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Introduction to this Project A brief note about this setup.: This setup is for a more complex layout with a home of about 3000 sq fet (280 sq m) in size, along with an outside (disconnected) office of 180 sq ft (17 sq m) in size, approximately 30 ft (10 m...

A server to send notifications triggered by time, events, etc from your various systems. What you'll need Docker-CE Docker-Compose (Optional but recommended) A domain name with an A-record pointed to your public IP (Optional but recommended) NGinX Pro...

What You'll Need A host server or machine (VM or LXC / LXD Container) Docker-CE and Docker Compose installed NGinX Proxy Manager, or a reverse proxy you prefer to use A domain name / sub-domain that you own and can create A-records for The Ability to ...

What you'll need A VPS is HIGHLY recommended, that gives you a public IP address and control over the firewall Also, to make this very easy, I recommend a debian based distro. A Domain name for your server which you control the A-Records for About 15 m...

Open  Project is a business grade tool for keeping track of project goals, objectives, activities, assignments, and completions toward any project that may help benefit your business.  The project has been more recently adapted to also work quite well as a p...

Last year I started thinking about making this little gadget to let me know when the postal worker drops my mail in the box.  My mailbox is about 40 ft (~13 m) from my front door, and down a hill, so my Ring doorbell doesn't always catch it when it's dropped...

Self hosted dashboards are incredibly useful for a myriad of reasons.  They provide quick access to all of your self hosted services, quick links to bookmarks of your most used online sites and services, and can offer some very useful monitoring information ...

Getting your music collection tagged properly, and finding the album art was a tedious, manual process for many years, but also a source of pride in owning a well defined digital music collection.  Today it's been made much easier thanks to tools like MusicB...

Sometimes you just need a writing tool that will allow you to get to work.  Not something that will take you hours of setup and configuration, and theming, and layout, and on, and on, andon....  My friends, WriteFreely is an open source, self hosted platform...

If you've been following my channel on YouTube, or my articles here for any amount of time, you probably know that I really love Docker as a means to self host pretty much anything.  While docker is an amazing tool, many of your have been on this journey of ...

Watchtower has been on my list for a long time. I’ve avoided it because I was initially told it would just update all of my Docker containers automatically. I’m not one to do auto-update things. I like to read about it, understand the changes, and know if it...

When you want to reference images for sites like Lemmy (or Reddit if you're still there), or maybe a blog, forum, or other place where images aren't allowed to be uploaded, image hosting sites like Imgur become incredibly useful and important.  I was thinkin...

What You'll Need Docker-CE and Docker Compose Installed on your Host Server (Optional) NGinx Proxy Manager, or a reverse proxy of your choice (Optional) A Domain Name or Subdomain for your Server (e.g. headscale.yourdomain.org) About an hour of your ti...

Introduction As the internet and services have become more and more the norm in our society protecting our services with authentication has become ever more important as well.   This is where amazing projects like Authentik, and Authelia come in.  These sol...

WLED is an extremely awesome open source project that gives you a ton of power in a simply device like the ESP32, ESP 8266, ESP D1 Mini, or more generically the ESP-Home device collection.  If you've never used one of these devices, they are absolutely inc...

Setting up a Domain Name and Reverse Proxy I use NGinX Proxy Manager as my reverse proxy of choice.  Feel free to use any reverse proxy you like, but my expectation is that you'll know how to configure it to match my settings as needed. Open NGinX Proxy Ma...

Netbird is a new offering in the Wireguard “flat” network space. They offer a great set of options and some fairly simple setup.  We'll be installing this on a VPS from Digital Ocean toady.   Netbird reached out and asked if I'd be willing to cover their of...

Invoice Ninja is a power open source offering that has been around for years now.  It's only gotten better and better as time has gone by.  I have been attempting to install it for a while now, but for whatever reason, just kept hitting little blocks that I ...