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# piblog
this is a log of stuff i do for my raspberry pi homelab
check it out

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# show all options
default:
just --list --unsorted
# build html from markdown
html:
pandoc -f markdown+autolink_bare_uris -t html --standalone -H templates/header-includes.html --toc -o www/index.html src/piblog.md
# build rss feed from journal
rss:
#!/usr/bin/env sh
echo "<rss version=\"2.0\"><channel><title>piblog</title>" > www/feed.xml
echo "<link>http://tilde.town/~dozens/piblog/index.html</link><description>just a little log about my raspberry pi</description><atom:link rel=\"self\" type=\"application/rss+xml\" href=\"http://tilde.town/~dozens/piblog/feed.xml\"/>" >> www/feed.xml
ed -s !'markdown src/piblog.md' << HEREDOC | recfmt -f templates/feeditem.template | m4 >> www/feed.xml
/BEGIN/ka
/END/kb
1,'ad
'b,d
g/^<h2>/+s/^/note: /
v/^note/s/^/+ /
%s/+ <h2>/<h2>/
%s_^<h2><time>\(.*\)</time> - \(.*\)</h2>_\\
time: \1\\
title: \2_
g/^+ $/d
,w /dev/stdout
Q
HEREDOC
echo '</channel></rss>' >> www/feed.xml
# watch for changes
watch:
ls src/piblog.md | entr just html
# build html and rss
build: html rss
# upload
up:
rsync -zaP www/ tilde:public_html/piblog
# build and upload
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---
title: piblog
subtitle: adventures with my raspberry pi
author: dozens
toc-title: entries
---
## about
Hi! This is my journal
about my experiences,
exploits,
and hijinks
while setting up a raspberry pi homelab.
it is a Pi 3 Model B named guyute
- www: tilde.town/~dozens
- email: dozens@tilde.team
- fedi: @dozens@tiny.tilde.website
- irc: dozens on {libera,tilde}.chat
- webring:
<a href="https://tilde.town/~dozens/webring/dozens/index.html?name=piblog&dir=prev">prev</a>
<a href="https://tilde.town/~dozens/webring/dozens/index.html">index</a>
<a href="https://tilde.town/~dozens/webring/dozens/index.html?name=piblog&dir=next">next</a>
<!-- BEGIN //-->
## <time>2023-11-13</time> - audiobooks
okay so tomasino reminded me today that i used to love listening to audiobooks.
https://labs.tomasino.org/audiobooks/
but i haven't done it as fanatically as i used to in a long time.
for a while, i didn't have a commute.
and now i do, but i often carpool.
but sometimes i have a solo, quiet commute.
ideal for some audiobooks!
further complications:
i am unable to download and archive audiobooks from overdrive the same way i used to be able to.
because they barely support their desktop apps anymore,
and instead push really hard for everybody to use their streaming apps.
but i learned that if i spoof my user-agent
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-string-switcher/
then i can get a 'Have overdrive for mac/windows?' link upon checkout
that will enable me to download the odm file.
which i can then use to download the mp3s thanks to this special little script.
https://github.com/jamestomasino/dotfiles-minimal/blob/master/bin/overdrive
so that's great!
while i was troubleshooting all of this,
i downloaded a book to my linux laptop,
because the download link is already readily available there,
and then transferred it over to the pi.
so now i guess i'm going to start collecting and archiving audiobooks on the pi too!
i might look into jellyfin in earnest so i can serve them
and download them over my home network.
i might also have to start really considering a vpn
so i can access my files away from the house.
## <time>2023-11-07</time> - add email to calibre-web
just a quick note to look into configuring email for calibre-web
so i can send books direct to my kindle
whoa this fork looks really great
compared to what i have
<https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web>
the ui looks good
and it has single click send to e-mail
and also "Magic Link" login for easy access on eReaders..
that's great.
what is that i'm running?
just the base `calibre-server` that comes with the calibre package in apt.
okay new goal: install and run `calibre-web`,
and stop using `calibre-server`?
## <time>2023-10-28</time> - abduco + dvtm = tmux replacement?
i can't remember how i fell down this rabbit hole..
i think it's because elly had been talking about dtach over on #tildetown,
which is a utility that just provides the attach/detach
functionality of tmux.
so anyway i started using abduco + dvtm on my pi
just to test it out
and see what it was like
and i quite like it!
dvtm especially is kind of nice
as a tiling window manager for the terminal.
abduco isn't in the package repository at work,
but i started using dtach + dvtm this week.
we'll see if i stick with it.
pretty nice so far!
- <https://www.brain-dump.org/projects/abduco/>
- <https://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/>
- <https://github.com/crigler/dtach>
## <time>2023-10-11</time> - jellyfin
just a quick note to remind myself to check out jellyfin
<https://jellyfin.org/>
a media server alternative to plex
that is supposed to be much lighter and more simple
than plex.
## <time>2023-09-29</time> - DeDRM
shelled into the pi and curled the latest DeDRM tools release
https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/releases/tag/v10.0.3
but i kept getting an empty file for some reason?
no matter, downloaded it to my laptop and `scp`d it
unzipped it on the pi and
```
calibre-customize --add DeDRM.zip
```
it wasn't working at that point because i didn't have any keys defined in the `dedrm.json` so I `scp`d my config json from my laptop to `.config/calibre/plugins/DeDRM`. at this point, i'm still unable to open the book after adding it via the web ui. but when i `calibredb --add book.epub --with-library=books --duplicates` on the pi terminal, it adds it. (`--duplicates` is necessary only in this test instance because---oops!---turns out i already have this book in my library, but i am determined to use this opportunity to set up DeDRM. i will delete the duplicate later.) I can't verify in the web ui though because it's not showing the duplicate. must have merged it with the old one.
oh well. i'll try it again next time i get a book from the library. shortest wait: currently 6 weeks.
actually no, let's just go checkout an Available Now book. Song of Achilles. I liked Circe. Let's get this one.
