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I have tried Raspberry Pi to stream emulator games, but I had issues with bluetooth controller (latency problems), so I thought about pc game streaming to raspberry pi and bluetooth controller will paired with PC. Its all in close range.

Raspbi is connected to TV.

Thats my last attempt to make it all kinda wireless. If it fails, I will have to connect my PC to TV...

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We open sourced Voiden a few months ago: an offline API tool where API requests live as executable Markdown and are versioned in Git. We wanted to build something that combines the power and flexibility of Obsidian-style files with the simplicity of curl.

The basic idea of Voiden is that instead of being static forms, API requests are composed by using blocks (endpoint, auth, params, body). Blocks that you can add, reuse, override, and stitch together across files (more like functions than requests).

Most of the feedback, requests and contributions that we have gotten since Open Sourcing, have been around defining workflows, chaining requests, scripting them, and structuring everything in reusable .void files.

These are some of the key highlights that I wanted to share:

– Real scripting, (instead of sandboxes): In most API tools scripting lives in a constrained JS sandbox, an environment that doesn’t take advantage of powerful runtimes that might be available locally for a developer. The biggest limitation here is the assumption that the tool should define the runtime. Voiden runs fully locally, so this allows you to just run your scripts with actual runtimes (JS, Python, shell, with support for others being added).

– Multiple requests per file (mini workflows): Allowing multiple requests in a single .void file turned out to be surprisingly useful. Instead of scattering related requests, you can group them naturally: an order flow (create - pay - confirm), or a full CRUD cycle in one place. The file effectively becomes an executable flow: run one request, or the entire sequence end-to-end. And since Voiden is executable Markdown, docs and tests are in the same .void file that can be organised better, preventing duplication and drift.

– Stitch (composable workflows across files): Instead of a single large collection, workflows (“Stitch”) are built from .void files that you can combine across scenarios. You define small flows (auth, setup, CRUD, etc.) and stitch them together into larger workflows, without duplication. This is just the first version of this capability, we still have a lot to do here.

– Agents :The file-based, local-first model also works well with agents. Since Voiden has a built-in terminal and uses Markdown, we added “skills” so that Claude and Codex agents can work directly with .void files (using your own subscriptions).

We also published an SDK for community plugins, and made improvements to performance, reliability, and DX (keyboard-first), with careful attention to performance given the Electron base

Looking for feedback and suggestions.

Github : https://github.com/VoidenHQ/voiden

Download : https://voiden.md/download

Latest Lemmy discussion : https://lemmy.world/post/43922166

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Hey all, I would like to do some brainstorming here :) People use ticketing systems for a variety of purposes and I can relate with that, since those systems make organizing collective work load in groups, especially those who don't meet everyday in person, a lot easier.

There are lot of ticketing systems around and I really like some of them, such as zammad, e.g. In recent days I heard several people discussing different workflows for there community organizations or other civil projects, where ticket systems could really provide some help for them. The problem with all ticketing systems is, that non of them provides a real ability for end-to-end encrypted (e2ee) communication, which apparently was a proper concern.

The main problem here is, that real e2ee has to be implemented via a client (desktop) app. Yes, zammad also provides some "support for pgp", but the problem here is, that the pgp keys are stored on the server itself. So when the server gets compromised, the attacker will be able to just take the (d)encryption keys alongside with the actual encrypted messages. This obviously breaks the fundamental idea of e2ee, not having to trust the server itself for data confidentiality.

Thats why I think it needs a client side solution for this. Now I think there are two options here:

  1. Build a client app for an existing ticketing system
  2. Build a server applications, that can be talked to through existing (maybe modified) mail clients

I see pros and cons for both here. Pros:

  1. Building a client app for an existing ticketing service saves one the time to reinvent all the complex ticketing logic
  2. I don't know anything about coding frontends (GUI's, javascript, etc), I could just take an existing client

Cons:

  1. See Pro for 2.
  2. See Pro for 1.

Since I am not a software developer, I thought I'll ask around here for some thoughts, opinions and tips :)

Talking about taking/forking/using ether an existing client or server app, I would only considers a popular/proven and not some edge products. Thanks, if you made it all the way down here :)

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Self-hosting adjacent, but you have to watch your jellyfin content somewhere, or connect to your audiobook store... Or even music.. what do you guys use for music?

