Linux and Pis and Homeservices Oh My

Created Wednesday 02 February 2022

Hey folks, this is an attempt to round up information and inspiration for Linux/Pi/Home Service related projects for my classes.

Things I literally do or have used

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Player_Daemon
(See also https://funkwhale.audio/ - which I haven't used yet, but am looking into.

https://syncthing.net/ - Probably literally the best thing here; it works so well and is so easy, I'd require doing a bit more than just setting this up.

https://tinc-vpn.org/ - this is the VPN I use as a literal VPN (as opposed to the thing you see advertised and pay for as a service, which mostly as an anonymous proxy)

https://www.home-assistant.io/ - a free and open system for home automation. There is also https://www.openhab.org/ ,
I'm also looking into https://nodered.org/ and https://platypush.tech/ for more techy solutions.

For voice powered things, there is https://mycroft.ai/, as an alternative to Alexa and Siri
Also http://voice2json.org/

SUPER BASIC IDEAS:
https://linuxhint.com/best_linux_projects_newbies/
https://pimylifeup.com/category/projects/server/

An absolutely EPIC and COMPLETE list
https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted


Relevant Subreddits:


Raspberry Pi
https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/
https://www.reddit.com/r/RASPBERRY_PI_PROJECTS/

Home Automation

Python Home Assistant - a very popular/open Home Automation tool
https://www.reddit.com/r/homeautomation/
https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/

People discovering open stores of interesting things
https://www.reddit.com/r/opendirectories/

The modern archivists
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/

People who go past just e.g. a Pi and put big ol' racks in their house, mostly
https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/

Book and thread on Home Automation
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30177362



very random coolness that I'm just putting here that I found looking for the other stuff

https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/



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