- confirmed: can add the book via web ui, but not open or read it because of drm
- confirmed: can scp the book to the pi, `calibre add book.epub --with-library=books` and get an `Added book ids: <id>` message
- confirmed: new book does NOT show up in web ui after killing and restarting the daemon
- confirmed: the book IS there:
```
$ calibredb list --search='id:3' --with-library=books
id title authors
3 The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller
$ #wtf
```
what the hell. does `calibre-server` has a db cache or something? i don't see anything
https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/generated/en/calibre-server.html
i give up for now
~
to kill the process:
```
ps aux | grep calibre
```
and then kill the id
removing the dulplicate:
```
calibredb search 'title:"world we make"' --with-library=books
> 1,2
calibredb list --search 'id:2' --with-library=books
> (book info)
calibredb list --search 'id:1' --with-library=books
> (book info)
calibredb remove 2
```
tags: #calibre #drm
## <time>2023-09-29</time> - reboot
been uploading photos and books, and editing metadata for my rpgs.
pi became unresponsive last night / this morning to web and ssh so rebooted this morning and restarted web services. everything seems to be fine now.
found these resources recently and consider them next steps on my todo list:
- Add deDRM tools for CLI so I can upload library books. I can pretty much delete local calibre after this. https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/blob/master/CALIBRE_CLI_INSTRUCTIONS.md
- Be your own CA Authority! which initially sounds to me like not that good of an idea, but then I can use `https` for my local webservices. https://jamielinux.com/docs/openssl-certificate-authority/
- still want to install a reverse proxy (lapis + openresty?) so i can hit canonical urls instead of typing in address + port number. this would make it easier to share URLs with household members. NOTE: do i want a local DNS server??
Incidentally, mDNS seemed to just magically start working on its self at some point. I can hit my pi's url on macbook and on my phone now. weeeeeird
tags: #reboot #mdns
## <time>2023-09-13</time> - rpg library
tried searching for an rpg that i know is in my collection and couldn't find it by title or by author.
this is going to be really painful until i update the metadata on everything.
i've done about 60 so far. out of 1.4k. big yikes!
tags: #calibre #rpg #metadata
## <time>2023-09-12</time> - mDNS
still can't hit any multi DNS urls on any of my devices.
not a solution but a workaround (for desktop only): added a line to `/etc/hosts` on my MBP:
```
192.168.0.83 pi.local
```
and now i can hit e.g. calibre with http://pi.local:8080
maybe i can configure something on my actual router?
tags: #mdns
## <time>2023-09-11</time> - miniflux
rss reader!
one thing i would like to be able to do
is to read my rss feeds on my computer
and on my phone
and on my tablet,
and have my un/read status sync between decives.
which i guess means hosting a feed reader!
i glanced at `awesome-selfhosted`
and then asked some of my friends in the basement
because i know that they have already undertaken
great adventures in rss,
trailblazers that they are.
and they recommended miniflux.
written in go, and it uses postgres.
luckily they have a docker image so i don't have to install either.
the docker-compose file on their installation instructions is a little out of date,
but you can find a more correct 'basic.yml' on github at `miniflux/v2`
after a few tweaks,
it is installed and running!
the ui is super minimal.
i'm sure i'll grow to like it,
but at the moment
i am missing the classic
three-pane "feeds / entries / content" view.
Up next:
- gemini/gopher server? just for fun
- nginx reverse proxy: i have three services running on three ports now. i want a proxy for more easiy routing between these. i choose nginx because lua, so i can fennel
tags: #rss #feeds #miniflux
## <time>2023-09-08</time> - calibre
had to add the upstream debian bullseye repo to install `calibre-server`. (and then remove it.) got the web server up and running pretty easy.
fussed around for a while trying to make a second calibre library out of my rpg collection. here's what ended up working:
create a new dir and then `calibredb add path/to/file.pdf --library-path new/library/location`. adding a single file this way created the necessary database file. then i was able to `find rpgsbak -type f -name '*.pdf' -exec -I {} calibredb add {} --library-path new/library/loction`. (or something like that; wrote the command just now from memory.) and pull all my pdfs in!
so now i have 1.4k pdfs in a new 'rpgs' library alongside my 'books' library.
on the whole, hobby ttrpg creators can stand to get a LOT better at exporting metadata with their pdfs. now i have a whole lot of manual updating to do. but i can read books and pdfs now from my calibre library on any device on the network.
also adding new items via the web ui is pretty easy!
TODO: disable converting to epub on 'read' for rpg library. 'download' to read still works great for reading in the meantime.
tags: #calibre
## <time>2023-09-03</time> - photoprism
browsed the photo hosting options on `awesome-selfhosted` on github and decided on photoprism
it has a docker image and i was able to get it working no problem, with no modifications. quick and easy. this is the future containers promised us.
the ui is slow. i have the number of workers cranked down to 1. might bump it to 2.
i had been rsyncing photos to the pi and then reindexing the collection. but i'm finding it quicker to do a bulk upload using the web ui. it's working rather reliably. it still has to reindex on upload, but i no longer have to reindex the entire collection.
tags: #photos #photoprism
## <time>2023-08-30</time> - git
Add a "git" user. Create a home dir for it. Do `git init --bare repo.git`.
Copy my ssh key over and add an entry to `.ssh/config`:
```
21 │ Host git
22 │ Hostname 192.168.0.83
23 │ User git
24 │ IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
```
Now I can `git remote add pi git:repo.git` in a local repo and push away!
tags: #git
## <time>2023-08-28</time> - Hello World
Okay let's get this party started!
I have a raspberry pi model 3b that has been gathering dust in a drawer for a couple years now.
