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I am a Physician and a Medical Informaticist.
I am also into Medical Education, work at a University.

What I am not is a software engineer or system administrator.
This is exactly why Cloudron is nothing less than magic for me.

Thanks @nebulon and @girish for such a fantastic software.

I was on sandstorm earlier and came to cloudron very early on.

Cloudron has empowered me to run a dozen or so apps without a fuss. Customer support (hands on by the founders) is the single greatest and top feature of cloudron.

One of the best replacement for Google Photos and generally a great photo gallery software is PiGallery2.
OpenSource, Docker-based, Fast and minimalistic

The gallery is a directory first gallery. It renders your directory structure as it is. Creates thumbnails on the fly. Can be run without any database but support sqlite and MySQL databases too.
Features:
Photo viewer
Nice photo viewer with optional information panel that shows all important information about the photo.
Map
PiGallery2 reads the location data of the photos and puts them on a nice map. The gallery also supports *.gps file to show your tracked path on the map too. It by default supports OpenStreetMap and Mapbox, but you can also add you own favourite map provider.
Advanced searching
App supports full boolean logic with negation and exact or wildcard search. It also provides handy suggestions with autocomplete.
Sharing
You can share your photo folders with your friends. The sharing link can be also password protected.
Video playback
It also supports *.mp4, *.webm, *.ogv and *.ogg files.

https://bpatrik.github.io/pigallery2/
https://github.com/bpatrik/PiGallery2/

Edit: Changed http to https. Thanks @Hillside502

I am actually going to propose uptime-kuma as an app for cloudron. Its brand new.
Please check it out. https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
Perhaps you can help package it please? It has a docker version.

In Cloudron, each app has the same set of tabs:
Display
Location
Access Control
Resources
Storage
Graphs
Security
Email
Updates
Backups
Repair
Uninstall

I wish that there were Universal Pages that have all the apps (with tags based filtering) with corresponding status information, and also, if possible switches/toggles, etc.
E.g.
Universal Automatic Updates Page
Where, all the apps are on one column and corresponding automatic updates status in the second column and 'Enable/Disable Automatic Updates' button is on the third column.
At one glance, we could discern which of our apps are on automatic updates, which ones are not - and toggle their settings.

A birds eye view of all the apps, if you please.
Right now, I have to go into the settings of each app separately to look at their settings.

@marcusquinn I am not sure if I am missing something, but out of the box, EspoCRM seems to quite barebones with just core CRM modules, without many features such as Quotes, Invoices, etc that are available as a paid Extension Packs (Annual subscription plans).

So, to replicate Odoo or ERPNext Self Hosted Open Source versions involves annual payments right?

Please correct me if am wrong, but while Odoo's most attractive features are unavailable in the open source community version, ERPNext seems to be the real deal.

@girish Fantastic, just in time!

Cloudron is a gift that keeps on giving.

Uptime Kuma is a new tool for uptime monitoring.

The version 1.0.0 is out - it may not be mature for primetime, but worth a look.

Features
Monitoring uptime for HTTP(s) / TCP / Ping.
Fancy, Reactive, Fast UI/UX.
Notifications via Webhook, Telegram, Discord and email (SMTP).
20 seconds interval.

Hi all,

Cloudflare announced three new technological offerings of which, two will surely be of interest to us, Cloudronians (or is it cloudrons/cloudrants/Cloudrians?)

1. Cloudflare R2 Object Storage
Apparently there is no bandwidth fees or egress fees and the pricing is flat 0.015 USD per GB of data stored per month.
Question: Is this the cheapest compared to Backblaze B2 / Wasabi / etc?

2. WebRTC, Livestreaming service
An API for WebRTC using Cloudflare's global edge network.

Today, we’re launching our closed beta WebRTC Components, allowing teams running centralized WebRTC TURN servers to offload it to Cloudflare’s distributed, global network and improve reliability, scale to more users, and spend less time managing infrastructure.

All this look exciting, but things are not clear yet - particularly pricing and tiers.
Hope cloudron will be ready to take advantage of these for backups and bigbluebutton/ other RTC apps.

Discuss, please!

Hi,
A Feature suggestion please:

I installed wordpress on cloudron and found the first user to be 'admin' (users handled by app) - I manually added another administrator user and deleted the first one.

May I suggest that the first administrator username be something different since bruteforce attacks try 'admin' first before anything else.

This could be a good practice. Just my 2 cents.

Thanks!

https://www.prestashop.com/en
https://github.com/PrestaShop/docker

Hi!
I have access to unlimited drive storage on google suite for education.
I wonder how I can take advantage of this to:

1. Backup my cloudron
2. Bind Google Drive or a folder as a drive to use as an external drive for data storage in the upcoming 6.0 version (ref. What's coming in 6.0 (take 2): Volume management - this will allow mounting paths on the host into apps.)

Presently, I use wasabi for backups. I don't see Google Drive in the Storage Provider list. If it is feasible, can we propose to add Google Drive as an option for Backup?

What is the latest about using rclone to mount a drive as local filesystem in cloudron please?

Thank you!

@atrilahiji You bet!
Moodle has a lot of features, but canvas is easier for students and teachers to navigate and use.

@ccfu Let me get this right, you choose CIFS mount and then add in the Hetzner Storage Boxes - is that it? Is there a tutorial or documentation I can refer, please? I found this online - Hetzner docs > Storage Box > Access with Samba/CIFS, but am not sure I understand it all.

My cloudron is hosted on Hetzner and a fast backup in the Hetzner network would be great (unless there is a possibility entire hetzner network can go down in a DDOS).

