Have you heard of reticulum?

Never, but I will spool up on it.

Always fancied growing my own food

Even in a small yard, one can grow enough food to offset buying at the local grocery. Container gardening. Maybe using some areas of your landscaping for a small grow. I’ll tell you that there is nothing like home grown food. It tastes much different than what you find in most groceries. For instance, I look forward in much anticipation to tomato season. I grow all kinds of varieties. Store bought tomatoes are usually picked green, flooded with Ethylene, and shipped. That will never compare to a sliced tomato, ripe off the vine with some mayo, salt and pepper, between two slices of bread.

It mostly depends on what you’re doing with the property

Well, I used to be a farmer among other things in a former life. I’m 71 now and a bit too old to be running a farm full time. So I lease most of it out to other farmers in the area to grow silage for their livestock. I still retain some for my livestock, and personal grows. I also have parceled out a couple of half and quarter acre plots for the townies to grow their community gardens. Positive cash flow and all that.

Home Assistant

I thought about Home Assistant, but I’m not sure what I’d do with the rest of it’s capabilities. I live in a house built in the latter part of the 40’s sitting in the middle of 22 acres. Besides a monitor for all my security cams which I already have set up, there’s not a whole lot to automate with Home Assistant around here. LOL 2 rooms, one bath, part of which have the original logs from when it was a log cabin. Not a whole lot to keep up with.

I’m using Homarr which has the capabilities of iframes.

Is this not JSON format?

ETA: I guess I should have posted it as such:

Use Case: I want to display a daily and extended forecast on a dashboard perhaps via an iframe or other means. I get tired of going to the weather channel and having them complain about my ad blocking techniques. LOL Also, I thought it would be a good learning exercise for me. I’m using n8n to pull the raw data from OpenWeather API. I can generate the JSON data fine (at least it was an accomplishment for me), it’s just getting that JSON data into a prettier format to display on a dashboard with maybe some pretty little weather icons later on when I get it down pat.

I mentioned Python because it seemed like a language I see others use for this sort of thing, but I am willing to explore other avenues. I am not very strong at coding. I can muck by, fiddling with this or that until I finally get something that works. Then I immediately commit that to my notes because my brain is shit at remembering things.

If you’re new to programming in general,

I’m not new to programming, I’m just not very strong or proficient at all at it. You’ve given me a lot to read, and I thank you.

Btw, you are definitly not limited to using Python for this

I mentioned Python because that seems like a language a lot of people use for this sort of thing, but I am willing to entertain any other avenues…except perhaps Microsoft’s Power BI, which is discontinued.

Thank you.

https://jqlang.org/ ?

Example tutorial: How To Transform JSON Data with jq

Thanks for the lead. I’ll see what I can do with jq.

I appreciate everyone’s input on this! And remember I’m just here to help

Well you certainly have brought a lot of clarity to the table, and that is admirable and appreciated. Most of use left Reddit for a reason. It would be nice if lemmy.world/c/selfhosted didn’t turn into Reddit. There are so very few selfhosting brain trusts out there.

Cool.

Abut 35+ years ago, I stuck a finger up and didn’t like the way the wind was blowing. I decided to do something about it. While I am a prepper, I do not prep for EOTW scenarios. If we start dropping nukes, point me towards the blast cloud and let this universe recycle the energy it takes to keep this meat bag alive, into something else.

I do, however, prep for inclement weather, shortages, civil unrest, pandemics, etc. I have solar and whole house generators. I grow my own food, raise my own livestock, can and freeze my vegetables, meats, and such. During the pandemic, I rarely ventured off the compound as there was no real need to. I’ve long since turned my dining room into a pantry and it is well stocked and rotated. I stock medicinal supplies, things that would be needed in a disaster scenario, not gadetry. I have taught myself the skill of making very good alcohol, which can be used medicinally, and for barter. I stock a lot of staples, things that can be turned into multiple meals; flours, sugar, corn meal, etc.

I would say that my servers would be a minor issue or concern in a disaster scenario. I would most likely depend on Ham radio and CB communications, vs the internet. We would be back to living like say mine, or your, grandparents did. Very lean and close to the bone, relying on what we could scratch together to survive, such as Victory Gardens, etc.

We live in a world of convenience, and while that’s great and all, we get used to the notion that we will always be able to go to the grocery to pick up food supplies, and that is a false comfort. For anyone interested, I’d start with extending your pantry. Make wise purchases. Don’t fall for all the gizmos and gadgetry surrounding prepping. They’ll sell you a sack full of crap you’ll probably never use, or be useless when the time comes.

and use some lego to enforce spacing between 'em.

Brilliant! You like things straight and even…so do I :) When I read that I said. this is a kindred spirit. I have two door wedges (stops?) up under one of my keyboards because it sits behind yet another keyboard, and the factory height wasn’t sufficient.

Neat. The cli is so powerful. I probably haven’t even explored 1% of what it can do.

Bookmarked. I’ll add it to the things you can do from the cli, like get the weather, which is pretty cool.

I’ve never heard of twtxt. When you say ‘posting entirely as plain text’, are you posting as plain text to a blog, forum, etc from the cli?

It’s quite secure. Privacy depends on who you ask. Obviously Cloudflare will be handling your data which is something some selfhosters do not like. Ultimately you have to make that decision as to whether it fits within your threat model. As far as security, you don’t need to fiddle with NAT or open/close ports. You will, of course, need to allow ssh in UFW, so you can admin the server itself. All you do is install Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust on the server, and Cloudflare takes care of the rest. If you decide to go the Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust route, I have a set of my notes I would be more than happy to share. They’ve seemed to have helped a handful of people, and you could use them as a guide.

I had a laptop server back in the day. I took the battery out just because it was one less thing to worry about. YMMV. At the very least, there are ways to cap the charge level on the battery, tho I have no experience doing that. Perhaps others may chime in if that is a route you choose.