Tangential question - what are people using their homelab for / what are some interesting or useful projects you've spun up on them? I've been thinking about setting one up but not 100% sure I'd find use out of it :)
- home assistant - Network Video Recorder - Jellyfin - network management such as ubiquiti or omada etc - vault warden/1pass/other secrets servers - tailscale or wire guard server - build server/k8s test environment - private artifactory or mirror (especially useful if you're using the same distro on a bunch of devices but don't want to overload the actual mirror+improves download times) - torrents (someone's gotta seed Wikipedia) - onsite backups - bastion into your home network (see also: wire guard) - some people even use it for their router
You could also take a look at the tteck scripts, there's a bunch of cool stuff in there
OPNSense (as my household's internet interface), Unifi Controller (as my household's primary wifi), Jellyfin, Wireguard, Pi-hole, LMS[0], Frigate NVR (migrating off ZoneMinder, awaiting delivery of a Coral TPU to finalise this), couchdb (as Noteself[1] back-end), nginx (serving a handful of sites for my own entertainment), Mailu[2], Calibre[3], various other in-flight experiments (which Home Assistant will soon become, Bitmagnet DHT scraper).
Most of the above are docker instances hosted on a small number of VMs hosted on two (or sometimes three) physical machines running proxmox.
[0]: https://github.com/epoupon/lms (HN lurker)
[2]: https://mailu.io
[3]: https://fleet.linuxserver.io/image?name=linuxserver/calibre or https://fleet.linuxserver.io/image?name=linuxserver/calibre-... (I can't remember which)
That's all for now but I've just installed Home Assistant but haven't set that up yet. I also intend to try out Jellyfin as a media server and Frigate as a video recorder when I get some cheap cameras.
Open WebUI which can connect to the OpenAI api or a local Ollama LLM. You can also connect various tools to the LLM like a calculator or web search to augment them. The AI has helped me learn how to configure and debug stuff. Like I got step-ca to setup a local certificate authority and give certificates to my various internal services. I played around with configuring Caddy and Nginx along with ACME to the the step-ca. The LLM was even helping be debug my config files.
I'm also using Hoarder for bookmarking and it can use AI to automatically tag your bookmarks. It can even backup the webpages.
I've been using Mealie to clip and save online recipes.
I'm running Uptime Kuma to check if my computers and services are up and if they are down, I'll get a notification.
- home assistant (just a few currently, more soon) - paperless:absolutely awesome document management system - immich: image management with automatic synchro of my mobile taken images (ML features) - tailscale - StirlingPDF: simple tools for all things PDF
- Postgres, Maria, Influx, Grafana
- Plex, Arr suite, Transmission
- Ollama, OpenWebUI
- Web change tracker
- Teslamate