We thought about looking into a Sky calendar, but naturally for what they were offering we thought there had to be a self hosted solution.
Grocy seems to fit the bill and then some. The next challenge would be getting a touch display and mini computer to act as a kiosk to display it in the house somewhere.
Anyone else using grocy?
Self hosting services like this is a hobby for technical people, I can see the appeal of something like this to help coordinate shopping and meal planning for a large family. Nothing wrong with either approach imo
Once you have the infrastructure to self host stuff (literally just an old PC running proxmox in a corner) it’s kinda fun just messing with hosting your own open source services.
I set up a bunch for my job since we had no project management infrastructure and now I’m addicted to running containers.
Yeah, I host plenty of things out of my house at this point. Some are more useful than others. Hell, the bot that posts news to news.abolish.capital sits on a rack in my basement. Jellyfin at this point is like critical infrastructure. But I also host things like Homarr and use it as a homepage for myself. When me and my SO were talking last night, she brought up the Skylight calendar, and my first thought was, “Wait, it’s just a calendar, and a task tracker? Someone has to have made something like this before.”. Then she told me the price for the largest one, $700, and that’s when I said that thought out loud. After like 5 minutes of googling I came across Grocy and it’s basically the same thing, except I can host it. The only thing for me to solve is to get a little computer (I have an old rpi doing nothing) and a touch-screen monitor set up to launch the site in some kind of kiosk arrangement, and mount it somewhere useful.
We use another system for saving our recipes and sharing them with people, but Grocy could replace that and might encourage us to meal plan more. Since we can take those recipes we have and turn them into an actual plan that I don’t have to keep in my head (thanks ADHD).
One lesson you learn fast is no one will want to use your self-hosted doodads if they already have something that works. For my SO, she was feeling the limitations of both Google Calendar and our Whiteboard. The Skylight calendar is what she thought of because she’s had to set one up at her job in the past. I don’t think I would have even bothered looking if I wasn’t actively hosting a bunch of other things for myself. We’ve talked in the past about finding a better way to keep documentation and information about the shit in the house too: water heater, septic, lawn equipment, etc. All those things have maintenance that needs to be tracked, and I’m pretty sure Grocy could help me track that stuff too.
I’ve been thinking and setting up grocy for the same reasons actually lol, I have a little VPS id probably toss it on. Too often I get told “we need groceries” with no direction, then when I get back I’m in trouble because I missed something that everyone else also missed.
Agreed, I love tinkering with stuff like this. When I discovered containers it really opened up a lot of shit for me, but I’m at a stage where something has to provide more time/effort savings than I’d put into setting it up. And I need it to be robust, I spend plenty of time fixing broken software at my day job, I have zero interest in babysitting shit at home.
Deluge, Navidrome, Tandoor, and paperless-ngx have been good to me so far. Wanna try Home Assistant and Jellyfin next but can’t make the time.
I set up our stack 3 years ago at work and have only had to touch it twice. It’s honestly impressive how robust this stuff can be