What’s up, what’s down and what are you not sure about?

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.

I finally finished my first iteration of my Minilab including a very smooth migration from the old server yesterday so I can go to the service side of things again. I plan to get some kind of selfhosters VPN for external access to stuff that’s not exposed to the internet, I’ll have to investigate which one.

  • milicent_bystandr@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    23 hours ago

    I set up my old laptop as a home server, with a vps as reverse proxy via nebula. It runs Mint - strange for a server but that’s so it can still be a laptop. Syncthing keeps it in sync with the more portable laptop.

    The ‘server’ now runs immich, which I can use super fast from the laptop itself; a bit slower if I connect with nebula over the LAN (it’s firewalled off from the LAN generally); or still pretty decently via the VPS on Https - and that VPS proxy means the family phones can connect with the apps easily.

    Immich runs in podman, with some help from Lemmy about how to set that up.

    And filebrowser makes it easy to share files or allow uploads with/from family around the world. With caddy on the VPS, ufw on the server and nebula in between, it’s really easy to add in something like filebrowser on a new subdomain.

    Next is to try some other podman containers, or set up mqtt and owntracks.

    • MadMonkey@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      23 hours ago

      How are you finding immich? I got it running on Ubuntu, and it’s fine on the server, but the android app keeps lagging and crashing.

      • milicent_bystandr@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        17 hours ago

        I’m liking it. I’ve had no problem with the Android app, but then I don’t use it a lot, nor do my 10k pre-shrunk photos compare to some people’s collections here.

        My only complaint is that two accounts don’t share great if you want to share face data etc. or to have a shared album show up in each others’ timeline.

        Edit to add: Also because it lacks editing, I think my new workflow is going to have to be keep the photos separately still and edit/sort them my old way, then put them back in an external folder. I still want to do external folders generally because I still want my photos organised my way on the file system, but I was hoping to gradually sort/delete/edit in Immich to make the workflow more relaxing. Maybe I’ll still do some of it - deleting and I think it can rate - but I haven’t worked that out yet.