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UndeadJamie Jun 26, 2025

I'd like a solution to self-host services such as Vaultwarden, Immich and Home Assistant at home. I don't want to rely on cloud solutions for this so I'm thinking maybe along the lines of a Raspberry Pi for the Docker apps and a NAS for the backend storage, but I'm really clueless as what to get. I just know that I'd want something relatively simple and easy to maintain.

I'm also a bit of a Linux and Docker noob so I'm looking to get some advice and ideas from the Fedi community!

What would your suggestions be? What does your home lab setup look like?

#SelfHosted #HomeLab #Linux #Docker #NAS #RaspberryPi #VaultWarden #Immich #HomeAssistant

UndeadJamie Jun 26, 2025

Thanks everyone who has replied. Very helpful. Gives me some options to explore and work out what works best for me.

I’ll respond to your posts if I have follow up questions. Thanks again. 🤩

Edit: Adding additional people to say thank you. 😊

@vague @weiser @bradley @edinburgh_man @ZS @emon @alphapuggle @Chartrux @leberschnitzel @trainguyrom @innkeeper @fox @peejay @brakeoutgaming @chewie @rds @etam

UndeadJamie Jun 27, 2025

Today I’ve spent the majority of the day researching different options I might have for self hosting (using the suggestion made here and more) and to say there is a lot out there is an understatement!

For now I’m going to see if I can get hold of an old laptop of mine and use it to do some testing on; installing different applications and seeing what I feel may suit in a more permanent solution.

#SelfHosted #HomeLab

UndeadJamie Jun 30, 2025

Old laptop acquired! Now the learning and testing begins, starting with Proxmox!

#SelfHosted #HomeLab

UndeadJamie Jul 9, 2025

I got a new toy. 😁

#SelfHosting #HomeLab

UndeadJamie Jul 10, 2025

It’s not a proper rack or anything special, but it’s a start! 🤩

Top Shelf

Orbi RBR10 Mesh Router
8 port Netgear unmanaged switch
SmartThings Hub
Philips Hue Bridge (Hub)

Bottom Shelf

Terramaster F4-424 Pro NAS server with 4 x 4TB Seagate Ironwolf HDDs.

Behind the Shelving Unit

Semi-tidy cabling. It’ll do. 😅

#SelfHosting #SelfHosted #HomeLab

UndeadJamie Jul 11, 2025

It took a while to get my head around as I’m a complete noob at it, but this afternoon I’ve got Docker and Portainer setup and a container running Nginx.

Also got a cronjob running every 10 minutes to automatically update DNS records in Cloudflare whenever it detects my public IP at home has updated. 😎

#SelfHosting #SelfHosted #HomeLab #Docker #Portainer #Nginx #Cloudflare

UndeadJamie Jul 11, 2025

Question for Docker / Portainer users; How do you manage your backups?

I really don’t want to make any services I host “live” before I have a good backup solution in place so looking for tips! Thanks!

#SelfHosting #SelfHosted #HomeLab #Docker #Portainer

UndeadJamie Jul 14, 2025

Okay so this evening I finally got around to setting up some backup logic on my NAS. I have an rclone docker container which runs a “copy” command every night to backup my docker data/config directory and store it in an S3 storage bucket, and the removes itself so it doesn’t use any unnecessary resource.

It’s definitely not perfect (it might even be overly complicated), but it’ll do for now. At least I know I have some form of backup should shit hit the fan.

#SelfHosting #SelfHosted #HomeLab #Docker

UndeadJamie Jul 17, 2025

What are your favourite monitoring tools for your home labs?

I’m looking to get some recommendations. Be great if it has an accompanying app for mobile or a decent web app.

#SelfHosting #SelfHosted #HomeLab #Docker

UndeadJamie Jul 17, 2025

Immich app backing up the photos and video from my phone. Gonna be here a while. 😆

#SelfHosting #SelfHosted #HomeLab #Immich

UndeadJamie Jul 18, 2025

So far, the Immich-Go tool is working really well with media extracted from Google Photos via Google Takeout!

I love that it compares the media to what already exists on Immich and decides if it needs uploading, and even replaces the files if it finds a better quality version of a photo or video. 🤩

#SelfHosting #SelfHosted #HomeLab #Immich #ImmichGo #GooglePhotos

UndeadJamie Jul 18, 2025

Done! And without an error in sight!

