If you (and the people who want to use these things) are on iOS, you could consider Homebridge
It is easier than a full home assistant install, and may be sufficient for what you want to do.
Home assistant might be overkill for your application (but it can do a lot more stuff)
I am running home assistant as a docker. I also run >10 other docker containers on the same server. It works fine. There are minor issues (like the „add to my home assistant“ button on the website does not work) but it is far from what you are saying.
Has not been an issue for me for hundreds of audiobook chapters.. sometimes I need to start it again, but as it skips already downloaded files it has not been an issue.
Wow, finally a solution that directly downloads Spotify. And even without premium (so it could be used with burner accounts).
Thanks! (It is worth noting that Spotify has quite a lot of audiobooks)
But then you say 5-10 years experience. Not minimum of 5 to 10 years.
You said you have found 4 useful ones. Which ones?
Much easier to do it in software.
Syncthing is not a good solution for a one time transfer. It is likely slower as the other solutions here.
It’s a docker volume. In this case it is managed by docker, but it is outside the container.
To have it save everything on your normal filesystem, it should be possible to just edit the docker compose file (I have not tried that)
Well you point the docker to some external data. You do never store the documents inside the docker. (Because it would get lost when it is updated)
It is comparable to the way Immich works.
For beginners, It’s also not really obvious how to set them all up so that it works together.
This right here.
Octoprint (or any other 3d printer controller for that matter) should not run on a device which is doing unpredictable stuff at the same time.