I am self hosting it right now, but mainly for friends, family and acquaintances

In addition to rants, if you post tips, how-tos, explanations, best practices, suggestions, etc., I’d like to read your blog. Can you share the URL?

Thanks for all those explainations, everyone. Some of it was over my head, by I got the gist. 🙂

I just installed this a couple days ago and already used it twice. It’s super easy and convenient.

Can you try killall ssh on the client, and then try to ssh into the rpi again?

Social media is not the place to request or trust legal advice. What I’m requesting here is people’s experiences.

FYI, there’s also https://github.com/walkxcode/dashboard-icons ?

Its not an “icon font”, but it’s a good source of icons.

Is this a good use case for peertube? Spin up an instance or join an instance, and upload the video there?

Thanks for the help and suggestions!

It turns out that my template Debian VM doesn’t have a DE in it, and that’s why I couldn’t forward the GUI from the VM to my local machine: there was not GUI. I installed XFCE on the VM and now I can run XPipe on the VM from my local computer, without XPipe being installed on my local computer: ssh -X user@vm_ip_address xpipe open

I look forward to playing with XPipe - it looks cool and very helpful!

I host a bunch of containers on a few servers, but I don’t do any of it from my local computer. I have a VM (Debian) that I ssh into and do everything from there. Shouldn’t XPipe work the same on that VM as it would on my local computer? I wouldn’t think XPipe would care (or know) if it was running on a VM, as long as that VM has a shell it can integrate with.

But I suppose even if that’s true and XPipe works fine in the VM, there is still the issue of displaying the GUI on my local computer.

This seems really cool and might be very helpful to me, but I don’t want to install it on my computer. I don’t see a docker image for it, though it seems like it would be easy to create one; but this is a GUI app, so how would I run it in a container somewhere and use it via the GUI on my local computer? Or if I install it in its own VM (I use Proxmox), I’d have to use a remote desktop app like vlc or something, right?

I’m a noob at this so there’s tons I just don’t know.

Bitwarden does have address fields, and it also had custom fields so you can define any field you want (SSN, etc).

It may not be a good thing to store such info there, but my question is about what happens when you do store that info.

Also, it’s possible to have a login/password for a site but not give them your address, etc.

Same here. I get slightly frustrated by seeing the same post on multiple instances, but I understand why people do it.

When I want to interact with a post, I start with the one that has more responses, and maybe never even get to the others.

!newcommunities@lemmy.world

This is really fascinating. I’m on this journey, too, and do a lot that’s similar, but I’ve not heard of some of what you do/use and some of it sounds beyond my capabilities.

Well, I wasn’t able to figure this out and was just living with duplicate audio coming from the echo and the media player mostly simultaneously. But today I upgraded ESPHome from 2024.6.6 to 2024.7.0 and the problem is gone. Sheesh! :)

I’m trying to deGoogle/deFAANG/deBigData so I try to host FOSS alternatives to every service I use on the internet, though some services won’t be possible or practical (e.g., email).

I host:

• audiobookshelf (to stream and sync podcasts between my devices)
• baikal (to host contacts and calendars)
• cryptpad (for collaborative spreadsheets and kanban, though it does more than this)
• drawio (flowchart-like diagrams
• forgejo (my git repos and oauth2)
• homepage (personal dashboard of services and links)
• invidious (youtube frontend)
• lemmy (duh :) )
• minio (S3 object storage)
• mosquitto (mqtt server)
• nextcloud (can do a lot, but I’m only using it to look at Memories for photo storage and management - I currently selfhost Photostructure, but it’s not FOSS)
• peertube (youtube alternative)
• prometheus (metrics monitoring)
• qbittorrent (torrents)
• syncthing (currently only used to sync photos from my pixel to my server, but might be replaced if I switch to a photo management app that has an android app that can sync images)
• tiddlywiki-nodejs (pretty powerful wiki, but I use it just to sync text-based info between devices)
• traefik (reverse proxy in front of everything I host)
• tt-rss (RSS feeds)
• vaultwarden (password management - this is a fork of bitwarden)
• wordpress (for my personal websites)
• xbrowsersync (bookmark syncing between browsers/devices)

I use the d.rymcg.tech framework. It’s a little over my head, but the framework makes it pretty easy to use all the apps. It’s a bit tricky to add new apps to the framework, but it’s fun and all the source is there to learn from and the developer is really nice and really helpful.

