2026-10-09 10:46 UTC
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@GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2026-10-10 05:00
I have wireless wyze cameras in my house that are connected to a private network segmented away from internet access. because of that, it’s impossible for them to retrieve updates. So I wrote a proxy in crystal-lang that can proxy web requests over my private network to the public internet. this allowed me to pull the new hacked firmware and installed them from github while maintaining network privacy. a year or so later I began selfhosting gitlab and now I just have a job that pulls a clone there and all the cameras pull from within my networks.
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@smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2026-10-10 05:27
I have a lot of custom stuff, esp. regarding HomeAssistant integrations. But my favorite “stupid/not stupid if it works” solution is the following: I have an LG TV and attached Nvidia Shield. The Shield is the only input we ever use on the TV, and since its remote also can turn the TV on/off and control volume, its all we need. Which is pretty neat, only one remote. Except for image settings (i.e. proper bright picture during the day, different less bright image mode during the night). I don’t want to keep the extra remote on the couch just for that, but unfortunately, these settings are not exposed via HDMI CEC. They are, however, exposed via a web API on LG TVs. So my utterly stupid solution is this: install quick actions app on the shield reconfigure Netflix button on the shield remote to open quick actions popup add two quick actions, night and day, that curl simple HTTP endpoints on a VM I set up on the VM, a simple flask server listens, and then sends the (too complex for the quick actions app) API request to the TV. (I feel the need to add: the TV is in an isolated subnet and has never once communicated with the internet, and it will damn well die an internet virgin.) Anyways, this has been working flawlessly for 2+ years! I also have toggles in HA for the same endpoints, but honestly, never use them. It’s so nice to just be able to toggle the image via remote.
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@solrize@lemmy.ml 2026-10-09 21:29
Another idea I haven’t pursued: something that monitors the movement of local transit (BART trains, and buses) so I can check their ETA’s and locations from a phone browser. There are existing apps and sites for this but they unfortunately suck. They always answer “when will the next bus/train arrive at stop XYZ” which is almost never what I want to know. What I want is usually either “I’m on the #123 bus RIGHT NOW and want to get off at XYZ, how many more stops do I wait?”, or else “my friend is on BART and just passed station X. When will she get to station Y where I’m supposed to meet her?”. Anyone implementing anything like that, please take it into account. The transit agencies usually have API’s to get the relevant data.
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@nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-10-09 16:27
I play Schafkopf, a card game usually played by 4 players. It was always a burden, especially before group chats existed on mobile, to figure out if we’ll be four players coming Friday. So for 20 years I host a webpage for the 5-6 of us. It shows a calendar, user clicks the dates they want to play. Days with already registered players show in different colors. If a 4th player registers, all 4 are notified via email. Afterwards the page asks players for the monetary result, generates stats and graphs about money, game nights over time, individual player participation etc. In 288 game days I made 1278 EUR. I missed 53 game days.
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@Flamekebab@piefed.social 2026-10-09 11:11
I’ve written a Signal bot that listens for messages from my wife and me. It’s for sharing pictures of our daughter with a small list of people that want baby pics. The images we send it get blurred and sent as a preview, with an unblurred version sent as a “view once” image. Each blurred image contains an ID so that recipients can request the images again.
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@giant_smeeg@feddit.uk 2026-10-10 08:07
I selfhost podsync. Even for podcasts that have their own feel, I love getting chapters embedded…
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@justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-10-09 19:08
so, I’m self hosting for many years, with many many tools that i tried out and a couple that stuck. not sure if this counts as weird, but I guess the most fitting example is the following: i have a matrix server, which basically only a few relatives use to communicate with me, but I make heavy use of the bridges, so i don’t need to run those shit apps like Whatsapp on my phone. anyway, i really dislike voice messages, because most of the time i read messages at the computer or in the tram and i don’t want to get headphones out, or simply don’t want to listen to five minutes of car noise to get the information off the words. so when my next productive episode comes I’m planning to set up a matrix bot that sends those audio files to some stt engine and returns a transcript to the chat. I’ll set up the bridge to ignore this bot, so the whatsnot user doesn’t get spammed.