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''Unless otherwise noted, all projects listed are [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software Free Open Source Software].''
''Unless otherwise noted, all projects listed are [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software Free Open Source Software]. Some projects may be commercial but with a free open source self-hosted version, other projects may be free and open source but also offer a we-can-host-it-for-you paid service.''


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This page provides links to a bunch of popular projects that have so far gotten mentioned during our meetups. You can find a more exhausted list on the [https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted awesome-selfhosted] Github repository, and the [https://github.com/petersem/dockerholics dockerholics] repository. Please add your own links when you bring them up during our meetups!
* Syncthing
 
=== Hardware ===


=== Operating systems with one click installers ===
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1hBgedPHaQXZwLwmx1ZsODRo84RVIKHgvA4upH5M_a-4/edit?usp=sharing Rubin's simple budget friendly first server slides]
* [https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=lenovo+thinkcentre+tiny eBay search for the Lenovo ThinkCentre Tiny]
* [https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2022/03/21/ups-i-did-it-again/ Uninterruptible Power Supply]
* [https://www.home-assistant.io/green/ Home Assistant Green]


=== Operating systems with a one click install system ===
The OS gets fully installed on a system, and then offers a management website for installing additional services without needing the user to run commands.
* [https://www.home-assistant.io/ Home Assistant] - HAOS provide Home Assistant for home automation, and handles one click install "add-ons"
* [https://www.home-assistant.io/ Home Assistant] - HAOS provide Home Assistant for home automation, and handles one click install "add-ons"
* [https://yunohost.org/ YunoHost] - A one click installer dashboard, very easy to approach
* [https://yunohost.org/ YunoHost] - A one click installer dashboard, very easy to approach
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* [https://www.proxmox.com/ Proxmox] - Commercial, geared more towards running virtual machines
* [https://www.proxmox.com/ Proxmox] - Commercial, geared more towards running virtual machines


=== Home network tools ===
=== New to Linux and self-hosting ===
 
* [https://explainshell.com/ explainshell.com] - Paste in a Linux command, it tells you what it does
* [https://boringtech.net/blog/intro-to-self-hosting-how-to-get-started-hosting-your-applications/ Intro to self-hosting] - An ok guide to get going, slightly dated
* [https://nerdyarticles.com/docker-101/ Docker 101] - Another ok guide on getting started with Docker containers and Docker Compose
* [https://github.com/tborychowski/self-hosted-cookbook/ Self-hosted Cookbook] - A repository of docker-compose configurations for major services
 
=== Management and monitoring tools ===


* AdGuard - Ad blocking
* [https://github.com/portainer/portainer Portainer] - Commercial with a free version, web UI to monitor and manage Docker containers
* Pi-Hole - Ad blocking
 
=== Network tools ===
 
*[https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome AdGuard] - Commercial with a FOSS version, ad blocking
*[https://pi-hole.net/ Pi-Hole] - Ad blocking, installable independently on a Raspberry Pi or as a container
* [https://www.ui.com/introduction Ubiquiti Unifi] - Super commercial, the affordable network and wifi hardware solution most people use.
* [https://uptime.kuma.pet/ Uptime Kuma] - Web UI that provides uptime status for stuff on your network


=== File sharing ===
=== File sharing ===


* Syncthing
* [https://syncthing.net/ Syncthing] - A really easy to use tool that syncs files between devices


=== Media ===
=== Media ===


* Plex - Commercial
* [https://www.plex.tv/ Plex] - Commercial with free version, media manager and client players
* Jellyfin
* [https://jellyfin.org/ Jellyfin] - An open source media manager and client players
* [https://github.com/Ravencentric/awesome-arr Arr] - A list of tools for automating the procurement of legally downloadable content


=== Backups ===
=== Backups ===


* Kopia
* [https://kopia.io/ Kopia] - An easy-to-use backup tool for users
* Borgbackup
* [https://www.borgbackup.org/ BorgBackup] - A more sysadmin backup tool designed to back up whole systems


=== Photos ===
=== Photos ===


* Immich - Basically a copy of Google Photos
* [https://immich.app/ Immich] - Basically a copy of Google Photos
 
=== Social media ===
 
* [https://mastodon.social/ Mastodon] - Open source decentralized federated microblogging platform, it's not Twitter
* [https://pixelfed.org/ Pixelfed] - Open source decentralized federated photo sharing platform, it's not Instagram


