Someone mentioned [HomeBox](https://hay-kot.github.io/homebox/) on this subreddit a few months ago and I recently started using it. I've been slowly adding appliances/electronics/furniture (try to pace myself at about 1/day to avoid burnout) and I'm super happy with it.
It has the ability to [add custom fields and all sorts of attachments](https://i.imgur.com/zkuNv9b.png) as needed.
All valid concerns. For the time being I have the data backed up nightly, but the lack of export functionality will certainly make it significantly more difficult to parse through the data for an insurance adjuster.
Dev here. Generic CSV exports will be coming in the next month or so. I want to do PDF exports, but that will be a taller order especially with photos and stuff. Also working with pdf libraries is always painful.
If it's just for backup, homebox uses a SQLite DB.
A cronjob and a cp function is what I am using currently to make a simple db backup. Every week or so.
That feels like a great idea to know what you have in case of a fire and you need to do an insurance claim. Love the idea of having the receipt for it there too!
Trying it right now, actually. In fact, I only saw your comment right after I added mine XD.
It's pretty neat! The UI is nice, just wish it had a list-view too in the items, not just the "cards view".
That said, I am slowly adding things to it and so far its working and doing what I need it to. Also as a little plus, the Docker container is super tiny, perfect for a small SBC!
I tried the demo they linked and it feels more like something you'd use at scale - not when you are just listing harddrives in a NAS and a PC and some assortment of cables and peripherals. That said, its quite interesting. I bookmarked it, because I might actually have a use for it at work. x)
As someone who uses it at home, it's definitely overkill for a single NAS.
Frankly it's ~~probably~~ overkill for my setup too. But if you don't mind building up everything, it's quite powerful.
I would also warn that it's SUPER focused on IT--FFS don't use for whole house inventory.
Homebox is what I needed and works well. I am at the verge of moving to using Kubernetes via k3s and my hardware has expanded by a lot (I even have a RISC-V board in the VisionFive2 now and compiled my own kernel for it - 30 revisions in fact). So it's been going well!
In terms of management of all sorts of things though, I am dropping Monica. It's good, but I ended up using it more as a glorified address book and didn't keep up adding a lot of information because it's a rather clunky webapp with no PWA support or the likes and otherwise no apps to speak of.
Grocy has been an amazing help; being able to put expiry dates in and get phone notifications for them is a big, big help - especially if you are nearly blind like me.
I am also going to be implementing snipe-it into the company I work at; there have been too many cases of "Where is x?" that I am just too annoyed and bothered xD. For a bigger company, this is actually really good.
I don’t self-host everything and so couldn’t really justify using Monica and Homebox anymore when it can easily be replaced by Notion. It cannot do everything though: Paperless-ngx and InvenTree are still amazing at what they do.
Boy do I wish that there was an open source Notion...
I tried Standard Notes; requires a license for the self-hosted software to unlock all features. I get it, they do need funding somehow, but installing purposely locked software like that just feels kinda wrong...
I tried Logseq; has no native syncing whatsoever and whilst SyncThing does it's job, its a PITA to set up, especially when a wholly new device joins the network.
Notion is pretty great, I just don't trust cloud platforms anymore - recent issues just reinforced that, especially since I have to use a lot of those at work where none of my collegues have ever made any consideration about the ToS untill a friend of the boss told him about the things MS Teams does, at which point he sent a panic email to the whole company... xD
I wont stop looking though. Oh yeah, the closest seems to be Trillium, but... it has its own issues, unfortunately. Try the app, you'll see quite quickly what I mean. x)
> Boy do I wish that there was an open source Notion...
On a *very* technical level you could call Obsidian open source since the entire thing is an electron app and you can view the source on the spot when it runs.
I like how storedown handles locations and sub locations. Couchdb and pouchdb are also really neat and allows the website to even work offline.
My biggest concern is many of the dependencies are deprecated and out of date.
Homebox is what I'm using now!
im dissaponted that i cant find replacement for partkeepr. it is good but outdated and doesnt look good.
homebox looks amazing but doesnt have many functions yet. would love to see it grow up :)
and to copy some functions from partkeepr wouldnt be any wrong.(locations and locations creation, easy add/remove stock with 2 clicks,..) just my opininon.
im getting feeling that homebox is more for what i have in garage (tools,..) and not "inventory" (parts for use, stock,.) right now.
