Let’s keep it simple. I’m sure most of us are proud of Docker CPU cycles charted in Grafana via Prometheus, but I’m talking about the house as a whole.
My personal favorite is turning out to be Mealie.
I self-host a bunch of things for my personal use, but Mealie definitely takes the cake in terms of benefitting the entire household. I like the meal planner and the ability to hit the supermarket once to get all the necessary groceries for the week (I’ve never been able to achieve this before). I don’t think there is anything in my stack that even compares with the benefits my house gets of out Mealie.
My runner up would have to be any of the self-hosted media players (Plex, Jellyfin, etc.), but we also have Netflix and a bunch of streaming services, so not that impactful. Home Assistant would also be a close runner up, but it only provides great benefits for me, not the rest of the house. I think Immich will be on this list shortly, when it matures a bit more (are we able to import existing photos yet?)
I was going to say … someone who knows what to do when it all comes crashing down …
Offsite backups.
A proper firewall
What should every self-hosted household have? a back up
Caddy. A reverse proxy / web server with automated LE certs that is easier than this does not exist.
Why did you choose Caddy instead of Traefik or Nginx? I’m on Nginx, but wondering if I’m missing out on anything.
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Automated certs (from 2 different CAs, not just LE) are baked in and require ZERO configuration.
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Configuration simplicity, most of my proxied services take 3 lines total each.
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Vaultwarden for me and my gf. No more compromises on password length and the peace of mind of having everything stored on your machine
Whenever I counter a site that’s like “no more than 15 characters and no special characters” I cringe heavily.
Nextcloud
DNS blockers (AdGuard or PiHole).
I think Immich is now able to work with pictures in an existing folder structure.
Tried Immich and immediately uninstalled it after a number of problems. My photos are too valuable to be screwing around.
Automatic Fire extinguishers
I don’t have anything to share about services around the house, but to answer your question about Immich import of existing libraries, it looks like you can do that now according to the latest update!
https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/170owzc/immich_selfhosted_photos_and_videos_backup/
I like Mealie too, just installed it the other day. I also found a companion app for Android that add it to the Share-with button so if you are browsing a recipe on your phone, you can share it to Mealie and it will import it for you.
Crowdsec for security.
Homer - as your dashboard with links to everything you host. My wife has it bookmarked and from there can access anything else we host.
Does mealie have a simple storage-system? Like, whats the stock on rice and noodles and whatever at home for the recipe?
I looked at grocy and its incredible bloated and complicated to set up. If grocy would have a set of default-stuff included it would probably be amazing but the set up process is… annoying.
/u/apperrault as well maybe?