I’ve got a tp-link smart plug that monitors power. The automation triggers when it draws less than a watt (a few minutes after it completes the cycle, it turns off). I have the duration set to 5m, so a slower soak cycle shouldn’t trigger it (not tested yet).

Wireguard + adguard means home ad blocking anywhere I want it.

Home assistant is lights, switches, sensors, blinds, fans, heat/cooling, and more. I have an automation that tells me 5 minutes after the wash is done so I can move laundry into the dryer, and another one that tells me if anyone left the back door open, telling me to close it. (My dog can open it from outside).

I tried both tandoor and mealie for recipe management and felt a little better about mealie, mostly because tandoor seemed to have more focus on shopping list and other things, and I didn’t want that at the time. Both are pretty easy to spin up on docker through a compose file.

Mealie is great for recipe management and the UI is nice. Tandoor was good also, but the UI felt less nice. (All personal preference).

Right now, I do grocery lists through listionic (I think) because i had it already and it handles oddball lists (gift ideas for s.o., gift ideas for kid, hardware store, etc). I do meal planning through a whiteboard with days of the week. I have four of them I rotate through.

Yeah, but the user is also inept, so it evens out.

Honestly though, they could run a pair of docker containers, one with jellyfin one with wire guard and only have access to the jellyfin instance when logged into the micro sized vpn? (I think docker will let you play with networks that way, I’m experienced enough to be dangerous but not useful)

You don’t trust your home network?

But if you don’t plan to access it anywhere but home (your words), then it doesn’t have outside access, and putting it on your LAN is done.

Edit: if you do want to access it from outside, running a wire guard vpn locally is pretty easy to do.

What they said. Comment stuff out until it works, then SLOWLY add things back in until it breaks. There is probably one line that you can point to as problematic, and it’ll be easier to troubleshoot that way.

My homepage dashboard is a bunch of links, any bad url was my fault, usually misformed.

I had one case where I had placed files for download and found that homepage makes copies on start, so changing those on the fly doesn’t work and requires a restart. (Most yml changes don’t and only need a refresh)

I believe docker labels also need more effort than just a restart, but I’m no expert there, I was forcefully recreating the image that I added labels to.