UnpledgedCatnapTipper

It’s not quite as simple as a single docker compose, but the Element Server Suite for hosting a matrix home server (synapse) was fairly simple to get working.

There’s an additional component, and how you deploy it depends on the method you’re deploying things. If you do the Element Server Suite (https://github.com/element-hq/ess-helm) via their instructions, it includes the voice/video component and web client. If you deploy your homeserver in a different way, you should be able to find instructions for Element Call.

Synapse is the Matrix homeserver, it handles everything except for the voice/video call features.

Edit: it doesn’t handle the web client either, but technically you don’t need that for a working setup.

You will need a domain, but they can be had for a couple $ per year.

As for hosting on synology, I don’t know how difficult it is. I used the Element Server Suite on a Debian VM, and aside from some minor issues getting email and automatic room joining working it was pretty simple following their guides.

My best suggestion would be to try enabling web sockets and see if it changes anything. I did find a post for a similar issue that someone was having with a different reverse proxy, but I’m not sure if it’ll be helpful.

https://github.com/NginxProxyManager/nginx-proxy-manager/issues/2099

Does accessing your router page via caddy work when you’re actually on your home network and not accessing it via wireguard? Have you tried a different web browser to rule out your LLM suggested cookie issues entirely?

I got 3 Seagate Exos X16 14 TB drives for only $140 each (refurbished) at the end of 2022. I’ve got them in TrueNAS as a zfs array and they work great.

Mine were the SATA version, which isn’t currently in stock. The SAS version of my drives go for $299 now. The SATA X14 version is $350.

So prices for the same refurbished drives are more than double what they were like 3.5 years ago, so they really are expensive! I paid like $10 per TB, but they’re all $15-25 per TB now! I was looking for drives for a friend who wants to get started self hosting, and I was shocked by how much refurb drives had gone up.

This is all from https://serverpartdeals.com/ by the way, I’m assuming that’s the site you mean too.

I’m struggling a bit. I got the server up and text chat is working great, but the documentation for getting voice calls working is pretty hard to follow.

My searching around has failed to find a more step by step guide for modifying the gigantic sample continuwuity.toml file. It’s so unwieldy, and it feels impossible to know if there are some additional settings that need to be configured that I’m simply missing due to the length of the file.

Any tips, tricks, or guides you’re willing would be appreciated!

If you do have automation, that’s another thing you have to set up and manage.

Hosting a CA is a whole additional service to set up, as is enabling trust for said CA on every server you’re running.