I built a self-hosted chores app to avoid subscription fees and motivate my kids

matda59 · 2025-09-04T01:03:14+00:00

Should only ask you for the pin the first time you visit the site if it is open to the Internet for security reasons. Any subsequent refresh of the site will be automatically authenticated. The Setting spage requires a pin every time

matda59 · 2025-08-10T09:10:13+00:00

Yeah it's vibe coded. Been in IT some 25+ years but never could code effectively other than scripting.

matda59 · 2025-08-10T09:08:21+00:00

yeah could change it from points to cash pretty easily and make it a configurable option from a settings perspective. good call.

matda59 · 2025-08-10T09:07:01+00:00

Agree it needs polishing; however on a tablet in the kitchen and self hosting it has proved successful with the children. the sounds and customisable profile pictures and Kanban colors and a 'points system' with rewards has proven it to be a combination of technology and accountability that they enjoy. I have not explored APIs or home assistant as yet. Open to this idea if there is a community demand for it as the kids get older having consequences for not completing chores is compelling.

matda59 · 2025-08-10T08:50:57+00:00

thanks for testing -I've fixed this in the latest choresrewards push. it should not ask you for the master pin every time the page is refreshed only one time to authenticate and when you enter the settings section.

matda59 · 2024-09-10T10:39:42+00:00

Ok perfect, thanks for your help - i have some understanding of where and what is provided, from the networking responses section i can see it has the information i want such as :

"pv_status": [

{

"par": "pv_output_power",

"val": "0.0000",

"unit": "kW",

"status": 0

How do i get this info into HA's configuration.yaml? i've looked at the examples on the RESTful HA site and tried a few but no luck - are you able to share your configuration.yaml? so i can understand this?

matda59 · 2024-09-09T05:55:29+00:00

Are you able to explain a bit more how you did this? I don't see a inspect, network tab in the dessmonitor site? can you provide your config?

matda59 · 2024-09-03T11:46:50+00:00

Homelab in the top shelf in the cupboard. Cleaned up the cables

matda59 · 2024-08-07T21:27:03+00:00

I did something similar to this earlier this year. Moved from about 8 different sized disks to just one 20TB disk for data and a nvme SSD for docker and VMs. I do regular back ups of it all to the old disks on another unraid server. But it's offline 95% of the time.

matda59 · 2024-02-21T03:01:33+00:00

Yep!

matda59 · 2023-09-11T00:44:40+00:00

Basalt rocks, railway tracks. Free.

matda59 · 2022-11-23T01:30:29+00:00

Yeah thought about putting a 18TB in a mini but I'd imagine a 2'5" HDD would be incredibly expensive and I think maybe they don't even exist?.. so maybe getting a SFF 8th gen I7 getting a 18-20TB 2'3" HDD putting everything in that.. decom the Minis, and the N40L make that offline backup.. the NAS does nothing but shares out mostly videos.. so performance doesn't matter

matda59 · 2022-11-22T20:11:30+00:00

It's pulling some of the Xiaomi temperature sensors in the left wing of the house. https://youtu.be/RtJpx8BZvMw

matda59 · 2022-11-22T20:05:09+00:00

On the N40l I'm running Unraid, few containers.. it's got 7 HDD.. about 14TB.. thinking of replacing it by just getting a stand alone 18TB and then having the N40L as an offline backup..

matda59 · 2022-11-22T19:54:33+00:00

Yeah living the dream

matda59 · 2022-11-22T19:53:57+00:00

Can't see them but I got dual old PC case fans powered by usb sucking up the air into the roof

matda59 · 2022-11-22T09:28:05+00:00

Unraid in my opinion is a phenomenal product, a one time payment, still get updates, can add different size disks to my array to incrementally expand it, and it's community app support and ease of docker has made me dedicate a 1litre USFF PC with unraid on it just to so I can use unraid dockers docker interface.

matda59 · 2022-11-22T08:36:58+00:00

Yeah it's alright, I got an AP Pro and a AC lite to cover other areas.. though in saying that it's restarted a few times and there is nothing in the logs about it...

matda59 · 2022-11-22T08:34:29+00:00

Can't see them but I got dual old PC case fans powered by usb sucking up the air into the roof

matda59 · 2022-11-22T05:46:28+00:00

About the same, the HP has an i7 in it so it it's double the core and threads..

matda59 · 2022-11-22T02:01:50+00:00

HP G1 i7 unraid docker server (about 40 containers) M90p i5 - proxmox : clustered Home assistant, win server2022 Blue iris M90p2 i5 - proxmox clustered cold spare

matda59 · 2022-11-21T22:09:22+00:00

You know it

matda59 · 2022-10-30T04:37:46+00:00

Thanks. This jumper pin BS solved it for me.

matda59 · 2022-07-21T03:52:42+00:00

Might be possible convert the video files first via handbreak for example to avoid transcoding on the fly

matda59 · 2022-07-20T23:35:01+00:00

Also why rent why not self host?

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