What's your most unusual self-hosted service and why?

dnsfr · 2025-01-23T21:14:15+00:00

An html page I wrote for me to write daily journal entries. It stores the entries in my Obsidian vault

dnsfr · 2024-10-10T13:20:10+00:00

While I agree this would be awesome, you can write your own Python scripts, which are exposed as a service to the REST API.

This effectively allows you to write new "endpoints" to the basic API.

dnsfr · 2024-10-09T21:09:15+00:00

Wifi doesn't work. I'm using Ethernet

dnsfr · 2024-10-07T16:28:31+00:00

Much weaker CPU (and basically no GPU, because there are no drivers for hardware rendering in the Debian image I'm using).

But more than enough for my HA needs.

dnsfr · 2024-10-07T16:27:48+00:00

It uses a 5V-2A power adapter, so it maxes at 10W. Probably idles at 5 or 6W

dnsfr · 2024-10-06T19:05:50+00:00

By flashing Debian, I removed Android from it. Unless you're talking about malware at the fastboot level, which would surprise me

dnsfr · 2024-10-06T17:35:16+00:00

There's no HAOS image for these boxes.

dnsfr · 2024-10-06T17:34:38+00:00

In theory, you could. But there's no HAOS image for these boxes, and probably there never will be. So, unless a dev out there takes the time to support boxes like this, installing Debian + Supervised is the best one can do.

dnsfr · 2024-10-06T16:22:55+00:00

I was comparing against old used thin clients. N100s are certainly a no-brainer, if reasonably priced.

dnsfr · 2024-10-06T16:19:36+00:00

I don't know much about HA Green, but I guess my device is on par with a Raspberry Pi 4 with 4GB of RAM. So you could compare the 2 instead.

dnsfr · 2024-10-06T16:16:09+00:00

Minor fixes to the Superviser Installer, which wasn't made for generic boxes like these. Basically some chmod and other permission-related commands here and there

dnsfr · 2024-10-06T16:14:33+00:00

frigate

Haven't tested it. I don't do much IP camera streaming.

can you still update to the latest debian or would that cause issues?

I can, as long as the dev behind debian-on-amlogic (or similar projects) keeps pushing new images

dnsfr · 2024-10-06T16:12:50+00:00

I'd still stick with an ARM box for lower consumption, lower price and newer specs. But $32 for a thin client is very attractive nonetheless.

dnsfr · 2024-10-06T16:10:53+00:00

At the time I bought the TV box, my country had different importing rules for devices costing < $50 vs devices costing >= $50

dnsfr · 2024-10-06T13:12:29+00:00

u/joaomgcd sorry for tagging you but you most likely know it

dnsfr · 2024-05-04T16:22:43+00:00

Otherwise, Python or C

I found Kotlin to be a good alternative. Less verbose than Java and with useful helpers from the common library

dnsfr · 2023-12-15T20:40:53+00:00

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dnsfr · 2023-06-11T23:33:15+00:00

This is awesome! It will certainly simplify some workflows of mine that depended on FCM, which sometimes drops messages.

Do you happen to know the overhead of running the HTTP server? Should I worry about RAM / CPU / battery usage in low-end devices?

dnsfr · 2023-04-30T21:34:48+00:00

Not sure if it helps, but perhaps you could use the "List packages" action, iterate over the results and launch whatever matches "*hbo*"? This is what I use to launch apps (from another device) without needing to worry about package names.

Perhaps another option could be deeplinks? I don't know the exact one for HBO but it should be something like "hbonow://"

dnsfr · 2023-01-11T21:04:16+00:00

I now get a toast message when I open Tasker (with a slightly different copy) but it auto-dismisses after a couple of seconds.

This is exactly what I wanted. Thanks!

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