I decided I wanted to dust it off and use it to backup some photos and some files.
I bought a 4TB external hard drive and a 128gb microSD card and hooked it all up.
I downloaded the NOOBS installer from raspberrypi.com/software and installed it on the SD card, which I was able to do because I have a ton of dongles thanks to the fact that my MacbookPro has no peripherals. I popped the card in to the pi, connected my usb keyboard and hdmi monitor and booted it up, and went through the setup.
Then, after testing that I can ssh into the pi, I unplugged my keyboard and monitor and never plugged them back in again.
Plugged in my hard drive and formatted it with an ext3 filesystem.
Created a backup user. (Not a spare user in case of emergencies, but a user specifically for creating backups.)
Copied my ssh keys over:
```
ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa pi.local
```
Mounted the drive, added it to `/etc/fstab` so it will auto-mount, and added a slight delay to the boot command so that there is time for the drive to mount before the system boots. As suggested here:
<https://howtoforge.com/tutorial/raspberry-pi-as-backup-server-for-linux-and-windows/>
Copied over my first photo export and my calibre library with an `rsync -zaP`.
Messed around with mDNS and avahi-daemon because I can't hit http://pi.local in the browser. Still haven't figured this out.
tags: #mdns #getting-started
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<pubDate>syscmd(`gdate -d {{time}}')</pubDate>
<description>
<![CDATA[
changequote({%,%})dnl Or else `code blocks` confuse m4
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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>piblog</title>
<link>http://tilde.town/~dozens/piblog/index.html</link><description>just a little log about my raspberry pi</description><atom:link rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://tilde.town/~dozens/piblog/feed.xml"/>
<item>
<title>audiobooks</title>
<link>http://tilde.town/~dozens/piblog/index.html</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">2023-11-13 audiobooks</guid>
<pubDate>Mon Nov 13 00:00:00 MST 2023
</pubDate>
<description>
<![CDATA[
<p>okay so tomasino reminded me today that i used to love listening to audiobooks.</p>
<p>https://labs.tomasino.org/audiobooks/</p>
<p>but i haven&rsquo;t done it as fanatically as i used to in a long time.
for a while, i didn&rsquo;t have a commute.
and now i do, but i often carpool.
but sometimes i have a solo, quiet commute.
ideal for some audiobooks!</p>
<p>further complications:
i am unable to download and archive audiobooks from overdrive the same way i used to be able to.
because they barely support their desktop apps anymore,
and instead push really hard for everybody to use their streaming apps.</p>
<p>but i learned that if i spoof my user-agent</p>
<p>https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-string-switcher/</p>
<p>then i can get a &lsquo;Have overdrive for mac/windows?&rsquo; link upon checkout
that will enable me to download the odm file.
which i can then use to download the mp3s thanks to this special little script.</p>
<p>https://github.com/jamestomasino/dotfiles-minimal/blob/master/bin/overdrive</p>
<p>so that&rsquo;s great!
while i was troubleshooting all of this,
i downloaded a book to my linux laptop,
because the download link is already readily available there,
and then transferred it over to the pi.</p>
<p>so now i guess i&rsquo;m going to start collecting and archiving audiobooks on the pi too!
i might look into jellyfin in earnest so i can serve them
and download them over my home network.</p>
<p>i might also have to start really considering a vpn
so i can access my files away from the house.</p>
]]>
</description>
</item>
<item>
<title>add email to calibre-web</title>
<link>http://tilde.town/~dozens/piblog/index.html</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">2023-11-07 add email to calibre-web</guid>
<pubDate>Tue Nov 7 00:00:00 MST 2023
</pubDate>
<description>
<![CDATA[
<p>just a quick note to look into configuring email for calibre-web
so i can send books direct to my kindle</p>
<p>whoa this fork looks really great
compared to what i have</p>
<p><a href="https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web">https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web</a></p>
<p>the ui looks good
and it has single click send to e-mail
and also &ldquo;Magic Link&rdquo; login for easy access on eReaders..
that&rsquo;s great.</p>
<p>what is that i&rsquo;m running?</p>
<p>just the base <code>calibre-server</code> that comes with the calibre package in apt.</p>
<p>okay new goal: install and run <code>calibre-web</code>,
and stop using <code>calibre-server</code>?</p>
]]>
</description>
</item>
<item>
<title>abduco + dvtm = tmux replacement?</title>
<link>http://tilde.town/~dozens/piblog/index.html</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">2023-10-28 abduco + dvtm = tmux replacement?</guid>
<pubDate>Sat Oct 28 00:00:00 MDT 2023
</pubDate>
<description>
<![CDATA[
<p>i can&rsquo;t remember how i fell down this rabbit hole..
i think it&rsquo;s because elly had been talking about dtach over on #tildetown,
which is a utility that just provides the attach/detach
functionality of tmux.</p>
<p>so anyway i started using abduco + dvtm on my pi
just to test it out
and see what it was like
and i quite like it!
dvtm especially is kind of nice
as a tiling window manager for the terminal.</p>
<p>abduco isn&rsquo;t in the package repository at work,
but i started using dtach + dvtm this week.
we&rsquo;ll see if i stick with it.
