What is the one thing every self-hosted household should have?
Let's keep it simple. I'm sure most of us are proud of Docker CPU cycles charted in Grafana via Prometheus, but I'm talking about the house as a whole.
I self-host a bunch of things for my personal use, but Mealie definitely takes the cake in terms of benefitting the entire household. I like the meal planner and the ability to hit the supermarket once to get all the necessary groceries for the week (I've never been able to achieve this before). I don't think there is anything in my stack that even compares with the benefits my house gets of out Mealie.
My runner up would have to be any of the self-hosted media players (Plex, Jellyfin, etc.), but we also have Netflix and a bunch of streaming services, so not that impactful. Home Assistant would also be a close runner up, but it only provides great benefits for me, not the rest of the house. I think Immich will be on this list shortly, when it matures a bit more (are we able to import existing photos yet?)
Does mealie have a simple storage-system? Like, whats the stock on rice and noodles and whatever at home for the recipe?
I looked at grocy and its incredible bloated and complicated to set up. If grocy would have a set of default-stuff included it would probably be amazing but the set up process is... annoying.
I like Mealie too, just installed it the other day. I also found a companion app for Android that add it to the Share-with button so if you are browsing a recipe on your phone, you can share it to Mealie and it will import it for you.
Adguard is probably the one I like the most has it's used by everyone but no one sees it and better for kids.
Otherwise i don't see what mealy have to offer compare to tandoori and other similar apps ?
Most issue i have is with french recipe (we are french canadian) with theses tools vs books.
It would be great if I could have Amazon tell me the recipe while cooking..... Any that does that ?
Some kind of photo management and backup system. I never went the Google Photos route and am now very happy with using Synology Photos and doing backups of my entire diigital life with Synology Hyperbackup. Works great even when NOT exposing it to the internet.
Photo backup I use Amazon photos for that since it’s free with my prime account I just pay for the video space I back that up at my house and my wife’s office
The wife (or whoever does the cooking and shopping) is actually so organized that he/she uses an app to plan everything?! My wife wouldn't even have her windows desktop tidy.
Sorry off topic. I haven't found one that's impactful for the whole family. The most important might be the photo backup app (currently synology photos, might be immich later on), but I just configure it for my wife so that she forgets about it and the backup runs silently in the background. I recently retired an old synology nas to my parents and configured it for them too.
My number one is going to be my firewall, OPNsense. I would not use the ISP provided one. I'm, also, using this firewall VM as my reverse proxy, radius, ad blocker, DNSSec, DoT, etc.
The second one would be my hypervisor, Proxmox. I use three NUC8 cluster with ZFS replication for my critical VMs such as the OPNsense, FreePBX, and some.
Pihole or DNS-Blocker at all. My girlfriend tells everyone that she can watch content on the internet without ads. I guess I can’t get a bigger approval rating than that.
Tandoor recipes is another good meal planning app. I picked it because it seemed to have more features than mealie at the time. Don't know how it compares now.
Mealie is nice and useful but it’s not been updated in a while and mine doesn’t import from 3rd party sites correctly very often these days. It could do with a little TLC to be fair.
It's amazing how simple automations with some cheap ir motion sensors and self hosted tracking phones to see who is home /no one home to save energy on lights and heating
Add the internet DVR *arr + jellyfin stack and you have a true smart home
I'm also on the Mealie train, it's a great little program.
What version are you running? For whatever reason I have had a heck of a time getting v1 to run, though I haven't dedicated too much time for troubleshooting it yet.
he internet DVR *arr + jellyfin stack and you have a true smart home
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I'm currently using Mealie, but going to try Tandoor later this week. I find importing recipes from URLs does not import the right measurements even though the app is set to import metric
I don't have anything to share about services around the house, but to answer your question about Immich import of existing libraries, it looks like you can do that now according to the latest update!
Home Assistant and LMS (Logitech Media Server) are the two things that are permanently displayed on the hallway touchscreen and they are used all the time by everyone in our household. There are more things like Seafile and E-Mail that are being used heavily, but HA and LMS are the most "visible".