Thirded. I self-host it (actually the Vaultwarden fork) and use it on desktop browsers, as a desktop app, and as and Android app (F-Droid). I also store secure notes in it (e.g. end of life instructions for my partner). Very powerful and versatile, and AFAICT, secure.

That sounds crazy, but easy to test. Thanks for the suggestion.

I use Solokeys. Didn’t know they were defunct. I just bought another from then a month or so ago. I use it for MFA, ssh, and sudo, and I’m trying to config Kubuntu login screen to require solokey but no luck yet.

I like solokeys, but the one I recently bought has NFC and, technically, my pixel7 running GraphenreOS can detect the device, but it doesn’t work. Many people reported this issue. In my experience, NFC is non-functional.

FYI, here’s the config yaml I’m copy-pasting for all my Echos. The only thing that changes are in the “substitutions” section:

substitutions:
  name: m5stack-echo-kitchen
  friendly_name: M5Stack Atom Echo - Kitchen
  media_player: kitchen_speaker
  encryption_key: !secret kitchen_encryption_key
  speaker_i2s_dout_pin: "GPIO21"

esphome:
  name: ${name}
  name_add_mac_suffix: false
  friendly_name: ${friendly_name}
  project:
    name: m5stack.atom-echo-voice-assistant
    version: "1.0"
  min_version: 2024.6.0

esp32:
  board: m5stack-atom
  framework:
    type: esp-idf

api:
  encryption:
    key: ${encryption_key}

ota:
  - platform: esphome
    id: ota_esphome

dashboard_import:
  package_import_url: github://esphome/firmware/voice-assistant/m5stack-atom-echo.yaml@main

wifi:
  ssid: !secret wifi_ssid
  password: !secret wifi_password
  on_connect:
    - delay: 5s  # Gives time for improv results to be transmitted
    - ble.disable:
  on_disconnect:
    - ble.enable:
  ap:

improv_serial:

esp32_improv:
  authorizer: none

button:
  - platform: factory_reset
    id: factory_reset_btn
    name: Factory reset

i2s_audio:
  - id: i2s_audio_bus
    i2s_lrclk_pin: GPIO33
    i2s_bclk_pin: GPIO19

microphone:
  - platform: i2s_audio
    id: echo_microphone
    i2s_din_pin: GPIO23
    adc_type: external
    pdm: true

speaker:
  - platform: i2s_audio
    id: echo_speaker
    i2s_dout_pin: ${speaker_i2s_dout_pin}
    dac_type: external
    mode: mono

voice_assistant:
  id: va
  microphone: echo_microphone
  speaker: echo_speaker
  noise_suppression_level: 2
  auto_gain: 31dBFS
  volume_multiplier: 2.0
  on_listening:
    - light.turn_on:
        id: led
        blue: 100%
        red: 0%
        green: 0%
        effect: "Slow Pulse"
  on_stt_vad_end:
    - light.turn_on:
        id: led
        blue: 100%
        red: 0%
        green: 0%
        effect: "Fast Pulse"
  on_tts_start:
    - light.turn_on:
        id: led
        blue: 100%
        red: 0%
        green: 0%
        brightness: 100%
        effect: none
  on_tts_end:
    - homeassistant.service:
        service: media_player.play_media
        data:
          entity_id: media_player.${media_player}
          media_content_id: !lambda 'return x;'
          media_content_type: music
          announce: "false"
  on_end:
    - delay: 100ms
    - wait_until:
        not:
          speaker.is_playing:
    - script.execute: reset_led
  on_error:
    - light.turn_on:
        id: led
        red: 100%
        green: 0%
        blue: 0%
        brightness: 100%
        effect: none
    - delay: 1s
    - script.execute: reset_led
  on_client_connected:
    - if:
        condition:
          switch.is_on: use_wake_word
        then:
          - voice_assistant.start_continuous:
          - script.execute: reset_led
  on_client_disconnected:
    - if:
        condition:
          switch.is_on: use_wake_word
        then:
          - voice_assistant.stop:
          - light.turn_off: led
  on_timer_finished:
    - voice_assistant.stop:
    - switch.turn_on: timer_ringing
    - wait_until:
        not:
          microphone.is_capturing:
    - light.turn_on:
        id: led
        red: 0%
        green: 100%
        blue: 0%
        brightness: 100%
        effect: "Fast Pulse"
    - while:
        condition:
          switch.is_on: timer_ringing
        then:
          - lambda: id(echo_speaker).play(id(timer_finished_wave_file), sizeof(id(timer_finished_wave_file)));
          - delay: 1s
    - wait_until:
        not:
          speaker.is_playing:
    - light.turn_off: led
    - switch.turn_off: timer_ringing
    - if:
        condition:
          switch.is_on: use_wake_word
        then:
          - voice_assistant.start_continuous:
          - script.execute: reset_led

