Ah yes, thanks for raising. I had forgotten. So we have three Foss contenders:

• Frigate
• Motioneye
• Zoneminder

I’ve only tried ME about 6 years ago with RPi camera. It was alright but I’m sure things have moved on.

Thankyou for taking the time to explain. I was in fact going to get one Loryta cameras recomended by the Frigate website … If i can even find it in EU. Don’t want to pay the premium import taxes 😉

Are you able to expand? What exactly did not impress you? Motioneye (which I briefly used 3-4 years ago with a dodge camera) and Frigate seem to be those that are used mostly as OOS solutions and hooked up to either OpenHab or HA.

Yip, I already have pfSense installed with an isolated virtual network just for my home automation.

As I’m thinking of getting HA to look after my IP cameras with Frigate, I’m thinking of a mini PC wiht a PCIe Coral device installed. Would this make sense and are there others doing this i.e. have HA on a miniPC with Cora PCIe installed and Frigate on top?

But setting up a VPN on a VPS is not really going to do much for privacy is it? It wouldn’t take much to work out who is renting the VPS and the VPS has no incentive to hold back any info if a they were issued a search warrant.

Feels like it becoming more and more challenging living on the Internet without leaving breadcrumbs all over the place.

Although some appear to not be maintained anymore

Awesome Privacy looks goog. Need to explore.

The problem with many of these apps is that when you go looking for them on fdroid they are not there. Example in the above list is YouTube Revanced.

GrapheneOS can make a difference here I would say. As long as a you don’t fill it with loads of crappy socials apps. These are the real killers.

Sound like a great journey you have taken. Well done. I did more or less the same transition, except iPhone bit , and using the same apps you use. This difference is that it took me 10 years to complete this journey in full but that reflect my age more than anything else. Gen X

I think vTiger community efition is still open source?

Really helpful, thank.

Let me get this straight. Ur saying that on the laptop I have two instances, one for me and one for my wife and they both sync to nas instance. I have syncthing installed via apt on my Debian laptop. How do u get two instances going?

I just find nextcloud bloated for my use case.

I think hoarder must ne similari to wallabag which i use solely for preserving content I like. I use floccus plus WebDAV for bookmarks saving because floccus is avaible for android too. So bookmarks are the same on all my devices. Sounds like linkwarden does both but I can’t find android app which is a killer for me. Waljabag also is available for android where idomost of my reading.

make me shake … brrr

I’m going to try and see is I can get a VM running on the second Truenas server using the replicated dataset. I only use the second machine to duplicate datasets in case the first machine fails and have to rebuild it.

I’ve been asking myself the same question for a while. The container inside a VM is my setup too. It feels like the container in the VM in the OS is a bit of an onion approach which has pros and cons. If u are on low powered hardware, I suspect having too many onion layers just eat up the little resources you have. On the other hand, as Scott@lem.free.as suggests, it easier to run a system, update and generally maintain. It would be good to have other opinion on this. Note that not all those that have a home lab have good powered labs. I’m still using two T110’s (32GB ECC ram) that are now quite dated but are sufficient for my uses. They have Truenas scale installed and one VM running 6 containers. It’s not fast, but its realiable.

Here is one I was pointed to a while back: https://www.voltus.de/

Their support is pretty good and respond to email quite promptly.

Same here but now struggling to keep on top of it. I wish there was a mobile solution that would just nicely integrate with selfhosted