Hey everyone,

I’m looking for a system that:

  • I can self host
  • Is slim, because I don’t have beefy hardware (Intel J5040, 32GB RAM, shared by all VMs/containers)
  • can be used to create an inventory of all the tech/hardware that I have in my house (not exclusively IT, I also wasn’t to track things like warranty for my chainsaws and the like)
  • does take at least the device make/model, serial number (for insurance cases) and warranty dates
  • is not some kind of enterprise-how-many-items-of-this-article-do-i-have-in-stock-things, because that seems to be the only thing I seem to be able to find, and they neither match my use case nor do they seem to be lightweight enough.

… and honestly, I don’t even know where to start looking. Do you guys have any recommendations?

Of course, I could just use a spreadsheet, but where’s the fun in that?

EDIT: Thank you all so much for the engaged discussion and all the suggestions, you’re the best!

  • Señor Mono@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 months ago

    This might be an unpopular opinion/solution but even for two small size sister companies we are doing inventory in a version controlled markdown file 🫣

    • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Honestly, a spreadsheet would be fine for this? I’m not super familiar with what an inventory management system does tho, so maybe it does things beyond what a spreadsheet can do.

    • DasFaultier@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Not at all, I like .md, and I’m familiar with Git. A spreadsheet is not something that I would throw into Git, but an .md…

      • 2910000@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I use markdown too, except I keep the markdown file in a self-hosted wiki (wiki.js)

        It’s versioned and accepts git as a backend

        • fishynoob@infosec.pubEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I’m looking for something that can automatically handle markdown tables for me in git. If an application can do that then I can get off excel/LibreOffice calc.

          • 2910000@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 months ago

            I haven’t searched about this so I don’t know, but it’d be cool if there were a way to import/export markdown tables into LibreOffice

      • Señor Mono@feddit.orgEnglish
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        2 months ago

        That is the reason Markdown and Git are used for a lot shenanigans these days. Knowledge bases, awesome-lists, documentations. You name it.

        If you got the right tools (sphinx, typora, mkdocs, …obsidian) you got a powerful toolchain.

    • haverholm@kbin.earth
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      2 months ago

      Simplest possible solution, Occam’s Inventory 😄

      I use markdown extensively, but I’m honestly not fond of its tables function (which I assume you use for this purpose?). It works, but it’s a bit static in my experience. Do you run up against the same, or is it actually an advantage in your use case?

      • Señor Mono@feddit.orgEnglish
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        2 months ago

        We’re using headings for different types of inventory (hardware/office items/…) and then a block of subheading, bulletpoint combination (serialnumber, date of acquisition, whereabouts,…) for each item and associated item.

        The toc is generated automatically and helps browsing through.

  • johntash@eviltoast.orgEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Snipe-it is a bit overkill but it’s pretty good.

    Grocy also has an inventory tracker. I’m not sure how different it is tho

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Indeed. What you are looking for is a spreadsheet.

      Don’t overcomplicate things.

      • Suzune@ani.socialEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Yeah, I’ve even seen people making presentation slides in Excel. Why ever use anything else? 😉

        • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I once asked somebody for a spreadsheet (they were trying to import the data into my software and it was failing), and got back a .doc file containing a screenshot of Excel running the spreadsheet.

          I was in awe of how somebody could misuse so many pieces of software at once.

    • antsu@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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      2 months ago

      +1
      This is a problem a simple spreadsheet is perfectly adequate for.

    • DasFaultier@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      HA, the term I was looking for is even on their website: “Asset Management Software”. My non-native speaker ass didn’t come up with this.

      Thank you, I will check those out.

      Though it sounds interesting for tinkering, I’m probably not doing down the NoCode route. You make it, you maintain it forever, and I don’t have that kind of time.

  • blumlaut@hounds.online
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    2 months ago

    @DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works we’ve recently deployed Netbox which seems to somewhat do what you want, although its more targetted towards datacenter and network engineers (and maybe not lightweight enough for you?)

    If you really need nothing special then maybe a good ol’ spreadsheet is a better solution for you.