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.

  • @isleepbadBEnglish
    1•7 months ago

    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.

    +1 for terraform at home tho, I do the same and people look at me like I’ve curb stomped their child

    Yes it makes life so much easier. I can easily script every edge case and have it all under version control.