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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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[–] Anrudhga2003@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I've recently did something that made my friend go "why the fuck would you even need that?"

I've recently discovered that I can't neither VPN into my VPS nor my home network from my college. Both OpenVPN and wireguard were not working. So, to fix that, I'm running a shadowsocks proxy, which is behind an nginx reverse proxy, through which I connect to my services.

Now, I haven't tested it with my college network yet, but based on other similar reddit posts I've read, it should theoretically work.

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

Wonder how the college is blocking those services, did you try using a different destination port than the default?

[–] Anrudhga2003@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

The OpenVPN server did run on a non-standard port, and it still got blocked.