This Week in Self-Hosted (14 March 2025)

Weekly Highlights

Happy almost-Saturday! I spent most of the week making various upgrades to my smart home infrastructure and dashboard (hello, ratgdo disco and HA Voice Preview), which likely means my weekend will be spent troubleshooting why most of it isn't working (I'm looking at you, Frigate presence detection...).

For readers that aren't masochists, here are a few other things worth checking out this weekend:

• The developer behind the popular dashboard project Glance released accessibility improvements in record-time to accommodate a blind Redditor's request
• Two (unrelated) projects – BookLore (library manger) and PlikShare (file sharing) – announced they're transitioning to open-source licenses
• Tumblr frontend Priviblur and Reddit frontend eddrit both dropped releases with basic RSS support (for the feed junkies out there)
• The latest Google Pixel update introduced the long-awaited Linux terminal for Android devices – and Lemmy had some interesting (and hilarious) takes on what this could mean for the self-hosted community

Happy selfh.st/ing!

In the News

Home Assistant officially Matters

Home Assistant gains certification, but also a powerful tool for any open source project

Home AssistantMarcel van der Veldt

ESP32 Undocumented Bluetooth Commands: Clearing the Air

The developer resources in just one place!

Developer PortalMahavir Jain

Android’s Linux Terminal app is now widely available on Pixels, and here’s how to get it

The Linux Terminal app is now available for Pixel devices on the latest Android 15 update. The app lets users to run Debian on their devices.

Android AuthorityAndy Walker

Overcoming barriers to Open Source procurement in the European Union

The EU has just started a review of European public procurement rules, and have asked for input on potential changes to the rules. The OSI has responded advocating for changes to dismantle these barriers and ensure Open Source solutions are fairly considered.

Open Source InitiativeJordan Maris

More From selfh.st

Self-Hosting Guide to Alternatives: Pocket, Omnivore

Self-hosted alternatives to popular online read later and bookmarking services

selfh.stEthan Sholly

Self-Hosted Dashboard Icons

A collection of self-hosted dashboard icons and logos

selfh.stEthan Sholly

Community Content

Bookmark Management with Hoarder – Daniel Gerdesmann

Learn how to host Hoarder to manage your online bookmarks. Save what you find online, organize it with lists, and use automatic tagging to find it easily later.

Daniel GerdesmannDaniel Gerdesmann

I self-hosted my own RSS reader to keep up with the news

Tired of bloated and expensive feed readers? Try self-hosting one instead.

XDADhruv Bhutani

Android Self hosting - Lemmy.World

With the latest release of android it now supports some Linux functionality. I got docker installed simply by following Docker’s docs. Any thoughts or uses for a mobile homelab? What would be useful to have mobile?

Lemmy.World

Content Spotlight: Cup

Meet Cup, a lightweight platform for monitoring container image updates. Built for speed and minimal resource requirements, Cup allows users to easily check for container updates from its minimal web interface and/or CLI tool (which displays a neat table of results directly in the terminal). Features include extensibility via JSON output (ideal for webhooks and dashboards), agent deployments for monitoring updates from a single machine, authenticated endpoints, and a lack of rate limits when checking for updates.

Cup can be easily deployed via Docker or as a binary, with configuration options for running via CLI, web interface, or agent mode.

Links: Website, Source Code

What I'm Watching

• Termix: An Early Look - See the Future of Self-Hosting | DB Tech
• Automate Your Home Assistant Backups Like A Pro! | Everything Smart Home
• Self-Host a local AI platform! Ollama + Open WebUI | Christian Lempa
• Getting Started with Home Assistant | Lawrence Systems
• Post To All Of Your Socials In One Place - Automate, Schedule, AI Generate - Postiz | Jim's Garage

Command Line Corner: echo *.<filetype>

Use echo *.<filetype> to list of all files of a specified filetype from the command line:

$ echo *.txt
  this.txt week.txt in.txt self.txt hosted.txt

Related News and Content

The DuckDB Local UI

The DuckDB team and MotherDuck are excited to announce the release of a built-in local UI for DuckDB.

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Trunk & Tidbits, February 2025

Development updates from the Mastodon team. Code changes and updates made during February 2025.

Mastodon Blog

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