pretty nice so far!</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.brain-dump.org/projects/abduco/">https://www.brain-dump.org/projects/abduco/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/">https://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/crigler/dtach">https://github.com/crigler/dtach</a></li>
</ul>
]]>
</description>
</item>
<item>
<title>jellyfin</title>
<link>http://tilde.town/~dozens/piblog/index.html</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">2023-10-11 jellyfin</guid>
<pubDate>Wed Oct 11 00:00:00 MDT 2023
</pubDate>
<description>
<![CDATA[
<p>just a quick note to remind myself to check out jellyfin</p>
<p><a href="https://jellyfin.org/">https://jellyfin.org/</a></p>
<p>a media server alternative to plex
that is supposed to be much lighter and more simple
than plex.</p>
]]>
</description>
</item>
<item>
<title>DeDRM</title>
<link>http://tilde.town/~dozens/piblog/index.html</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">2023-09-29 DeDRM</guid>
<pubDate>Fri Sep 29 00:00:00 MDT 2023
</pubDate>
<description>
<![CDATA[
<p>shelled into the pi and curled the latest DeDRM tools release</p>
<p>https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/releases/tag/v10.0.3</p>
<p>but i kept getting an empty file for some reason?</p>
<p>no matter, downloaded it to my laptop and <code>scp</code>d it</p>
<p>unzipped it on the pi and</p>
<p><code>
calibre-customize --add DeDRM.zip
</code></p>
<p>it wasn&rsquo;t working at that point because i didn&rsquo;t have any keys defined in the <code>dedrm.json</code> so I <code>scp</code>d my config json from my laptop to <code>.config/calibre/plugins/DeDRM</code>. at this point, i&rsquo;m still unable to open the book after adding it via the web ui. but when i <code>calibredb --add book.epub --with-library=books --duplicates</code> on the pi terminal, it adds it. (<code>--duplicates</code> is necessary only in this test instance because&mdash;oops!&mdash;turns out i already have this book in my library, but i am determined to use this opportunity to set up DeDRM. i will delete the duplicate later.) I can&rsquo;t verify in the web ui though because it&rsquo;s not showing the duplicate. must have merged it with the old one.</p>
<p>oh well. i&rsquo;ll try it again next time i get a book from the library. shortest wait: currently 6 weeks.</p>
<p>actually no, let&rsquo;s just go checkout an Available Now book. Song of Achilles. I liked Circe. Let&rsquo;s get this one.</p>
<ul>
<li><p>confirmed: can add the book via web ui, but not open or read it because of drm</p></li>
<li><p>confirmed: can scp the book to the pi, <code>calibre add book.epub --with-library=books</code> and get an <code>Added book ids: &lt;id&gt;</code> message</p></li>
<li><p>confirmed: new book does NOT show up in web ui after killing and restarting the daemon</p></li>
<li><p>confirmed: the book IS there:</p>
<pre><code> ```
$ calibredb list --search='id:3' --with-library=books
id title authors
3 The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller
$ #wtf
```
</code></pre></li>
</ul>
<p>what the hell. does <code>calibre-server</code> has a db cache or something? i don&rsquo;t see anything</p>
<p>https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/generated/en/calibre-server.html</p>
<p>i give up for now</p>
<p>~</p>
<p>to kill the process:</p>
<p><code>
ps aux | grep calibre
</code></p>
<p>and then kill the id</p>
<p>removing the dulplicate:</p>
<p>```
calibredb search &lsquo;title:&ldquo;world we make&rdquo;&rsquo; &ndash;with-library=books</p>
<blockquote><p>1,2
calibredb list &ndash;search &lsquo;id:2&rsquo; &ndash;with-library=books
(book info)
calibredb list &ndash;search &lsquo;id:1&rsquo; &ndash;with-library=books
(book info)
calibredb remove 2
```</p></blockquote>
<p>tags: #calibre #drm</p>
]]>
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<item>
<title>reboot</title>
<link>http://tilde.town/~dozens/piblog/index.html</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">2023-09-29 reboot</guid>
<pubDate>Fri Sep 29 00:00:00 MDT 2023
</pubDate>
<description>
<![CDATA[
<p>been uploading photos and books, and editing metadata for my rpgs.</p>
<p>pi became unresponsive last night / this morning to web and ssh so rebooted this morning and restarted web services. everything seems to be fine now.</p>
<p>found these resources recently and consider them next steps on my todo list:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Add deDRM tools for CLI so I can upload library books. I can pretty much delete local calibre after this. https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/blob/master/CALIBRE_CLI_INSTRUCTIONS.md</p></li>
<li><p>Be your own CA Authority! which initially sounds to me like not that good of an idea, but then I can use <code>https</code> for my local webservices. https://jamielinux.com/docs/openssl-certificate-authority/</p></li>
<li><p>still want to install a reverse proxy (lapis + openresty?) so i can hit canonical urls instead of typing in address + port number. this would make it easier to share URLs with household members. NOTE: do i want a local DNS server??</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Incidentally, mDNS seemed to just magically start working on its self at some point. I can hit my pi&rsquo;s url on macbook and on my phone now. weeeeeird</p>
<p>tags: #reboot #mdns</p>
]]>
</description>
</item>
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<title>rpg library</title>
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<guid isPermaLink="false">2023-09-13 rpg library</guid>
<pubDate>Wed Sep 13 00:00:00 MDT 2023
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<p>tried searching for an rpg that i know is in my collection and couldn&rsquo;t find it by title or by author.
this is going to be really painful until i update the metadata on everything.
i&rsquo;ve done about 60 so far. out of 1.4k. big yikes!</p>
<p>tags: #calibre #rpg #metadata</p>
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<link>http://tilde.town/~dozens/piblog/index.html</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">2023-09-12 mDNS</guid>
<pubDate>Tue Sep 12 00:00:00 MDT 2023
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<p>still can&rsquo;t hit any multi DNS urls on any of my devices.</p>
<p>not a solution but a workaround (for desktop only): added a line to <code>/etc/hosts</code> on my MBP:</p>
<p><code>
192.168.0.83 pi.local
</code></p>
<p>and now i can hit e.g. calibre with http://pi.local:8080</p>
<p>maybe i can configure something on my actual router?</p>
<p>tags: #mdns</p>
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<title>miniflux</title>
<link>http://tilde.town/~dozens/piblog/index.html</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">2023-09-11 miniflux</guid>
<pubDate>Mon Sep 11 00:00:00 MDT 2023
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<p>rss reader!</p>
<p>one thing i would like to be able to do
is to read my rss feeds on my computer
and on my phone
and on my tablet,
and have my un/read status sync between decives.</p>
<p>which i guess means hosting a feed reader!</p>
<p>i glanced at <code>awesome-selfhosted</code>
and then asked some of my friends in the basement
because i know that they have already undertaken
great adventures in rss,
trailblazers that they are.</p>
<p>and they recommended miniflux.</p>
<p>written in go, and it uses postgres.
