I saw an appreciation post for Gluetun on here in the last couple of weeks. I’d set it up before my server died and I had to reinstall everything, but then gone for the easy method when I was reinstalling....
Thanks for that, yeah it’s kinda integral to an appreciation post, what is it exactly.
So what Gluetun has done has replaced all the messing around with VPNs for me. Rather than having a specific VM for VPN tasks running using Mullvads app, I can now run the VPN stuff in my VM that was previously just for clearnet things at the same time as those things, without the additional app.
I’ve just deleted the app and containers in the VPN VM and am repurposing it for trying out new things in Docker. Current project is Nextcloud AIO, which I’m failing at for now.
I like the fact that my Android phone records my location timeline from Google Maps, but the fact that this is stored in Google servers creeps me out....
I did this a while ago. The useful thing (and I don’t know if it’s covered in the blog because I didn’t read it) is setting it up as an exit node.
This is useful because I have other things on my network that I wanna access, like my server, and with the exit node I can type Lan IP addresses into my browser while I’m outside the house and still access them, not just HA
Could Rsync help? In OMV I can Rsync shares and it will check the folder I’m syncing to and just upload new files.
So you could Syncthing to the server folder then Rsync that folder to your Immich at xam every day, then just manually delete things from your Syncthing folder occasionally.
I use CIFS aka SMB in my setup. I have OMV running multiple shares, one of which is a backup folder for Proxmox to use. I pass this through to Proxmox by adding a CIFS share to storage in data center.
I too am playing with Tailscale at the moment. What’s working for me (although I believe you’re well past this) is just running an exit node into my network. I have Adguard and NPM forwarding and reverse proxying and as long as I don’t use .local it seems that the nameserver works on Tailscale too, although I do get some errors in my testing at work yesterday.
I wonder if you could set up an Openwrt container or VM and add Tailscale to it. That way you could port forward all the ports you want to Tailscale
Hello! I have Proxmox VE running on a Dell R730 with an H730. Proxmox manages the disks in a ZFS RAID which is exactly how I want it. Because I intend for this server to have a NAS/file server, I want to set up a container or VM in proxmox that will provide network storage shares to domain-joined systems. Pretty much everything...
I don’t understand all the words you’re using but:
Having had Proxmox sort out my drives and having had failures and Proxmox refuse to start if the drive isn’t present (it was present but forgot it’s label so it wasn’t there for Proxmox) I recommend just passing through the drives to your NAS and having it handle the drives.
That way if they fail then your NAS fails but Proxmox boots.
Also if you’re mounting them directly use the “nofail” option so it doesn’t kill your Proxmox if you don’t just have the NAS handle it.
I recently learned about Home Assistant here on Lemmy. It looks like a replacement for Google Home, etc. However, it requires an entire hardware installation. Proprietary products just use a simple app to manage and control devices, so can someone explain why a pretty robust dedicated device is necessary as a replacement? The...
The computing as to when they need switching on and off is done by the computer.
I used to use Tasker and Smart Life connected through Google to control my lights. It worked but it was fucking shit. I wrote all the logic for it based off my phone, so it kinda worked for me, and everyone else in the house hated it.
Now it’s all controlled by a computer based in the home, based on sensors that are in the home from all kinds of manufacturers using different protocols (because that’s what Home Assistant does, conglomerate protocols) it works much better for everyone involved.
You can try to make iot devices work without a computer or cloud if you like but it will just be absolutely garbage.
You can get pretty cheap domain names if you google around. I managed to get mine for £35 for a number of years (3 I think, I was high when I set it up) and got a .com name out of that.
You could look into DuckDNS. I know I used them many moons ago for Home Assistant but can’t quite remember what the capabilities were, I just remember it was free and a bit rubbish. But as a stopgap it works.
Try that for a bit until you have a few quid spare, then get yourself a domain name paid for a while.
I’ve just looked this up. So is Yunohost supposed to replace Proxmox or can I install it as a service in Proxmox? Will it run in Docker?
I’d have a go at installing it if my 10 year old wasn’t saving democracy on my PC at the mo (playing Helldivers 2) there’s no way I can prize him off that just to tinker with and ultimately uninstall, another service for a few hours. I got shit to do today.
I’ve been wanting to do exactly what you’re doing here on my LAN for a while. I tried to do it on Friday using Zoraxy and managed to get Homarr running on server.local but couldn’t get anything else running with a name (overseerr.server.local and server.local/overseerr just wouldn’t work, although I did get a webpage on server.local/overseerr it wouldn’t resolve properly).
Anyway as to your second point of getting a nameserver in Tailscale. While I haven’t managed to get a nameserver in Tailscale I have managed to get apps running through Tailscale.
My app was Audiobookshelf. I wanted to be able to just turn on Tailscale on my phone and sync to Audiobookshelf and managed to do just that.
