Interesting server based apps

Cockpit

Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers.

Collabora Online

Collabora Online is a private office suite in your cloud. When connected to Nextcloud, it allows to edit office documents like textes simultaneously.
More at: https://www.collaboraoffice.com

Element

Element is client (app or web) for the matrix-synapse server.
More at: https://element.io

EMS-ESP

EMS-ESP is an open-source firmware to communicate with EEMS heating appliances. I use this Gateway S3 to connect my Buderus heating system to the local network. I communicates with the MQTT broker.
More at: https://emsesp.github.io/docs/

Homepage & Homer dashboard

Homer dashboard is a static homepage for you to keep your services on hand. It only needs editing a yaml configuration file.
More at: https://github.com/bastienwirtz/homer

Homepage dashboard does the same than Homer but additionally allows displaying relevant live information (like piHole’s blocked queries) on the webpage.
More at: https://github.com/gethomepage/homepage

ioBroker

ioBroker, as openHAB, is an open source automation platform. I use it to connect my Grünbeck water softener to my openHAB instance.
More at: https://www.iobroker.net

LocalAI

LocalAI is your self hosted OpenAI alternative that can run all sorts of Large Language Models (LLM), generate images and audio files. It can be integrated into Nextcloud.
More at: https://localai.io

Matrix-synapse

Matrix-synapse is a decentralised open communication network using direct messages, like iMessage or Whatsapp. I self host it on my main server connected through a dynamic Internet connection. Matrix-synapse is a fediverse application.
More at: https://matrix.org

Mosquitto

Mosquitto is a message broker implementing the MQTT protocol. It enables you to receive and send MQTT messages in your network. Thus you can have different software communicate with each other. I use it mainly to allow my openHAB service to interact with my Buderus heating and warm water system.
More at: https://mosquitto.org

Nextcloud

Nextcloud is a self-hosted cloud solution for file sharing and collaboration. You can connect it to different softwares like the Collabora Online office suite or a LocalAI installation.
More at: https://nextcloud.com

Nginx reverse proxy

Nginx is an HTTP and reverse proxy server. All my web applications are available from the web through this reverse proxy instance. This allows that open ports like https (443) can be dispatched to different (virtual) servers.
More at: https://nginx.org/en/

openHAB

openHAB is a vendor and technology agnostic open source automation software for your home. It bridges different technologies like KNX, Philips Hue, DSMR, Z-wave, icloud. So if you want to be able to switch on Hue lights with your KNX switch, openHAB can help you achieve this. You can integrate all kinds of technologies ant automate them with the help of the built in rule engines.
More at: http:/www.openhab.org

Paperless NGX

Paperless-ngx is a community-supported open-source document management and optical character recognition system.
More at: https://docs.paperless-ngx.com

PiHole

PiHole is a DNS sinkhole. It allows blocking access to risky websites that are known for spam, phishing, ads etc. The blocking lists are community driven. PiHole also allows to easily setup a local network DNS server.
More at: www.pi-hole.net

PeerTube

PeerTube is the fediverse version of Youtube. You can run it on your server and canptionally link it to the PeerTube fediverse servers.
More at: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube

Plex

Plex is a personal media streaming service for your network. I use it as a plugin in TrueNAS.
More at: https://www.plex.tv/media-server-downloads/

Proxmox Virtual Environment (PVE)

Proxmox Virtual Environment is an open-source virtualisation platform. This is the backbone of my homelab.
More at: https://www.proxmox.com/en/

Rallly

Rallly is a self hosted tool for creating scheduling polls, like for example doodle.
More at: https://support.rallly.co/introduction

Rustdesk

Rustdesk is a self-hosted open source alternative to TeamViewer.
More at: https://rustdesk.com

TrueNAS

TrueNAS is a network attached storage platform where you have full control over the installation and do not depend an proprietary software like QNAP an SYNOLOGY. I am running the community version of TrueNAS score.
More at: https://www.truenas.com

Uptime-Kuma

Uptime-kuma is a self hosted server monitoring tool.
More at: https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma

Wazuh

Wazuh is an open-source security platform.
More at: https://wazuh.com

Zabbix

Zabbix is an all-in-one open-source monitoring solution.
More at: https://www.zabbix.com