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Reverse proxy OpenMediaVault, Plex and Navidrome with Nginx Proxy Manager and Pi-Hole
July 15, 2023
My scenario was simple: I wanted to access the web GUIs of OpenMediaVault, Plex and Navidrome via a URL like plex.home.arpa without having to remember IPs and ports, inside my home network only and without the need for SSL/HTTPS. Nothing fancy, nothing accessible from outside my house. Here's how I did that with Nginx Proxy Manager as the reverse proxy and Pi-Hole as the DNS.
Using DNS over HTTPS with Pi-Hole and Cloudflared (Updated for Pi-Hole v6)
July 13, 2023
When using Pi-Hole as a network-wide ad blocker, your DNS requests still go out in plain text and can be seen by your ISP. DNS over HTTPS encrypts DNS requests between your Pi-Hole and the upstream DNS resolver. Here is a quick guide on how to set that up with Cloudflared daemon.
Set up PhotoSync app to backup photos from your phone to an SMB share on your home server
July 7, 2023
Google Photos began limiting free storage back in 2021, limiting you to 15 GB of storage when uploading photos in their original size uncompressed. Rather than wait and see if I hit the cap, I decided to try replacing Google Photos with a self-hosted solution. Here's how I did it.
Commands to turn off display in the Linux terminal
December 3, 2022
Sometimes I use laptops in the home lab, and to save myself on a few watts of power usage I use these terminal commands to turn off the display, then just SSH into it from my PC.
Autologin on Ubuntu and go straight to terminal
November 25, 2022
Configure an Ubuntu machine to autologin and go straight into the terminal on boot.