colebrodine

What I wish existed was a self-hosted version of OurGroceries.

If you want self hosted, I'd second all the Grocy comments. I don't use it because it isn't simple enough for my family, but I did like it.

I once heard a consultant refer to it as "The Fog" because it's like a cloud that you're inside of. 🤮

I'm honestly not sure. I'm doing the same kind of research myself for a new home I'm building right now and happened to stumble across this guy's youtube channel. He does a lot of great smart home stuff. I haven't actually purchased one of them myself yet.

It's a year old video, but it still is pretty relevant I think.

Local Control Video Doorbells - Reolink, UniFi, Amcrest, Hikvision, Dahua. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XCu6L0xn4Y&t=904s

If you'd rather read than watch the video, he has a nice companion blog. https://www.thesmarthomehookup.com/local-control-video-doorbells-reolink-unifi-amcrest-hikvision-dahua/

And it's really not as good at being a space heater as an actual space heater. 🤣

It works great with my self-hosted NextCloud!

My oldest kid is a senior in highschool and is starting to show some interest in Linux and this kind of stuff. I'm hopeful that I can change my tune soon and maybe have one of the kids to share a hobby with!

I've told my wife and family that if something happens to me, they need to start migrating all their stuff off my self-hosted services to cloud services because its a matter of time before something fails and nobody's around who knows or cares to fix it.

I used to have this problem. I started pulling a version number (like 27) instead of "latest" so that I could just pull minor releases when I did updates, and then I manually step up the version in the docker-config file for major versions when I'm ready for them. (I don't like to pull a major release version until there's been 1 or 2 maintenance releases since my nextcloud is fairly critical for my family)

Depending on your budget and location, a whole house backup generator can be relatively inexpensive. My family lives in a very rural area in the central US, so we have a backup whole house generator that runs on propane. I chose propane because those motors seem to have less maintenance, plus we have propane for the grill, etc, already on site.

I have a Nextcloud server that I setup (before Immich was a thing. I'm also running it now, but not using it for photo backup). I have accounts for my immediate family and all of our phones are setup to use the Instant Upload feature to back up photos.

Thanks for the tip on the GPU! I live in an area where power is relatively cheap, so I'll probably go for the 3060. I really wish some of these would work better with AMD since their drivers seem to be more Linux-Friendly these days.

If I get something going, I'll share for sure!