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What webapps do you selfhost that aren't media/game servers? (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Since selfhosted clouds seem to be the most common thing ppl host, i'm wondering what else ppl here are selfhosting. Is anyone making use of something like excalidraw in the workplace? Curious about what apps that would be useful to always access over the web that aren't mediaservers.

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

i dont understand ntfy.sh

you need an app to run to get messages? which you already do with home assistant and companion app or apprise. what is the usecase for ntfy?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    Home Assistant notifications and almost all other notification services on phones actually route notifications through a cloud service like Firebase because Apple and Google try to railroad apps into their platforms. Ntfy lets you actually self host notifications without a third party, but also without killing your battery.

    That's not the main thing I care about, though. Mainly I use it as a self hosted replacement for PushBullet, to share links and files with myself across machines and do some light alerting for servers and stuff (e.g. TrueNAS errors). Some of that could he done with HA, but ntfy is just better for some other uses with stuff like its web ui.

    Plus, apart from that ntfy is really easy to integrate with other stuff, like its easy to send a notification from a shell script or web hook so you can hack it into things that don't otherwise support notifications (there are also lots of things that support ntfy natively, e.g. the arrs).

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    i cant follow your first paragraph. at all. i use companion app from fdroid withouth gsf and a selfhosted homeassistant. you could aswell connect apprise to it, you can uding telegram or whatever..all in homeassistant.

    ntfy iphone and google app from playstore do share your data, right? and you use that to share data in LAN? i am confused.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Not entirely sure about the de-google'd version of the Home Assistant companion app, but I know the regular companion app uses Firebase (and whatever the Apple equivalent is called, I forget) to deliver notifications, and it still would using Telegram as Telegram also uses Firebase. Apprise is a bit different as it can use multiple backends. Regardless, there are multiple ways to do things. Ntfy iphone and google app do not route your data through a third party server. I self host the ntfy server on my own machine and domain and my phone connects to it and receives data. It will deliver notifications wherever I am, not just in my LAN. It also provides a nice UI akin to Pushbullet I can use to send myself stuff privately.

    You can't replicate all of what ntfy does with Home Assistant. There's more to it than just delivering notifications, it's the whole app frontend and persistent data etc. If it's not clear to you what it's for from my description you might have to go look into it yourself. Look at PushBullet, that's most similar to what I primarily use it for.

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