Hi everyone,
I am new to self-hosting and this is also my first post on Lemmy. I have a navidrome instance for my music (installed via docker compose) and a jellyfin instance for movies and shows (also installed via docker compose) running on a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB. I know I could also use music over jellyfin but I prefer to have it in navidrome.
The next thing that I want to achieve on my journey through the world of self-hosting is to run my own matrix server. The ideal eventual goal would be to have my own server on that same Raspberry Pi which I can then use to bridge Whatsapp to so I finally can get rid of that App from my primary phone. Receiving Whatsapp messages is unfortunately necessary for me to keep contact with certain people, although I would prefer to get rid of it completely as well, but who am I telling that, there are plenty of people out there facing the same issue.
As Whatsapp needs to run somewhere, which is required to have the bridge properly working, it would ideally run in an Android Virtual Device although that is no requirement as I know physical phones are recommended and emulated devices get blocked more often.
Ideally, the matrix server would also be installed using docker compose. It is intended to have one user only which is me but should of course be able to communicate with other servers to enable me to talk to others. The main limitation is that all three services should be running on that Raspberry Pi at the same time.
As my experience regarding such a project is virtually zero, my questions are:
Is such a setup is feasible and generally a good or bad idea (considering running jellyfin, navidrome and matrix on one Raspberry Pi)?
What issues should I consider before starting such a project?
If there's someone having a similar setup, what are your experiences?
Also important to note: The matrix server should be able to handle video and voice calls as well, not in large rooms of course, but rather in a context of 2 to 4 people max.
Any advice, information or personal experience is well appreciated! I want to properly inform myself before starting out and thought here might be a good starting point. If I forgot to mention any specific information that is needed please let me know.
Thanks a lot!
EDIT: Adjusted post title to better reflect the advise-seeking character of this post and adjusted question phrasing
Pihole is runs on pi zero’s I am sure you would not have any problemswith running it on your pi 4’s. I have my primary pihole instance running on a pi 5 with a bunch of other things, my secondary pihole instance is running on another pi 5 that used to run ghost which hosts my webpage.
I would say put pihole on both, also put unbound onto whatever one you decide is your main pihole. If you are going to get pihole and setup Matrix with the Whatsapp bridge may I suggest you get a firewall as well, something that you can flash OpenWRT onto. I have a Flint 2 that I have multiple vLANs setup on for security, but also a VPN so that I can have the benefit of all my services away from home. It is something that I wish I had setup a lot sooner.
Of course you will need a static IP address for this, for me my ISP gives them out for free but I understand that it is expensive elsewhere. I do however hear there are apps that emulate static IP’s for things like wireguard to use.