luckily they have a docker image so i don&rsquo;t have to install either.
the docker-compose file on their installation instructions is a little out of date,
but you can find a more correct &lsquo;basic.yml&rsquo; on github at <code>miniflux/v2</code></p>
<p>after a few tweaks,
it is installed and running!</p>
<p>the ui is super minimal.
i&rsquo;m sure i&rsquo;ll grow to like it,
but at the moment
i am missing the classic
three-pane &ldquo;feeds / entries / content&rdquo; view.</p>
<p>Up next:</p>
<ul>
<li>gemini/gopher server? just for fun</li>
<li>nginx reverse proxy: i have three services running on three ports now. i want a proxy for more easiy routing between these. i choose nginx because lua, so i can fennel</li>
</ul>
<p>tags: #rss #feeds #miniflux</p>
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<link>http://tilde.town/~dozens/piblog/index.html</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">2023-09-08 calibre</guid>
<pubDate>Fri Sep 8 00:00:00 MDT 2023
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<p>had to add the upstream debian bullseye repo to install <code>calibre-server</code>. (and then remove it.) got the web server up and running pretty easy.</p>
<p>fussed around for a while trying to make a second calibre library out of my rpg collection. here&rsquo;s what ended up working:
create a new dir and then <code>calibredb add path/to/file.pdf --library-path new/library/location</code>. adding a single file this way created the necessary database file. then i was able to <code>find rpgsbak -type f -name '*.pdf' -exec -I {} calibredb add {} --library-path new/library/loction</code>. (or something like that; wrote the command just now from memory.) and pull all my pdfs in!</p>
<p>so now i have 1.4k pdfs in a new &lsquo;rpgs&rsquo; library alongside my &lsquo;books&rsquo; library.</p>
<p>on the whole, hobby ttrpg creators can stand to get a LOT better at exporting metadata with their pdfs. now i have a whole lot of manual updating to do. but i can read books and pdfs now from my calibre library on any device on the network.</p>
<p>also adding new items via the web ui is pretty easy!</p>
<p>TODO: disable converting to epub on &lsquo;read&rsquo; for rpg library. &lsquo;download&rsquo; to read still works great for reading in the meantime.</p>
<p>tags: #calibre</p>
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<link>http://tilde.town/~dozens/piblog/index.html</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">2023-09-03 photoprism</guid>
<pubDate>Sun Sep 3 00:00:00 MDT 2023
</pubDate>
<description>
<![CDATA[
<p>browsed the photo hosting options on <code>awesome-selfhosted</code> on github and decided on photoprism</p>
<p>it has a docker image and i was able to get it working no problem, with no modifications. quick and easy. this is the future containers promised us.</p>
<p>the ui is slow. i have the number of workers cranked down to 1. might bump it to 2.</p>
<p>i had been rsyncing photos to the pi and then reindexing the collection. but i&rsquo;m finding it quicker to do a bulk upload using the web ui. it&rsquo;s working rather reliably. it still has to reindex on upload, but i no longer have to reindex the entire collection.</p>
<p>tags: #photos #photoprism</p>
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<link>http://tilde.town/~dozens/piblog/index.html</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">2023-08-30 git</guid>
<pubDate>Wed Aug 30 00:00:00 MDT 2023
</pubDate>
<description>
<![CDATA[
<p>Add a &ldquo;git&rdquo; user. Create a home dir for it. Do <code>git init --bare repo.git</code>.</p>
<p>Copy my ssh key over and add an entry to <code>.ssh/config</code>:</p>
<p><code>
21 │ Host git
22 │ Hostname 192.168.0.83
23 │ User git
24 │ IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
</code></p>
<p>Now I can <code>git remote add pi git:repo.git</code> in a local repo and push away!</p>
<p>tags: #git</p>
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<title>Hello World</title>
<link>http://tilde.town/~dozens/piblog/index.html</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">2023-08-28 Hello World</guid>
<pubDate>Mon Aug 28 00:00:00 MDT 2023
</pubDate>
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<p>Okay let&rsquo;s get this party started!</p>
<p>I have a raspberry pi model 3b that has been gathering dust in a drawer for a couple years now.</p>
<p>I decided I wanted to dust it off and use it to backup some photos and some files.</p>
<p>I bought a 4TB external hard drive and a 128gb microSD card and hooked it all up.</p>
<p>I downloaded the NOOBS installer from raspberrypi.com/software and installed it on the SD card, which I was able to do because I have a ton of dongles thanks to the fact that my MacbookPro has no peripherals. I popped the card in to the pi, connected my usb keyboard and hdmi monitor and booted it up, and went through the setup.</p>
<p>Then, after testing that I can ssh into the pi, I unplugged my keyboard and monitor and never plugged them back in again.</p>
<p>Plugged in my hard drive and formatted it with an ext3 filesystem.</p>
<p>Created a backup user. (Not a spare user in case of emergencies, but a user specifically for creating backups.)</p>
<p>Copied my ssh keys over:</p>
<p><code>
ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa pi.local
</code></p>
<p>Mounted the drive, added it to <code>/etc/fstab</code> so it will auto-mount, and added a slight delay to the boot command so that there is time for the drive to mount before the system boots. As suggested here:</p>
