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Install MusicBrainz in Docker

Music Streaming Identifying Music

Getting your music collection tagged properly, and finding the album art was a tedious, manual ...

Updated 1 year ago by Brian McGonagill

Install Homepage

Self Hosted Dashboards Homepage

Self hosted dashboards are incredibly useful for a myriad of reasons.  They provide quick acces...

Updated 1 year ago by Brian McGonagill

Mailbox Notifications

Mailbox Activity Raspberry Pi-zero W Activity Notifications

Last year I started thinking about making this little gadget to let me know when the postal wor...

Updated 1 year ago by Brian McGonagill

Install Open Project in Docker (2023)

Project Management Tools Open Project

Open  Project is a business grade tool for keeping track of project goals, objectives, activiti...

Updated 1 year ago by Brian McGonagill

Install Coturn Turn Server

Enable WebRTC Audio/Video Turn Servers

What you'll need A VPS is HIGHLY recommended, that gives you a public IP address and control...

Updated 1 year ago by Brian McGonagill

Install Matrix using the Dendrite Server

Setup Matrix Chat Matrix / Dendrite Server Setup

What You'll Need A host server or machine (VM or LXC / LXD Container) Docker-CE and Docker ...

Updated 1 year ago by Brian McGonagill

Setupu Ntfy.sh

Self Hosted Push with Ntfy.sh

A server to send notifications triggered by time, events, etc from your various systems. What ...

Updated 1 year ago by Brian McGonagill

Install, Run, and Federate Databag

Fediverse Databag - Open Source, E2E Encrypted, F...

I have covered multiple chat applications over the years, and as I was digging through my list ...

Updated 1 year ago by Brian McGonagill

Install and Use Viseron

NVRs / Surveillance Systems Viseron NVR

Viseron is fairly new to the open source options for NVRs as of the writing of this article.  I...

Updated 1 year ago by Brian McGonagill

Lemmy - A Self Hosted, Open Source Alternative to Reddit

Lemmy - Reddit Alternative

If you've watched any number of my videos, you'll know that I really enjoy Reddit.  It's my kin...

Updated 1 year ago by Brian McGonagill

3 Mastodon Clients

Fediverse 3 Great Mastodon Clients

I'm a pretty big fan of the Fediverse. I'm not a massive social media person beyond Youtube, bu...

Updated 1 year ago by Brian McGonagill

The Software I use in 2023

What I Use Day to Day What I'm using in 2023

This is where I post my almost annual information regarding which open source software I actual...

Updated 1 year ago by Brian McGonagill

Install and Setup TrueNAS Core

Network Attached Storage (NAS) TrueNAS

We'll be taking a small series adventure into the world of TrueNAS.  I'll be starting with True...

Updated 1 year ago by Brian McGonagill

Using NginX Proxy Manager for proper Website Routing

NGinX Proxy Manager Install and Setup NGinX Proxy Manager

What's NginX? NginX (pronounced Engine-X) is a web-server, and reverse proxy.  Basically, it c...

Updated 1 year ago by Brian McGonagill

Securing NGinX Proxy Manager

NGinX Proxy Manager Securing NGinX Proxy Manager

I've covered NGinX Proxy Manager, a web GUI for NGinX Web Server in multiple videos.  I essenti...

Updated 1 year ago by Brian McGonagill

Install and Setup Proxmox Virtualization OS

Virtualization (Virtual Machines) Proxmox

Proxmox is an excellent, powerful, and sophisticated Virtualization Operating System built on L...

Updated 1 year ago by Brian McGonagill

Install and Setup Openfire XMPP Server

Chat Openfire XMPP Server

Encrypted messaging has become a hot mess of one off platforms, and painful setups over the pas...

Updated 1 year ago by Brian McGonagill

Ampache Music Streaming Server

Music Streaming Ampache

Why Run Your Own Music Streaming Server? I've been an iTunes user for more than a decade, in f...

Updated 1 year ago by Brian McGonagill

NTOPNG - Network Analysis Dashboard

NTopNG

NTOPNG (I rponounce it N-Top-N-G) is a browser based server application you can run in Docker. ...

Updated 1 year ago by Brian McGonagill

Install LazyDocker

Docker Management LazyDocker

LazyDocker is an amazingly useful command line utility for managing Docker applications / servi...

Updated 1 year ago by Brian McGonagill