I am self-hosting FMD and it works pretty well
this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2026
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That's my plan! Using their server, it works flawlessly for now. Love it. Donated right away to em
How difficult was it for you to configure your self-hosted instance of FMD?
I already have a server which I use to self host owntracks. However, I don't know much about nginx and after using the automated owntracks installer, I can't seem to properly configure reverse proxy for anything else eg. Linkwarden.
There really isn't that much when it comes to customization. Your reverse proxy needs to support websockets and I use Caddy for that.
I also host ntfy on the same server and FMD had problems sending requests to it. All I had to do was to allow FMD container to send requests to the host machine by adding ntfy.mydomain.com:host-gateway Docker host mapping to it.
Does FMD require the Android device to be rooted?
Nope
No. It can even auto toggle your location, when you give it one time permission via adb.