Sounds like a general knowledge base system like Notion, Coda or Airtable would already work for your requirements. You'd have a table with your items and associated properties and notes, self-references to related items, and another table with cross-references to the locations where you put them.
I think the flexibilty is always nice to have ☺️
Of course since we're in the selfhosted subreddit, you'd need to look into the various open source alternatives to those cloud-hosted services above
Hm... Hadn't thought of using a Knowledgebase. This might actually come in handy for other things depending on what features it has.
I usually take a glance at the awesome-selfhosted Github list and see where i end up from there.
Thanks for the idea, gonna see what i find!
if you go this route, ive had my eye on bookstack app for documentation of things. i might actually go forward with that because some of the other open source inventory servers ive seen are far too commercial for my needs.
I use Bookstack for exactly this -- holding notes and snippets on hardware and software stuff. It is perfect and holds all those things that you research and know that you will want some day in the future but don't know when
Grocy is literally made for this :)
Check it out: https://github.com/grocy/grocy
I am visually impaired and cant read the expiration dates. So when I go shopping, I add those in, so I only have to read it once. =)
Thanks! We end up eating out a lot so we have food go bad all the time right under our nose. Oh, how many times we end up getting a single gallon of milk and having it go bad! But this should hopefully help us out, thanks again!
Homebox just had another release, and it is what I'm currently using.
It's still pretty new, but looks fantastic and some of the most helpful and active devs.
I also have a small list of different things and items I have looked into as well:
https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/10gadqq/home_inventory_app/j52eqip?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3
I haven't found this one. Looks decent. But after quickly poking around the demo, does it have the concept of locations and sub locations to find stuff?
Someone mentioned [HomeBox](https://hay-kot.github.io/homebox/) on this subreddit a few months ago and I recently started using it. I've been slowly adding appliances/electronics/furniture (try to pace myself at about 1/day to avoid burnout) and I'm super happy with it. It has the ability to [add custom fields and all sorts of attachments](https://i.imgur.com/zkuNv9b.png) as needed.
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All valid concerns. For the time being I have the data backed up nightly, but the lack of export functionality will certainly make it significantly more difficult to parse through the data for an insurance adjuster.
Dev here. Generic CSV exports will be coming in the next month or so. I want to do PDF exports, but that will be a taller order especially with photos and stuff. Also working with pdf libraries is always painful.
If it's just for backup, homebox uses a SQLite DB. A cronjob and a cp function is what I am using currently to make a simple db backup. Every week or so.
That feels like a great idea to know what you have in case of a fire and you need to do an insurance claim. Love the idea of having the receipt for it there too!
Love it, gonna try it
Thank you
Trying it right now, actually. In fact, I only saw your comment right after I added mine XD. It's pretty neat! The UI is nice, just wish it had a list-view too in the items, not just the "cards view". That said, I am slowly adding things to it and so far its working and doing what I need it to. Also as a little plus, the Docker container is super tiny, perfect for a small SBC!
What about [https://snipeitapp.com/](https://snipeitapp.com/) ?
I tried the demo they linked and it feels more like something you'd use at scale - not when you are just listing harddrives in a NAS and a PC and some assortment of cables and peripherals. That said, its quite interesting. I bookmarked it, because I might actually have a use for it at work. x)
As someone who uses it at home, it's definitely overkill for a single NAS. Frankly it's ~~probably~~ overkill for my setup too. But if you don't mind building up everything, it's quite powerful. I would also warn that it's SUPER focused on IT--FFS don't use for whole house inventory.
Been thinking about something similar, anyone here tried HomeBox?
I am currently testing [Homebox](https://github.com/hay-kot/homebox) Thought I'd share it for the curious that come by here :)
1 year later - what's your resume? :D
Homebox is what I needed and works well. I am at the verge of moving to using Kubernetes via k3s and my hardware has expanded by a lot (I even have a RISC-V board in the VisionFive2 now and compiled my own kernel for it - 30 revisions in fact). So it's been going well! In terms of management of all sorts of things though, I am dropping Monica. It's good, but I ended up using it more as a glorified address book and didn't keep up adding a lot of information because it's a rather clunky webapp with no PWA support or the likes and otherwise no apps to speak of. Grocy has been an amazing help; being able to put expiry dates in and get phone notifications for them is a big, big help - especially if you are nearly blind like me. I am also going to be implementing snipe-it into the company I work at; there have been too many cases of "Where is x?" that I am just too annoyed and bothered xD. For a bigger company, this is actually really good.
