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Glance live-updating dashboard with custom widgets https://redd.it/1voqzrj @r_SelfHosted

HomeTube update — the same YouTube downloader, now with background jobs, playlists, transcripts and a proper backend Hi r/selfhosted — I'm Yann, the developer behind HomeTube. HomeTube has been around for a while now and recently passed 300,000 pulls, so I wanted to share what has changed under the hood and in the workflow. HomeTube is still the same focused idea: paste a YouTube/video URL and get the media you want cleanly delivered into your library. It still supports the things I originally built it for: video and audio downloads SponsorBlock removal quality / codec / container selection subtitle selection and embedding cookies for authenticated content clipping full playlist downloads with ordered filenames automatic delivery into Plex/Jellyfin-style library folders The big change is that I finally pulled the processing out of the UI and put it behind a persistent backend + job system. That means a download no longer belongs to the browser page that started it. You can submit several jobs, leave the UI, come back later, process playlists properly, and have multiple clients talking to the same backend at the same time. HomeTube remains the media-focused UI, but the backend grew into a more general project I called Content. That also means HomeTube can now sit alongside things like transcript generation, summaries and PDFs without turning into a pile of special cases. For example, the same source can produce: My Conference.mp4 My Conference - audio.opus My Conference - subtitles - en.srt My Conference - transcript.txt My Conference - summary.md My Conference - summary.pdf The original HomeTube repo is here: https://github.com/EgalitarianMonkey/hometube And the new backend / broader project it evolved into is here: https://github.com/LatentNoise/content Content also exposes the same engine through Studio, REST, CLI, a Python SDK, a Chromium extension and MCP, but HomeTube remains the simple media workflow on top. Everything is self-hosted, AGPL-3.0-or-later, with prebuilt amd64/arm64 containers. AI disclosure: AI coding assistants were used during development for implementation, debugging, testing and documentation. Architecture, product decisions and releases are maintainer-controlled. Feedback and criticism are very welcome — especially from people already using HomeTube. https://redd.it/1vodkat @r_SelfHosted

Nvidia Tesla P4 to self host Ollama on my homelab. Is it worth it? Quick background. I've got a small homelab running on a Dell Optiplex 5050 with 20gb ddr4 of RAM. Nothing crazy, just a handful of docker containers, no VMs, no Proxmox cluster. Basic stuff. I was thinking of running local LLMs to help with lightweight tasks and as a general everyday AI to replace Chat GPT for quick questions, pairing it with a online research tool. So, after researching a bit, I found the Nvidia Tesla P4 8GB on eBay for around 100€ and I'm trying to figure out if it actually makes sense for my setup. The problem: the 5050 has a 240W PSU and it's not swappable. No external power connectors available either, so whatever GPU goes in has to draw everything from the PCIe slot. The P4 pulls like 50-75W so it's an option, since I can't exactly throw in a used RTX 3060 or older server cards that may also be cheaper and have a lot more of VRAM, because of the power pin situation. Models I'm eyeing: Qwen3 8B, Gemma 4 E4B, Qwen 3.5 9B, or maybe the 4B variant for quicker responses. So my question is for someone stuck with this specific chassis and PSU, is the P4 the right call at 100€? Or is there a better low-power option I'm missing that doesn't need a 6/8 pin connector? I don't have much budget, was expecting to sped maximum 120€. I know it's not much but budget's thight. Any input is appreciated. https://redd.it/1vojiyv @r_SelfHosted

Putting a Bunny.net CDN in Front of My Static Blog https://hmmr.online/posts/bunny-cdn-for-a-static-blog/ https://redd.it/1vok38v @r_SelfHosted

The Self-hosted tools and apps that I rely on https://redd.it/1voh007 @r_SelfHosted

SmartChunk: CPU-only document chunk enrichment with zero API calls I wanted a document chunking tool for my local RAG setup that doesn't phone home to OpenAI. Built one. Free mode (zero network calls): \- Recursive, semantic, and heading-based chunking \- Regex entity extraction (money, dates, emails, orgs) \- TF-IDF keyword extraction \- Parent context tracking \- Previous/next chunk linking \- Boundary quality scoring What you need: \- Python 3.9+ \- sentence-transformers (\~80MB, for semantic mode) \- PyMuPDF (for PDFs) \- CPU only. No CUDA. No API key. Benchmarks on my homelab (i5-10400, 16GB RAM): \- 50-page PDF: \~3 seconds (heuristic mode) \- Memory peak: \~400MB Optional LLM mode: Plug in gpt-4o-mini or Ollama via LiteLLM. But the free mode is good enough for 80% of queries. MIT license. Local-first by design. Repo in comments. https://redd.it/1vobau5 @r_SelfHosted

Jellybox v2.1 - native crossplatform jellyfin music client https://redd.it/1vobmrk @r_SelfHosted

RustDesk now supports unattended remote access on Wayland, including the login screen and multi-monitor setups https://rustdesk.com/blog/unattended-remote-access-wayland/ https://redd.it/1vobepv @r_SelfHosted

