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Since selfhosted clouds seem to be the most common thing ppl host, i'm wondering what else ppl here are selfhosting. Is anyone making use of something like excalidraw in the workplace? Curious about what apps that would be useful to always access over the web that aren't mediaservers.

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[–] yournamehere@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i dont understand ntfy.sh

you need an app to run to get messages? which you already do with home assistant and companion app or apprise. what is the usecase for ntfy?

[–] sandwichsaregood@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Home Assistant notifications and almost all other notification services on phones actually route notifications through a cloud service like Firebase because Apple and Google try to railroad apps into their platforms. Ntfy lets you actually self host notifications without a third party, but also without killing your battery.

That's not the main thing I care about, though. Mainly I use it as a self hosted replacement for PushBullet, to share links and files with myself across machines and do some light alerting for servers and stuff (e.g. TrueNAS errors). Some of that could he done with HA, but ntfy is just better for some other uses with stuff like its web ui.

Plus, apart from that ntfy is really easy to integrate with other stuff, like its easy to send a notification from a shell script or web hook so you can hack it into things that don't otherwise support notifications (there are also lots of things that support ntfy natively, e.g. the arrs).

[–] yournamehere@lemm.ee 1 points 2 minutes ago

i cant follow your first paragraph. at all. i use companion app from fdroid withouth gsf and a selfhosted homeassistant. you could aswell connect apprise to it, you can uding telegram or whatever..all in homeassistant.

ntfy iphone and google app from playstore do share your data, right? and you use that to share data in LAN? i am confused.