Alexandros Kastanis

M5Stack AtomS3 Lite flashed with ESPHome for Home Assistant

I have an ESP32 board flashed with ESPHome and a BME680 temperature, humidity, pressure and gas sensor attached to it in my bedroom. I couldn't find a decent case for the ESP32 board and I stumbled across the M5Stack AtomS3 Lite board that made perfect sense as a

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Over 100 containers on my homelab..

While I was checking out some Docker container logs through Dozzle I took a quick glance at the top bar and realized I currently have 100 containers running on my homelab. It all started with a humble Raspberry Pi running a few command line tools and Newsboat RSS reader and

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Zimaboard 832 is my 3rd Proxmox node, finally

After running a 2 node Proxmox cluster for the longest time I've finally purchased a Zimaboard single board x86_64 computer to add as a 3rd node in order to test the HA features. After installing the latest Proxmox 8.0.4 to an external SSD connected with

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Homepage on Docker

I've recently switched from Heimdall to a new self-hosted homepage app simply called.. well, homepage. Using docker-compose or portainer is the fastest way to deploy this amazing app : version: "3.3" services: homepage: image: ghcr.io/benphelps/homepage:latest container_name: homepage ports: - 3000:3000

Simple Linux server thermal warning using bash, lm-sensors and Gotify

During the summer months heat becomes a problem for everybody, even home-lab servers. Monitoring the temperature of your server in order to react in case you feel uncomfortable with the degrees it has reached doesn't have to be complicated. You will need the lm-sensors package installed on your

Joplin Server on Docker

I've been a huge fan of Joplin for more than 3 years now. I was on the lookout for a cross-platform note-taking application after ditching Evernote and Joplin fit that role nicely. Granted I'm on Linux and Android. Speaking of Android, since version 11, applications cannot

Gitea LXD on Proxmox

Your personal GIthub-like experience, with privacy in mind.

Filebrowser is a great Syncthing companion for mobile use

I am currently keeping a Nextcloud instance for my day to day paperwork and emails, but I happen to use Syncthing for my long-term storage needs. I've always had this need to be able to access my large Syncthing collection of files from my mobile phone without installing

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Goaccess is non-intrusive web analytics for your nginx-proxy-manager hosted sites

I've been looking for a non JavaScript solution to my web analytics needs for the self-hosted sites I keep, and luckily I stumbled upon goaccess. "It's an open source web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through

Docker isn't playing nice with UFW firewall rules.

While setting up my VPS I made sure to open only the necessary ports through UFW. Later I installed Docker and deployed a few services with a couple of private ports for control. I mapped those ports to the host expecting that they wouldn't be available to the

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Kavita e-book library on docker

Looking for a lightweight replacement for your Ubooquity e-book library? Here's a good one

KeepassXC Appimage on Ubuntu with Yubikey Challenge-Response

Securing your password database with a single password should be considered high risk. After purchasing a Series 5 Yubikey I thought of hardening my KeepassXC database security by locking it with the extra Challenge-Response method used with Yubikey. I noticed that KeepassXC, the Appimage version, wouldn't recognize the

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Navidrome on docker replaced my recent Airsonic setup.

Navidrome is an excellent replacement for the recently defunct Airsonic.

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Airsonic media server on docker

Setup and run your very own music server in minutes, then face the hard part of fixing up your collection.

Make yourself a Certification Authority (SSL, HTTPS) and stop browsers from nagging about your connections not being private.

If you are fed up with browsers nagging you about the privacy and security of your self-signed apps certificates then it is time you take matters in your own hands and become a full-fledged Certification Authority, without the actual certification part, in just a few simple steps and stop that

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Track your car expenses and fuel consumption with Hammond on docker

Car mileage and expenses for the whole family, self-hosted of course.

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Audioserve HTML 5 based audio server on docker, great for audiobooks

There are lots of self-hosted all-in-one audio servers out there, but audiobooks need some special features found on this one.

Tox is a privacy-first decentralized chat protocol

Simple to set up and use, Tox is my choice for chatting privately with friends and family.

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Wallabag is your private read-it-later server on docker

It's been years since I last used a read-it-later service and I must admit that I've missed it a lot

Gotify self-hosted push notification server on docker

I always knew I needed this, yesterday I found out it existed!!

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LanguageTool spell checker on docker with browser and office add-ons

Self-hosted spell checking with an amazing interface? Yes, please!

AntennaPod, open source Android podcast player for great Podgrab integration.

This is the Android podcast player I will be recommending from now on!

Automatic docker image updates with Watchtower

Easily update and restart all of your containers with Watchtower.

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linkding bookmarks manager on docker

Bookmark management made easy. Tag, search and have them available on all your devices.

Brand new laptop, Linux needs time.

New laptop comes with yet unsupported WiFi on Linux, not a surprise but I feel the need to rant.. about Windows.. lol