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?)

  • KalistoCA@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I was going to say … someone who knows what to do when it all comes crashing down …

  • -quakeguy-@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Caddy. A reverse proxy / web server with automated LE certs that is easier than this does not exist.

    • puckpuckgo@alien.topOPBEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Why did you choose Caddy instead of Traefik or Nginx? I’m on Nginx, but wondering if I’m missing out on anything.

      • -quakeguy-@alien.topBEnglish
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        11 months ago

        1. Automated certs (from 2 different CAs, not just LE) are baked in and require ZERO configuration.

        2. Configuration simplicity, most of my proxied services take 3 lines total each.

  • Revexious@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    Hasura

    I have separate db instances for all my containers, and having a graphql I can hit on all the databases is nice for integrations

  • fisheess89@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    The wife (or whoever does the cooking and shopping) is actually so organized that he/she uses an app to plan everything?! My wife wouldn’t even have her windows desktop tidy.

    Sorry off topic. I haven’t found one that’s impactful for the whole family. The most important might be the photo backup app (currently synology photos, might be immich later on), but I just configure it for my wife so that she forgets about it and the backup runs silently in the background. I recently retired an old synology nas to my parents and configured it for them too.

  • Affectionate_Use8825@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    Photo backup I use Amazon photos for that since it’s free with my prime account I just pay for the video space I back that up at my house and my wife’s office

  • SpongederpSquarefap@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    Dpending on where you live, CCTV

    Shinobi CCTV works great - it’s just a fancy wrapper around FFmpeg

    Immich is another great recommendation for when you’ve used up all of your Google Photos storage

  • natriusaut@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Does mealie have a simple storage-system? Like, whats the stock on rice and noodles and whatever at home for the recipe?

    I looked at grocy and its incredible bloated and complicated to set up. If grocy would have a set of default-stuff included it would probably be amazing but the set up process is… annoying.

    /u/apperrault as well maybe?