it would definetly be the one I'd use. Homarr will do some metrics like Homepage. What kind of 3d printer do you have?
I have a Prusa Core One+ that I just got and built recently, don't have anything for it on the homepage. Then the Octoprint is on a Pi 3B plugged into my Prusa MK3S+. I've been trying to sell the MK3S+ because I don't have room for them both, but not getting any takers.
Prusa Core One+
That's a nice one. I was gifted a Raise3D Pro2 Plus. It is very useful around the farm.
I’m in the early stages of figuring out self hosting. This is beautiful
Are you hosting a calendar?
Honestly I would love to, but getting my family off of all of the other corpo cloud stuff is still a work in progress. Also, I only have VPN access configured currently so when they need to access self hosted stuff remotely they have to remember to turn on the VPN and that seems to be hard for them to remember. I have Tasker configured on my phone so it just auto VPNs when I leave my house. I would set that up for them, but they complain whenever I try to help.
How have they been with accepting Home Assistant (assuming you use it for home automation)?
Really the only thing I use it for currently are 2 smart plugs to turn my turtle's lights on/off on a schedule. Replaced some amazon plugs with some ESP32 plugs. I plan on doing more if/when we move into our forever home.
Unfortunately Homepage only works with ical, for those of us using a caldav server. 😭
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| RAID | Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| ZFS | Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity |
4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.
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Could you point to how you get something like this started?
I run Home Assistant on a RPi4 but have a capable computer I would love to use for self hosting, especially immich.
Look up some youtube videos on self hosting. For Immich I just mostly followed their guide on their site. Really depends on what you want to do and how you want to do it.