I’m already hosting something similar I think. I am hosting a Immich instance for me and my wife to back up our photos from phones and computers and I also host a PeerTube instance for videos and some audio (I don’t have so much audio only).

What would make me trust a special software for it is things which validate it from outside like stars on github or other people blogging about it what they’re using it, and history which is at least a year so I can see that it’s not just a quickly vibecoded project which will be abandoned soon. Also if there would be a export to HTML or so so that I could get a static archive if the project really stops being supported.

Normally you would have in each file a license header and depending on which license the file ia it would have a different header if the licenses are mixed.

Often we don’t copy the library source code into the same git repo but use some package manager which installs them for the user.

In that case if the whole git repo is the same license then often we just have a LICENSE file in the root which ia mentioned in the readme.

Back in the day we made https://github.com/Pelagicore/OpenSourceTemplates

It has links to SPDX descriptions ect which are best practices in this regard.

What we did in my dads house was just to repurpouse old wifi routers as access points and put them everywhere where there was no coverage. But we pulled Ethernet all the way to each of them. Then we put the same SSID and password so everything would just switch to the one with the atrongest signal automatically.

I have a raspberry pie with Home assistant on it and I run Nginx Proxy Manager on it. It does the whole HTTPS thing and exposes specific services from my internal network for easy access for me and my family.

I only use Jellyfin because we want to watch it on the TV and not on the laptop.

Radicals is an amazing software but I also struggled to understand the concept at first, the documentation assumes you know so much already, which you normally don’t. But once you get through the initial hurdle it’s really reliable and uses minimal resources.

But about the videos and photos I think you’re a bit wrong, I still rewatch my dads home videos from the 90’s

I moved to https://mxroute.com/ and payed $15 for three years of hosting because they had some promotion.

Oh you’re right, I didn’t read it carefully enough.

One noteworthy bug closed in this version is a fix on Windows to finally allow exporting your videos to a network drive, closing a 4-year-old bug.

Is this because of the LTT Linux challenge?

Because you point to :latest and everything is dockerized and on one machine? How does it know when it’s time to upgrade?

Yeah, For some reason I didn’t think of ansible even though I use it at work regularly. Thanks for pointing it out!

And it’s stable enough for you? Do you go service by service or is it good enough for everything?

So everything is dockerized and points to :latest?

What about the necessary changes to the docker compose files? What about changes necessary in nginx configs?

I guess you also read each release notes manually?

I am developing a script which will do that specifically for my services.

Right now at the first stage it only checks GitHub, Codeberg, etc. To check if there is a new version compared to what each service is running right now.

https://git.jeena.net/jeena/service-update-alerts

I am extending it now with a auto update part, but it’s difficult because sometimes I can’t just call a static script because some other migration things need to run. So I have a classifier which takes the release notes and let’s a local LLM to judge if it’s OK to run the automation or if I need to do it manually. But for that I am collecting old release notes as examples from each service. This takes forever to do so I only have it done for PieFed, PeerTube, Immich and open-webui, and I didn’t push those changes to the public repo yet.

Hm, I didn’t think of ansible, that’s something I should think about to use.

What is n8n?

One caveat is that all of us are using the same user radicale user account
This is not necessary, we don’t do that we have the same setup but what I did was I just symlinked the shared calendars, to all the users, see https://github.com/Kozea/Radicale/wiki/Sharing-Collections

Yeah, actually once I realized how much they have I turned it off in panic first, but then I realized, turning it off only disallowes me access to it, they still have it, so I turned it back on.

OK, I didn’t read the full text but I saw self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline and Hona Assistant and I’m sold!

Google timeline once genuenly helped me get my Swedish citizenship, but it also freaked me out how much data Google had about me.

I had to write down when I left the country and when I came back for the last 5 years or so, and without timeline it would not been possible because during that time I traveled abroad at least twice a Mont for a year.

Anyway it sounds very cool especially because I’m already having Home assistant set up for this but it doesn’t have this timeline functionality.