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 …
What should every self-hosted household have? a back up
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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A proper firewall
Home Assistant and LMS (Logitech Media Server) are the two things that are permanently displayed on the hallway touchscreen and they are used all the time by everyone in our household. There are more things like Seafile and E-Mail that are being used heavily, but HA and LMS are the most “visible”.
A properly configured router/firewall.
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.
Immich (yes you can add external libraries now), pihole, jellyfin, backups.
Syncthing + Cryptomator
And Pi-Hole. Everyone else saying it is right. It’s a must-have.
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.
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.
Nextcloud
DNS blockers (AdGuard or PiHole).
Vaultwarden for me and my gf. No more compromises on password length and the peace of mind of having everything stored on your machine
Whenever I counter a site that’s like “no more than 15 characters and no special characters” I cringe heavily.
I second this. Did this 2 days ago for my girlfriend and I.