Hello and Merry Christmas to everyone!

The 2024 is ending..What self hosted tool you discover and loved during 2024?

Maybe is there some new “software for life”?

Hi r/selfhosted,

I am the developer of PdfDing. As this feature was requested quite often I wanted to inform you that it is now possible to edit PDFs by adding annotations, highlighting and drawings. You can find the repo here.

I also got the feedback that organizing PDFs with simple tags does not work for many people. It is now possible to organize PDFs with multi-level tags. I hope this will improve the user experience.

If you like PdfDing I would be really happy over a star on GitHub. As the project is open source, if anyone wants to contribute you are welcome to do so!

I recently set up and deployed an app called Babybuddy for our new baby. It was helpful at the beginning, and I thought it would be great for my family.

However, a friend of my wife suggested trying a paid app called Napper, which has more features than Babybuddy. At first, I was hesitant to pay for the annual subscription because I want to avoid extra costs and make the most of my own resources. To be honest, this situation affected my pride in self-hosting.

I felt frustrated and wondered why my wife didn’t see the effort I put into Babybuddy. Then I realized something important: not every issue is worth fighting over. Just because I find an app useful doesn't mean it meets our family's needs, and that’s okay. Self-hosting is a hobby for me, but it may not matter to everyone else.

This experience taught me to focus on what works best for our family instead of just what interests me. It's fine to enjoy setting up systems but understanding when to prioritize our family's well-being is crucial.

Does anyone else struggle with this balance? How do you manage self-hosting and family life?

Have you ever affected your self-hosting pride before?

I'm a Windows PC and that means I'm scared of many things in the real world. That's kind of a joke - Linux and command line interfaces do intimidate me even when there are step by step procedures on websites; the warm blanket feel of the Ctrl+Z saftynet in windowed applications cannot be over stated. But I wanted to host a random playlist that wasn't strictly on IceCast or some equal.

Azuracast seemed to tick all the boxes but requires Docker (new to me) and Ubuntu (very alien to me) as Windows installations or else paid options exist and this is just a hobby station, so paying for squat is out the window. I'm a voice actor and want to use Entertainment-as-Resume so folks have examples to listen to. I thought that was a clever use of the service but the steps involved made me a coward.

So this post is for other Windows milk-fed users (even if you don't admit it out loud). You can do it. If self-hosting a playlist like a radio station for free is your goal and you can leave your computer powered on to serve the audio online, try Azuracast. It's fascinating and the backend provides some limited playback controls. There is still a public page that doesn't work for me but I think that's because my shaky fingers made a directory wrong in Ubuntu, but the stream works - through IceCast of all things! - so that's good enough for now.

Though I'm soft on programming and DIY software as most people are, I am always urgently encouraging people like me to TRY diy stuff. Support for some self-hosted applications can be robust, features can rival the biggest for-pay applications and Independence, after all, is often the way to go. So consider this the nudge some might need to get that radio station you've wanted to DJ online. Host your podcast, playlist or favorite local bands. Cheers!

I have seen a few projects where they use Bitnami's docker images when an official one already exists. What incentive does a project maintainer have to use Bitnami's images?

For example, the MongoDB image used in RocketChat's compose file is docker.io/bitnami/mongodb and I'm wondering why. I mean why intentionally use something that has telemetry going to someone else? Does Bitnami pay them something?

Hello,

I am trying to find a self-hostable collection manager. Basically I have quite a few hobbies and just stuff in general that I would like to organize.

I tried Memento on Android and I really liked it. Basically the perfect solution, but it requires monthly subscription to have it synced between devices and get other features... and even then there are bugs with pictures and their offline handling. I refuse to pay that much for glorified database for my stuff. Especially if it malfunctions and I can't safely backup my collections.

I tried Homebox and Koillection, too.
Homebox sucks if you depend on custom fields as you will need to remake them each time per new item.
Koillection is quite good, but I struggled with categorizing - you can make categories, but they are non-clickable and basically useless. You need to use tags and they get cluttered really quickly.

Again, Memento was awesome. You could restrict and tweak each field and it's values. I had like main category, then sub-category and I could see all items on one page and filter it. In Koillection I could use collection and then sub-collections, but that way you can't see all items on one page and it's just messy...

