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I have’ had a version of mosquitto running for some time. It’s a docker setup and it just worked. The author of the docker container has moved in a direction I’m not following. MQTT is a protocol for enabling devices that are “smart” to talk to your network and other devices or service you might …
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I was using the very awesome Calibre Web earlier. It is great software but I hadn’t bothered setting up Calibre itself on the server and I was rsyncing the database from my desktop every time I added or removed a book. This is great for getting the library started but once you’re adding and removing …
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updated Oct 12, 2025 I setup headscale a few days ago and have been thinking about a UI for it since. It feels like early days for this software despite headscale being 4 years old at time of writing. There are a number of UI packages out there for Headscale, all taking advantage of the …
This is one I’ve been meaning to solve for about 2 years. After I first stood up a server for myself. I had an SSH tunnel but this is, in theory a little more flexible and usable. A number of individuals have advertised tailscale and it’s virtues. Tailscale, as I understand it, is a client …
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This should be easy, since paperless very wisely provides pre-made docker images for you. The problem is that they aren’t complete unless you’re running absolutely bog standard and not so secure. There are others out there who have published their own experiences and I’ll add to the pile since I didn’t find what I was …
So, I have this docker server running a bunch of services through Traefik. This is working well for me as the services are picked up by traefik based on labels in the docker-compose for each app (instead of setting things up on the traefik side explicitly). Setting up a new app is painless with respect …
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The projectsend page at LinuxServer.io is great but missing something… like the database config. You CAN stand up a database for this and other services but wanting my docker compose files to create complete working applications, I’m happy to spend the memory and CPU on yet another database instance just for this docker container. There’s …