A simple question to this community, what are you self-hosting? It’s probably fun to hear from each-other what services we are running.
Please mention at least the service (e.g. e-mail) and the software (e.g. postfix). Extra bonus points for also mentioning the OS and/or hardware (e.g. Linux Distribution, raspberry pi, etc) you are running on.
Arch VPS:
Local Proxmox server on a refurbished J4125 8GB RAM ThinClient:
After a recent outage of my paid Recipe/Mealplan/Shoppinglist tool that kinda fucked me over, I’m now looking into hosting something like mealie as well, sadly the quality of selfhostable solutions in that area is not great.
I need a personal relationship manager manager to manage my personal relationship manager.
How did you get Monica running? I’ve tried the docker scripts but had no luck with them.
I installed it in an LXC container directly, I try to avoid docker whenever possible.
Did you use any instructions? Couldn’t find anything but ansible script when searching the web.
The official install instructions
Mealie is great for recipes. Not sure about what features you need, but it nails recipes.
It’s better than the other self-hostable ones, being the only one where I can just copy and paste all ingredients and all steps at once. Other features I need are meal plans and shopping list, especially the shopping lists are in a very beta state.
yeah ok. Most of the time, i just point mealie to a website to import the recipe. That said, you can copy and paste the ingredients and methods using the bulk import. It is a bit finicky, but not too bad.
That said, i want to be pretty loose with things like being explicit with measurements, i don’t need or want to do the auto-scaling, etc.
As for the shopping list, i use “bring”, which basically say
buy cheese, notbuy 500g Kraft Cheddar cheese, i just need to be reminded to buy a block of cheese. or maybe addgrated cheeseAll the other ones required too many specific, so i am happy with the simple ones.
Some few sites, and reddit comments, don’t have marked up recipes. My paid option can parse those, but for selfhost options, I need to paste. I have not seen another option that even allows bulk import, so mealie is cream of the crop there ;)
Auto-scaling is nice to have, but I only use it like twice a year, so I can live without it.
For Shopping lists, my workfow is to create a 3-4 day meal plan twice a week, then go through the recipes and add what I need to the list, paid option looks like this:
That is slightly less comfortable in mealie, but it works.
But the label/aisle sorting is pretty recent, and that’s where it falls apart:
The commercial solution is amazing at sorting items into categories (I did nothing but go trough 3 recipes and select the ingredients I wanted for the shopping list):
Okay, I guess I could live without that. But then I’d need it to be superfast to sort the list myself. That means drag-and-drop, not click edit, click category, click selection, click save. That takes up way too much time. And at the supermarket, I need things sorted by aisle (the shopping list also allows me to sort the aisles according to the supermarket order).
I dont worry too much about aisles, i think bring sorts it in various categories, but doesn’t link it to aisles.
How would it do the aisles anyway, arent all shops different? and especially different in different countries.
Categories, aisles, same thing. As long as I can change the sorting of them for the store I go to. The sorting up there is for my main store, besides eggs, which have their own aisle and require manual changing.
I’m a but confused on FreshRSS but I think I’m not understanding a point. Isn’t the concept of RSS that you basically get the information on different web pages with RSS Flux into one place that you can read like you would read journals?
Well each site RSS is just an XML file, you need a reader to present it in a nice readable format. Apart from that, I have a couple hundred RSS I follow on my Miniflux instance to visit each site individualy would take for ever and I would have to memorize were I last was on each site. Hope this helps
Ah so, the RSS is received on the Server and the reader is on there, you just access your server to then read the nice readable format?
You add the RSS feed to your reader (that can be a webapp like FreshRSS, but also a mobile or desktop app), from now on your app/server will periodically check the added url for updates, and if there’s news, add it to your list.
Here’s an image of how my devstuff folder looks:
I see, thanks!
Yes, it’s a reader. I’m a bit confused by your confusion ;) What part do you not understand?