binary_sensor:
  - platform: gpio
    pin:
      number: GPIO39
      inverted: true
    name: Button
    disabled_by_default: true
    entity_category: diagnostic
    id: echo_button
    on_multi_click:
      - timing:
          - ON for at least 50ms
          - OFF for at least 50ms
        then:
          - if:
              condition:
                switch.is_on: timer_ringing
              then:
                - switch.turn_off: timer_ringing
              else:
                - if:
                    condition:
                      switch.is_off: use_wake_word
                    then:
                      - if:
                          condition: voice_assistant.is_running
                          then:
                            - voice_assistant.stop:
                            - script.execute: reset_led
                          else:
                            - voice_assistant.start:
                    else:
                      - voice_assistant.stop
                      - delay: 1s
                      - script.execute: reset_led
                      - script.wait: reset_led
                      - voice_assistant.start_continuous:
      - timing:
          - ON for at least 10s
        then:
          - button.press: factory_reset_btn

light:
  - platform: esp32_rmt_led_strip
    id: led
    name: None
    disabled_by_default: true
    entity_category: config
    pin: GPIO27
    default_transition_length: 0s
    chipset: SK6812
    num_leds: 1
    rgb_order: grb
    rmt_channel: 0
    effects:
      - pulse:
          name: "Slow Pulse"
          transition_length: 250ms
          update_interval: 250ms
          min_brightness: 50%
          max_brightness: 100%
      - pulse:
          name: "Fast Pulse"
          transition_length: 100ms
          update_interval: 100ms
          min_brightness: 50%
          max_brightness: 100%

script:
  - id: reset_led
    then:
      - if:
          condition:
            - switch.is_on: use_wake_word
            - switch.is_on: use_listen_light
          then:
            - light.turn_on:
                id: led
                red: 100%
                green: 89%
                blue: 71%
                brightness: 60%
                effect: none
          else:
            - light.turn_off: led

switch:
  - platform: template
    name: Use wake word
    id: use_wake_word
    optimistic: true
    restore_mode: RESTORE_DEFAULT_ON
    entity_category: config
    on_turn_on:
      - lambda: id(va).set_use_wake_word(true);
      - if:
          condition:
            not:
              - voice_assistant.is_running
          then:
            - voice_assistant.start_continuous
      - script.execute: reset_led
    on_turn_off:
      - voice_assistant.stop
      - lambda: id(va).set_use_wake_word(false);
      - script.execute: reset_led
  - platform: template
    name: Use listen light
    id: use_listen_light
    optimistic: true
    restore_mode: RESTORE_DEFAULT_ON
    entity_category: config
    on_turn_on:
      - script.execute: reset_led
    on_turn_off:
      - script.execute: reset_led
  - platform: template
    id: timer_ringing
    optimistic: true
    internal: true
    restore_mode: ALWAYS_OFF
    on_turn_on:
      - delay: 15min
      - switch.turn_off: timer_ringing

external_components:
  - source: github://pr#5230
    components:
    refresh: 0s
  - source: github://jesserockz/esphome-components
    components: [file]
    refresh: 0s

file:
  - id: timer_finished_wave_file
    file: https://github.com/esphome/firmware/raw/main/voice-assistant/sounds/timer_finished.wav

logger: