I do this too, with Pi Hole as well.

I can recomment OVH for domains and DNS hosting, I use them and have not had any issues setting up custom DNS records. Also they have an API that will allow you to get certificates with certbot and lets encrypt, even a wildcard.

no, its based on kodi. but there are themes you could try

have a look at OSMC, you write it to the Pi SD card and it gives you Kodi all setup and ready use. you can even use your TV remote to control it

great job, I didnt go the self install route.But used HASSOS. The best thing I have had with HA is setting up a broadlink socket, the app could not connect. Turns out HA has seen them an linked up, blocking the app

Yes, that’s the badger. They have a vast amount of built-in functions, also can be all local. I was using mqtt to access mine, but have switched to the home assistant integration

You could have a look at a shelly 1L that might do it, put the shelly in the light fitting and wire the switches in to it

Have also updated, seemed to be broke. But a restart seems to have fixed it, no change to config needed

this is a command I use to get the loacl weather

/usr/bin/curl -s \
  --form-string "monospace=1" \
  --form-string "token=YOURTOKENHERE" \
  --form-string "user=YOUR USERID"  \
  --form-string "title=$(/usr/bin/curl -sk wttr.in/melksham | grep "Weather report")" \
  --form-string "message=$(/usr/bin/curl -sk curl wttr.in/melksham?0ATQF)" \
  https://api.pushover.net/1/messages.json > /dev/null

me too, pushover for the win

I use nextcloud for a lot of stuff, so added the news app. In that I have a lot of GitHub repos I want to know get updated and things like the register and BBC news UK.

Edit: that also have a mobile app for just the RSS feeds

Can confirm that nextcloud photo back is for the most part rock solid, they have had some issues when Android changes something and that mess up the process.

But I took have been running it for years, of your nextcloud install is ropey then your photo sync will be.

I have that setup, my domain is hosted by OVh and they have an API that you can use to get a wildcard certificate with.

At home I run pihole and that has some sites in as local IPs, but if you look the same site up from OVH you would get an internet IP

I would recommend OVH for DNS, they have an API and are on the list for that tool. Also you can use the API to get lets encrypt certificates

My solution to that issue is to share my media over NFS with a raspberry pi connected to the TV, the pi runs OSMC (https://osmc.tv/) and has the media direct. you can control OSMC on the pi with your TV remote

Would not recommend Orion’s belt, three stars.

Please for the love of mike, update your servers frequently!!

I login to all my servers weekly for updates, both OS and software

I do that too, my home doesn’t have IP V6 at all here in the UK. so my dedi proxy’s ipv6 to my home.

Also be advised that wordpress will attract all the internet to try and hack in, so make sure you keep everything up to date

What your after is DNS fail over or round robin, round robin would be my option as both sites could be independent