Anyway, Amazon's firetv stick had a great remote. But sideloading on it comes to an end and it needs replacing. What do you guys have? Anything with a good remote and UI?

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45721955

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45721951

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45721900

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45721589

Hi All, It has been while,

Dograh is an open-source, self-hostable voice AI agent platform. Think n8n but for phone calls. Visual workflow builder, inbound and outbound calling, bring your own LLM, STT, and TTS.

GitHub: https://github.com/dograh-hq/dograh

Setup

one command with Docker, about 2 minutes. No signup or API keys needed to get started:

What is new

Pre-call data fetch. Hit your CRM, ERP, or any HTTP endpoint during call setup and inject the response into your prompts. The agent greets the caller by name, references their account status, skips the "can I get your customer ID" step. Configure a POST endpoint in the Start Call node - API key, bearer, basic, or custom header auth supported. 10-second timeout; if the endpoint fails, the call continues without the extra context. Reference fetched values anywhere in prompts with {{customer_name}} syntax.

Pre-recorded voice mixing. Drop in actual human recordings for the predictable parts - greetings, confirmations, hold messages - and let TTS handle only what needs to be dynamic. The greeting sounds human because it is. Latency goes down, TTS costs go down.

Speech-to-speech via Gemini 3.1 Flash Live. One single streaming connection replaces the separate STT, LLM, and TTS hops. Turn response latency drops noticeably and the conversations feel more natural.

Post-call QA with sentiment analysis and miscommunication detection. Full per-turn call traces via Langfuse.

Tool calls, knowledge base, variable extraction are all there too.

What is coming

Real-time noise separation for live call streams - still the thing I most want to solve after last week's thread. BSD-2 licensed.

GitHub: https://github.com/dograh-hq/dograh

Special thanks to this community that supported me with my last post ❤️

Happy to get feedback and contributors. A star would mean a lot


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I'm putting together a bunch of my old PC parts to get a home server going, and i was wondering what the best OS would be. I have Mint installed on it currently, but I'm not sure thats the best option so I'm looking for alternatives.

I'm definitely a Linux novice, so I dont want anything super complicated. I was thinking of using Debian since it seems decent, but I really know nothing about the different distros and would appreciate a good starting point if anything

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I have a Syn DS 220+ 2Gb RAM and a GmkTec miniPC with Intel N100, 16 GB DDR4 running Proxmox V8.4...

NAS services:

  • Synology Office + calendar
  • Restic
  • Rsync

Proxmox services:

  • piHole
  • Jellyfin + related services
  • Docker with less than 5 stacks.

The miniPC is at its limits with NVME and sometimes even piHole hits a snag.

Recently I finished helping a friend setup TrueNAS 25.04 and I love it.

I could get my hands on a SFF PC at 180$ and some 64 GB DDR4 ECC with 90$.

I would like to also host Forgejo and maybe the frontend of some small website. Ideally, I'd like to setup Kerberos for NFS sharing too and with Synology that failed spectacularly.

So, after all this context, would you advise me to migrate from Syn+Nucbox to TrueNAS or not? What is your reasoning?

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Trying to figure it out and work on extensions but it seems their own plugins can’t work on your server as extensions…?

Also, would be curious to hear of anyone else’s TRMNL experiences (beside the cringe lord CEO).

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Self-hosted hosting control panel using Cloudflare Zero Trust Tunnels to securely route multiple domains from a single machine, even on a residential ISP without opening firewall ports. Includes SSL, Multi-PHP, PHPMA, DB, DNS, Backups, WireGuard management and more.

https://inetpanel.info/

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Hi there, i have a few questions about GL-Mt3000 and Openwrt.

Context Wall fell free to skip:

spoilerI bought a year ago a Gl-Mt3000 and have been using it as a home router since then.

It was fantastic, since the interface is really easy, i put all my iot on a guest network, my family cellphones on another and activated Adguardhome with little knowledge needed.

Now, i wanted to start learning a bit more, so i decided to host the dns sinkhole (Adguard Home) by myself on my main network.

I more or less got it working, it shouted a few errors but it worked. My problem is that the iot devices on the guest network can't access it.

Tinkering with the gl-inet interface i was able to proxy all dns request to the Adguard server, but since they are redirected from the router i lose the statistics since every query appears as if it was done by the router itself.

From what i read, there are ways to make the udp 53 port reach the guest network but it flew a bit over my head, and i don't know how touching luci will mess with the gl-inet interface.