<p><a href="https://howtoforge.com/tutorial/raspberry-pi-as-backup-server-for-linux-and-windows/">https://howtoforge.com/tutorial/raspberry-pi-as-backup-server-for-linux-and-windows/</a></p>
<p>Copied over my first photo export and my calibre library with an <code>rsync -zaP</code>.</p>
<p>Messed around with mDNS and avahi-daemon because I can&rsquo;t hit http://pi.local in the browser. Still haven&rsquo;t figured this out.</p>
<p>tags: #mdns #getting-started</p>
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<p class="subtitle">adventures with my raspberry pi</p>
<p class="author">dozens</p>
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<h2 id="toc-title">entries</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="#about" id="toc-about">about</a></li>
<li><a href="#audiobooks" id="toc-audiobooks"><time>2023-11-13</time> -
audiobooks</a></li>
<li><a href="#add-email-to-calibre-web"
id="toc-add-email-to-calibre-web"><time>2023-11-07</time> - add email to
calibre-web</a></li>
<li><a href="#abduco-dvtm-tmux-replacement"
id="toc-abduco-dvtm-tmux-replacement"><time>2023-10-28</time> - abduco +
dvtm = tmux replacement?</a></li>
<li><a href="#jellyfin" id="toc-jellyfin"><time>2023-10-11</time> -
jellyfin</a></li>
<li><a href="#dedrm" id="toc-dedrm"><time>2023-09-29</time> -
DeDRM</a></li>
<li><a href="#reboot" id="toc-reboot"><time>2023-09-29</time> -
reboot</a></li>
<li><a href="#rpg-library" id="toc-rpg-library"><time>2023-09-13</time>
- rpg library</a></li>
<li><a href="#mdns" id="toc-mdns"><time>2023-09-12</time> -
mDNS</a></li>
<li><a href="#miniflux" id="toc-miniflux"><time>2023-09-11</time> -
miniflux</a></li>
<li><a href="#calibre" id="toc-calibre"><time>2023-09-08</time> -
calibre</a></li>
<li><a href="#photoprism" id="toc-photoprism"><time>2023-09-03</time> -
photoprism</a></li>
<li><a href="#git" id="toc-git"><time>2023-08-30</time> - git</a></li>
<li><a href="#hello-world" id="toc-hello-world"><time>2023-08-28</time>
- Hello World</a></li>
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<h2 id="about">about</h2>
<p>Hi! This is my journal about my experiences, exploits, and hijinks
while setting up a raspberry pi homelab. it is a Pi 3 Model B named
guyute</p>
<ul>
<li>www: tilde.town/~dozens</li>
<li>email: <a href="mailto:dozens@tilde.team"
class="email">dozens@tilde.team</a></li>
<li>fedi: <span class="citation" data-cites="dozens">@dozens</span><span
class="citation"
data-cites="tiny.tilde.website">@tiny.tilde.website</span></li>
<li>irc: dozens on {libera,tilde}.chat</li>
<li>webring:
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<h2 id="audiobooks"><time>2023-11-13</time> - audiobooks</h2>
<p>okay so tomasino reminded me today that i used to love listening to
audiobooks.</p>
<p><a href="https://labs.tomasino.org/audiobooks/"
class="uri">https://labs.tomasino.org/audiobooks/</a></p>
<p>but i haven’t done it as fanatically as i used to in a long time. for
a while, i didn’t have a commute. and now i do, but i often carpool. but
sometimes i have a solo, quiet commute. ideal for some audiobooks!</p>
<p>further complications: i am unable to download and archive audiobooks
from overdrive the same way i used to be able to. because they barely
support their desktop apps anymore, and instead push really hard for
everybody to use their streaming apps.</p>
<p>but i learned that if i spoof my user-agent</p>
<p><a
href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-string-switcher/"
class="uri">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-string-switcher/</a></p>
<p>then i can get a ‘Have overdrive for mac/windows?’ link upon checkout
that will enable me to download the odm file. which i can then use to
download the mp3s thanks to this special little script.</p>
<p><a
href="https://github.com/jamestomasino/dotfiles-minimal/blob/master/bin/overdrive"
class="uri">https://github.com/jamestomasino/dotfiles-minimal/blob/master/bin/overdrive</a></p>
<p>so that’s great! while i was troubleshooting all of this, i
downloaded a book to my linux laptop, because the download link is
already readily available there, and then transferred it over to the
pi.</p>
<p>so now i guess i’m going to start collecting and archiving audiobooks
on the pi too! i might look into jellyfin in earnest so i can serve them
and download them over my home network.</p>
<p>i might also have to start really considering a vpn so i can access
my files away from the house.</p>
<h2 id="add-email-to-calibre-web"><time>2023-11-07</time> - add email to
calibre-web</h2>
<p>just a quick note to look into configuring email for calibre-web so i
can send books direct to my kindle</p>
<p>whoa this fork looks really great compared to what i have</p>
<p><a href="https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web"
class="uri">https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web</a></p>
<p>the ui looks good and it has single click send to e-mail and also
“Magic Link” login for easy access on eReaders.. that’s great.</p>
<p>what is that i’m running?</p>
<p>just the base <code>calibre-server</code> that comes with the calibre
package in apt.</p>
<p>okay new goal: install and run <code>calibre-web</code>, and stop
using <code>calibre-server</code>?</p>
<h2 id="abduco-dvtm-tmux-replacement"><time>2023-10-28</time> - abduco +
dvtm = tmux replacement?</h2>
<p>i can’t remember how i fell down this rabbit hole.. i think it’s
because elly had been talking about dtach over on #tildetown, which is a
