here’s what i’ve spun up so far that ive gotten the kids using

• xmpp for chats,
• emby/jellyfin
• luanti
• mealie
• calendars
• webdav for retroarch cloud
• home assistant/mopidy/navidrome for music (all they see is home assistant).

probs more but can’t think right now

habitica was my answer to one of the kids wanting a tracking app (they were leaning towards a sobriety themed one)

and wowzers it has really changed my life (a truly decent amount)

i love luanti so muchhhhhhhhhh and was so happy to be able to port my minecraft bedrock world over (after a few downgrades and shit)

it is awesome!

i really like my ntfy dot sh server at the house!

i got scared with the huge AI commit for postgres and i locked my install at the version just before, but it appears to still be doing okay

i looked at volumino, lyrion and some others. didn’t feel like i was really digging further into open source

i have a similar setup cobbled together with navidrome, mopidy (with subidy, MPD and other extensions) and snapcast running right along side it, allowing me to play two audio streams at once. (one is audio, other is announcement pipeline)

mopidy has a decent amount of dev action. navidrome even more so.

snapcast can sling anything across the network.

tied into home assistant for control and automations

Ive tried ersatz and a couple of other things it was cool

if you’re needing this channel on multiple devices at once (synced-ish) then ersatz is the way to go… but it uses some hardware/horsepower and it bugged me seeing the metrics spin up on that server for me to wanna have some background noise

instead, i found out kodi can do smart playlists!

I have jellyfin/emby feeding several kodi installs, and made various playlists based around various rules (can be genre, folder, tags, or TV show titles etc), with one of the rules being playcount for episodes/movies being under a certain number.

added a script for starting each playlist to buttons in home assistant, and bam, poor mans channels.

when an episode gets finished, the playcount goes up, keeping us from seeing the same episodes.

i know we’re getting crazy here but i even created a variable, so when the house knows i put it in “TV mode” like that, it maps my channel up and down buttons to the skip foward, skip previous buttons, making it feel more like channel surfing. which is a little much, but puts a smile on my face.

in the home assistant script, you could add a “skip 3 minutes” when “changing channels” so it feels like real TV, no need to see the first few minutes of speed! Where is Sandra Bullock!?

or snikket, the docker version of this with some things pre configuration-tated

heck i really wish we could all throw a party together. part swap, stories swap. show off cool shit for everyone to copy.

help each other fill in the missing pieces

y’all seem like cool peeps meme-ing about shit nobody else gets!

time to test the backups!

damn i do be loving how easy and robust pangolin is getting to be

fuck

looks cool! I’ll check it out later!

here’s what i had tried a little

https://github.com/7ritn/VaulTLS

got a link? I’ve been falling to get vaulTLS to even start

this is a great thread! this should be a recurring one

proxmox backups fixed!

copyparty is really REALLY cool. (i use the phi95 theme)

self hosted gitea was much easier than expected.

jellyfin updated to latest.

fixed habitica issues (gotta have my goddamn checkmarks!)

self hosted ntfy ssh login scripts EVERYWHERE

i said fuck NUT and passed battery backup straight to truenas VM, the graphs are beautiful.

ive decided that a rclone docker set up to serve webdav will be a tool i keep on all lxcs, for moving shit around easier. turn it on, move the stuff, turn back off. (i can SCP with the best of them but this is so much easier)

i want a self hosted CA 😭😭😭

I’m in like an inverse of this situation; ol’ pappy and grandpappy before him had early onset dementia.

i am trying to get all this set up, backed up, documented and slowly showing my kids how to access and troubleshoot some of the services. it is a race against time!

and a “dead man’s” or “brain is melted” switch set up to hand over the keys to the significant other when that time comes.

i am proud to be part of the same group as you though! you’re very inspiring.

this doesn’t help if you’re not in the xmpp ecosystem, but in the android app cheogram, you can play a nice handful of games in chats!

i will check this out but also figured id mention immich kiosk! apologies for no link; old stoned guy

EDIT wow this is intense!

fuck yeah been waiting on this!! yay for grandmother!

i love all these little guys i can throw in a chat

it works great!