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Tell me your most exotic selfhosted solution, the crazier, the better, no 0815 solutions! (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by ElevenNotes@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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I don’t want to hear about your Plex, your NPM, your notes application or science forbid, your budgeting application. I want to hear the most exotic thing you setup to selfhost, that probably only you and a hand full of people around the world actually use or even need. A problem that you solved in a way, that makes people go WTF. Go!

I’ll start: I live in the mountains, and there is snow, lots of snow. I often tell people “We had 3m of snow last year”, but is that really true? So, I thought to myself: Can you measure snowfall? It seems you can, so I setup a USH-9 ultra sound measuring device, connected it via IC2 to my Home Assistant and now I can tell people with confidence, that we had a total of 3.45m of snowfall last season, with max snow height of 60cm on January 5th.

Future project: I have chickens. They lay eggs. I have cameras. I want to know which hen lays how many eggs. Solution? AI image recognition of the hens (who is who) and if they have laid an egg. Any inputs welcome.

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[–] djbon2112@alien.top 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In 2018 after deciding that I hated ProxMox, that Ganeti was dead (and it was at the time), that Harvester didn't exist yet, that OpenStack was way too complex, and that I was interested in going the Kubernetes/container route (sorry I'm still a VM guy), I decided to write my own self-hosted hyperconverged infrastructure manager. I based it on what little I knew of how Nutanix worked, with a lot of ideas from Ganeti too.

And I named it after drain pipe on a whim at Home Depot.

https://github.com/parallelvirtualcluster

5 years later I have 16 production clusters, including my own homeproduction (but not including my testing cluster), mostly through finding a niche for it with my employer, and I spend a solid 25% of my free time working on it. It's not quite at a "1.0" release I'd be comfortable with random people using yet, but it's getting close enough for me to start talking about it on social media!

[–] GWBrooks@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

So effin' impressive. Seriously.