utility that just provides the attach/detach functionality of tmux.</p>
<p>so anyway i started using abduco + dvtm on my pi just to test it out
and see what it was like and i quite like it! dvtm especially is kind of
nice as a tiling window manager for the terminal.</p>
<p>abduco isn’t in the package repository at work, but i started using
dtach + dvtm this week. we’ll see if i stick with it. pretty nice so
far!</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.brain-dump.org/projects/abduco/"
class="uri">https://www.brain-dump.org/projects/abduco/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/"
class="uri">https://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/crigler/dtach"
class="uri">https://github.com/crigler/dtach</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="jellyfin"><time>2023-10-11</time> - jellyfin</h2>
<p>just a quick note to remind myself to check out jellyfin</p>
<p><a href="https://jellyfin.org/"
class="uri">https://jellyfin.org/</a></p>
<p>a media server alternative to plex that is supposed to be much
lighter and more simple than plex.</p>
<h2 id="dedrm"><time>2023-09-29</time> - DeDRM</h2>
<p>shelled into the pi and curled the latest DeDRM tools release</p>
<p><a href="https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/releases/tag/v10.0.3"
class="uri">https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/releases/tag/v10.0.3</a></p>
<p>but i kept getting an empty file for some reason?</p>
<p>no matter, downloaded it to my laptop and <code>scp</code>d it</p>
<p>unzipped it on the pi and</p>
<pre><code>calibre-customize --add DeDRM.zip</code></pre>
<p>it wasn’t working at that point because i didn’t have any keys
defined in the <code>dedrm.json</code> so I <code>scp</code>d my config
json from my laptop to <code>.config/calibre/plugins/DeDRM</code>. at
this point, i’m still unable to open the book after adding it via the
web ui. but when i
<code>calibredb --add book.epub --with-library=books --duplicates</code>
on the pi terminal, it adds it. (<code>--duplicates</code> is necessary
only in this test instance because—oops!—turns out i already have this
book in my library, but i am determined to use this opportunity to set
up DeDRM. i will delete the duplicate later.) I can’t verify in the web
ui though because it’s not showing the duplicate. must have merged it
with the old one.</p>
<p>oh well. i’ll try it again next time i get a book from the library.
shortest wait: currently 6 weeks.</p>
<p>actually no, let’s just go checkout an Available Now book. Song of
Achilles. I liked Circe. Let’s get this one.</p>
<ul>
<li><p>confirmed: can add the book via web ui, but not open or read it
because of drm</p></li>
<li><p>confirmed: can scp the book to the pi,
<code>calibre add book.epub --with-library=books</code> and get an
<code>Added book ids: &lt;id&gt;</code> message</p></li>
<li><p>confirmed: new book does NOT show up in web ui after killing and
restarting the daemon</p></li>
<li><p>confirmed: the book IS there:</p>
<pre><code> ```
$ calibredb list --search=&#39;id:3&#39; --with-library=books
id title authors
3 The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller
$ #wtf
```</code></pre></li>
</ul>
<p>what the hell. does <code>calibre-server</code> has a db cache or
something? i don’t see anything</p>
<p><a
href="https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/generated/en/calibre-server.html"
class="uri">https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/generated/en/calibre-server.html</a></p>
<p>i give up for now</p>
<p>~</p>
<p>to kill the process:</p>
<pre><code>ps aux | grep calibre</code></pre>
<p>and then kill the id</p>
<p>removing the dulplicate:</p>
<pre><code>calibredb search &#39;title:&quot;world we make&quot;&#39; --with-library=books
&gt; 1,2
calibredb list --search &#39;id:2&#39; --with-library=books
&gt; (book info)
calibredb list --search &#39;id:1&#39; --with-library=books
&gt; (book info)
calibredb remove 2</code></pre>
<p>tags: #calibre #drm</p>
<h2 id="reboot"><time>2023-09-29</time> - reboot</h2>
<p>been uploading photos and books, and editing metadata for my
rpgs.</p>
<p>pi became unresponsive last night / this morning to web and ssh so
rebooted this morning and restarted web services. everything seems to be
fine now.</p>
<p>found these resources recently and consider them next steps on my
todo list:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Add deDRM tools for CLI so I can upload library books. I can
pretty much delete local calibre after this. <a
href="https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/blob/master/CALIBRE_CLI_INSTRUCTIONS.md"
class="uri">https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/blob/master/CALIBRE_CLI_INSTRUCTIONS.md</a></p></li>
<li><p>Be your own CA Authority! which initially sounds to me like not
that good of an idea, but then I can use <code>https</code> for my local
webservices. <a
href="https://jamielinux.com/docs/openssl-certificate-authority/"
class="uri">https://jamielinux.com/docs/openssl-certificate-authority/</a></p></li>
<li><p>still want to install a reverse proxy (lapis + openresty?) so i
can hit canonical urls instead of typing in address + port number. this
would make it easier to share URLs with household members. NOTE: do i
want a local DNS server??</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Incidentally, mDNS seemed to just magically start working on its self
at some point. I can hit my pi’s url on macbook and on my phone now.
