Self Hosted

As any good Plex server owner will tell you, one of the most important things you can do is backup your Plex metadata. Ideally, you should be following the 3-2-1 backup rule,…

By far one of my most-used Docker images is Mealie, a self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner. Adding new recipes to Mealie is as easy as pasting a URL into the app.…

Did you know you can add a custom image as the background to your self-hosted Homer dashboard? It’s pretty simple and easy to do (you can actually see an example of this…

In this guide, I’m going to show you how to add an internet search bar into your Homer dashboard. This is especially useful if you access Homer from a shortcut on your…

Like many selfhosters, having a dashboard to quickly access all of your selfhosted applications is one of the most fun things to set up in your homelab. There are lots of different…

In this guide, I’m going to show you a quick and easy way to install SnipeIT in Docker in 2021, then this simple step by step guide is for you. SnipeIT, for…

A few months ago on Reddit I came across another promising “content request & discovery” platform for my Plex users: Conreq. Conreq is similar to Ombi, Petio, and Overseerr. It’s an application…

In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to integrate your OpenSprinker smart sprinkler system into Home Assistant. By the end of this guide, you will be able to turn…

One of the most recent smarthome projects I’ve worked on was making my sprinkler system “smart”. After doing some research, I stumbled across an open source project called OpenSprinkler. OpenSprinkler is web-based…

In this guide, I’m going to show you an incredibly simple way to create a menu to display all of your most-used Powershell scripts. In this tutorial, I am using PSScriptMenuGui. This…