Matt The Horwood
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I will take 5 please, nothing more frustrating then the toaster misbehaving!
Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloudto Announcements@lemmy.ml•Lemmy Development Update August 2025English14·6 days agoyour all doing amazing work, its great to see whats cooking
Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloudto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Having trouble setting up NginxEnglish1·6 days agoWhat you need is split view DNS, setup cloudflare with your external IP. Get the wildcard cert, then in pihole add your local DNS names to it.
This is almost what it do, just I don’t use cloudflare. OVH for the win.
Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloudto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Anyone automate anything with smart thermostats and outdoor temp?English1·6 days agoI have door sensors and when an external door is opened, turn off the heating. Was after we had a firepit and kids kept going in and out and leaving the doors open.
Works most of the time, except that 1 door falls off the ZigBee network as it doesn’t get used as much
Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloudto Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services.@lemmy.ml•#SelfHosting community, how do you get notifications about your projects?English2·8 months agothis is a command I use to get the local weather
/usr/bin/curl -s \ --form-string "monospace=1" \ --form-string "token=YOURTOKENHERE" \ --form-string "user=YOUR USERID" \ --form-string "title=$(/usr/bin/curl -sk wttr.in/melksham | grep "Weather report")" \ --form-string "message=$(/usr/bin/curl -sk curl wttr.in/melksham?0ATQF)" \ https://api.pushover.net/1/messages.json > /dev/null
Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloudto Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services.@lemmy.ml•#SelfHosting community, how do you get notifications about your projects?English3·8 months agome too, pushover for the win
Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloudto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What’s your RSS solutions?English41·8 months agoI use nextcloud for a lot of stuff, so added the news app. In that I have a lot of GitHub repos I want to know get updated and things like the register and BBC news UK.
Edit: that also have a mobile app for just the RSS feeds
Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloudto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Self hosted solution for phone photo backupEnglish3·9 months agoCan confirm that nextcloud photo back is for the most part rock solid, they have had some issues when Android changes something and that mess up the process.
But I took have been running it for years, of your nextcloud install is ropey then your photo sync will be.
Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloudto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•How to get local SSL and use your public domain for local internal subdomains?English5·9 months agoI have that setup, my domain is hosted by OVh and they have an API that you can use to get a wildcard certificate with.
At home I run pihole and that has some sites in as local IPs, but if you look the same site up from OVH you would get an internet IP
Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloudto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•How do you solve dynamic DNS?English7·9 months agoI would recommend OVH for DNS, they have an API and are on the list for that tool. Also you can use the API to get lets encrypt certificates
Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloudto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Serving my media library to my TV (local network only), i need suggestionsEnglish81·9 months agoMy solution to that issue is to share my media over NFS with a raspberry pi connected to the TV, the pi runs OSMC (https://osmc.tv/) and has the media direct. you can control OSMC on the pi with your TV remote
Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloudto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•[SliceOfLife] Doing updates todayEnglish18·9 months agoPlease for the love of mike, update your servers frequently!!
I login to all my servers weekly for updates, both OS and software
Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloudto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Self hosted Nextcloud IPv6 local and external - I lack some understandingEnglish2·10 months agoI do that too, my home doesn’t have IP V6 at all here in the UK. so my dedi proxy’s ipv6 to my home.
Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloudto Memes@lemmy.ml•2025 round the corner! What's your resolution??English7·10 months agoim 800x600, all the cool games are 800x600
Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloudto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Security blindspots for selfhosted websiteEnglish20·10 months agoAlso be advised that wordpress will attract all the internet to try and hack in, so make sure you keep everything up to date
Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloudto Cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works•Release 1.32.4 · dani-garcia/vaultwardenEnglish1·10 months agoIve done my instanae
Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloudto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Nginx...two domains, same sites?English2·10 months agoWould recommend OVH for both domain name and DNS, they have DNS APIs so you can get certificates from lets encrypt with ease. Also you could update your zone when your home IP changes
Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloudto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•No meme todayEnglish39·10 months agoMe a user: hello, heres some money Me the admin: hi, thanks 👍
Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloudto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Loadbalancing between 2 locationsEnglish31·10 months agoWhat your after is DNS fail over or round robin, round robin would be my option as both sites could be independent
Yes, I would recommend not using docker to run things when starting out.
Learn how to use the command line