I use homepage and pretty happy with it. “Drag and drop configuration, no yaml” actually put me off.
Same, homarr is decent but I prefer my configs, quick edits from whatever device is in hand, easy peasy.
I wish we would all start switching over to JSON for configuration files. It’s so much easier to parse, and you can’t screw it up with too many spaces or not enough.
No support for comments? Hard pass
No thanks. Yaml isn’t perfect but by God json is best used to return and parse data, not input it.
My biggest peeve with JSON when I’m forced to use it as a configuration format is that it doesn’t have any syntactical support for comments.
So I can’t even add any notes to the file.
Yep this for me too. Thankfully VSCode allows comments in its settings.json / launch.json files but most programs use strict JSON which doesn’t allow comments
Yea, this is a deal breaker imo. My code tends to be 10 to 1 comments to lines of code ratio. Configuration even more so.
jsonc/json5 exists for this use case, but few tools actually use it, yaml is far more popular
It’s IMO also so much clearer regarding data types. You can’t accidentally write a boolean when you want a string.
I used to think that until I figured out yaml and now yaml isn’t so bad.
It helps that text editors know what yaml is now so insert spaces when you hit tab etc
My biggest gripe with yaml (especially in docker-compose files) is that l, for me at least, it is absolutely not clear when I need to add dahes (-) in front of multiple entries and when it’s just linebreaks.
And there are no easy accessible docker-compose validators…Try the yaml language server by red hat, it comes with a docker compose validator.
But in general, off the top of my head, dashes = list. No dashes is a dictionary.
So this is a list:
thing: - 1 - 2And this is a dictionary:
dict: key1: value1 key2: value2And then when they can be combined into a list of dictionaries.
listofdicts: - key1dict1: value1dict1 - key1dict2: value1dict2 key2dict2: value2dict2And then abother thing to note is that yaml wilL convert things into a string. So if you have ports
8080:80, this will be converted into a string, which is a clue that this is a string in a list, rather than a dictionary.That actually makes sense…thank you!
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Yeah i was wondering how you actually use versioning with that drag and drop. Homepage seems better for that IMO
Drag and drop isn’t for me either but it’s nice to have more beginners-friendly options in the self hosted community. Not everybody like to live in the terminal.
If any of you can get the Pi-hole integration to work, let me know how you did it. There’s a github thread about it, but I haven’t heard any progress
It worked for a long time until an update pretty recently.
Nice to know it’s not just me battling with that
I might have adjusted the container to run with my local DNS, but all I’m doing for that service is:
- Pi-Hole- Hostname: icon: /icons/pihole.png href: https://my.internal.domain/admin server: Hostname widget: type: pihole url: https://my.internal.domain/ version: 6 # required if running v6 or higher, defaults to 5 # Application Password: key: "<< REDACTED >>"Replaced my Pi’s hostname, internal domain, keys, etc, but I have this running for two Pi-Holes on my network.
I’ll take a look when i get home tonight. I do have mine working.
I have it working but I do remember struggling a bit with it, involved getting a password somewhere, can’t check rn
This is a great platform, especially if you are just beginning in self-hosting. I don’t use it on my deployment “version 2.0” because I found it unnecessary once learning a little more about docker, etc. While I was using it, I loved it, and would definitely recommend it!
i prefer homepage https://github.com/gethomepage/homepage
you add a label in the docker compose and the dashboard follows.
I use a manually edited yaml home assistant page. Beat that on number of integrations.
30+ integrations seems like a really small number.
You’re mostly adding dozens of hyperlinks, like your own homapage, but some of them (30) can provide direct info from said integration, so a button for your Torrent Client also has the current download speed for example
