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  • Smart Lock

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  • I use a Nuki Smart Lock Pro for mine (US Version), With this one, it still allows you to unlock your door with your usual house key which is perfect for renters and those who share access. Before this, I used an August Lock. Both of which can interface easily with Home Assistant for example making them cloud free if you should decide to. The Nuki lock for me is better and much nicer than the August (I had the Model 2). It offers local control and also cloud if you want to be able to unlock your door from the office for example.

    You have to be careful with Tuya. Tuya allows makers to build products and resell them under a white label system, this can often result in copy cat products. Some companies more secure than others. With the Tuya cloud cutter, this will work and permanently decouple your device from Tuya, but only if it's supported. I use

    the above Tuya controllers for some of my items and each supplements the other. I have a Tuya Dehumidifier, a CO2 detector, camera, light bulbs, panic alarm and a home alarm all of which I can control locally without the Tuya Cloud using thie local keys you can get from Tuya's site.

    I keep the tuya plugin so I can log in and control some of those devices which don't have a local key (there are a few), the Xtend Tuya can often provide more functions and then of course the local Tuya plugins for what I can control locally.

  • People using Cloudflare, are you still happy with it? Would you consider any self-hosted alternative?

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  • I moved my setups to Pangolin and placed it on a VPS and then just have been using it since and is about the same as I could run it with a CDN such as Cloudflare. I know Cloudflare has better security with things but I also use Crowdsec which has been nice for keeping most things away. I host my email through Mxroute so it's never an issue. While Cloudflare has been very stable for years, this last outage didn't affect me like it would have, although I'm just use the stuff or my purposes.

    I left Cloudflare because I was ready to move away from there and found that Pangolin offered what I was looking for. No hard feelings either way toward Cloudflare at all.

  • Looking for a good rain gauge (NOT rain sensor)

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  • I have the Ecowitt WS90 with a gw2000 hub which has been solid since I installed it Mid July of this year:

    This is from Home Assistant and (Yes it says the rain state is WET It's either that or dry, a very binary state on the sensor) I live in the PNW where it mostly rains this time of year so the totals are pretty accurate. It uses a Rain Piezo which works by converting the mechanical vibrations caused by raindrops hitting its surface into electrical signals. This process allows the sensor to detect rainfall. I've been toying with the idea of getting a manual rain gauge to confirm the totals, but I'm happy with it so far though!

  • sshPilot is now on Flathub

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  • Already there. :)

  • sshPilot is now on Flathub

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  • Thank you for allowing Flathub to publish this! I'm on an immutable OS and this works great! Color me impressed with the auto SSH key import! :)

  • Printers for Linux

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  • As other's have said Brother. I can honestly say they are one of the few companies which still make Linux drivers for their printers. I've been using their monochrome lasers.

    They are workhorses as well, I've seen several out in the field printing well over 100K pages and still going strong. The best part about Brother I think is they also allow free access to their service manuals which will tell you more than you may ever want to know about your Brother Printer. :) I had an older HL-L2240 (USB Only) I bought about 9 years ago in a thrift shop and it ran faithfully on a network print server at my home until it stopped feeding paper. It probably needed a new pick up roller set, but it was a bit slow and I felt it was time to upgrade, so I now have a Hl_L2420_DW wireless which out of the box on my Fedora linux system installed and runs flawlessly. They are generally under $200 (around $130 at Wal-Mart for example).

    They also do not limit you on your laser cartridge if you go that route, in that you can usually buy after market toner and drums without it ever complaining or locking you out.

  • Cirrus app dev informing the app will stop working on certified android devices in '26/'27

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  • I have a bird identifier which listens to the mic when you run it and it easily identifies the birds and it gave me that tonight when I opened it. I'm thinking that F-Droid (where it came from ) may be injecting that in the installs for those devs which have yet agreed to Google's changes or otherwise flat out said they wouldn't. I'm not sure if that would be the case with this app, but since you got the same one I did, it makes me wonder if that is the case.

  • Proxmox or Docker?

