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?)
Offsite backups.
I was going to say … someone who knows what to do when it all comes crashing down …
A proper firewall
Caddy. A reverse proxy / web server with automated LE certs that is easier than this does not exist.
Why did you choose Caddy instead of Traefik or Nginx? I’m on Nginx, but wondering if I’m missing out on anything.
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Automated certs (from 2 different CAs, not just LE) are baked in and require ZERO configuration.
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Configuration simplicity, most of my proxied services take 3 lines total each.
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What should every self-hosted household have? a back up
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.
Mealie is nice and useful but it’s not been updated in a while and mine doesn’t import from 3rd party sites correctly very often these days. It could do with a little TLC to be fair.
Pihole or DNS-Blocker at all. My girlfriend tells everyone that she can watch content on the internet without ads. I guess I can’t get a bigger approval rating than that.
Syncthing + Cryptomator
And Pi-Hole. Everyone else saying it is right. It’s a must-have.
UPS and Backup system
Cloudflare Tunnels. Let’s you take anything fun you find at home and use it anywhere. Opened the doors for Home Assistant, immich, and more!
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.
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
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
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