Fedegenerate

I thought the headline was not conveying the emphasise. "We're going to be ok" says member of the owning class.

My initial inception of this box was to have it request a static IP so I knew "box.ip". Then tape then tape some thing like this:

Box.ip Service1:port Service2:port ....

Onto the case. Then in NPM have it proxy requests to "box.ip:8096" to "tailscale.ip:8096". But alas, I couldn't figure it out. I could get 1 service to work but not multiple.

I couldn't ask someone to write the config for me, but if you're certain it's doable then I'll learn to write a config. Thank you for the offer. I'm guessing for each service I tell nginx to "listen" at "port" instead of only listening to ports 80,443 and 81.

MDNS seems like an interesting solution though, I'm going to read about that now actually, thank you for highlighting that solution to me. If I could get that working that would be ideal. I'll have to check if the expected devices are compatible but that would make everyone's life easier if I could just setup a cronjob on startup.

Thank you for the reading material, it'll be tonight project. I think I'm just going to tell people if they want to join in the family immich/mealie/etc they'll just have to let me into their router. They'll get memorable addresses out of it and adblocking too. I'm pretty sure that setup is comfortably within my skill set. I thought long and hard about opening ports but the security needed is beyond me currently. Down side is cost and I'll be managing a bunch of boxe. But I can add updating them into the monthly maintenance and if/when they come back they can be repurposed into other projects.

I tried /locations but my service would rewrite the URL and break itself. I'd navigate to "box.ip/immich" and immich would change the address to "box.ip/login" and hang.

I'd need to learn how to have npm lock "box.ip/immich" and let immich append "/login". I'll leave my test VM up and just chip away at it. I think I need the "rewrite" flag but I'm getting dangerously close to just learning how to write an nginx config instead of having npm do it for me.

Thanks again for the pointers

Yeah, that's a fair description. I am not comfortable exposing ports currently, I don't think I have the skill to do it securely and my Homelab is definately not secure enough.

Not to get side tracked, and to highlight the horror, my media library is chmod 777 until I figure permissions across LXCs.

Oh, routing, I remember watching an "off site back up" video where they set up IP tables, or IP forwarding, or some such, so when their parents tried to access jellyfin locally it was routed over tailscale. Maybe I'm misremembering though, I'm not confident enough to start thinking about it seriously, so I logged it as "that's possible" and moved on.

That way I just have to keep one instance of jellyfin/immich/etc up to date. It's all a bit beyond my ken currently but it's the way I'm trying to head. At least until I learn a better way.

Ideally, I give someone a pi all set up. They plug it in go to service.domain.xyz and it routes to me. Or even IP:Port would be fine, I'll write them down and stick it to their fridge.

My parents and I run each others' off-site back up (tailscale-syncthing), but their photo and media services are independent from mine. I just back up their important data, and they return the favour, but we can't access or share anything.

Guides like yours are great for showing what's possible. I often find myself not knowing what I don't know so don't really know where to start learning what I need to learn.

What a write up, thank you for documenting this.

I understand a lot of people in this hobby do it professionally too, so a lot is assumed to be common knowledge us outsiders just don't have.

While my system of using tailscale's magic dns to use lxc:port works fine for my fiancée and I, expanding this a family wide system would prove challenging.

So this guide is next step. I could send my fiancée to <home.domain.xyz> and it'll take her to homarr, or <jellyseerr.domain.xyz>

The ultimate dream would be to give family members a pi zero and a <home.domain.xyz> and then run a family jellyfin/immich.

Deezer. Last year I listened to 770hrs of music. The majourity of that using the suggestion algorithm. I couldn't buy that many albums and I certainly couldn't name the all the albums I've pulled songs from.

At home I'm an album person. But, in the distractions of everyday life keep blasting singles at me and I'll wait for something to catch my ear.

Also, Deez nutz jokes are so easy.

I remember Watchtower helpfully stopping Pihole before pulling the new image when I only had the one instance running... All while I was out at work with the fiancée on her day off. So many teaching moments in so little time.

How many desert island discs do I get? I'll do three lesser known ones

Make it all show - Skating Polly. I love the vocal styles, not sure I'd reccommend the band (I do have tickets this year though)

Masters of reality - Masters of reality. Not so much a band as a producer pulling talent and doing odd projects. Not a track on this I don't sing along to though... especially the instrumentals.

Rakshak - Bloodywood. Sometimes I need flute solos in my life, sometimes I need someone to aggressively tell me that shit is going to be ok.

3 more known ones.

Dummy - Portishead. Original pirate material - The streets. New levels new devils - Polyphia

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Instant pot. I mostly use it for batch cooking, making homemade stocks and rice now. But, I used to make yoghurt in it weekly and proof dough in it every 3 days or so.

It advertised a bunch of functions and it only sucks at slow cooking, but pressure cooking is faster and better imo, it does suck at slow cooking though.

A good general suggestion. The WAF I follow are 'reasonable' expense, reasonable form factor, and a physical investment. I floated the idea of a VPS and that's when I learned of the third criteria. It is what it is.

I just started on this 8tb HDD so it isn't very full right now, I could raise the ratio limits. But, I worry about filling the HDD and part of me worries about 100s of torrents on an n100 doing other things. So I'm keeping the habit from my pi4+1TB days of deleting media behind us and keeping the torrent count low.

I justify it as self managing though: popular Isos are on then off my harddrive fairly quickly, but the ones that need me will sit and wait until they hit the ratio of 3 however long that is. I would like to do "3 + (get that last seeder to 100%)" but I don't know how/if it's possible to automate through prowlarr.