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What can the 'average Joe' start hosting, that will change their life? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by jaackf@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I'm already hosting pihole, but i know there's so much great stuff out there! I want to find some useful things that I can get my hands on. Thanks!

Edit: Thanks all! I've got a lil homelab setup going now with Pihole, Jellyfin, Paperless ngx, Yacht and YT-DL. Going to be looking into it more tomorrow, this is so much fun!

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[–] thomas@lemmy.zell-mbc.com 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Let me throw in Paperless NGX, https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx

[–] fgjbvdrgbbb@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you use for scanning?

[–] thomas@lemmy.zell-mbc.com 1 points 1 year ago

Device is a HP Pro 9010 Printer/Scanner with a local SMB folder set up as scan target. Paperless monitors the share and picks up everything someone (I) put in there. Scanner, PC, phone, anything which can connect to the SMB share. Dead easy and works reliably.

[–] kaotic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't for the life of me get this running, the web server just throws errors about the Redis server being unavailable, using their script to generate a docker-compose file.

[–] thomas@lemmy.zell-mbc.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What's the error?

Can you run docker-compose logs

Here's mine: https://cloud.zell-mbc.com/s/Ac5KQTTxcWNYbNs

I tried to add file it to this post but formatting got completely messed up, hence a link.

Before you run docker-compose you need to change the paperless-app volumes to fit your requirements and set up the variables in .env

[–] kaotic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I did update the .env file with the relevant variables, mapped the directories to local directories, Redis throws the following: https://pastebin.com/jgDVr4Jk and the web server throws Error: Error -5 connecting to broker:6379. No address associated with hostname.. over and over.

[–] tr0nix@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a ton of papers around the home. This looks like this can really help. Thanks

[–] thomas@lemmy.zell-mbc.com 1 points 1 year ago

For a while it's just data in, which it handles really well. But it really started to shine for me when I needed to find some of the documents. OCR and their search works very well for me.

There are also some interesting thoughts in here: https://skerritt.blog/how-i-store-physical-documents/