Is there an alternative?

Requirements:

• photos (with previews in a list)
• accessible from a phone (I can self-host on my server)
• templates (custom fields I want will be there when adding new item)
• categorizing, filtering and searching

The biggest issue seems to be the photos. There are many inventory management software, but they rarely have photo previews per item. Especially big picture previews. One database would function as a database of stuff I own, so when relative wants to gift me they could easily filter and see by picture if I have it already.

I am really desperate. I tried a lot of things and searched around for "Koillection/Homebox alternatives" and couldn't find Memento alternative that isn't subscription based.

Thanks a lot

I'm fairly new to self hosting so I don't know if there's an obvious answer.

I would like a file sharing webpage that you can create a link and anyone that has that link can download the associated files.

No security other than you must have the link. And I'd like the ability to expire links after so long. Anyone can upload and create a link, etc.

Have any of you come across something like that which is self hostable?

Update: Thanks for all the recommendations. I'll go through them tonight and tomorrow. I appreciate all the knowledge sharing.

FYI: To maybe clarify my use case: I have security cameras at my house. There's one in particular that faces an intersection. I've purposely named it "crashcam" for a reason. Everyone in the neighborhood that has an issue in that intersection will eventually contact me for a video.

I just want to text them a link. If they want to share with law enforcement, they can share the link, etc. I have a Synology server that I usually create a link on, but then months later I have to remember where I put the file and delete it. Years later I have files all over the place that I've linked and shared and then forgot.

I want something easy that will manage itself and be useful to a lot of people.

I just switched from Nginx Proxy Manager to Traefik, a probably completely unnecessary move, except for my own DevOps learning I suppose.

Using npm, I would manually configure every ip address and port to a subdomain and domain, whether it be in a docker container or not (like the Home Assistant OS running on a raspberry pi).

In Traefik, I don't have to manually configure anything that's a docker container anymore (except putting labels on them). I'm not sure what the best approach is for non docker web applications, but I have been using the files Provider option and manually putting them into a dynamic-configuration.yml file. Is this the only or "optimal" (subjective, I know) way to do it, or is there something better?

I looked online for options for running a code server similar to google collab. It would run Jupyter and similar and would allow people collaborating on programming or teaching each other. It would have a process similar to Overleaf or Google Docs: you see someone’s cursor and can both type and compile.

There is JupyterHub, but it doesn’t seem to have been used much. There VSCode server with an extension for Live Code. There is also a docker container Code Server in Linuxserver.io that is alternative to vscode.

Does anyone know the best option?

Is it VsCode server?

hey

i want to spin up a simple asset server so that my services can load background images etc from the server instead of having to upload various images to each and everyone

a) am I overcomplocating things? probably yes, but does it have a downside?

b) what software/service do I need to run to make the assets available? a Webserver? which one do you recommend for someone who hasn't worked with Webservers yet?

I have installed OMV a couple of weeks ago and start to populate it with shared folders, users, docker services, etc.

I would like to create a backup of all of this that would enable re-deploying the whole infrastructure automatically in case of failure or migration to a different machine.

I touched very briefly to ansible which enable idempotent setup. Is this something that you do ?

For those who are interested about easy deployment of your OMV system, how do you do ?

Hello friends - first of all, apologies for posting this maybe it has already been answered in the past but for some reason, I am not able to find the answer despite searching. Probably my lack of searching skills.

Anyways,

I have a Jellyfin server running on windows and also Jellyplist to download music from Spotify playlist.

I want to know if there is a good free android app to download the selected playlists from my server and then play music offline (android auto support).

Thanks and apologies if repeated question.

Hello /r/selfhosted

I'd like to know what is the recommended solution to have an encrypted at rest, self-hosted 2FA server which is usable from both phones and computers.

In a few words, a Google Authenticator alternative where I can bring my own server.

Hello community,

As a heavy self-hoster and as a core developer of wallabag (self-hosted read-it-later app), I wanted to share with you that we've made a complete refresh of the project documentation and it's available here: https://doc.wallabag.org/

Happy self-hosting :)