Almost forgot before going to bed but I feel bi-weekly is a good rhythm for this.
Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you found.
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I’m going through hell, trying to update from truenas scale 24.04 to 24.10
What’s not working? I just set up TrueNAS for the first time, went with 25.04 and figured I could just update my way out of potential bugs, but the updater is broken :D
Well, firstly I had this weird issue where the pools were giving me errors because some folder was missing, I fixed that but 24.10 has literally 0 compatibility with apps from 24.04 and it looks like I’m going to have to reset the whole pool in order to use their new apps ecosystem (because trying to install anything from 24.10 just errors out)… Which is extremely annoying as I have quite a lot of apps setup
I upgraded immich without breaking everything. That’s always reason to celebrate.
How exactly does stuff get broken? Never rly had a problem bumping up the version in docker. The only issue has been the playstore version taking longer to push updates sometimes for the mobile apps.
A few versions ago I upgraded it and some default port configs changed rendering it unusable. Since my upgrades are a docker command, I had to go hunt down the error message. It didn’t take long, but it def broke the setup.
I feel you 😂
I’m running the Immich
FlatpakSnap specifically for this reason. It’s always one version out of date but always self updates without issues :)flatpak
You mean as a client or a server?
I misremembered; I run “Immich Distribution” which is a snap and I run it on a Debian server.
I finally moved from reddit to Lemmy. maybe a 3-4 hour set up time to get it all working lol.
Cool! Which installation method did you use?
I did manual docker. I host some other things as well, so running it through nginx proxy manager that I already had set up.
I also planned to do the same (bare nginx instead of NPM but otherwise the same). Did you just remove the nginx container from docker compose and use the same arguments in NPM or do you double-reverseproxy or something else?
Short answer, yes I removed the nginx container from the lemmy compose file. I followed this guide if it helps: https://www.reddit.com/r/nginxproxymanager/comments/1485y0d/getting_lemmy_running_with_a_separate_nginx_proxy/
Cool, thanks!
Finally moved all my lxc onto a lower-power Xeon D host, consumes 1/3 the electricity of my previous Dell R430, same essential performance.
I plan on setting up the *arr suite and getting rid of Netflix, Crunchyroll, Amazon Prime and Disney+
You can use https://schedule.lemmings.world/ to automate the posts. Or, given the community we’re in, you can selfhost it!
This week I’ve been doing some work on my GOG Downloader to finally back up all my GOG stuff when I buy new disks, that’s pretty much it for my selfhost/homeserver stuff this week.
I didn’t know that, cool! Though I should probably talk to the mods before setting up such a thing.
I’m the one who files the most bug reports on github under a different name. Our instance runs on Lemmy Schedule, so thanks!
Finally got my lemmy instance fully updated.
Been improving my backup scripts in advance of adding backup to a server.
Updated servers and other services.
I’ve had two failed harddrives in the last month. Not sure if bad batch or what. Thankfully the order these were on only were the two drives so may not see more. They are under warranty but it’s still a pain!
Otherwise I’m enjoying Mealie lately for my recipes. Kinda nice having them all in one place but accessible by anyone in the house.
I love mealie as well. My wife and I keep all our recipes in mealie.
I found Mealie to be a bit bloated and not fitting my needs too well. I moved to KitchenOwl. Small project but I love it.
Had a hard drive fail my main zfs array. First time I have experienced a disk failure so it was a bit worrying. Thankfully I had added an additional drive to expand the array so I was able to quickly rebuild to that drive. Currently shopping for a replacement. From now on I think I will keep a cold spare just in case this happens again. I just wish hard drives would stop increasing in price.
You save some money by buying recertified drives from Serverpartdeals.
Yea that is what I have been doing. Although it seems the smaller sizes are not a great deal anymore and I am hesitant to buy anything larger due to the long rebuild times
Trying to get my hands dirty with LLM, Ollama and Web Scrapping.
I don’t understand most of it , but hey, that’s the fun. No complaints.
Just swapped VPS hosts from ssdnodes to MassiveGRID. Got a pretty sweet deal, so I’m pretty excited.
Got my services transferred over this week and it’s been fun as hell. It’s interesting because I was discussing Portainer with my buddy and he has Portainer on his local PC to connect to his remote instances and with hindsight it sounds obvious of course, but it’s such a nice little setup. Just finished setting up my Jellyfin reverse proxy so I’m gonna watch a movie and chill.
