Let’s keep it simple. I’m sure most of us are proud of Docker CPU cycles charted in Grafana via Prometheus, but I’m talking about the house as a whole.
My personal favorite is turning out to be Mealie.
I self-host a bunch of things for my personal use, but Mealie definitely takes the cake in terms of benefitting the entire household. I like the meal planner and the ability to hit the supermarket once to get all the necessary groceries for the week (I’ve never been able to achieve this before). I don’t think there is anything in my stack that even compares with the benefits my house gets of out Mealie.
My runner up would have to be any of the self-hosted media players (Plex, Jellyfin, etc.), but we also have Netflix and a bunch of streaming services, so not that impactful. Home Assistant would also be a close runner up, but it only provides great benefits for me, not the rest of the house. I think Immich will be on this list shortly, when it matures a bit more (are we able to import existing photos yet?)
Offsite backups.
I was going to say … someone who knows what to do when it all comes crashing down …
A proper firewall
Caddy. A reverse proxy / web server with automated LE certs that is easier than this does not exist.
Why did you choose Caddy instead of Traefik or Nginx? I’m on Nginx, but wondering if I’m missing out on anything.
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Automated certs (from 2 different CAs, not just LE) are baked in and require ZERO configuration.
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Configuration simplicity, most of my proxied services take 3 lines total each.
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What should every self-hosted household have? a back up
Pi hole for all phones
I’m also on the Mealie train, it’s a great little program.
What version are you running? For whatever reason I have had a heck of a time getting v1 to run, though I haven’t dedicated too much time for troubleshooting it yet.
Pi-hole
It’s the simplest and most useful addition.
Homer - as your dashboard with links to everything you host. My wife has it bookmarked and from there can access anything else we host.
I think Immich is now able to work with pictures in an existing folder structure.
Tried Immich and immediately uninstalled it after a number of problems. My photos are too valuable to be screwing around.
well don’t forget backups…
Pi-hole, Home Assistant and Jellyfin.
This is exactly the thread I love to see. Thanks for sharing.
Photoprism to keep your photos out of the cloud :)
DNS blockers (AdGuard or PiHole).