So, I used Homebox for a few days now. I like the simplicity of it and I like the direction they’re going. However, there are quite a few bugs and data loss issues, it’s not ready for production yet. The thing is, these issues should be so easy to fix (it’s a simple CRUD app) that it makes me doubt the dev skills and possibility of other issues I haven’t discovered yet.
The purchase date just increments or decrements by one day after editing an item
When editing an item the notes/description fields show the data from the previously edited item, causing you to overwrite data
These two issues alone made me go back to my spreadsheet for now (good thing I kept a backup). I simply don’t trust the app to keep my data intact.
Thanks for your feedback! I was going to try this out but your comment makes me want to give them some more time. Ive been waiting for a long time so I don’t mind giving it some more time to cook.
At the moment I’m in the middle of mixing Netbox and snipeit, so maybe by the time I get frustrated with both of them, homebox will be in a better state.
Hello, I just saw this post as I stumbled upon Homebox recently and thought about searching for it on Lemmy…so I’m sorry for posting this late. Which version of Homebox did you try? Did you try again with newer version? As I’m looking forward for a simple database for home inventory, I’m just curious how it ended and what are you using today! Thank you very much!
Put this on my list of projects to dig into when I have time. I briefly tried Grocy a while back thinking I may be able to use it for inventory mgmt, but it didn’t stick. I want to say I found some other self hosted home inventory project at one point but didn’t stick with that one either. It’s one of those things that I think you have to really invest in to get ROI back, but that’s hard to do, especially when it’s more than just yourself (wife-factor) planning to utilize it that also has to buy-in and commit.
Seems neat. I wish there were a way to add custom fields; I would totally use this to keep track of my liquor cabinet contents. (I use a spreadsheet for this now.)
I know it’s not the general use case this though, but that didn’t keep me from getting my hopes up haha.
I checked the quick start, that aren’t deterring people from using Docker, they’re saying you shouldn’t use the Docker CLI to launch it, and instead use docker-compose. Which is fair, compose is a much better format for persistent containers and being able to use l easily manage and migrate them.
Homebox is an inventory management system in the same vein as Snipe-IT, but purpose built to be simpler and cause less friction so that you’re more inclined to enter things and keep them up to date. You can use it for things like storing user guides, warranty contracts and expirations, and even expense tracking related to the maintenance and repair of any home items, like appliances and electronics. I use it to store warranty expirations for things like game consoles and TVs, as well as remind me to order new air filters for the home.
Homebox is fundamentally different from docuwiki. Hyper focused on “where do o find ‘x’” and really great for that purpose! I especially like that when you add an item like a furnace there is a maintenance log option. Pretty sweet
That sounds awesome. Does it have maintenance reminders and consumable part descriptions/part numbers? I can never remember different filters I need for various things (water, fridge, furnace, cars, etc).
Yes you can schedule and record maintenance logs. For my air filter I just threw the model number for the filters in the description or a custom field, as I don’t plan on keeping an inventory of filters for it, though you could in theory add an item for the consumable parts and make their parent item be the thing they go in. You could then define in the item for those consumable parts, the place in your house where you store them.
Sounds a lot like Netbox, for network management. You can define data centers and racks and equipment and sub equipment as well as the actual network information like what cable is plugged into which port on which device, VLANs, IP addresses, subnets, BPG ASNs, etc.
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