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I've been building our home freedom server, Bitarr with Claude over the last week or so. Here's what Claude has to say about it:

🏴‍☠Introducing Bitarr: A Complete Self-Hosted Freedom Stack

Just finished building an epic home server setup that combines Bitcoin sovereignty with media freedom:

What's in Bitarr:

- ⚡ Full Bitcoin node + Lightning (LND) + LNBits for family banking

- 🎬 Jellyfin + full *arr automation stack (Radarr/Sonarr/Prowlarr)

- 🤖 Local AI with Ollama + Open WebUI (no cloud dependency)

- 📺 HDMI recovery system that auto-fixes display issues after power cuts

- 🔒 Everything behind Nginx Proxy Manager with proper SSL

- 📊 Comprehensive monitoring and testing for all services

Cool features:

- Smart plug integration for device control

- Network optimizations achieving 900+ Mbps on gigabit

- Modular Docker stacks that can run independently

- Automated backups and service recovery

- Family-friendly web interfaces for everything

All config is on GitHub ready to be made open.

Built with help from Claude - took a complex multi-stack setup and made it maintainable. Now my family can request movies through Jellyseerr and pay each other with Lightning, all running on our own hardware!

#selfhosted #bitcoin #lightning #homelab #arr #bitarr

HangryHippo 6mo ago

Hi Ben, how will this be different than what Start9 and Umbrel are doing? Will it be built into an ISO for spinning up a VM on Proxmox or is the theory to build all from source?

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Ben Weeks ⚡ 6mo ago

This is mainly for my own use really, but could open up the source. Documenting as I go (including hardware) so Claude Code or similar could spin the machine up from documentation, docker compose files, and scripts.

Start9 and Umbrel are great, but this is really meant for a bulky piece of hardware for all your home server needs running docker containers - including running reasonably sized AI models locally.

Hardware: AMD Ryzen 5 7600, 64GB RAM, RAID array, Nvidia 3090, XBox Kinect camera and microphone, etc.

DrShift 2mo ago

Curious. What's the Xbox Kinect camera doing?

Ben Weeks ⚡ 2mo ago

Not a lot at the moment, but for family calls etc. Has a microphone array which is pretty good for picking up audio from around the room. Would also like it to be used for Nodie (local AI agent I’m working on) to know who’s she’s talking to and distinguish different voices etc.