weeeeeird</p>
<p>tags: #reboot #mdns</p>
<h2 id="rpg-library"><time>2023-09-13</time> - rpg library</h2>
<p>tried searching for an rpg that i know is in my collection and
couldn’t find it by title or by author. this is going to be really
painful until i update the metadata on everything. i’ve done about 60 so
far. out of 1.4k. big yikes!</p>
<p>tags: #calibre #rpg #metadata</p>
<h2 id="mdns"><time>2023-09-12</time> - mDNS</h2>
<p>still can’t hit any multi DNS urls on any of my devices.</p>
<p>not a solution but a workaround (for desktop only): added a line to
<code>/etc/hosts</code> on my MBP:</p>
<pre><code>192.168.0.83 pi.local</code></pre>
<p>and now i can hit e.g. calibre with <a href="http://pi.local:8080"
class="uri">http://pi.local:8080</a></p>
<p>maybe i can configure something on my actual router?</p>
<p>tags: #mdns</p>
<h2 id="miniflux"><time>2023-09-11</time> - miniflux</h2>
<p>rss reader!</p>
<p>one thing i would like to be able to do is to read my rss feeds on my
computer and on my phone and on my tablet, and have my un/read status
sync between decives.</p>
<p>which i guess means hosting a feed reader!</p>
<p>i glanced at <code>awesome-selfhosted</code> and then asked some of
my friends in the basement because i know that they have already
undertaken great adventures in rss, trailblazers that they are.</p>
<p>and they recommended miniflux.</p>
<p>written in go, and it uses postgres. luckily they have a docker image
so i don’t have to install either. the docker-compose file on their
installation instructions is a little out of date, but you can find a
more correct ‘basic.yml’ on github at <code>miniflux/v2</code></p>
<p>after a few tweaks, it is installed and running!</p>
<p>the ui is super minimal. i’m sure i’ll grow to like it, but at the
moment i am missing the classic three-pane “feeds / entries / content”
view.</p>
<p>Up next:</p>
<ul>
<li>gemini/gopher server? just for fun</li>
<li>nginx reverse proxy: i have three services running on three ports
now. i want a proxy for more easiy routing between these. i choose nginx
because lua, so i can fennel</li>
</ul>
<p>tags: #rss #feeds #miniflux</p>
<h2 id="calibre"><time>2023-09-08</time> - calibre</h2>
<p>had to add the upstream debian bullseye repo to install
<code>calibre-server</code>. (and then remove it.) got the web server up
and running pretty easy.</p>
<p>fussed around for a while trying to make a second calibre library out
of my rpg collection. here’s what ended up working: create a new dir and
then
<code>calibredb add path/to/file.pdf --library-path new/library/location</code>.
adding a single file this way created the necessary database file. then
i was able to
<code>find rpgsbak -type f -name '*.pdf' -exec -I {} calibredb add {} --library-path new/library/loction</code>.
(or something like that; wrote the command just now from memory.) and
pull all my pdfs in!</p>
<p>so now i have 1.4k pdfs in a new ‘rpgs’ library alongside my ‘books’
library.</p>
<p>on the whole, hobby ttrpg creators can stand to get a LOT better at
exporting metadata with their pdfs. now i have a whole lot of manual
updating to do. but i can read books and pdfs now from my calibre
library on any device on the network.</p>
<p>also adding new items via the web ui is pretty easy!</p>
<p>TODO: disable converting to epub on ‘read’ for rpg library.
‘download’ to read still works great for reading in the meantime.</p>
<p>tags: #calibre</p>
<h2 id="photoprism"><time>2023-09-03</time> - photoprism</h2>
<p>browsed the photo hosting options on <code>awesome-selfhosted</code>
on github and decided on photoprism</p>
<p>it has a docker image and i was able to get it working no problem,
with no modifications. quick and easy. this is the future containers
promised us.</p>
<p>the ui is slow. i have the number of workers cranked down to 1. might
bump it to 2.</p>
<p>i had been rsyncing photos to the pi and then reindexing the
collection. but i’m finding it quicker to do a bulk upload using the web
ui. it’s working rather reliably. it still has to reindex on upload, but
i no longer have to reindex the entire collection.</p>
<p>tags: #photos #photoprism</p>
<h2 id="git"><time>2023-08-30</time> - git</h2>
<p>Add a “git” user. Create a home dir for it. Do
<code>git init --bare repo.git</code>.</p>
<p>Copy my ssh key over and add an entry to
<code>.ssh/config</code>:</p>
<pre><code> 21 │ Host git
22 │ Hostname 192.168.0.83
23 │ User git
24 │ IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa</code></pre>
<p>Now I can <code>git remote add pi git:repo.git</code> in a local repo
and push away!</p>
<p>tags: #git</p>
<h2 id="hello-world"><time>2023-08-28</time> - Hello World</h2>
<p>Okay let’s get this party started!</p>
<p>I have a raspberry pi model 3b that has been gathering dust in a
drawer for a couple years now.</p>
<p>I decided I wanted to dust it off and use it to backup some photos
and some files.</p>
<p>I bought a 4TB external hard drive and a 128gb microSD card and
hooked it all up.</p>
<p>I downloaded the NOOBS installer from raspberrypi.com/software and
installed it on the SD card, which I was able to do because I have a ton
of dongles thanks to the fact that my MacbookPro has no peripherals. I
popped the card in to the pi, connected my usb keyboard and hdmi monitor
and booted it up, and went through the setup.</p>
<p>Then, after testing that I can ssh into the pi, I unplugged my
keyboard and monitor and never plugged them back in again.</p>
<p>Plugged in my hard drive and formatted it with an ext3
filesystem.</p>
<p>Created a backup user. (Not a spare user in case of emergencies, but
a user specifically for creating backups.)</p>
<p>Copied my ssh keys over:</p>
<pre><code>ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa pi.local</code></pre>
<p>Mounted the drive, added it to <code>/etc/fstab</code> so it will
auto-mount, and added a slight delay to the boot command so that there
is time for the drive to mount before the system boots. As suggested
here:</p>
<p><a
href="https://howtoforge.com/tutorial/raspberry-pi-as-backup-server-for-linux-and-windows/"
class="uri">https://howtoforge.com/tutorial/raspberry-pi-as-backup-server-for-linux-and-windows/</a></p>
<p>Copied over my first photo export and my calibre library with an
<code>rsync -zaP</code>.</p>
<p>Messed around with mDNS and avahi-daemon because I can’t hit <a
href="http://pi.local" class="uri">http://pi.local</a> in the browser.
Still haven’t figured this out.</p>
<p>tags: #mdns #getting-started <!-- END //--></p>
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