=== Smart home ===
=== Smart home ===


* Home Assistant
* Members of the [https://www.openhomefoundation.org/ Open Home Foundation]
* MQTT
** [https://www.home-assistant.io/ Home Assistant] - The best open source home automation hub/dashboard/automation thing
* Zigbee2MQTT
** [https://esphome.io/ ESPHome] - A system to control ESP8266 and ESP32 microcontrollers for home automation
* Tasmota
** [https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/ Zigbee2MQTT] - A more robust Zigbee management tool than what Home Assistant has built in
* WLED
** [https://kno.wled.ge/ WLED] - Cover your home in pretty LEDs ([[WLED 101|PS1 has workshops]]!)
* ESPHome
** [https://www.music-assistant.io/ Music Assistant] - Music library manager for your offline and online music sources
* [https://mqtt.org/ MQTT] - A behind the scenes services needed by different home automation tools
* [https://tasmota.github.io/docs/ Tasmota] - Alternative firmware for ESP8266 and ESP32 based devices with easy configuration using web UI
* [https://frigate.video/ Frigate] - Security camera NVR with real-time object detection
* [https://github.com/awawa-dev/HyperHDR HyperHDR] - Doing that thing where you put LEDs behind your TV
 
===== Smart home hardware =====
 
* [https://www.home-assistant.io/green/ Home Assistant Green] - A really affordable system to run Home Assistant, but it's not superfast and has limited add-on support
* Zigbee sticks - Double check sticks against the supports sticks list for [https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/zha/#recommended-zigbee-radio-adapters-and-modules ZHA] or [https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/guide/adapters/ Zigbee2MQTT]
** [https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/327216.pdf Intel white paper on USB port interference] - Always use a 1+ ft USB extension cable for Zigbee USB sticks
** [https://www.home-assistant.io/connectzbt1/ Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1] - No frills Zigbee stick
** [https://smlight.tech/ SMLIGHT] - Zigbee USB sticks and network sticks
** [https://sonoff.tech/product/gateway-and-sensors/sonoff-zigbee-3-0-usb-dongle-plus-p/ SONOFF P] and [https://sonoff.tech/product/gateway-and-sensors/sonoff-zigbee-3-0-usb-dongle-plus-e/ SONOFF E]
 
* Zigbee devices
** [https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/supported-devices/#v=Aqara Aqara] - Budget Zigbee devices that mostly work fine without their hub
** [https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/supported-devices/#v=Philips Philips Hue] - What's considered the best fancy color lightbulbs
** [https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/supported-devices/#v=SONOFF SONOFF] - Everything
** [https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/supported-devices/#v=IKEA IKEA] - Dirt cheap
* Wifi devices
** [https://cloudfree.shop/ CloudFree] - Store offers a multitude of commercial devices that have been taken apart and pre-flashed with local only open source firmware
** [https://www.athom.tech/ Athom] - Store with hardware made for FOSS firmware, <small>customer service is meh</small>
** [https://apolloautomation.com/ Apollo Automation] - Designed for FOSS and Home Assistant hardware, air quality and presence detection sensors
* Z-Wave
** [https://www.thesmartesthouse.com/products/zooz-800-series-z-wave-long-range-usb-stick-zst39? Zooz 800 USB stick] - Recommended Z-Wave stick
* [https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/ Home Assistant Voice] - Open source hardware voice activated assistant replacement to Google Home or Amazon Alexa
* [https://www.openevse.com/ OpenEVSE] - Open source hardware EV charger
* [https://rainforestautomation.com/us-retail-store/eagle-3-energy-gateway-and-smart-home-hub/ Rainforest Eagle 3] - Hub to connect to your ComEd power meter that talks to HA
 
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=== Searching ===
=== Searching ===


* SearXNG
* [https://github.com/searxng/searxng SearXNG] - A free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.
 
=== Local AI LLM ===
 
* [https://lmstudio.ai/ LM Studio] - A quick to get into local LLM inference server and desktop UI
* [https://github.com/ollama/ollama Ollama] - Bare-bones easy to use local LLM inference server with an API
* [https://openwebui.com/ Open WebUI] - Self-hosted web frontend for interacting with LLM APIs that are either in the cloud or locally hosted
 
Productivity
 
* [https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool LanguageTool] - Commercial with an open source version, proofreading in your browser


=== Email ===
=== Email ===
=== VPN ===
=== Security ===
* [https://nginxproxymanager.com/ Nginx Proxy Manager] - Securely expose your local services to the internet with the security of SSL
=== Not an overwhelming number of useful Linux commands ===
* [https://phoenixnap.com/kb/apropos-linux apropos] - A quick search through descriptions of other commands to find what you need
* [https://opensource.com/article/18/6/history-command history] - Show the last 100 commands you entered
* [https://phoenixnap.com/kb/locate-command-in-linux locate] - Search for files
* [https://medium.com/codex/understanding-su-su-sudo-i-and-sudo-s-in-linux-d26828fc14c sudo -s] - Instead of running 1 command as root, you can go into a root session until you type exit
* [https://spin.atomicobject.com/htop-guide/ htop] - System monitor showing CPU and memory usage for each process
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Latest revision as of 17:30, 24 February 2025

Unless otherwise noted, all projects listed are Free Open Source Software. Some projects may be commercial but with a free open source self-hosted version, other projects may be free and open source but also offer a we-can-host-it-for-you paid service.

