chipiguay - Pablo 😴Do you manage devices for the whole family? How do you make it easy?
Thinking on #selfhosting some kind of remote management system. Or maybe rustdesk.
Boost appreciated!
jandi@chipiguay I'm on that boat too, I think our use case merits a distinct hashtag, where the non-admin users are the center, and the admin is definitely not into full-time admining.
I don't know... #HomeHosting? Is there one already?
Boosted, and good luck!
Néstor 🇵🇸@chipiguay Rustdesk is a nice solution if you need remote desktop.
Personally i found that the easiest way to manage family assets is just to install linux on them but your mileage and the needs of your family coild vary 🤗
@nestor in my case that's already done. However, I still need to manually update them, setup backups and that sort of things. Moreover, we have _smart_phones, which are a pain.
Recently we had a screen broken (it went black) and we weren't able to pull data from it, so I'm just wondering if people was doing this job in a particular, streamlined way. But I see that doesn't seem to be the case
Recently we had a screen broken (it went black) and we weren't able to pull data from it, so I'm just wondering if people was doing this job in a particular, streamlined way. But I see that doesn't seem to be the case
@chipiguay Genetally, Families aren't as big to worth more automation.
At work i use such things as ansible, foreman, terraform... to manage the assets but that would be overkilling in my particular family environment.
To manage linux computers generally ssh is enogh for me, in a best effort schedule, if i had to do it more frequently i would use wireguard (or headscale, tailsscale...) to have all of them reachable, installing it on the router itself if possible (openwrt) or in a small sbc (a raspberry, a minipc, anything cheap...) to use it as a bridge host, if your family is big enough, maybe rundeck could be an interesting way to start automating taks on their devices.
For the mobile phones i admit that the only ones that i manage are my own and, partially my wife's phone, so i don't need anything special, maybe for the specific screen issue would worth to have previosly enabled the debug over usb, so you can connect to it and use adb to recover the data.
I'm quite sure that my fellows at work have something commercial to enforce mdm on the phones and then install stuff on them, setup, etc, so , just in the case you were not aware about the term, if you search for those mdm tools you might find something that fits your needs (in such case i will love to listen about what you picked at the end)
Bests!
@nestor my family is no too large, but my time is scarce 😅
For laptops I haven't even setup SSH - I just sit on front of it from time to time and run updates. I've used SSH tunnels so far a few times to help my siblings.
But as family grows (we're 4 now + my parents), I'm afraid stepping up the game here might come in handy. The screen situation has been a shake in that sense.
For laptops I haven't even setup SSH - I just sit on front of it from time to time and run updates. I've used SSH tunnels so far a few times to help my siblings.
But as family grows (we're 4 now + my parents), I'm afraid stepping up the game here might come in handy. The screen situation has been a shake in that sense.
@nestor I know foss mdm solutions exist. At least there headwind mdm (h-mdm.com) but I haven't used it before.
For laptops I was thinking on ansible, but I haven't used it either.
For laptops I was thinking on ansible, but I haven't used it either.