your favorite homelab applications
your favorite homelab applications
Hi, just recently it's foss had an article about homelabs. Of course I digged in, since there is a small nuc working tirelessly in the corner of my routers closet. So far it just crawls some web pages for me and sends emails accordingly to my filters. So I hoped to find new exciting stuff to let it crunch through. The articles content did not spark my interest though.
Well, I'd like to know what you are using on your homelab. In hope you'll do something I'd like to follow. Cheers
Thank you all for your recommendations. You are awesome. I really need to go through it one by one.
To make it easier for myself, this is a small summary of all your recommendations. Thanks again.
Virtualization and Infrastructure:
- Proxmox VE - Virtualization platform
- NGINX Proxy Manager - Reverse proxy manager
- Tailscale - Secure network access
- apt cacher NG - Package caching tool
- neko - Virtualized browser for secure browsing
Monitoring and Notification:
- Uptime Kuma - System monitoring tool
- Netdata - Real-time monitoring
- Zabbix - Enterprise monitoring solution
- Ntfy - Notification tool
Media Serving and Management:
- AudioBookShelf - Audio book management
- Jellyfin - Media server
- Syncthing - File synchronization
- Calibre-Web - Ebook management
- Spotweb - Usenet indexing
- Plex - Media player
- Komga - Comics and eBooks
File Sharing and Collaboration:
- Syncthing - File synchronization
- Gitea - Git hosting platform
- Sharry - Secure file sharing
- Vaultwarden - Password manager
- Stash - Data repository
- Baserow - Database management
- wiki.js - Wiki platform
- Wordpress - Content management system
Development and Version Control:
- BOINC - Distributed computing
- Forgejo - Git repository
- Gitea - Git hosting platform
- Development environment LXCs with VS Code
Networking and Communication:
- Traefik - Reverse proxy
- Portainer - Container management
- Matrix (dendrite) server - Chat server
- Navidrome - Music server
- Joplin server - Note-taking server
- RSS-Bridge - RSS feed aggregator
- SearXNG - Metasearch engine
- Dashy - Homepage for services
Miscellaneous:
- ActualBudget - Budget management
- SabNZBd - Usenet downloader
- Traccar - GPS tracking
- Restic server - Backup tool
- dump1090 + fr24feed + pfclient + piaware + rbfeeder + adsbexchange - ADS-B data tools
- Stirling-PDF - PDF management
- Miniflux - RSS feed reader
- Pihole - Network-wide ad blocker
- Huginn - Automation tool
- LimeSurvey - Survey software
- Omada controller - Network management for TP-Link devices
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Infrastructure
- Portainer
- Traefik (with traefik-kop pushing labels from the other hosts)
- Pi-Hole
- restic server - backup target
- a custom mail archive made out of Dovecot + Solr + Snappymail
- Zabbix - monitoring tool
- Home Assistant - home automation / bridge non-supported devices to Apple/Google/Amazon
Productivity
- SyncThing - file sync
- SearXNG - personal meta-search engine
- ActualBudget - budget manager
- Gitea - personal Git store
Entertainment
- Calibre-Web - eBook library
- RSS-Bridge - makes lots of websites available via RSS (which I consume using News Explorer)
- Plex - media server
- Jellyfin - media server
- Stash (NSFW!) - media server with completely different way of browsing the library
Socials
- GoToSocial - small Mastodon-compatible instance
- Lemmy
Miscellaneous
- Spotweb - Spot/NZB browser
- SabNZBd - NZB downloader
- Traccar - in conjunction with OwnTracks for location tracking
- dump1090 + fr24feed + pfclient + piaware + rbfeeder + adsbexchange
Things I want to look into some day
- Paperless-NGX - document management
- ntfy.sh - push notifications, but still has issues with iOS when self-hosted
- Forgejo - Gitea-replacement, but has no distinguishing advantage yet
Why do you have Jellyfin and plex?
Not OP, but I run both because Plex was/is easier to setup non-techy family members and easier to get on their TVs/devices.
Plex has been pissing me off though and I'd like to move to Jellyfin, but sounds like a PITA to transfer everything over. Gonna have to get clever with that probably
It is much less of a PITA than it is often made out to be. I made the transition just recently and had both Plex and Jellyfin running simultaneously for about a month. I used that time to just go through and adjust my progress through my home videos on Jellyfin so I remembered where I left off before shutting down Plex entirely. As long as your directory structure is well organized, it shouldn't be hard to switch to Jellyfin at all, and if your directories aren't organized... well it's a good opportunity to organize them. For large libraries, the *arr stack is great for that.
Just switched myself too, wasn't a big hassle at all really. I've been following trashGuides wiki for proper folder structure so I guess that helped 🙌
I’ve paid for Lifetime Plex when it was still cheap. And have Jellyfin running on the side to see what it has more to offer. (Also to test Swiftfin.) But as long as Plex “just works” for me, I will probably keep both. On Plex, I have shared libraries from a few friends.
And there’s also Stash, but this has a completely different kind of library management. It allows for bookmarking specific timestamps, has video previews and other things.