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mbirth 🇬🇧@lemmy.mlto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Stop cramming everything onto one Pi: treat your home lab like a tiny ISP - hardware, stack, backups and an update planEnglish
9·10 months agoOr a better SD card. I’ve used my various Raspberrys with SD cards for years without any issues. The only single incident I’ve had was a card turning read-only. Which I’ve only noticed because system updates were gone after a reboot. But all the main data was still there and accessible. And a simple clone to a new card followed by fsck restored full functionality in the Pi again.
mbirth 🇬🇧@lemmy.mlto
homeassistant@lemmy.world•thermostat suitable for Home AsistantEnglish
1·10 months agoThe Junkers boiler at my previous place had an emergency mode where it was heating when the contacts were open. Even their simplest thermostats put a load on the wires depending on how much heat is required - so it doesn’t go full blast when you are only slightly under the target temperature.
So, this all depends on your specific boiler. While it might work with a simple relay, it might be far from optimal in terms of energy efficiency and wear&tear of the boiler.
mbirth 🇬🇧@lemmy.mlto
homeassistant@lemmy.world•thermostat suitable for Home AsistantEnglish
2·10 months agoThe product is no longer available for sale.
mbirth 🇬🇧@lemmy.mlto
homeassistant@lemmy.world•thermostat suitable for Home AsistantEnglish
1·10 months agoDespite the name it’s not a simple on/off that can be done with a relay. Those 2 wires also provide power to the thermostat unit. I’d first try to find more information about how these thermostats report demand to the boiler before using a relay.
I’ve also seen someone that simply replaced the NTC/PTC on their existing thermostat with some ESP circuit so they basically controlled what the thermostat “sees”. Want more heat? Tell the thermostat that it’s 5℃ in the room. Want the boiler to stop? Simulate a cozy 30℃.
mbirth 🇬🇧@lemmy.mlto
homeassistant@lemmy.world•thermostat suitable for Home AsistantEnglish
5·10 months agoThat’s a Honeywell T87G1006 “On/Off” thermostat. “On/Off” meaning that it can signal to the boiler whether more heat is needed or not. Boilers of that time may also be compatible with the OpenTherm protocol as there’s a similar model that also speaks OpenTherm.
The easiest way to go about this is probably to look for a more modern thermostat that’s compatible with your boiler but also provides some interface for remote control from your Home Assistant.
mbirth 🇬🇧@lemmy.mlto
homeassistant@lemmy.world•Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadarEnglish
2·10 months agoTo add to that: The family name of the brothers is “Albrecht” and ALDI stands for “Albrecht Diskont” - German for “Albrecht Discount”.
mbirth 🇬🇧@lemmy.mlto
homeassistant@lemmy.world•Switching from Raspberry Pi 4 to Home Assistant Green or Yellow?English
2·11 months agoI’m using SanDisk Extreme Pro cards in my various Pis for years now. The worst that happened once or maybe twice in the past 10 years is a card going read-only. Which is easily fixed by cloning it to a new one and running fsck.
Also: https://rss-bridge.org/
mbirth 🇬🇧@lemmy.mlto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•SearXNG doesn't load the settings ...English
3·11 months agoAh, gut zu wissen! Danke! :)
mbirth 🇬🇧@lemmy.mlto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•SearXNG doesn't load the settings ...English
6·11 months agoThe important bit is
-v /opt/podman/searxng/config:/etc/searxng:Zin the podman call. This will mount your local directory (i.e. on the host the container is running on)/opt/podman/searxng/configinto the container as/etc/searxng(which is where SearXNG is searching for its config). Make sure that the local directory exists and is writeable by your user account before starting the container. This way your config will persist even when the container gets replaced by an updated version.IIRC, after running the container for the first time, SearXNG should put a
settings.ymlanduwsgi.inithere. You can edit them and restart the container for the changes to take.On later container updates, SearXNG will put the latest versions of the default configs as
settings.yml.newanduwsgi.ini.new. This way it doesn’t overwrite your config and allows you to manually merge the new defaults into your running config. (If you only see the*.newfiles after starting the container for the first time, rename them and remove the.newpart.)
