I’ve had a “home lab server” for a while now, it’s nothing special but I think I can do more with it, I just don’t know what to do with it… I currently use it just for a pihole and (sometimes) a Minecraft server or a web server… I used to also have a nexcloud and a searxng instance (which I will probably bring back)… Any ideas for other things I can run on it?
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That’s a really open-ended question. Depends purely upon your interests and appetite for risk, etc.
Might be worth looking at, from a Docker perspective:
- AdGuard Home (I think it’s better than Pi-Hole)
- Wireguard or similar. Great for reaching your services when away from home.
- Audiobookshelf. Audiobooks. There are good apps.
- Calibre-Web. Ebooks.
- RSS feed reader, for non-social media websites you visit. Plenty to choose from: FreshRSS, TT-RSS, Sismics, etc.
- Gitlab CE. If you’re a developer or can otherwise make use of version control.
- Gotify. Alerting on your containers. Has a good mobile app.
- Heimdall. A dashboard for everything you’re running.
- Komga. If you’re into manga. The best iOS app is meh, but the best Android app is awesome.
- Mealie. Recipe database.
- Paperless-ngx. Excellent for storing your PDFs and other digital life.
- PhotoPrism. Basically Google Photos.
- Portainer. Great for managing Docker containers/stacks.
- qBitTorrent. Guess what that’s for.
- SWAG with Authelia. SWAG does reverse proxying with a Let’s Encrypt certificate, and automatically renews it for you. Authelia provides MFA (Authy, Google Authenticator, etc) on top of it.
- Vikunja. Todoist or Toodledoo without having to pay for features.
- Wallabag. Basically Pocket.
- Watchtower. Automatically updates containers for you. Can exclude the ones you don’t want to update, etc.
- Webtrees. Family tree research, if that’s your thing.
- YouTransfer. Useful for sharing files without having to use Dropbox, etc.
I have in the past run a Valheim server and a VRising server, too. FWIW.
Did you need steam to run the Valheim Server? We have it on xbox game pass and don’t want to buy it again
Yeah, the container I used requires your Steam ID as an environment variable.
I’m a huge fan of Immich (Google Photos clone). I disabled the ML features which kneecaps it a little, but it runs totally fine on an rpi 4 (4GB).
There are other self hosted image solutions, e.g. PhotoPrism, so check out the options first. I used PhotoPrism for a while, but I like the Immich mobile apps (Android and iOS!), so am sticking with it.
I’m also running pihole, Wireguard, and Home Assistant (and fail2ban). Simple nginx web server handles the proxy business for Immich, and I also use that for sharing stuff with friends and family (e.g., a link to a PDF or something). I finally got around to installing SSL certs, and it was almost disappointingly simple! certbot just worked for me.
Bitwarden for hosting your own password manager.
Not sure if you have any smart home devices, homeassistant is another great self host program
I use KeepassXC for my password manager and I’m happy with it, though I’d be happy if I can figure out a way to setup password fole sync within my LAN without having to setup nexcloud. As for smart devices, got none, I’m not lazy enough to spend 100s of dollars on automatic lamps and stuff… Not yet anyways
I switched from keepass to vaultwarden (self hosted bitwarden) and am glad I tried it out as am finding it so much better on all my devices. I definitely recommend giving it a try if you’re just looking to tinker with things
a quick search on the net did not answer my question…
therefore:
do you use it also outside your lan? (with port forwarding, ssl cert etc.)
if no, are you able to use the passwords nonetheless on your phone even when youre not in our lan?
Vaultwarden? Sounds interesting! Does it support the .kbdx format or will I have to re-make my whole database?
Not too long ago, Walmart had a set of 4 RGBW LED lightbulbs for, like, $10. They were the Philips offshoot WiZ, and they work pretty good for how cheap they were. There are several decent budget brands out there now that just use wifi, so there’s no big investment.
If you want to keep using Keepass within your LAN. I highly suggest picking up Syncthing. I use it to sync my files between all my devices.
I use mine for FreshRSS, Komga, Nextcloud and Syncthing.
