Smart Home

Based on Denys Dovhan's Smart Home

Hardware and OS

My home server is running on a Lenovo ThinkCentre M715Q Tiny, equipped with Ubuntu Server 22.04.

Stacks

Stacks are groups of apps organized by a common trait and are physically defined by a directory containing a compose.yml file.

Available Stacks

• Essentials

  • Caddy Reverse proxy - Caddy sports a flexible and powerful HTTP reverse proxy, on-line configuration API, and a robust, production-ready static file server, and serves all sites over HTTPS by default with automagic TLS certificates
  • Portainer CE - Manage containers via a user-friendly web UI
  • Homarr - Fancy dashboard for displaying home services
  • Gotify - A simple server for sending and receiving messages
  • Watchtower - A container-based solution for automating Docker container base image updates

• Network

  • Pi-Hole - DNS and ad blocker

• Backup

  • Duplicati - Duplicati is a backup client that securely stores encrypted, incremental, compressed remote backups of local files on cloud storage services and remote file servers

• HASS

  • Home Assistant - Home Assistant is free and open-source software used for home automation
  • Mosquitto Broker - MQTT acts like a messaging service that makes it easier for Home Assistant to send and receive messages from sensors and other devices

• Media

  • SABnzbd - SABnzbd is an Open Source Binary Newsreader written in Python
  • Prowlarr - Prowlarr is an indexer manager/proxy
  • Readarr - Book Manager and Automation
  • Kavita - Kavita is a full-fledged, fast, cross-platform, & open-source manga, comic, and book server

Getting Started

DNS Records

Setup your local DNS records for

• Homarr (default value in .env is dashboard.local)
• Portainer (default value in .env is portainer.local)
• Gotify (default value in .env is gotify.local)
• Duplucati (default value in .env is duplicati.local)
• Pi-Hole (default value in .env is pihole.local)
• HomeAssistant (default value in .env is hass.local)
• SABnzbd (default value in .env is sabnzbd.local)
• Prowlarr (default value in .env is prowlarr.local)
• Readarr (default value in .env is readarr.local)

Environment Variables

Rename blank_env to .env and update all variables according to your needs and setup. Note that the script will not run if .env is not detected.

Stacks Persistent Data

Directory set as STACK_DATA variable (by default /opt/stacks) in the .env file will be created during the init (see below)

Init

• Add smart-home script to PATH and set SMART_HOME_DIR:

  echo 'export SMART_HOME_DIR="$HOME/smart-home"' >> ~/.bashrc
  echo 'export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/smart-home/bin"' >> ~/.bashrc
  source ~/.bashrc

• Initialize the home server

smart-home init

Deploy essentials tools

smart-home essentials up

To receive Watchtower notififications in Gotify:

1. Open Gotify web interface https://gotofy.local (or whatever you set in .env as CADDY_GOTIFY)
2. click on APPS
3. Click on CREATE APPLICATION
4. Enter Watchtower as name, and click CREATE
5. Take note of the Token
6. Edit the .env file
7. Fill up WATCHTOWER_GOTIFY_TOKEN with the newly created token

smart-home essentials down && smart-home essentials up

Deploy network tools

smart-home network up

Deploy backup tools

smart-home backup up

Deploy Home Assistant tools

smart-home hass up

Complete configuration

1. Access http://<IPADDRESS>:8123 or http://hass.local:8123 and create your account for Home Assistant
2. Click on Settings, "Devices & services" and the + ADD INTEGRATION button
3. Search for mqtt and select MQTT (it should be the first one found)
4. Enter localhost as broker and click SUBMIT

Deploy media tools

smart-home media up

Important notes

• The initialization function assumes that you will use Pi-Hole and disables the default resolved service to avoid TCP port binding conflicts on TCP port 53.
• The Pi-Hole YAML configuration assumes you will keep using your current DHCP server (usually your modem/router).

License

MIT