This page provides links to a bunch of popular projects that have so far gotten mentioned during our meetups. You can find a more exhausted list on the awesome-selfhosted Github repository, and the dockerholics repository. Please add your own links when you bring them up during our meetups!

Hardware

Operating systems with a one click install system

The OS gets fully installed on a system, and then offers a management website for installing additional services without needing the user to run commands.

  • Home Assistant - HAOS provide Home Assistant for home automation, and handles one click install "add-ons"
  • YunoHost - A one click installer dashboard, very easy to approach
  • Unraid - Commercial, a very complete self-hosted OS that can manage
  • Proxmox - Commercial, geared more towards running virtual machines

New to Linux and self-hosting

Management and monitoring tools

  • Portainer - Commercial with a free version, web UI to monitor and manage Docker containers

Network tools

  • AdGuard - Commercial with a FOSS version, ad blocking
  • Pi-Hole - Ad blocking, installable independently on a Raspberry Pi or as a container
  • Ubiquiti Unifi - Super commercial, the affordable network and wifi hardware solution most people use.
  • Uptime Kuma - Web UI that provides uptime status for stuff on your network

File sharing

  • Syncthing - A really easy to use tool that syncs files between devices

Media

  • Plex - Commercial with free version, media manager and client players
  • Jellyfin - An open source media manager and client players
  • Arr - A list of tools for automating the procurement of legally downloadable content

Backups

  • Kopia - An easy-to-use backup tool for users
  • BorgBackup - A more sysadmin backup tool designed to back up whole systems

Photos

  • Immich - Basically a copy of Google Photos

Social media

  • Mastodon - Open source decentralized federated microblogging platform, it's not Twitter
  • Pixelfed - Open source decentralized federated photo sharing platform, it's not Instagram

Smart home

  • Members of the Open Home Foundation
    • Home Assistant - The best open source home automation hub/dashboard/automation thing
    • ESPHome - A system to control ESP8266 and ESP32 microcontrollers for home automation
    • Zigbee2MQTT - A more robust Zigbee management tool than what Home Assistant has built in
    • WLED - Cover your home in pretty LEDs (PS1 has workshops!)
    • Music Assistant - Music library manager for your offline and online music sources
  • MQTT - A behind the scenes services needed by different home automation tools
  • Tasmota - Alternative firmware for ESP8266 and ESP32 based devices with easy configuration using web UI
  • Frigate - Security camera NVR with real-time object detection
  • HyperHDR - Doing that thing where you put LEDs behind your TV
Smart home hardware
  • Zigbee devices
    • Aqara - Budget Zigbee devices that mostly work fine without their hub
    • Philips Hue - What's considered the best fancy color lightbulbs
    • SONOFF - Everything
    • IKEA - Dirt cheap
  • Wifi devices
    • CloudFree - Store offers a multitude of commercial devices that have been taken apart and pre-flashed with local only open source firmware
    • Athom - Store with hardware made for FOSS firmware, customer service is meh
    • Apollo Automation - Designed for FOSS and Home Assistant hardware, air quality and presence detection sensors
  • Z-Wave
  • Home Assistant Voice - Open source hardware voice activated assistant replacement to Google Home or Amazon Alexa
  • OpenEVSE - Open source hardware EV charger
  • Rainforest Eagle 3 - Hub to connect to your ComEd power meter that talks to HA

Searching

  • SearXNG - A free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.

Local AI LLM

  • LM Studio - A quick to get into local LLM inference server and desktop UI
  • Ollama - Bare-bones easy to use local LLM inference server with an API
  • Open WebUI - Self-hosted web frontend for interacting with LLM APIs that are either in the cloud or locally hosted

Productivity

  • LanguageTool - Commercial with an open source version, proofreading in your browser

Email

VPN

Security

  • Nginx Proxy Manager - Securely expose your local services to the internet with the security of SSL

Not an overwhelming number of useful Linux commands

  • apropos - A quick search through descriptions of other commands to find what you need
  • history - Show the last 100 commands you entered
  • locate - Search for files
  • sudo -s - Instead of running 1 command as root, you can go into a root session until you type exit
  • htop - System monitor showing CPU and memory usage for each process
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