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Calibre-Web Integration with Authentik

Calibre-Web Integration with Authentik

With my success yesterday integrating Tandoor Recipes with Authentik I want to keep the ball rolling and decide to see if I can get Calibre-Web integrated. A quick good search brought me upon Calibre-Web's documentation about LDAP Login. It starts by mentioning some additional packages and dependencies to

Docker Consolidation Project, Part Eight

Docker Consolidation Project, Part Eight

Test PhotoPrism Migration I'm finally able to come back to this Docker migration and I'm going to work on PhotoPrism's migration today. Steps performed on PHOTOPRISM-01 * sudo apt update * sudo apt upgrade * sudo docker-compose down * sudo docker-compose pull * sudo docker-compose up -d Now that

Firefly III, Part Five

Firefly III, Part Five

Decommission Firefly III So after playing with this and Actual Budget the past few months I've come to understand that Firefly III is just not the right budgeting software for me. Their documentation does mention that it is not a "bucket budget" software, but I'

Docker Consolidation Project, Part Six

Docker Consolidation Project, Part Six

Build a Dedicated Docker Test Server So I've gotten a number of my containers successfully migrated over to DOCKER-01 so the last thing I wanted to work on for this was to make a test machine that I can use to play with new containers. Steps performed on

Docker Consolidation Project, Part Five

Docker Consolidation Project, Part Five

Migrate Authentik Security Migrate Authentik Security's Data Well my testing this morning was successful with Authentik and Bookstack so the data transfer was successful. I can move on to decommissioning. Decommission AUTHENTIK-01 Steps performed on AUTHENTIK-01 * sudo shutdown now Steps performed on HV-03 via Windows Admin Center * Navigate

Docker Consolidation Project, Part Three

Docker Consolidation Project, Part Three

Migrate Homebox There is a nice export function in the Homebox application, so I create an export which should be simple to import once again. Install Homebox on DOCKER-01 Steps taken from DOCKER-01 * sudo mkdir /apps/Homebox-Inventory * cd /apps/Homebox-Inventory * sudo nano docker-compose.yml version: "3.4" services:

Docker Consolidation Project, Part Two

Docker Consolidation Project, Part Two

I'm picking up from yesterday by starting to build a dedicated virtual machine for Docker. Create Dedicated Docker Application Server Steps taken on HV-03 via Windows Admin Center * I navigate to Virtual Machines * I click on Add then New * Name: DOCKER-01 * Generation: 2 Recommended) * Virtual Processors: 8 * Memory:

Docker Consolidation Project

Docker Consolidation Project

So in the past year I have had a ton of fun bringing up numerous different software solutions. Some of them have been super useful like Monica, and some have helped me learn and appreciate Docker. When I started I was treating each software I put inside a container like

Actual Budget

So Firefly III is nice, but I just can't figure out what exactly the budget system is trying to do. I can set it to automatically add an amount each month to a budget, but it doesn't always actually add it. Plus it seems to change

Tandoor Recipes

Tandoor Recipes

Tandoor Recipes

I stumbled across Tandoor Recipes recently and I think it would be really cool to have our own shopping list and digital recipe application. I like the idea of it tracking when we cook a recipe so we can tell if we've fallen into a rut of just

Homebox

I'm going to give Homebox a go since SnipeIt is just a bit too powerful and I'd spend too much time just fussing and administering it. Create Virtual Machine Steps performed on HV-03 via Windows Admin Center * I navigate to Virtual Machines * I click on Add

Fileserver Offline, Part Two

Fileserver Offline, Part Two

I woke up extra early today, my mind racing about this hard drive. If you remember from yesterday my operating system drive for HV-01 failed yesterday. I was able to replace it with a nice brand new SSD and reinstall the operating system. However one of the eight data drives

Firefly III, Part Two

Firefly III, Part Two

Install Operating System I'm going to give the recreated virtual machine a try here today. Nope it locks the host up as well. Huh. So the only difference I can see with this virtual machine and the other virtual machines working correctly is that FIREFLY-01 is utilizing the

Firefly III

The family is in desperate need for some new budgeting software. The old standalone version of YNAB has started constantly causing corrupted writes and has very sluggish performance all of a sudden. I find it hard to accept that I should pay a monthly fee for software that doesn'

Authentik Security

Authentik Security

So I have a couple of applications up and running now, which means I know have a bunch of different usernames and passwords. It'd be great if I can replace them all and just have one login across these applications. It seems like two big players in the

TubeArchivist, Part Two

TubeArchivist, Part Two

Configure TubeArchivist So I want to store the files TubeArchivist downloads on my fileserver. So I'll need to mount a network drive to accommodate the change. Steps performed on DC-02 via Windows Admin Center * Navigate to Active Directory * Navigate to Browse * Navigate to Managed Service Accounts * Click on

TubeArchivist

I feel like starting a new project today, and this one has been on my list for a while. I struggle with the modern day YouTube. Videos are constantly disappearing from the platform for a number of different reasons. Which honestly sucks having a video you've enjoyed just

Upgrade Bookstacks to v23.02

Upgrade Bookstacks to v23.02

So Bookstack has released version 23.02 and it has a breaking change of requiring PHP8. Very similar to Upgrade Monica to v4.0. So the first thing I do is check on what is currently running on BOOKSTACK-01. * php --version PHP 7.4.33 (cli) (built: Nov 8 2022

Calibre

Over the past few years I have kept hearing how great it can be to run a Calibre server for your personal eBooks. Any time I have looked into it, Calibre's documentation has just never made sense to me as far what I actually need to do. Yesterday

Paperless-NGX, ERRNO 28 No Space Left on Device

Paperless-NGX, ERRNO 28 No Space Left on Device

While upload some documents to Paperless-NGX it gave me the above error message. My initial investigation shows the operating system is not out of space, but the underlying container is showing 99% usage. * lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL NAME FSTYPE SIZE MOUNTPOINT LABEL loop0 squashfs 63.2M /snap/

FileRun

So PhotoPrism is pretty darn cool! It looks great and has some advanced features that are fantastic, but it lacks user management for me to really share my photos with others. I came across FileRun for sharing files and a few people mentioned they use it to share photos. Well

Paperless-NGX, Part Two

Paperless-NGX, Part Two

Configure Paperless-NGX I have been playing with Paperless-NGX a bunch over the last couple of weeks and it is absolutely wonderful! The one trouble I've been having is that it doesn't scan documents if they are already in my documents folder or if they are added

Paperless-NGX

I came across Paperless and wish I had found this years and years ago. Document management with built in OCR capabilities? Shut the front door! Man I need to get this running right now! It looks like a current fork that is still being worked on is called Paperless-NGX so

SnipeIT

I was in a position of needing to move a company's inventory management from an Excel spreadsheet to....well anything. Everyone points to SnipeIT being the gold standard for inventory management but I had never been in a situation where SnipeIT was being utilized. I usually had to

PhotoPrism

One thing that I have been interested in a while is a way to manage my photos myself. Amazon and Google have nice solutions but it scares me what they're doing with our personal photographs. It's also always abundantly clear that they offer all this free