Lifebandit666

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.

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.

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.

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.

My words.

When you read "Cloud" change the word in your head to "Someone else's computer"

So when I was using Tuya lightbulbs I was connecting Tuya's Computer to Googles Computer to turn my lights on.

Now I use Home Assistant, I'm connecting MY computer to Googles Computer to turn the lights on, since I'm asking Google to turn MY lights on.

I can just not use the Google Cloud and have a voice assistant in Home Assistant do it, then I'm just using my own computer.

Now then, you don't think that all the photos you've ever taken reside in an app on your phone do you, because if you do I've got some news for you....

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.

I tried it out yesterday. All I wanted to do was add names to my services. I managed to get Homarr to show up when I go to server.local but couldn't then get Overseerr to show when I go to overseerr.server.local or server.local/overseerr

So after an hour or so of fiddling I gave up.

I use Tailscale so I just don't need to have everything sent to my domain, but I'm struggling just keeping it all on the local network.

I've tried a bunch of different approaches to VPN in my short self hosted journey.

I chose Mullvad as my VPN and tried to make a container containing an OpenWRT router, a Windows machine, a bunch of containers within containers (Docker in LXC) before learning that's a shit way of doing things, and then I found Gluetun.

It was so simple to set up, and there was a dude on YouTube with all the Docker compose files and explanations, so I learned what I was doing as I was doing it.

Ultimately the only reason I didn't end up using it was because I didn't have my Plex instance in the stack and it couldn't communicate with the containers I was deploying, a trifle really.

I took what I learned from my Gluetun stack and used it to run Docker in a Debian VM with a the Mullvad app running, which is arguably easier but uses more resources since I run a second VM with Plex and other server stuff in Docker, and I could theoretically run it all in the same VM with a little more knowledge.

It cost me £15 to change the carbon brushes on my washing machine and a 10 minute video on YouTube. The Washer Shop charge £75 to do it, and I considered paying it too.

It's a bit like that.

Nobody is saying you're not helpful. Actually, nobody is going back through your history to even see if you're helpful.

All people are saying is, in the future, post a brief description of the app you're linking.

Don't take all these comments so personally pal, chin up. Just walk away and forget about it until you next post, and when you doz drop a quick description of the app you're linking the change log for. That way people will have to find something else to moan about instead.

You can't please everyone, there's far too many of us, so please yourself.

Hey man, keep it up, just put a description of what the app is with the update.

I personally clicked in just to see what the hell it was. I mean this one is useless to me, but maybe something else you're using is not. So a description in the title of what it does would be helpful, then I can go "Oooh a new thing to play with" when I scroll past it.

Well I've just successfully used the new Google screen AI feature on my phone for the first time because of your comment.

Highlighted Symphonium and searched and downloaded in seconds. It's a cool app, like it