I don’t self-host everything and so couldn’t really justify using Monica and Homebox anymore when it can easily be replaced by Notion. It cannot do everything though: Paperless-ngx and InvenTree are still amazing at what they do.
Boy do I wish that there was an open source Notion... I tried Standard Notes; requires a license for the self-hosted software to unlock all features. I get it, they do need funding somehow, but installing purposely locked software like that just feels kinda wrong... I tried Logseq; has no native syncing whatsoever and whilst SyncThing does it's job, its a PITA to set up, especially when a wholly new device joins the network. Notion is pretty great, I just don't trust cloud platforms anymore - recent issues just reinforced that, especially since I have to use a lot of those at work where none of my collegues have ever made any consideration about the ToS untill a friend of the boss told him about the things MS Teams does, at which point he sent a panic email to the whole company... xD I wont stop looking though. Oh yeah, the closest seems to be Trillium, but... it has its own issues, unfortunately. Try the app, you'll see quite quickly what I mean. x)
> Boy do I wish that there was an open source Notion... On a *very* technical level you could call Obsidian open source since the entire thing is an electron app and you can view the source on the spot when it runs.
> Boy do I wish that there was an open source Notion... joplin? zettlr?
https://storedown.org/ ?
I like how storedown handles locations and sub locations. Couchdb and pouchdb are also really neat and allows the website to even work offline. My biggest concern is many of the dependencies are deprecated and out of date. Homebox is what I'm using now!
im dissaponted that i cant find replacement for partkeepr. it is good but outdated and doesnt look good. homebox looks amazing but doesnt have many functions yet. would love to see it grow up :) and to copy some functions from partkeepr wouldnt be any wrong.(locations and locations creation, easy add/remove stock with 2 clicks,..) just my opininon. im getting feeling that homebox is more for what i have in garage (tools,..) and not "inventory" (parts for use, stock,.) right now.
Isn't Inventree the succesor?
Sounds like a general knowledge base system like Notion, Coda or Airtable would already work for your requirements. You'd have a table with your items and associated properties and notes, self-references to related items, and another table with cross-references to the locations where you put them. I think the flexibilty is always nice to have ☺️ Of course since we're in the selfhosted subreddit, you'd need to look into the various open source alternatives to those cloud-hosted services above
Hm... Hadn't thought of using a Knowledgebase. This might actually come in handy for other things depending on what features it has. I usually take a glance at the awesome-selfhosted Github list and see where i end up from there. Thanks for the idea, gonna see what i find!
if you go this route, ive had my eye on bookstack app for documentation of things. i might actually go forward with that because some of the other open source inventory servers ive seen are far too commercial for my needs.
I use Bookstack for exactly this -- holding notes and snippets on hardware and software stuff. It is perfect and holds all those things that you research and know that you will want some day in the future but don't know when
another suggestion for this route: https://github.com/silverbulletmd/silverbullet or try Obsidian…
I’ve been using InvenTree! App is solid, barcodes supported, and easy to spin up in docker
Man, I just need one for expiration dates! Seems every day I go in the fridge, something else is expired.
Grocy is literally made for this :) Check it out: https://github.com/grocy/grocy I am visually impaired and cant read the expiration dates. So when I go shopping, I add those in, so I only have to read it once. =)
Thanks! We end up eating out a lot so we have food go bad all the time right under our nose. Oh, how many times we end up getting a single gallon of milk and having it go bad! But this should hopefully help us out, thanks again!
Homebox just had another release, and it is what I'm currently using. It's still pretty new, but looks fantastic and some of the most helpful and active devs. I also have a small list of different things and items I have looked into as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/10gadqq/home_inventory_app/j52eqip?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3
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Are these all self-hosted?
Try leihs , u can find the repo at github
https://github.com/leihs/leihs Demo: https://demo.leihs.zhdk.ch/
I haven't found this one. Looks decent. But after quickly poking around the demo, does it have the concept of locations and sub locations to find stuff?