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  • I keep landing back to Proxmox, My primary use is to run the Home Assistant OS VM which is quite fantastic there. And also, I have NFS sharing setup on the Proxmox server so I can share it between my machines and my home Linux boxes. I'm on Proxmox 8 though and not 9. Debian 13 with Proxmox 9 it turns out at least when I tried it, is really locked down now for running Docker via the host. (Proxmox machine) With Proxmox 8, I can still install Docker and run my containers there, then use Portainer to manage them sometimes, but rarely now days. You can also probably do it the "Correct way" as some may believe by setting up a VM or LXC in Promox to host docker containers. I do that with one subset of containers but not all.

    Another option you may want to consider is XCP-NG, which is another hypervisor and IMHO ran Home Assistant a tad bit faster for me, but it will not allow you to mount existing drives without erasing them (I can't do that with my disks). Additionally,  it seems to be on an out of date CentOS build which is no longer updated. (My notes from this are from a year ago when I tried it and I think some of it has changed, but for storage: https://docs.xcp-ng.org/storage/) You can see what's going on there.

    Most people will say to host Truenas or something like that in a VM via Proxmox but honestly, it isn't too difficult to set up with a tool like Cockpit to manage the shares. I've played with most of the setups recently and recently tried going with a Debian 12 install on bare metal with the Home Assistant VM running which I could, but I had more crashes with the server and it never started the VM in spite of being told to do so. I honestly didn't stick around though, so YMMV if you go that route.

  • Nova Launcher's Sad End: Founder Says Development Is Over

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  • I made a switch to Smart Launcher which has been quite fantastic. They don't rely on a subscription model like most other launchers which is a huge plus in my book. They offer quite a bit of options for customizing your screen. Not as much as Nova, but it's still good. I used Nova for a long time as well, but this has made it easier to transition to. Aside from that, Hyperion Launcher has plenty of options as well.

  • Your favourite piece of selfhosting - Part 1 - Operating System

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  • I have been using Proxmox VE with Docker running on the host not managed by Proxmox, and then Cockpit to manage NFS Shares with Home Assistant OS running in a VM. It's been pretty rock solid. That was until I updated to Version 9 last night, it's been a nightmare getting the docker socket to be available. I think Debian Trixie may have some sort of extra layers of protection, I haven't investigated it too much, but my plan tomorrow and this week is to migrate everything to Debian 12 as that's the tried and true OS for me and I know it's quite stable with Cockpit, docker and so forth with KVM for my Home Assistant installation.

    One other OS for consideration if you are wanting to check it out is XCP-NG which I played with and Home Assistant with that was blazing fast, but they don't allow NFS shares to be created and using existing data on my drives was not possible, so I would've had to format them .

  • Error 1033 Cloudflare

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  • Cloudflare tunnels support higher port numbers. I've done it in the past with Portainer. Also Proxmox which listens on 8006. Portainer on 9443.

  • XPipe - A connection hub for all your servers: Status update for the v16 release

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  • Are there any plans to make a Flatpak version of this? I've moved to an immutable OS and none of the options you have will install. Flatpaks are their preferred method. I know I could self host my own version which may be what I may end up doing anyway, but I'd prefer to have it more local yet another docker container. :)

    Edit: I just went with the Appimage which works.

  • Simple light automation question

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  • What webapps do you selfhost that aren't media/game servers?

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  • If your router supports Freshtomato firmware, it also has adguard you can enable too.

  • Linux distro recommendations

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  • Like others have said Arch is not as intimidating as it would appear to be. Over the last couple of years, they improved IHMO the most difficult process for the average user of installing Arch. You now just run archinstall Then follow the system prompts. It's constantly being improved. If you do go with Arch, aside from using Pacman to install apps, you can use "Yay" or "Paru" or others which pull from the vast AUR repository.

    I used Arch for a few years and recently moved over to Aurora Linux (Immutable KDE distro adapted from Fedora's CoreOS and uBlueOS which is an offshoot of CoreOS) Specifically, I use the Developer experience of Aurora which gives you a VSCode type of editor as well as Podman desktop included as well as other items. It's meant for those who wish to develop and not have to worry about keeping the system up to date. It runs updates in the background and rebooting your system will run the updates.

