The last place I lived was heated with an enormous pellet stove which would run itself out of pellets entirely before letting out an ear-splitting series of beeps and forcibly shutting off for about an hour. To avoid this, I taped an ultrasonic distance sensor to the lid of the hopper and had an ESP32 send me alerts and display the current pellet level on a little OLED.

Not a terribly dumb idea, except for the fact that ultrasonic distance sensors seem to be incredibly bad at measuring a constantly shifting mass of porous pellets. I don’t even know how many hours I spent working on an algorithm to get accurate readings, and by the time I moved out it still wasn’t quite right. I’ll also note that this pellet stove was in the living room, about 5 feet away from where I spent most of my time, and I could’ve just, ya know, got up and checked the hopper occasionally.

I don’t host music videos, but if I did I’d just put them on my Plex/Jellyfin server. Both services deliver video of any codec to any device reliably, which can’t be said for all self-hosted apps. I also quite like both Navidrome and Plexamp and don’t see a good reason to switch. If I had a huge music video library that needed organization by artist and genre, then maybe I’d try Ampache. It looks a bit basic, but does offer support for music videos alongside your main music library.

What sort of data is Audial giving you? Depending on what you have to work with, this could be pretty easy to whip up in Python or whatever. There are already libraries for extracting garbled media titles and then it’d just need to be matched with an API like tmdb. But if you’re looking for something that will actually analyze the video length/content and match it that’s a much more complex task.