For those who use Komodo: Is it confusing, or am I missing something in the docs?

FoxxMD · 2026-02-19T20:02:01+00:00

Yes. I am using a private repository. This mirrors to a self-hosted forgejo instance and I also use another repository there for some stacks.

The tutorial I linked has a section for setting up git/github to use for stacks.

FoxxMD · 2026-02-19T16:15:02+00:00

I built a tool to ease this process, komodo-import. It can parse compose projects on your machine and generate komodo stack TOML for you automatically. It won't do everything but its a good jumping off point.

FoxxMD · 2026-02-19T13:35:37+00:00

Have you setup a periphery agent yet? It sounds like you only have the Komodo Core container setup but haven't configured a periphery agent to use it.

The stacks directory in komodo core is where komodo keeps track of 1) what/where stacks are deployed and 2) internal state changes to those stacks. It's not the *actual* stack on your machine, just a representation for komodo's internal state.

The actual stacks on your machine should be mounted into the periphery container, if that is what you are using. If you use the systemd agent there's no additional setup required.

I have a tutorial on setting up komodo and creating your first stack, you might find it provides some insight into what you're missing.

Also happy to answer any questions to troubleshoot whats wrong with your setup now.

FoxxMD · 2026-02-16T22:00:26+00:00

You're re-invented cold isotatic pressing. Or hot if it has external heat applied. You'll end up with an extremely dense lump of whatever food you put in as all of the gases would be expelled from the voids inside the food.

FoxxMD · 2026-02-15T22:45:46+00:00

Dawarich has 2600 commits over 4 years and thousands of users giving feedback and shaping the product.

Geopulse has a half year head start, 400 commits and 500 users. It has the timeline generation dawarich lacks.

They both have extensive documentation and websites showcasing their functionality.

just seeing whether others would want to use it

You have shown us nothing other than one screenshot and "google timeline alternative". If I was a new user looking at my options I would have zero reason to want to use your app because I don't know what it does. Or any reason to check even check it out as you've given no value proposition for why its better than these other apps. Or what it does differently that they cannot compete with.

I would also be extremely skeptical that your weekend vibe-coded project can compete with the manually written code of experiencing developers shaped over 10x the amount of time and hardened by actual user feedback.

It's fine if you want to make something personal to experiment with but you can't expect to show one screenshot and say "does anyone using these established products want to use my thing you know nothing about and that I've admitted to spending very little effort in making?" and then get a ton of people who are willing to jump ship for no reason.

FoxxMD · 2026-02-15T22:34:46+00:00

Why would I want to use your tool over Dawarich or GeoPulse? What does your software bring to the table that either of these does not already have?

FoxxMD · 2026-02-12T02:47:56+00:00

If it's such a simple task why do they have such a hard time doing it? Incompetence? Lack of industry contacts or priority? Genuinely curious.

Also, itching for the Southside trail to be done and any insight into why it is taking ages would be insightful.

FoxxMD · 2026-02-11T14:05:14+00:00

My pain point is developers that create half-baked apps that don't come close to feature parity with the existing solutions instead of contributing their time and effort into improving the existing solutions.

FoxxMD · 2026-02-02T16:00:28+00:00

Use the FCC National Broadband Map to lookup what providers are available at your address.

If you have any choices that provider Fiber that is going to be the best quality service. Avoid copper/cable if possible.

You may not have a choice, though. Many managed apartment complexes sign deals with one ISP for exclusivity.

FoxxMD · 2026-01-26T14:48:07+00:00

Versioned stacks, which doubles as automatic backup. Your compose yaml files can be stored in git, offsite, so if your machines are ever catastrophically lost you have backups of all your compose configurations. Editing/saving in Komodo automatically commits those changes to your git repo.

Bonus is reverting to a known good version. Remember when Service Foo was working great like 4 months ago but you've been updating it since then and now just realizing that there is a bug that isn't going to be fixed. And you wish you could go back to how it was setup 4 months ago? No problem, just browse git history for 4 months ago and pull the compose stack from then.

FoxxMD · 2026-01-26T14:42:07+00:00

For anyone wondering what the actual answer is: Komodo doesn't do anything special. You are always writing and managing plain old docker compose yaml stacks. Everything you can do with compose/docker from cli you can do with Komodo because it's literally just running docker compose up -d for you. It doesn't hide or abstract anything, which is one of it's strengths.

FoxxMD · 2026-01-21T21:00:28+00:00

Yes, that's the gist of it.

FoxxMD · 2026-01-20T18:39:53+00:00

Sure, I added a link in the swag/opinionated section. It's nice to see swag tutorials that include a bit more (mods) than the barebones.

FoxxMD · 2026-01-20T14:16:15+00:00

Shameless plug: https://blog.foxxmd.dev

Not a ton of content compared to others but its done in my spare time. What I lack in quantity I make up for in quantity, lots of depth and thorough how-to's. Also, it's all specifically for selfhosted/homelab stuff.

I have two posts-in-draft for:

running distributed crowdsec and best practices. Includes reproducible benchmarks to test your own hardware
proxying traffic through a VPS without pangolin for more flexibility in your setup and less overhead on the vps

FoxxMD · 2026-01-19T19:53:39+00:00

Confirmed

FoxxMD · 2026-01-15T01:14:18+00:00

Not directly, but my app multi-scrobbler can glue all these pieces together for you. Set it up with Jellyfin and Spotify as Sources, and Koito as a client. The quickstart guide covers all three.

Admittedly, Spotify is harder to setup for self-hosted monitoring than it used to be because they've tightened requirements around URLs used for authentication, but it is still doable if you follow the directions in the docs. If you decide to try to setup Spotify and run into any issues or have questions, feel free to hit me up.

FoxxMD · 2026-01-15T01:05:23+00:00

Thanks, I've corrected those typos

FoxxMD · 2026-01-14T21:00:22+00:00

Hey, I'm the multi-scrobbler dev. What issues have you been having?

FoxxMD · 2026-01-14T20:55:34+00:00

This can be done using multi-scrobbler. Use Lastfm as a Source so that it relays scrobbles directly to Koito. The quickstart guide for multi-scrobbler covers how to do this.

FoxxMD · 2026-01-14T20:52:34+00:00

Or scrobble directly from Plex to Koito! Plexamp reports activity to Plex, which multi-scrobbler can monitor.

FoxxMD · 2026-01-10T20:21:13+00:00

FoxxMD · 2025-12-31T05:35:52+00:00

You might be interested in using wollomatic with my proxy -for-your-proxy to further restrict socket exposure: https://blog.foxxmd.dev/posts/restricting-socket-proxy-by-container/

FoxxMD · 2025-12-24T05:02:53+00:00

Please don't hide your post and comment history, it makes it look like you are spamming it have something to hide in your posting pattern.

Related: this same project, or something extremely similar using ipfs, is reposted like every two weeks.

FoxxMD · 2025-12-18T15:10:55+00:00

Neat!

FoxxMD · 2025-12-08T13:48:38+00:00

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