Hey everyone,

I’m looking for a system that:

  • I can self host
  • Is slim, because I don’t have beefy hardware (Intel J5040, 32GB RAM, shared by all VMs/containers)
  • can be used to create an inventory of all the tech/hardware that I have in my house (not exclusively IT, I also wasn’t to track things like warranty for my chainsaws and the like)
  • does take at least the device make/model, serial number (for insurance cases) and warranty dates
  • is not some kind of enterprise-how-many-items-of-this-article-do-i-have-in-stock-things, because that seems to be the only thing I seem to be able to find, and they neither match my use case nor do they seem to be lightweight enough.

… and honestly, I don’t even know where to start looking. Do you guys have any recommendations?

Of course, I could just use a spreadsheet, but where’s the fun in that?

EDIT: Thank you all so much for the engaged discussion and all the suggestions, you’re the best!

  • ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ@lemm.eeEnglish
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    9 days ago

    you want a gui. so cvs is weak. give nocodb a run. can do ANYTHING. cool product overviews, easy to create tables even with attachment like images.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 days ago

    I’d just roll your own with either a spreadsheet or a relational database depending on how fancy you want to get.

    In fact, I’ve done that for comic books.

  • blumlaut@hounds.online
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    10 days ago

    @DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works we’ve recently deployed Netbox which seems to somewhat do what you want, although its more targetted towards datacenter and network engineers (and maybe not lightweight enough for you?)

    If you really need nothing special then maybe a good ol’ spreadsheet is a better solution for you.

  • Señor Mono@feddit.orgEnglish
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    10 days ago

    This might be an unpopular opinion/solution but even for two small size sister companies we are doing inventory in a version controlled markdown file 🫣

    • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
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      10 days ago

      Honestly, a spreadsheet would be fine for this? I’m not super familiar with what an inventory management system does tho, so maybe it does things beyond what a spreadsheet can do.

    • haverholm@kbin.earth
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      10 days ago

      Simplest possible solution, Occam’s Inventory 😄

      I use markdown extensively, but I’m honestly not fond of its tables function (which I assume you use for this purpose?). It works, but it’s a bit static in my experience. Do you run up against the same, or is it actually an advantage in your use case?

      • Señor Mono@feddit.orgEnglish
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        10 days ago

        We’re using headings for different types of inventory (hardware/office items/…) and then a block of subheading, bulletpoint combination (serialnumber, date of acquisition, whereabouts,…) for each item and associated item.

        The toc is generated automatically and helps browsing through.

    • DasFaultier@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Not at all, I like .md, and I’m familiar with Git. A spreadsheet is not something that I would throw into Git, but an .md…

      • 2910000@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 days ago

        I use markdown too, except I keep the markdown file in a self-hosted wiki (wiki.js)

        It’s versioned and accepts git as a backend

        • fishynoob@infosec.pubEnglish
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          9 days ago

          I’m looking for something that can automatically handle markdown tables for me in git. If an application can do that then I can get off excel/LibreOffice calc.

      • Señor Mono@feddit.orgEnglish
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        9 days ago

        That is the reason Markdown and Git are used for a lot shenanigans these days. Knowledge bases, awesome-lists, documentations. You name it.

        If you got the right tools (sphinx, typora, mkdocs, …obsidian) you got a powerful toolchain.

  • johntash@eviltoast.orgEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Snipe-it is a bit overkill but it’s pretty good.

    Grocy also has an inventory tracker. I’m not sure how different it is tho

  • steventhedev@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 days ago

    I get very far by just keeping a set of folders for each piece of equipment in a git repo.

    Pictures, etc, and sometimes the PDF manual if I bother.

    The difficult part here is being consistent over time - making sure you mark down when you bought things, serial numbers, etc. a proper website/app will force you to do this, but there is flexibility in having whatever convention you like most

  • GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    10 days ago

    A google forms alternative would be convenient. You could make an easy to fill out page that inouts to a spreadsheet. Put warranty reminders in your calander for a month before it expires.