I already connected Audiobookshelf at home with it local IP.
I then spun up a Tailscale container in the docker host that Audiobookshelf was on, signed in to it on the Tailscale dash, then just added the Tailscale network in Docker to the Audiobookshelf docker container.
Now I can turn on Tailscale when I’m out of the house and open Audiobookshelf app and it connects to my.home server.
Meaning I don’t need to remember the IP address and portz I set that up once in the Audiobookshelf app and connect to it at will.
I intend to have a go at attaching it to Syncthing next. I don’t have much use case for Syncthing at present so it’s a perfect app to experiment with. I intent to just attach the Tailscale network to my Syncthing container and just see if it connects. Then I’ll try syncing my Keepass database to my host as an experiment from my phone.
In my head it should be that simple. If it is I’ll just connect all my docker apps that way and spin up another Tailscale instance on my other VM that does my Arr, and I’ll have outside access to everything.
Another point to give you for your quest: if you set up Heimdall and a Tailscale exit node, you can put all your self hosted apps in Heimdall for ease of access and then just hit that through your Tailnet. I have a shortcut on my phone home page. You can then just click the service you want in Heimdall and go to that service.
Edit: turned off the exit node I had running inside Home Assistant and now nothing works. Turns out it wasn’t as easy to connect to the Tailnet as I thought, and I must have been hitting audiobookshelf through my Tailscale exit node after all. But that does mean that my final paragraph still stands, exit node plus a home page (Heimdall, Homarr) gives the same results, but without the nameservers.
Have a look into Heimdall or Homarr. Much easier, don’t need to worry about addresses at all. Single set up and add Tailscale exit node for external access.
I’ve been fiddling with it again today and (using Homarr) my only services that don’t work when I access through Tailscale are the ones I use names for (are.local, server.local, etc) and I can access them when I use the IP:port so when I get home I’ll just change them to IP:port on Homarr and I’ll be all good
I’ve gone through your steps outlined in this post now for LAN. I’ve made my own network name .crypt and added *.crypt to Adguard and pointed it at the IP address of Nginx.
I’ve then gone and mapped my local services in Nginx. So radarr.crypt sonarr.crypt plex.crypt etc and mapped them to ports.
Now what I enjoyed was that I had to map Adguard to forward to Nginx, but in Nginx I can use the IP address of anything on my network, not just on the host.
So it’s map Adguard in DNS rewrites to Nginx IP, then map the IP:ports in Proxy Hosts in Nginx.
Now when I use my Tailscale exit node (that I have from Home Assistant) I can use those addresses outside the house.
I have noticed it only works for the .crypt domains, and not .local despite being set up as well. I guess because .local is a special address it is harder to map to Tailscale.
Anyway, it’s working for me after following what you’ve done, I just did less in Tailscale because of the exit node
This looks interesting, but I don’t know if it can replace anything. I have Home Assistant dashboards and Homarr. Would be nice if I could have both in one place. But this seems to be a homepage replacement for news and YouTube, not local services.
I’ll have a play once I prize my son off Hell Divers.
He’s playing my Helldivers mate, I just worked out how to share my library. I’ve just managed to unlock the Patriot Exosuit but can’t play with it because he’s always on it now…
Integrations are things that Home Assistant can integrate and control in your house. They have to be added to Home Assistant by the team that makes Home Assistant. They are built in. However they aren’t necessarily made by Home Assistant, they may have started life as a custom component from HACS, which is a third party homebrew collection.
Add-Ons are added functionality for Home Assistant and may be made by the team or other third party contributers. So things like Mosquito MQTT server are added functionality. They are probably not available to the container version because they are basically things you would run alongside in another container, like Node Red.
Integrations should be available to the Container version of HA, but I have to strongly advise you to try to run a “Supervised” version or the Operating System HAOS on a machine like a pi or in a virtual machine.
Having run both (I found a way to run Supervised in Docker, which is basically HAOS) it is just plain easier to deal with the OS when things break because half of it is done for you so you’re less likely to break it when you use the OS.
Anyway, I’ve just checked and there is a Tuya Integration, so you should be fine either way.
This may be a simple question, but I could not find resources on that. Does creating a VPN into my home network using my router increase my attack surface? What are the security implications of that in general?
I’ve have made a lot of progress with Tailscale once I learned how to set up an “Exit Node” which is done in the Tailscale admin page. You set up Tailscale on your network and sign in, then set it as an exit node. Then (on android at least) you open the app and hit the 3 dots and pick “use exit node” then type the IP of your service into your browser and it’s magically usable.
There’s also Tailscale on YouTube which has walk through a for attaching Tailscale to Docker containers, allowing access to those containers without an exit node. I’ve successfully done this with Audiobookshelf so I just turn on Tailscale out of the house and open the Audiobookshelf app and it connects to my private instance at home.
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