Proxmox VE vs Unraid for media server/PC Hi everyone, I am planning to put together a little home server with 4 SAS drives. It will be used for NAS, a few self-hosted apps, and a Bazzite VM for gaming. I have 2 architectures in mind: Option 1: Proxmox VE with TrueNAS and Bazzite VMs Option 2: Unraid with a Bazzite VM I will use an AMD GPU for passthrough to the Bazzite VM and plan to run everything on consumer-grade hardware. What do you think about this setup? Thank you in advance for your advice and opinion! https://redd.it/1vo8d4v @r_SelfHosted

My home setup, what next? https://redd.it/1vo7e4u @r_SelfHosted

NoteDiscovery 0.31.1, self-hosted notes app gets more community involvement https://preview.redd.it/gicpyhuu5bjh1.png?width=1111&format=png&auto=webp&s=f09d2b8f68755eaca064b7441a6929c31a3722c0 For anyone who hasn't seen it before, **NoteDiscovery** is a self-hosted notes app that reads and writes plain markdown files in a folder of your homelab. 100% free, MIT licensed, runs in a single Docker container (unless you opt in to integrate with an optional one like Ollama, that scenario is also covered in the docs but is not necessary to run the basic pure note handling app). It also has a custom dashboard icon (had it for a while though) so it looks nice in dashboards like Homepage (the one I use in my homelab). Get it here because it's super cool: [https://gethomepage.dev](https://gethomepage.dev) Since I last posted here are the latest updates: **Added** * **Plugin hooks with a slightly better contract:** hooks declare what they can replace and its type, plugins get a context (vault path, config, logger) and can serve their own endpoints under `/api/plugins/<name>/`. `on_search` can finally rewrite search results. * **A** `plugins/contrib/` **folder for community plugins,** nothing in it loads until you copy it into `plugins/`, so a contributed plugin can't affect anyone who didn't opt in. * **Open task search** to list every note with an unchecked checkbox, skipping frontmatter and code fences. **First community plugin!** Thanks to **lubeda**. 🙏🙏🙏 * **Better mobile navigation** for the options menu, or at least not so confusing as the original one... **Fixed** * **Search ignored partial words.** I broke it somewhere along the way, so searching `feat` found nothing in a note containing "Features", while the open note highlighted it anyway (ugh!). * **Wikilinks rendered relative hrefs** clicking worked, but opening in a new tab or copying the link gave a URL that 404'd. Thanks to **nopoz**. * **Note statistics calculation inconsistency,** word count, reading time, link counts and task totals were computed in both Python and JavaScript and had drifted apart. * **Credentials were sent with wildcard CORS origins.** Thanks to **anupamme**. **Changed** * **Search needs at least 2 characters:** a single letter search was... well useless, so now there's a new variable to have at least 2 to avoid hitting the backend and getting a lot of crap back. 😋 * **Mermaid loads on the first diagram you view** instead of on every page load. * **Static assets are cached immutably per version**, so repeat visits stop re-fetching them, this together with the CDN last update *should* make the app feel even lighter and more responsive. Thank you so much for your contributions/bug reports/feature requests/support, and I hope you like this. Kind regards. Repo link: [https://github.com/gamosoft/NoteDiscovery](https://github.com/gamosoft/NoteDiscovery) Website: [https://www.notediscovery.com](https://www.notediscovery.com) Online demo: [https://gamosoft-notediscovery-demo.hf.space](https://gamosoft-notediscovery-demo.hf.space) https://redd.it/1vo2o2j @r_SelfHosted

Well, today I lost all my data. My homelab has two disks. One with the OS and files, and the other as a backup. Every night, I run `dd` to copy everything to the second disk. The idea was simple: if one disk fails, I can just switch to the other one. I've managed to rescue my data several times this way. But not today. If one disk gets corrupted and then `dd` copies that corrupted data to the other disk, well... now both disks are corrupted. **What I lost:** * All my recipes in Mealie * My unchecked-out code in Gitea, including my diary that I've had for 10 years * My Home Assistant configuration That's pretty sad. Luckily, I have another backup for my holidays memories, and I have my homelab Git repo checked out on another device. Still, I guess this is a good reminder that a copy isn't necessarily a backup. If the backup gets overwritten every night, one bad night can overwrite the backup too. https://redd.it/1vo2jvw @r_SelfHosted

How often do you test a full restore of your self-hosted services? Backups are easy to automate, but a successful backup job does not prove that a service can be rebuilt. Configuration, database versions, secrets, and external volumes can still make the restore fail. How do you test restores at home without turning it into a large project? Do you restore one service into an isolated network, rebuild a spare machine, or verify only the database and files? What schedule has been realistic for you? https://redd.it/1vnxw2u @r_SelfHosted

nfty VS Autopush For Degoogled Android Push Notifications For Unified push notifications you can use the nfty app or Sunup app. nfty requires a nfty server which is self hostable and written in Go. The official nfty server is free to use with limits but you can pay to have higher limits. Sunup requires a Autopush server which looks open source and self hostable. The backend is written in Rust. You can use the official Autopush server from Mozilla for free. Which one is better? More so which back end is better? Something tells me the Autopush backend is better on performance due to being Rust but Go performance is also good. The nfty app has way more settings. I would like to know which one is better for performance if it had thousands of daily users. Does anyone run any of these backends and how much does it cost to run and how many users are there using the server? https://redd.it/1vnwk04 @r_SelfHosted