There is also FX which can do this too, additionally you can browse/download/upload files to/from the phone locally from PC through browser (the app opens up a web server).

We’ve consolidated all our code into a single repository – just clone ente-io/ente on GitHub, and you will have at your disposal a state of the art, end-to-end encrypted, full stack (mobile/web/desktop clients, the server, and a CLI to boot) alternative to Google Photos and Apple Photos.

Oh, PiAlert sure looks cool

I also use rsync.net but as direct host for my borg repos, why rclone after?

I had the same question few days back here

https://biglemmowski.win/post/546746

https://forgejo.org/compare/

Yeah it’s not it’s closer to paying your yearly cost but per month. L

Why is dietpi a worse choice? it’s still basically debian (11).
I’ve chosen DietPi because of their sane defaults that I would have to setup myself like vm swappiness, fs noatime, tmp journal, and some more I am not even aware of.

I rent dedicated machine so the HW I have is the limit - I pay the same rate every month, no matter the usage, so with the bit outdated but still performant Ryzen 5 3600 and 64GB of RAM I was very happy to throw minecraft/zomboid/vallheim servers at it and few more services, aye aye;)

Though the possibility of tunneling services out from the RPi is something I am aware of, but except for stuff that would benefit from video HW accel there isn’t much that would be better to run on the RPi instead of on the server directly.

Already got ssd as a nfs share in my openwrt-based router before that I did have it set up on the rpi. I did want to do offsite backup into that disk originally but I’ve got “only” ~100Mb/s up/down speed here so I didn’t want to risk slow-downs etc (but now that you remind me, borgbackup should be rather light on traffic!).

NEMS being a whole OS is a pitty, I like the possibility to have multiple different services there.But you are absolutely right I could have a offsite resource monitoring for my Hetzner setup with these, thanks!

I might have a look actually, though if any of these require publicly accessible IP then that won’t be possible because of CGNAT :(

got CGNAT here :( that’s why I am renting the hetzner machine

Luckily I already have a OpenWRT based router here (https://turris.com) and PiHole that says 22% of traffic blocked, not a small amount indeed.

Unluckily last time I wanted to do sensor stuff the ~20 euro air quality multi-sensor (co2, pm1-10, humidity, voc?) board got lost in transit and I didn’t bother since :(
The original plan was use it with my esp32 dev board (wroom32, so wifi) to have a portable sensor, this RPi was supposed to be the collection server (mqtt, influx, grafana).

I should revisit this idea soon, thanks for reminding me!

I used RTL-SDR dongle and it basically just worked! Also got some recordings of the nearby airport, really cool !

I did this for a hot second (already have RTL-SDR set here) but the current location of the RPi is just bad for reception and moving it closer to some window would mean connecting through wifi (can’t lay ethernet cables, renting) and that’s bad for other services where low response times are preffered/needed (pihole) :(

Are you absolutely sure that object storage is used? (eg. having proper config file or env vars).

I am running pictrs 5.1 in container with postgres and backblaze b2 (so, there are no volumes that can actually ballon out).

Might it be possible that you are talking about the sled/state files (the part that can be replaced with postgres)?

Netcat can do UDP with -u flag, to get netcat on the phone (android) you could try local shell (Connect Bot app can do it) and try calling the local netcat (nc, though it’s a simple busybox implementation so it might not have all the features). Not sure if it would let you send udp just like that.

Yeah I would probably try if the phone can actually access anything on that port.

On router: netcat -vvvl 0.0.0.0 51820
On phone: http://router_ip:51820

The browser will fail opening it but on router you should see the first incoming HTTP GET packet.
Or one could run a local shell on the phone (assuming android) and try netcat too.

(or this http server one liner python3 -m http.server can be used instead of netcat)

This probably does not apply for you but don’t try sending wg over port 53, learned the hard way some routers simply won’t pass non-dns packets there.

Otherwise considering you are able to access VPS stuff from phone but not the router connected to the same VPS then I would check

• if forwarding is enabled on the vps
• if you can’t see any packets on the router side then it sounds like a routing issue at the vps

E: I am too baked and assumed you are trying to have the VPS as a central hop point.