What are you guys using your home servers for?

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/linux

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  • Home Assistant

    :house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.

  • Check out https://www.home-assistant.io/

  • Paperless-ng

    Discontinued A supercharged version of paperless: scan, index and archive all your physical documents

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • ATC_MiThermometer

    Custom firmware for the Xiaomi Thermometer LYWSD03MMC and Telink Flasher via USB to Serial converter

  • Key point is the data collection via BLE and feeding it into InfluxDB. The thermometers/hygrometers are called LYWSD03MMC. Get the custom firmware and use your favorite BLE capable language to read the data. The data (temp, humidity, battery) broadcasted.

  • awesome-selfhosted

    A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers

  • Ask this in /r/homelab and /r/selfhosted and you can also check out this awesome list for instance: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

    DNS: CoreDNS / Unbound \ VPN: Wireguard \ Pastebin alt.: PrivateBin / Cryptpad \ Data syncing: Seafile / Syncthing \ Search without ads/tracking/etc: Whoogle \

  • wireguard-vyatta-ubnt

    WireGuard for Ubiquiti Devices

  • DNS: CoreDNS / Unbound \ VPN: Wireguard \ Pastebin alt.: PrivateBin / Cryptpad \ Data syncing: Seafile / Syncthing \ Search without ads/tracking/etc: Whoogle \

  • BorgBackup

    Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.

  • Build a offsite Rpi-NAS to dump the most important data, extra redundancy. Preferably with Borg-backup or rdiff-backup.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • syncthing-android

    Wrapper of syncthing for Android.

  • DNS: CoreDNS / Unbound \ VPN: Wireguard \ Pastebin alt.: PrivateBin / Cryptpad \ Data syncing: Seafile / Syncthing \ Search without ads/tracking/etc: Whoogle \

  • Rdiff-backup

    Reverse differential backup tool, over a network or locally.

  • Build a offsite Rpi-NAS to dump the most important data, extra redundancy. Preferably with Borg-backup or rdiff-backup.

  • PrivateBin

    A minimalist, open source online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data. Data is encrypted/decrypted in the browser using 256 bits AES.

  • DNS: CoreDNS / Unbound \ VPN: Wireguard \ Pastebin alt.: PrivateBin / Cryptpad \ Data syncing: Seafile / Syncthing \ Search without ads/tracking/etc: Whoogle \

  • Nginx Proxy Manager

    Docker container for managing Nginx proxy hosts with a simple, powerful interface

  • Rebuild the reverse proxy, use Nginx ProxyManager or Caddy2 with built in cert-management or even use Cloudflare proxy.

  • Jellyfin

    The Free Software Media System

  • Create a media-streaming-on-demand Jellyfin server (with VPN+WOL or similar).

  • CryptPad

    Collaborative office suite, end-to-end encrypted and open-source.

  • DNS: CoreDNS / Unbound \ VPN: Wireguard \ Pastebin alt.: PrivateBin / Cryptpad \ Data syncing: Seafile / Syncthing \ Search without ads/tracking/etc: Whoogle \

  • CoreDNS

    CoreDNS is a DNS server that chains plugins

  • DNS: CoreDNS / Unbound \ VPN: Wireguard \ Pastebin alt.: PrivateBin / Cryptpad \ Data syncing: Seafile / Syncthing \ Search without ads/tracking/etc: Whoogle \

  • SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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