Questions:

Is there any benefit to host AdguardHome outside the router? I did it to learn, but i don't know if it has any advantages.

I plan to learn openwrt and flash the router to vanilla openwrt. My reasons are that:

  • I feel restricted by the gl-inet interface.
  • Gl-inet doesn't seem to update too frequently their firmware.
  • I'm worried their custom software will cause problems if i tinker Luci too much.
  • I think it will easier to learn the vanilla version than a custom version.

Does all of this make sense? Do you think is worth to spend time on this?

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New release: Newspipe 11.3.0 🚀

Security & privacy take the spotlight in this version:

  • Fixed multiple XSS and SSRF vulnerabilities (thanks fyrepaw13 🙌)
  • Safer API with stricter field validation and sanitization
  • State-changing routes now protected with POST + CSRF tokens
  • More privacy-friendly bookmarks page

Plus UX improvements across bookmarks, forms, and charts.

https://github.com/cedricbonhomme/newspipe

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I built ActuFeed because I wanted a simple, distraction-free way to follow exactly the news sources I care about — without algorithms, ads, or tracking.

Key features:

  • Fully customizable tabs and feeds (add any RSS or website) Smooth bilingual interface
  • Clean reading experience optimized for desktop (works on mobile too)
  • Very lightweight and easy to self-host with Docker
  • No account required

You can try it instantly here: → https://actufeed.com/

GitHub repo (open source + Docker): https://github.com/drenlia/actufeed

Would love your feedback or suggestions!

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submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by dhitchenor@scribe.disroot.org to c/selfhost@lemmy.ml
 
 

A very jovial greeting to all,

About 20 minutes ago, I started the build for Hubzilla 11.2; as usual, it will be available for all to enjoy, and update their own instances after about an hour or so, so please don't update until then.

If you're curious about the code, you are most welcome to check out the Hubzilla code at: https://framagit.org/hubzilla/core/-/releases

and, of course, the docker image code at: https://github.com/dhitchenor/hubzilla

Questions, issues and PRs are all welcome; I'm looking forward to speaking with you.

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نُشر تبادليًا من: https://hexbear.net/post/8061686

We have been without support for over five days. My children and I are struggling, and we desperately need help to survive. Every little donation can make a huge difference in our lives.

💙 Please, do not forget us. Your kindness can bring hope, food, and safety to my family.

Donate here: https://gofund.me/00439328

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I upgraded from a thinkpad x220, i5 2520M and 4gb of ram to my old desktop computer, with a FX6300, 16gb of ram and a GT 1030.

I already run my own mbin instance in there (the reason for the upgrade), but as it's a lot faster than the instance needs it to be, I would like to host other stuff too, mainly to Brazil.

I want to host things like searxng, invidious, maybe redlib too, but idk about other services. As there's the GPU in there, there could be some transcoding too.

Maybe a mixture of private and public services.

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Hi guys, I wanted to share a project I’ve been working on called xSpa. It's an implementation of Single Packet Authorization that works at the XDP level.

I built this because I wanted something faster and more DDoS-resilient than traditional port-knocking or SPA tools that rely on userspace processing or iptables. Here, the "drop-all" logic happens right at the driver level.

Key bits:

L1 verification (SipHash) in kernel space.

L2 (ChaCha20-Poly1305) in Go userspace.

It uses the eBPF ring buffer for communication.

This is my first Go project and my first shot at Open Source. I’m still a bit of a noob when it comes to kernel-level programming, so I’d love to get some feedback on the architecture and security. If anyone has time to check the code, I’d love to hear your thoughts on how to make it better.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/44496833

4 years ago, I posted about the weather service I did build. Back then, Serenum used OpenWeatherMap, but after a while they changed their API and I didn't have any strength to make the changes in Serenum API.

Earlier this year, I started with the new version of Serenum without Serenum API (too much work, too little time), now using Open-Meteo. I released the first version last week as a beta and now I find Serenum enough finished to share it here on Lemmy.

Still in beta, though, since stuff needs to be improved. But everything(?) works as it should.

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Voiden is an offline-first, git-native API tool built on Markdown Voiden is an API client we have been building that takes a different approach from most existing tools.

It didn’t start with the idea of “building a better Postman”.