I used Portainer for a while and still like it for checking out networking stuff, but try out Dockge! It’s more open sourcey and basic, but makes updating easier.
Dockge
Dockage was nice, and it was much simpler, however, I had to leverage more docker commands via my VPS with it, because there weren’t a lot of options, specifically network settings.
Since it’s winter and I mostly don’t want to leave my house, I busted out an unused Raspberry Pi 4b a couple weeks ago. Started with CasaOS and AdGuard. Have now added a few other services including Navidrome to serve up a lot of local-area music for myself and friends. Got a Cloudflare tunnel set up, then some authentication through CF as well. And finally secured a static IP from my ISP. This is the farthest along I’ve ever gotten with any of this and it’s been going great. Nearly every hurdle I’ve encountered I’ve been able to work through.
Two things causing me grief today though:
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I also have Nextcloud hosted on a VPS and I cannot get to the point of running occ commands. First it wasn’t found, then no php cli, then just errors. I gave up.
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I’m using Homer because it’s just so simple, but the theming and CSS is driving me nuts. Sure, I can change colors, but will this little bar in the neon theme change from 4em to 100% for me? NOPE. Override fonts? Nosir. All good though.
Try the OCCWeb app in nextcloud apps.
Thanks! It just threw an error at me when I launched it, but I’ll see what I can do. Based of the warnings in the admin panel, there isn’t anything critical for me to address, I just hate that orange.
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A third, and hopefully final attempt at getting an iredmail setup going. SPF, DKIM & DMARC all checking out fine. It’s actually working this time. Need to get the ISP to change our PTR record though, last bit of the puzzle.
Also picked up a used negate device, so we now have pfsense fronting everything. That’s allowed me to move the original router to a better location and put it in AP mode.
Emby media server moved off a Synology and into a proxmox container. Finally, we can stream high def with the hardware acceleration we weren’t getting before.
Pihole 6 broke my DNS (dnsmasq), and since I had a fw rule in opnsense to only use pihole’s DNS, and deny public DNS access, it was an early rise for me :)
And that’s why you have either a backup for your DNS or know whats auto-updated ;)
As you mention opnsense:
What do you mean with fw rules to only use pihole dns?
This sounds partly like a DHCP config and partly like a deny (hardcoded) DNS requests and to please use what DHCP supplied (looking at you google/amazon)I did have backups, it was an easy fix. I had a
pihole -upon a crontab for years, probably not the best idea :)FW rule accept :53 from pihole only, deny :53 from all. I had some devices with hardcored DNS settings (8.8.8.8).
Unbound broke on both of mine day one of v6 and I’ve still not gone and fixed it. Sigh.
Damn… DNS issue early in the morning… What a nightmare 😂! Hope you got enough caffeine.
ITT: lots of busted pihole v6 updates
Finally got started with Grafana, Prometheus and Meshtastic.
I wonder why so many people had issues with the v6 pihole update.
I pulled the new docker container and it ran overtop the previous version just fine. The only issue I had was I had the admin password set to empty via an env variable and that variable name changed. Took like 10 min to find and fix. The rest migrated perfectly.
Now I’m just waiting on orbital-sync to add v6 support, but that’s just around the corner and not that critical.
I had a pair of v5 with unbound setup, and ran the pihole -up and it went down lol. Dunno what happened, but i reinstalled and it’s all good.
I only run the basic block list, so I am thinking more and more to setup docker on my main server and move my pihole, pyvpn and grafana there and free up my raspi.
Hmm, I wonder if the failed updates are only direct installs vs docker.
I run two piholes, a primary on a rpi 3b running pios, and a secondary on my main server. Both are installed via docker and both updated without issue (besides the password thing).
I like having the primary DNS on a separate machine; it’s kind of important and I like to mess with the main server a lot…
I also like to mess around so more and more docker seems like at least an ok idea if not a good idea.
I definitely recommend it, particularly using docker compose. It’s made it incredibly easy to add, remove, and modify software installs; keeping everything independent and isolated from each other.
This also makes backups and rolling back updates to individual projects much easier when you do run into problems.
I appreciate the motivation. Thanks!
