What’s happening on your servers? Any interesting news things you tried?

I didn’t do anyone other than updating Mastodon (native deployment) lately due to a lack of time. Reading so much about Immich caused me to consider trying it in parallel to Nextcloud but I’m not sure if I want to have everything twice.

Not quite homelab, but I’m about to install Linux Mint on my mom’s laptop and that had me thinking about creating an off-site backup in her place again since she has a fiber connection. I’m still not sure about the potential design though, but currently my only backup is in the same rack as the live stuff.

  • Eldaroth@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    Finally managed to carve out some time since the birth of my daughter two months ago to tinker around a bit. Decided to tackle my gripe to semi-automate updating my services when there is a new release.

    Now I have Renovate running on my self-hosted Forgejo instance using Forgejo’s actions and a “Podman in Podman” image for its runners. Don’t ask me why I wanted to do a PINP instead of DIND - I guess I like to punish myself. But at least this means everything I deploy is running with Podman 😄

    • papertowels@mander.xyzEnglish
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      13 hours ago

      A self hosting thing that I did after having a kid that’s helped us tremendously is hook up an internal camera to frigate to use as a baby monitor, and then have automations in home assistant to automatically change which parent gets notified about crying in the middle of the night based on an agreed-upon “shift”. Just a thought to consider :)

      • Eldaroth@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 hours ago

        I love the idea! I was actually thinking about building something like a baby monitor with cameras instead of just buying one, so your comment further inspires me to follow up on that. May I ask what camera you were using?

        • papertowels@mander.xyzEnglish
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          5 hours ago

          I think it was an older model of this one, but I’m not sure. Just a random amcrest I had lying around.

          It’s also worth pointing out that there are a few self-hosted solutions actually meant to act as baby monitors doing stuff like sleep/wake differentiation. I just had trouble getting one of them going and just thought screw it I’ll just use frigate and noise levels to detect crying sounds since he was older and hardier.