Thanks for calling those points out! You are 100% correct. I think I take it for granted that at this point, all of this “just works” on my setup :)

The audio should not be affected, as far as I’m aware. I get all my stuff from Usenet

Also check out Tdarr! I convert everything to HEVC using that. Shrinks down some files to literally 50% of their original size

Seems like the intro clears some things: https://gamevau.lt/docs/intro It looks like you install the server component on your NAS/server etc and store your game files/binaries/installers there. Then you can download client applications and download from that location to install on your gaming PC or whatever

As a new user of ss/nicotine+, I absolutely love it. Even found some TV episodes I’ve been missing. I need to figure out how to share over VPN though, since my VPN doesn’t support port forwarding :(

And in general :) hopefully that helps. Can you hit the site directly (without caddy etc) after setting up the DNS name in pihole?

If you’re trying to use pihole as a local DNS, you’ll still have to add your application port to the end of the URL if you’re not doing that already. So like if you’ve assigned server.local to your host server in pihole, to get to your app you would have to do http://server.local:1234, where 1234 is your app port number.

Otherwise, I have this all working with a code-server instance behind SWAG reverse proxy and Authelia authentication over the internet, if you need further help with that.

I was looking at that. It does look interesting. I’m installing it now from git, will see how it goes.

very nice, will look into it!

oh thanks! I was looking for this on awesome-selfhosted. I must be blind

My flow is GoodReads (tracking/requesting) -> Readarr (manage downloads) -> Calibre (manage library/metadata) -> Calibre-Web (user friendly browsing/serving) and then I can send to kindle or download or whatever from Caliber-Web. I download from Usenets/Libgen/Openbooks

I did exactly the same! I tried a few different dashboards, and Homepage was the perfect balance between customization and simplicity for me

Ah perfect! Exactly what I was looking for! Thank you so much for that explanation. Definitely trying to understand more about security and your explanation just made something click in my brain :)

Just curious, why not a full VM accessed through Guacamole? On the other hand, I have never considered a browser based full desktop experience, so I’ll probably also play around with these suggestions 😂

Wow I hadn’t even thought of custom dashboards for each user. I use Homepage for my internal dashboard, and Homarr for users. It’s got a nice, simple interface with big buttons

Hey man, so I’ve been thinking about this and doing a lot of reading since I read your comment… Question: what makes an SSH tunnel any more secure than an SSL connection through a browser? I only have port 443 opened on my home network for reverse proxy and wouldn’t want to open anything more to the internet. Am I missing something fundamental in terms of security? I would definitely like to understand this more.

So from reading the site, is this an IPV6 end-to-end encrypted p2p network? That’s super interesting, but I’m sure my work firewall would be hardened against any incoming traffic. Will definitely experiment with this though. And I love the name

Yes that’s what someone else said below. I will try that

Looks like that’s blocked on my work network too

It can be

My work’s network is pretty locked down, which is why I’m trying to think of other solutions that would work.

Should have mentioned, Tailscale is blocked on my work network

Jellyfin/Plex etc are all media server software, so they will all play audio and video from whichever device you’re opening the apps from. Not sure what OS you have on your Dell, but you could enable a GUI and then remote into that to play stuff directly off it. That’s a bit of a mission for something simple though! Take a look at this GitHub page. It always has something useful that I haven’t heard of: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#media-streaming

Or swag ;)

I’ve always personally hated localhost and just opt to use the IP directly, which I guess was my downfall this time :)

OMG I figured it out. It was actually my last comment that got me thinking in the right direction. The problem was that I was using the EC2 public IP address to point the tunnel to. EC2 also has an internal private IP address. Switched the tunnel to point to that, and it works! I felt like such a dummy when I thought about it. The tunnel is trying to hit the app internally. Why would it need to go out to the internet and retrieve a firewalled public address? Seems so obvious now.

Not yet. I did a fresh install on a new EC2 server. Cloudflare tunnel seems to be connected correctly i.e. the handshake is successful, and when I hit the URL, I get the cloudflare 404 page that shows the app is down. @lilshalom (is that how you tag in Lemmy?) I’m having trouble figuring out EC2 logs - I’m pretty new to AWS. But I’m pretty confident at this point that the tunnel is setup correctly, but for some reason, it cannot connect to the app. For what it’s worth, I did have it all working on my local raspberry pi. I’ll tinker a bit more and then I’ll probably try the app’s GitHub issues page and see if the dev can chime in

Yep all outbound ports are opened, per default. Tunnel does show as healthy in the dashboard. The cloudflared logs say the tunnel is established correctly but cloudflared cannot reach the application. I only have my home IP address set on inbound for both ssh as well as the application and port I’m trying to access. I’ll look into this into more detail again in a couple hours and look at your and lilshalom’s suggestions

I have never thought about doing this… But this is actually such a good idea. I’m probably going to set this up myself

Ah thanks so much for the clarification! That’s exactly the info I wanted

Question: if you get a Tidal subscription through Plex on the main/admin account, is it available for all users that have access to the music library? Or only for that main user?

Ok I think we have a winner! Got draw.io up and running on my server, and so far it has everything I need, and the UI is perfect. Thank you for the suggestion!

I read through the introduction but feel like I don’t fully understand or grasp the point of this… Is this just basically a new type of p2p protocol? They reference local-first or local-only apps, but then what’s the difference between that and just a locally hosted server with local DNS etc? And what would an example of “ephemeral data” be? If it is actually “ephemeral”, wouldn’t you have to connect somewhere to use it whenever you need it anyway? I’m probably just not grasping the foundational aspects and ideas of this

I use Uptime Kuma for monitoring instance availability. When something goes down, I get a pushover notification. You can customize what defines the instance as “down” as well as customize notifications on many providers. I also use Homepage as my dashboard, which has some nice API integrations, including Uptime Kuma. Provides a nice at a glance view of everything. I’m sure you should be able to do something similar with Dashy

Hmm I already have an OnlyOffice server linked to my Nextcloud, but OnlyOffice doesn’t have an equivalent application. Maybe I’ll look into changing the stack to LibreOffice

Ok that’s pretty cool. Thank you!

Thanks I’ll take a look!

I guess it doesn’t need to be self-hosted, but it would be nice. I’ll check these out! Thanks for the suggestions!

Congrats! I’ve been using pi-alert for a couple months now and love it!

Absolutely would be happy to! Shoot me a DM with what you have and what you’re having trouble with, and I can try to help you out.