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  • That’s a possibility for sure. My suggestion would be first to test the capability of the device before buying anything. Once you’re satisfied with it, you can take the next steps and buy additional hardware. In my experience a USB-C -> ETH port was a great purchase as I was experiencing shaky WiFi connection possibly due to battery saving settings.


  • Based on my personal experience at least one year on a 5 years old mobile. It can last longer but I decommissioned it because I got a NUC.

    I had setup a charge limiter (between 20% and 80%) with Magisk, initially it was through an automation in homeassistant but the battery usage was very high.

    In terms of charge cycles it was one or two per day max



  • It is possible nowadays: I’m hosting quite a few services on an 5 years old Android. Just with Termux, no root required. Of course connectef it’s just to the internal network due to all the security concerns mentioned in the post.

    To solve all the bandwidth/connection issues, I’ve bought a usbc-ethernet dongle that works like a charm.

    To mitigate battery issues I’ve limited the charging to 85%.

    I would never host Jellyfin there, but with webdav and Kodi I can get my media served easily to all my devices at home




  • Until one week ago I was using an old Samsung A20 with good results. I moved to a mini PC as I wanted to host Immich server and I felt it was too much for the phone (it might not be the case though…)

    A quick extract from an old post of mine on what I was running: https://lemmy.world/comment/354199

    Software: Termux (android app) SSH (OpenSSH in Termux) Rclone (in Termux) Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Prowlarr (in proot-distro) Transmission (in proot-distro) Kavitha (in proot-distro) Podgrab (in proot-distro) Ombi (in proot-distro) ntfy (in proot-distro) Filebrowser (in proot-distro) Vaultwarden (in proot-distro) Homer with lighttpd (in proot-distro)

    TLDR: Go for it! Use Termux with proot-distro to avoid headaches



  • knF@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldSustainable self-hosting services?
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    No Docker unfortunately, it would require either to recompile the mobile Kernel or use QEMU and I believe it would have a big impact on the performances. Basically this time the approach was: what can I do with an old mobile without rooting or anything. Hardware:

    • Samsung S20
    • USB3 to Ethernet & charger port
    • 128GB SD card

    Sofrware:

    • Termux (android app)
    • SSH (OpenSSH in Termux)
    • Rclone (in Termux)
    • Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Prowlarr (in proot-distro)
    • Transmission (in proot-distro)
    • Kavitha (in proot-distro)
    • Podgrab (in proot-distro)
    • Ombi (in proot-distro)
    • ntfy (in proot-distro)
    • Filebrowser (in proot-distro)
    • Vaultwarden (in proot-distro)
    • Homer with lighttpd (in proot-distro)

    Since I wasn’t able to install .NET Runtime in Termux directly, I used the proot-distro (Ubuntu) and inside I’ve installed all the services. Services are started manually every time I restart the proot-distro (unfortunately I’m getting an error when installing Termux:Boot), it’s a simple script so I’m not dying over it. To keep the proot-distro alive I launch is with the screen command so I’m ensuring persistence even when the terminal is closed.

    It’s not a clean solution like docker etc. but I’m consuming 5 or 10Wh of energy every day which is close to nothing and probably sustainable with a solar panel.

    Every once in a while (basically when the SD is almost full) I transfer the files with rclone to an external drive where I consolidate the files.

    Oh extra tip, with rclone you can create a DLNA server so you can serve the files you have download immediately (tested with VNC and Kodi)

    The phone/server has still room (CPU & RAM) to go and possibly I could install HomeAssistant without any issue. Also I could add Joplin and Floccus using webdav for storage as I had in my previous server but I don’t miss them.

    Any other questions, doubts, scripts, feel free to ask!