Self-host Homebox

A home inventory and organization system for tracking items, locations, labels, warranties and receipts. It is a single Go binary with an embedded web UI and a SQLite database.

Key facts

What you need

• Any VPS with at least 256 MB of RAM
• A domain you control — most self-hosted setups need HTTPS in front of them
• Under an hour if you've used Docker before

Install

Run these commands on your server:

copy# Homebox — single container; SQLite and uploads live in a named volume
docker run -d --name homebox --restart unless-stopped \
  -p 3100:7745 -e HBOX_OPTIONS_ALLOW_ANALYTICS=false \
  -e HBOX_AUTH_API_KEY_PEPPER=$(openssl rand -base64 48 | tr -d '\n') \
  -v homebox-data:/data ghcr.io/sysadminsmedia/homebox:latest
# open http://SERVER_IP:3100 and register the first user

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