A bit of background. Over time, API tooling has become heavyweight: cloud dependencies for local work, forced accounts, proprietary formats, and workflows that break the moment you are offline. On top of that, time wasted on fixing API specs that don’t match the code, docs in separate random tools, tests also separate and an overall governance mess. Not to mention collaboration.

So we asked a simple question: What if an API tool respected how developers already work?

That led to a few core ideas:

  • Offline-first , no accounts, no telemetry
  • Git as the source of truth.
  • Plain text files: specs, tests, and documentation live together in Markdown
  • A programmable interface instead of static forms: requests are composed from reusable blocks (endpoints, headers, auth, params, bodies, etc.) that you can structure the way you want
  • Plugin system for extending functionality rather than bloating the core with new features Some of our core plugins include gRPC,GraphQL,WebSockets,etc…

We have just also updated our docs to welcome community plugins, so teams can extend the tool for their own workflows or integrations. https://docs.voiden.md/docs/plugins/build-a-plugin

We opensourced Voiden because extensibility without openness just shifts the bottleneck. If (API) workflows should be transparent, the tools should be too.

Welcome to try out and share feedback- happy to chat with everyone.

Strong opinions are encouraged. :)

Github : https://github.com/VoidenHQ/voiden

Download here : https://voiden.md/download

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What tools and/or resources can I use to start such a project?

I've been putting some research into it but besides getting conflicting views, I always get the feeling the advices being offered feel exaggerated for what I have in mind.

My intention is to solely publish text.

I was thinking on getting a RPi, perhaps an older model, to use it as host. My idea is to have the public facing machine completely isolated from my daily use computer and network, so that in the event the site gets attacked I can simply re-upload everything and be done.

For the website creation itself I've been thinking about using Hugo to start but in the background learn some HTML and build a simple site by myself to replace the original.

What am I not considering or misjudging here?

Are there any other tools I should be looking into?

Any thoughts on this are welcome and apreciated.

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How I could get a #LibreELEC Image into a #LXC or #VM container and AutoStart it on boot without interaction?

In best case without the need that this container use the graphic core exclusively.

I have to use one device for several usecases, but I do wish to split my #Mediacenter from other #SelfHosting projects.

#helpneeded #LinuxServer @selfhost @docker@lemmy.ml

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Hi, not sure where else to post this on the Fediverse, if there is a better community let me know and I will move this post there :)

I recently was trying to figure out an easy way to negate spam calls for my family. I am aware of tools like Spam Blocker however they are not fool proof. I don't really get spam calls myself, but the rest of my family does. The reason I suspect this is, is because I do not give out my phone number unless it is strictly necessary. I do not sign up for store memberships, when I'm on online shopping websites I usually just provide a dummy non-working number, and the only time I really do give my phone number out is in cases of emergency or for close family and friends.

This made me think, what if the family had a shared number to give out to take advantage of store memberships, online shopping, and whatever else. Then I could have everyone rotate their current numbers and do what I do where they only give out their main phone number in case of emergency. Being a self-hoster, this then evolved from a "family phone" that is kept at home, to "what if I could utilize SIP technology to let anyone in the family access the number from their own phones". I've tried looking into this on my own, but the most I can find is people with similar ideas abandoning the idea in favor of true telephony/SIP services.

The reason a telephony service won't work is a lot of the businesses have gotten smart about filtering phone numbers and will not let you sign up with one of these services (Especially if they have an old-fashioned 2FA method like SMS.) Not to mention, I prefer paying for my phone service in cash at a physical store for the added privacy of not having to give a real name.

What I was thinking was SMS USB Modem -> Home Lab -> SIP Program(?) -> SIP Clients (Phones).
Is this possible? Would SMS/MMS/Voice calls work? Is there a better solution that would be easier (While still working for my use case of using a real SIM card?)

Thanks in advance, hope you all are having a lovely day :)

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I saw some projects, but they all seem not really polished. It would be nice to be able to share sound too.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42574918

I am getting started with self hosting and one of the things I would love to host is a Signal TLS proxy using Docker.

Problem is that I have ports 80 and 443 taken by Nginx Proxy Manager (also in a Docker container), through which I forward to different services depending on the subdomain.

I tried modifying the docker-compose.yml file to use ports 9443 and 980 and have it working using a certificate created on NPM, but to no avail.

Being a beginner, it can well be that I don't understand reverse proxies well enough, but that's why, with your help I would love to take this opportunity to learn more.

Thanks in advance.

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