Just got to let it process through all of the various jobs it needs to complete now!

I think I may look at hosting the Immich Machine Learning container on my gaming PC though. 🤔💭

#SelfHosting #SelfHosted #HomeLab #Immich #ImmichGo #GooglePhotos

UndeadJamie Jul 18, 2025

Got Docker Desktop installed and a new Immich Machine Learning CUDA container running with the Nvidia runtime!

It's blazing through the facial detection and smart search jobs now! 🤩

#SelfHosting #SelfHosted #HomeLab #Docker #Immich

This just made my wife's Immich upload much much faster. 😆

#SelfHosting #SelfHosted #HomeLab #Immich

Jamie (@[email protected])

TIL you can connect an iPhone up to dock to give it an ethernet connection. 😄 #Tech #iPhone

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UndeadJamie Jul 25, 2025

So I finally got around to setting up Borg Backup. Yeah okay, it’s very good. Much better than whatever the fuck I was trying to do before.

What a Linux noob! 🙄😆

#SelfHosting #SelfHosted #HomeLab #BorgBackup

UndeadJamie Jul 27, 2025

So with Borg now taking nightly backups, I felt confident I could upgrade Immich.

I ran a docker-compose pull && docker-compose up -d and let it do its thing. Then after it completed and went to my Immich URL, I was met “502 Bad Gateway”… shit. 😐

Luckily after about 5-10 minutes, it came back up again. I thought I’d messed something up. 😆

💻 #SelfHosting #SelfHosted #HomeLab #Immich

UndeadJamie Aug 11, 2025

I’m having fun with Home Assistant and I’m up later than I should be because of it! 😆

So far I have automations for:

Presence notifications when entering and exiting geofences. 📍
A light turning on an hour before sunset if both my wife and I are out so the dog doesn’t sit in the dark. 🐶
Early morning notification to put washing on when the Met Office probability of precipitation at my location is lower than 10% (still a work in progress as I’m unsure about the reliability of this yet). 🌦️

But I’m just getting started and I’m looking for some inspiration for more automation ideas to create tomorrow as I go to bed tonight.

So what are your favourite smart home automations?

💻 #SelfHosting #SelfHosted #HomeLab #HomeAssistant #SmartHome

UndeadJamie Aug 12, 2025

The chance of rain notification works!

Although it does only does it based on the chance of rain at the time the automation runs. I need to make it so it checks the forecast for the day. 🧐

#HomeAssistant #SmartHome

UndeadJamie Aug 12, 2025

The YAML for those interested:

alias: Notify Low Rain Probability
triggers:
  - at: "05:30:00"
    trigger: time
conditions:
  - condition: template
    value_template: >
      {% set prob =
      states('sensor.met_office_<location>_probability_of_precipitation') |
      int(0) %} {{ prob < threshold }}
actions:
  - data:
      title: Weather Update
      message: >
        Low chance of rain. Only {{
        states('sensor.met_office_<location>_probability_of_precipitation') }}%.
        Maybe get some washing out. ;).
    action: notify.all_devices
variables:
  threshold: 10
mode: single

shards Aug 11, 2025

@jamie Automating heatpump temperature based on the price of power, Amazingly there was a project for my acient hitachi heatpump that let me stick a ESP32 chip in it and make it smart with #ESPhome and #Homeassistant. I even have PID temperature control from a HACS intergration

UndeadJamie Aug 12, 2025

@shards Oh wow that is awesome. Was it difficult to install? And have you noticed any savings on your energy bill?

Slightly different but along the same lines; this has got me thinking whether I need to replace the thermostats in my house or if I can convert them into something that could act “smart”.

shards Aug 12, 2025

@jamie wasnt too bad just plugs straight into the mainboard, i documented the process https://github.com/shardshunt/H-Link-Docks!

Was previously using a ir-blaster so no changes to power but having two way control and monitoring is awsome (and less beeping).

Lots if smart thermostat solutions out there depending on how your heating system works

GitHub - shardshunt/H-Link-Docks

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David - Forking Mad Jul 27, 2025

@jamie sometimes you need nerves of steel for these upgrades

UndeadJamie Jul 27, 2025

@daj absolutely! 😆