You are right, it’s not cheap. I delayed buying one for literally years but once I did, it was a game changer.

Brother ADS-1700W is amazing!

• no PC or USB required: place it anywhere
• WiFi
• scans a page double-sided to PDF in two seconds!
• sends file to network share, ready to be consumed by Paperless
• fully automatic, no button presses needed!
• tiny footprint
• document feeder
• use with separator pages to bulk-scan many documents in one go

😍

This is how you lose data. Hope you have a good backup on a NAS?

PiVPN offers both services, Wireguard and OpenVPN.

What app do you use on Android? And on Windows?

I used Zerotier before and I still use it now. It is also the solution I am now going to continue with.

I wanted to try Wireguard to get away from a centrally managed solution, but if I can’t get it working after several hours, and Zerotier took five minutes - the winner is clear.

Obviously :) and make sure to forward to the correct LAN IP address, and make sure that machine has a static IP (or DHCP reservation).

PiVPN is elegant. Easy install, and I am impressed with the ascii QR code it generates.

But I could not make it work. I am guessing that my Android setup is faulty, orrrr maybe something with the Pi? This is incredibly difficult to troubleshoot.

Thank you for providing specific steps that I can take! I will look into this.

No I do not use cloudflare tunnels, just regular cloudflare to publish my services to the whole world - which is a concern of course.

Going with a connection from my device via wireguard sounds like just the right thing to do.

If you don’t mind, could you please check your typing? You had some obvious typos so I am not so sure of the exact name of the tool you are suggesting.

Sorry but that’s not true. I have been running Immich for a long time now, and it is solid and stable.

A recent update had a change in the Docker configuration, and if you didn’t know that and just blindly upgraded, it would still run and show a helpful explanation. That’s amazing service.

Congratulations! I think you’ll love it. There are some things to set up. Let me know if you have questions :-)

I’ve commented elsewhere on this page:

Brother ADS-1700W
Tiny,fast, scans double-sided straight to a network share. It’s the most amazing thing I’ve bought in years, literally.

The printer has a web interface where you set up destinations, and I set up a file path there. Separately, on the printer itself, you can set it up to do one action automatically when it detects material in the auto sheet feeder, and I used that so it auto-scans to PDF/A and saves it on that network share.

Then I have Paperless check that path once a minute. So my workflow is literally, drop the paper in the scanner, and 5 seconds later put it in a box, then a minute later I see it in Paperless. It’s bliss.

What are those concerns? Why is it relevant to self-hosting?

Is it like the rumor that the Lemmy devs are pro-Russia or whatever it was about?

Honestly asking, here. Not trying to start a flame war, just want to know whether to bother to care about this.

Google oppice apps are not fast, that’s true, but they are blazingly fast compared against Nextcloud or Synology. Only Office 365 can keep up (and is functionally better) - but eh, you know.

I have tried Photoprism but was not as impressed by it as Immich.

Yes! Sorry for giving wrong details. That was from memory, and I am a goldfish…

The printer has a web interface where you set up destinations, and I set up a file path there. Separately, on the printer itself, you can set it up to do one action automatically when it detects material in the auto sheet feeder, and I used that so it auto-scans to PDF/A and saves it on that network share.

Then I have Paperless check that path once a minute. So my workflow is literally, drop the paper in the scanner, and 5 seconds later put it in a box, then a minute later I see it in Paperless. It’s bliss.

Among my must-have selfhosting items, in no particular order, I can recommend:

• Portainer, to keep track of what’s going on.
• Nginx Proxy Manager, to ensure https with valid certificate to those services I want to have available from the outside.
• Pihole, of course.
• Gitea, to store my coding stuff.
• Paperless-ngx, to store every paper in my life.
• Immich, an amazingly good replacement for Google Photos.

Do you use vpn?

Ugh, Nextcloud. It is always touted but it is such a pain to set up properly, and then it is slow as molasses.

I’ve tried, and I’ve tried the similar suite from Synology, but in the end always come back to the Google system - much as I hate to admit it, Google “just works”.

Brother ADS-1700W (edit: now that’s the exact model)

Tiny,fast, scans double-sided straight to a network share. It’s the most amazing thing I’ve bought in years, literally.