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?)

  • KalistoCA@alien.topBEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I was going to say … someone who knows what to do when it all comes crashing down …

  • -quakeguy-@alien.topBEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Caddy. A reverse proxy / web server with automated LE certs that is easier than this does not exist.

    • puckpuckgo@alien.topOPBEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Why did you choose Caddy instead of Traefik or Nginx? I’m on Nginx, but wondering if I’m missing out on anything.

      • -quakeguy-@alien.topBEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        1. Automated certs (from 2 different CAs, not just LE) are baked in and require ZERO configuration.

        2. Configuration simplicity, most of my proxied services take 3 lines total each.

  • forwardslashroot@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    My number one is going to be my firewall, OPNsense. I would not use the ISP provided one. I’m, also, using this firewall VM as my reverse proxy, radius, ad blocker, DNSSec, DoT, etc.

    The second one would be my hypervisor, Proxmox. I use three NUC8 cluster with ZFS replication for my critical VMs such as the OPNsense, FreePBX, and some.

  • Anon_8675309@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Ad blocking at the network.

    Backups. Make sure everyone knows iCloud, etc, are syncs and not backups.

  • Affectionate_Use8825@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Photo backup I use Amazon photos for that since it’s free with my prime account I just pay for the video space I back that up at my house and my wife’s office

  • readit-on-reddit@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Tandoor recipes is another good meal planning app. I picked it because it seemed to have more features than mealie at the time. Don’t know how it compares now.

  • Watever444@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Adguard is probably the one I like the most has it’s used by everyone but no one sees it and better for kids.

    Otherwise i don’t see what mealy have to offer compare to tandoori and other similar apps ?

    Most issue i have is with french recipe (we are french canadian) with theses tools vs books. It would be great if I could have Amazon tell me the recipe while cooking… Any that does that ?

    • Redditburd@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Tried Immich and immediately uninstalled it after a number of problems. My photos are too valuable to be screwing around.