Let’s keep it simple. I’m sure most of us are proud of Docker CPU cycles charted in Grafana via Prometheus, but I’m talking about the house as a whole.
My personal favorite is turning out to be Mealie.
I self-host a bunch of things for my personal use, but Mealie definitely takes the cake in terms of benefitting the entire household. I like the meal planner and the ability to hit the supermarket once to get all the necessary groceries for the week (I’ve never been able to achieve this before). I don’t think there is anything in my stack that even compares with the benefits my house gets of out Mealie.
My runner up would have to be any of the self-hosted media players (Plex, Jellyfin, etc.), but we also have Netflix and a bunch of streaming services, so not that impactful. Home Assistant would also be a close runner up, but it only provides great benefits for me, not the rest of the house. I think Immich will be on this list shortly, when it matures a bit more (are we able to import existing photos yet?)
I hope you know this post has really blown up my week lol.
Did you try Tandoor? If yes: what made you choose Mealie vs Tandoor?
he internet DVR *arr + jellyfin stack and you have a true smart home
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I’m currently using Mealie, but going to try Tandoor later this week. I find importing recipes from URLs does not import the right measurements even though the app is set to import metric
DNS blockers (AdGuard or PiHole).
I’d say that a local storage for family photos is essential. With backups.
Awareness of security and vulnerabilities.
Hosting anything is easy doing it secure is the hard part.
well don’t forget backups…
Vaultwarden for me and my gf. No more compromises on password length and the peace of mind of having everything stored on your machine
Whenever I counter a site that’s like “no more than 15 characters and no special characters” I cringe heavily.
I like Mealie too, just installed it the other day. I also found a companion app for Android that add it to the Share-with button so if you are browsing a recipe on your phone, you can share it to Mealie and it will import it for you.
Immich (yes you can add external libraries now), pihole, jellyfin, backups.
Dpending on where you live, CCTV
Shinobi CCTV works great - it’s just a fancy wrapper around FFmpeg
Immich is another great recommendation for when you’ve used up all of your Google Photos storage
Some kind of photo management and backup system. I never went the Google Photos route and am now very happy with using Synology Photos and doing backups of my entire diigital life with Synology Hyperbackup. Works great even when NOT exposing it to the internet.
And of course Jellyfin for media streaming.
Immich actually got the import existing feature very recently. Changelog here
Proxmox (or any Hypervisor). Without it, my life would be miserable.
I always start with a hyper-visor. Currently running Proxmox