Can Dockge manage/cleanup unused images and containers by now? That’s the only reason I keep using Portainer - because it can show all the other stuff and lets me free up space.
mbirth 🇬🇧@lemmy.mlto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Why doesn't Ghost v6 include Fediverse commenting ?English
161·11 months agoBecause
A) Solving Captchas isn’t protecting from abuse/spam anymore. People in countries with cheap labour costs are being paid (or forced) to solve these for spam networks. And nowadays, LLMs can solve them almost better than any human. Manual approval is completely infeasible once you have a somewhat larger following.
Tying comments to some form of account is at least somewhat of a hurdle for spammers.
and
B) Some people want to keep ownership of their data. As long as the comment is tied to my account, I can easily find, edit or even delete it. Try that with some comment you made on some obscure blog 5 years ago; which address you don’t remember and with an email address you no longer have.
Yes, webtrees should fit that description.
mbirth 🇬🇧@lemmy.mlto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Self-hosted blog - do I need a static IP address?English
4·1 year agoThere’s also FreeDNS. Their only ask is that you log into the account once every 6 months so they know you’re still using it.
But can Prometheus + Grafana e.g. monitor a website’s content and alert when there is a new firmware version available?
Zabbix can be configured completely via its GUI. It’s really easy once you get the hang of it.
I have this running on a Raspberry Pi 5:
services: db: image: postgres:16-alpine environment: - POSTGRES_USER=zabbix - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=zabbix - PGDATA=/var/lib/postgresql/data volumes: - /opt/docker/zabbix7/pgdata/16/data:/var/lib/postgresql/data networks: - zabbix7 restart: unless-stopped # fping needs setsuid # Connect to container as "root" and run: chmod +s /usr/sbin/fping server: image: zabbix/zabbix-server-pgsql:alpine-7.4-latest environment: - POSTGRES_USER=zabbix - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=zabbix - PHP_TZ=Europe/London - ZBX_SERVER_NAME=zabbix.domain.com - ZBX_NODEADDRESS=zabbix-server:10051 cap_add: - NET_RAW - NET_ADMIN volumes: - /opt/docker/zabbix7/zabbix-server/alertscripts:/usr/lib/zabbix/alertscripts - /opt/docker/zabbix7/zabbix-server/externalscripts:/usr/lib/zabbix/externalscripts - /opt/docker/zabbix7/zabbix-server/mibs:/usr/lib/zabbix/mibs - /opt/docker/zabbix7/zabbix-server/modules:/usr/lib/zabbix/modules - /opt/docker/zabbix7/zabbix-server/export:/var/lib/zabbix/export - /opt/docker/zabbix7/zabbix-server/snmptraps:/var/lib/zabbix/snmptraps ports: - 10051:10051 depends_on: - db links: - "db:postgres-server" networks: - zabbix7 - traefik-public restart: unless-stopped web: image: zabbix/zabbix-web-nginx-pgsql:alpine-7.4-latest restart: unless-stopped environment: - PHP_TZ=Europe/London - ZBX_SERVER_NAME=zabbix.domain.com - ZBX_SERVER_HOST=zabbix-server #ports: # - 10080:8080 # - 10081:443 depends_on: - server - db links: - "server:zabbix-server" - "db:postgres-server" networks: - zabbix7 - traefik-public labels: traefik.enable: "true" traefik.http.routers.zbx.rule: Host(`zabbix.domain.com`) traefik.http.routers.zbx.entrypoints: https traefik.http.routers.zbx.tls: "true" traefik.http.routers.zbx.tls.certresolver: le traefik.http.services.zbx.loadbalancer.server.port: "8080" networks: traefik-public: external: true zabbix7: attachable: true
If you’re happy with how Apple Password works for you, I can recommend StrongBox. It keeps all data in a KeePass2 database and integrates into Apple’s AutoFill API. That means it feels almost native when using it. No browser plugin needed. (At least not for Safari.) And you can decide how you sync the database file.
mbirth 🇬🇧@lemmy.mlto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Selfhosting DJ sets? (Soundcloud-style)English
3·1 year agoDoesn’t get any more secure than a battle-tested web server hosting simple MP3 files and a text file.
Convenience might be a thing, though. I’m in the Apple ecosystem so their Podcasts app shows that feed on all devices and tracks listening progress, etc.
If I didn’t have that, I’m still a lifetime customer with PocketCasts and PocketCasts Web. So, that’s that. But if you don’t have anything similar in place, a self-hosted streaming server might be the best way to go, yes.


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