We like to sleep with rain noises at night, so I set up a home assistant automation to turn on the sounds at 9pm, and turn them off at 9am. I also had to set a trigger for when HA starts since performing a backup of the VM would result in it stopping at 3am lol.
I’ll add on to this fantastic comment, this is exactly what I do. I use the DNS challenge with a domain I purchased to point to a private IP (my caddy server). I probably do it a bit inefficiently, but I literally have a dns entry for every subdomain of mine and have a separate caddy section for each of them for https. I’ll give an example of a simple entry that uses namecheap as the domain/dns provider:
https://subdomain.domain.net/ {
tls {
dns namecheap {
api_key APIKEY
user username
api_endpoint https://api.namecheap.com/xml.response
client_ip 1.1.1.1
}
}
reverse_proxy 192.168.1.1:1234
}
You’ll probably have a different tls section for your specific domain/dns, and of course your reverse proxy will sometimes require additional config items.
This, plus if you love a smaller artist and want to support them you can buy their music from qobuz, download it (it’s drm free), and import it into Lidarr.
I've had an eventful week, I setup a laptop as a Proxmox Backup Server, moved my VMs storage to my NAS so I could reconfigure the Proxmox server's local LVM, and now I have qocw2 storage instead of raw disk files! It was super stressful, but seeing my incremental backups take less than 5 minutes was sooo worth it.
Also, you might want to put the backups in a dedicated partition or drive if you can, so you'd just have to reinstall pbs in case it get bad.
Yea that's the main plan, the laptop would hold the PBS system, but all backups would go straight to the NAS. if the laptop dies I can just find something else to put PBS on with minimal hassle.
This is my exact setup! I love symfonium because it lets me download specific playlists that I want to have at all times (in case of bad cell service), and feishin for my laptop/desktop where offline downloads aren't a concern.
I am still keeping an eye on Tempus though, if it gets good enough I might swap over since it'd be one less google play store app.
I just use a WireGuard VPN. Makes it so much more simpler. At this point I don't think I'll ever expose anything to the public internet, seems like too much of a headache.
If you go with a subsonic server like navidrome, you could pair that with something like Symfonium (paid, and only available on google play unfortunately). That's what I do currently, until something better comes along (Tempus is starting to look nice!)
Installing Grapheneos has been fantastic for the last several months since I made the jump. It quite literally took longer for the phone to update Google's Android out of the box than for me to rip that shit out and install Grapheneos lol.
I'll say the best thing about it is the flexibility to your level of security needs. You can completely run it exactly as you would a normal Android phone, or you could go balls to the wall and have separate user accounts for different services and only use non-google play store apps. I personally chose not to have separate user accounts because while they will show notifications, it doesn't allow (at least not that I could figure out) you to show the content of said notifications. It was immediately annoying as I don't want to sign into another account just to find out it was a notification I didn't care about.
We like to sleep with rain noises at night, so I set up a home assistant automation to turn on the sounds at 9pm, and turn them off at 9am. I also had to set a trigger for when HA starts since performing a backup of the VM would result in it stopping at 3am lol.