    The reason I left Arch was simple, I used to like to live on the edge of software as well, until it took one too many hastily released updates which borked my Arch system. My home PC has morphed from being my dedicated computer to my wife's and my computer which is fine, but I'd like to keep it available for her avoiding the need to do a repair because an update broke it.

    Keep an eye out for the KDE Linux OS which they have in development and not yet for use, but is earmarked for being the official immutable OS for KDE which will receive their bleeding edge updates. https://linuxiac.com/kde-announced-its-kde-linux-distro/ https://community.kde.org/KDE_Linux

    I plan on migrating to that once it's finished. :) I've become a fan of immutable OS's because they allow you to roll back if something should go wrong. Which it rarely does :)

  • Color Folders possible in KDE 6?

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  • I know about that function. It's mostly just about if there were any other options. I mean, I can find a folder icon pack probably, but that would make the ones I wanted customized but and also not match. For example, if I did a green folder and it was not flat like the Breeze ones are then it would look out of place until I replaced everyone with the one from the pack.

  • KDE @lemmy.kde.social
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    Color Folders possible in KDE 6?

  • I do not think this is true.

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  • This is anecdotal, only to say that the Linksys WRT-54G IMHO is/was a beast in the SOHO world. Back in 2013, I worked for the county replacing older equipment and it was time to upgrade the router in the fairgrounds lobby at the start of summer. Up we went to the rafters where it was and it was quite dusty in there, tons of pigeon feathers and miserably hot in the attic as most are. We pulled the router from service and replaced it with the new one already configured. The wrt54G was COVERED in dust, Pigeon droppings and feathers stuck to it. It ran forever that way I suspect. From what I was told, is was installed about 7 or 8 years prior, maybe longer.

    To this day, I think Linksys must have partnered with Nokia's wizards for how sturdy that router was/is. You can still find them in our second hand stores and most people push DD-WRT on them. But since they are 10/100, they're not as popular anymore.

  • Shoutrrr alternative

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  • You could always use ntfy.sh if you are wanting to keep it light weight, I know there seems to be a heavy following and happy community with it. I personally use Gotify which has been nice and easy to use and just works for my needs. :) I looked at the shoutrrr repo and it seems to be either abandoned or just no longer updating maybe because their is no need to in the Dev's eyes. They also develop Watchtower which hasn't been touched in about 2 years ago. I have never had any issues with Watchtower so I think it may not need much maintenance. I do see though that they are working on a new project: https://github.com/containrrr/shepherd but it's also a bit stale.

  • Good self-hosted webmail client?

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  • To make it seamless so you can still Thunderbird, someone made a Docker image of it here: https://hub.docker.com/r/kebles/wanderbird But, you can probably find a newer release somewhere newer than 4 yrs old like this one. :) The point is, if you are wanting to keep it in the Thunderbird umbrella, then it's most likely been Dockerized.

    I've Tried Cypht recently, but if you are using Gmail, it has a conflict there so it won't work out of the box without some extra work I think.

  • New Jellyfin Server/Web release: 10.10.7

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  • I can see them doing that, I use a DNS ad-block (Adguardhome) with plenty of filters and last night, I spotted that they were able to inject two ads (standard one to the right of the channels and one at the bottom below the menu for the new Minecraft movie when they changed my background. So, they are finding ways around this stuff. I simply disabled the Sponsored themes. We are on the fence about replacing the TV later this year but not 100% sure just yet. It's been quite buggy randomly rebooting when switching sources and other things.

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    AuroraLinux any other users?

    getaurora.dev
  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    💡 Matter Lights!

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    If Askjeeves.com was invented today, chances are it would be a GPT Site.

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Replacing Cloudflare Tunnels with Tailscale?

  • KDE @lemmy.kde.social
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    I tested KDE 6 a bit last night

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    Errors almost every time