I don’t want to hear about your Plex, your NPM, your notes application or science forbid, your budgeting application. I want to hear the most exotic thing you setup to selfhost, that probably only you and a hand full of people around the world actually use or even need. A problem that you solved in a way, that makes people go WTF. Go!
I’ll start: I live in the mountains, and there is snow, lots of snow. I often tell people “We had 3m of snow last year”, but is that really true? So, I thought to myself: Can you measure snowfall? It seems you can, so I setup a USH-9 ultra sound measuring device, connected it via IC2 to my Home Assistant and now I can tell people with confidence, that we had a total of 3.45m of snowfall last season, with max snow height of 60cm on January 5th.
Future project: I have chickens. They lay eggs. I have cameras. I want to know which hen lays how many eggs. Solution? AI image recognition of the hens (who is who) and if they have laid an egg. Any inputs welcome.
Mine is a bit exotic I guess. I use Terraform to manage my home lab. I tried all of the docker update solutions out there and they’d always make my Terraform out of sync. So I built my own solution that interacts with an orchestrator, a backend and a front-end.
I use Terraform to create flows for each service. Then the flows interact with the backend to manage the actual updates. The frontend is there to let me see the latest change log of each project before I update.
For my next project I want to set up an oil tank monitor for our heating. Then I can use Prometheus and Grafana to monitor usage. From there I can start making predictions and so on
I am interested. Any public repo of yours available?
Right now it’s private only and basically a V1 home version. I’m planning to rewrite it to make it public.
Long term I want to write terraform resources directly to my backend and take out the orchestrator.
Sounds very cool, and I’m going to be a huge ass and say that could have easily been done with k3s and either flux or argo image watcher.
+1 for terraform at home tho, I do the same and people look at me like I’ve curb stomped their child
Yea. The kubernetes solutions are actually all around more elegant. Especially the HA functionality. But I’ve honestly never had many good experiences with kubernetes. Managed to set it up once at my previous company after a great effort. At my current company we tried to do EKS and rejected it due to the complexity.
Yes it makes life so much easier. I can easily script every edge case and have it all under version control.