Thanks for the nice info!

@atridad My bad. Meant to post it to the App Wishlist.

@martinkbs This is very informative, thank you.
Scaleway does seem cost-effective for those hosting in the EU (Hetzner, Scaleway, etc).
Also, the glacier option looks interesting too.

This is exciting.
Hope to see Chatwoot on the app store soon.

Working very sweetly.

@atridad Wow that was quick!
This community is fantastic.

@marcusquinn said in Sponsored App Creation:

https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/1067/pretix-ticketing-software-that-cares-about-your-event-all-the-way

I would love to contribute to the packaging of pretix and a couple of others too.
Can we set up a bounty pool for each of these so that we can commit/contribute to?

Thank you

Caprover is fine for testing various apps, experimenting and whatnot.
For mission critical operations, nothing comes close to Cloudron.

I have a caprover too since it has Odoo. But I have to reboot it every other day, since it just stops working randomly without any error message.

I look to the day I can run Odoo on Cloudron.

@girish This is what we all love about cloudron. Hope this level of support can be sustained as Cloudron grows.
How you guys manage to stay on top of juggling the varied jobs of testing and inducting new apps, adding new features and on the top, personally resolving problems is beyond me. All we can say is, Thanks.

Not a feature for 5.3, but wish to point out that Cloudron does not have even a single e-commerce platform (other than woocommerce on Wordpress, of course).

OTH, we have multiple apps under each category.

Can we get started on Magento and Prestashop please?

Thank you!!

Hi,

In the Cloudron Appstore, under CRM category, only MonicaHQ, Espo CRM and Chatwoot are listed currently.

Dolibarr is missing. In fact, Dolibarr is not found under any category.

I think this is overlooked rather than by design.

Could you please tag and categorise Dolibarr (by definition, ERP and CRM) under CRM?

Thanks

Hope we can update to the 4.0 at the earliest.
The UI definitely looks decluttered and a lot more polished.

@nebulon

The bug has been fixed in the current updated 20.0.8 version of cloudron!

Thanks for a delightful experience.

Edit: This thread can be marked solved I think.

@girish There is an issue with the PDF Viewer (AGAIN!!!).
They have released a temporary fix.
Can we implement the fix or must we wait for the next minor release?

https://github.com/nextcloud/files_pdfviewer/issues/381#issuecomment-845806364

@robi I am not sure we understand each other completely. Perhaps I am not communicating this well, but allow me another attempt, please.

I am not seeking for New Relic to be made into a self-hosted app - That is exactly why this is NOT in the App wishlist section.

This being the Feature Requests section addressed at the developers of cloudron, All I wish for is a feature in cloudron that will provide additional/richer data and information about the performance of the apps, with alerts, charts, graphs, etc - New Relic provides this free of cost.

New Relic is one choice, they may be others too.

In other words, am seeking if we can have more information regarding the performance of our self-hosted server and the applications beyond the System Info (with disk usage, sys memory, cpu usage stats) and App Graphs (Memory), through integration with other third-party apps (preferably free).

I am just throwing this idea on to the feasibility/requirement wall, it may or may not stick.

@timconsidine said in OmekaS:

but I saw one which was awesome in design, layout, clarity.

Can we have a link please?

@girish Had this issue too. Will drop a mail later today.

@marcusquinn Wow, Looks like decentralised storage is coming of age.
During the last ICO frenzy, a lot of blockchain-based storage were issued if I remember.
Lets see if we can add these as external storages on NextCloud - it would be great for non-critical data (old logs, for eg.)

@jdaviescoates Actually, pretix would work great for digital events too - webinars, etc.
They support webinars in their paid versions, but I am sure the open source version can be used to register attendees for online events too.

On this topic, has anybody tried out https://www.attendize.com/? Development seems to have stalled (site last updated in 2020). Github: https://github.com/Attendize/Attendize

Docker: https://www.attendize.com/getting_started.html#running-attendize-in-docker-for-development

@scooke Yep! We are spoilt for choice, actually.
To muse, there are even businesses (https://snapshooter.com/pricing) that have made 'server backup' their sole business model.

And so costly at that - they probably run a few cron scripts (am not an expert) to backup servers to the generous 'Unlimited bring your own' storage and charge 14$ to 199$ for this privilege!

A bump up.

Chaskiq has become even more powerful. And there is a docker version available I believe!

@girish Looks like the CIFS has landed!

@girish Any ETA for the Moodle 4.0, please?

Found the issue.

The application required PHP short tags.
Enabled it by adding 'short_open_tag = on' in Php.ini.

@nebulon said in Nextcloud : PDF does not load correctly if opened from shared folder:

Thanks for the elaborate description, I guess that would be good reported upstream. There seems to be a few related issues already, maybe one of them is yours?

https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/25117
https://github.com/nextcloud/files_pdfviewer/issues/286

Thanks, @nebulon, https://github.com/nextcloud/files_pdfviewer/issues/286 matches the issue I am facing, I will follow that thread.

@girish Thank you for the debug. Will add the line!

@scooke Ah! Ok, I will try this, thank you!

@doodlemania2
I would be interested in BBB.
Looking for a reliable provider for a class of about 250 participants.
The pricing must be similar to Zoom's offering to be viable in my opinion.. i.e. 20-30 USD per month for each account.
Edit: And usually institutions might opt for 20 accounts on an average

@jdaviescoates Absolutely true. I tried running BBB on a metal server but all of it struggled to get past the 100-150 participants.
Don't have the expertise myself to setup and maintain a load balancer. Will checkout meet.coop, thanks!