Homebox is the inventory and organization system built for the Home User! With a focus on simplicity and ease of use, Homebox is the perfect solution for your home inventory, organization, and management needs. While developing this project I’ve tried to keep the following principles in mind:
Simple - Homebox is designed to be simple and easy to use. No complicated setup or configuration required. Use either a single docker container, or deploy yourself by compiling the binary for your platform of choice. Blazingly
Fast - Homebox is written in Go which makes it extremely fast and requires minimal resources to deploy. In general idle memory usage is less than 50MB for the whole container.
Portable - Homebox is designed to be portable and run on anywhere. We use SQLite and an embedded Web UI to make it easy to deploy, use, and backup.
(I am not affiliated with this project)
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.
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.
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!
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.
Unfortunate name collision with another project related to self-hosting: https://github.com/progmaticltd/homebox
The website could use one or two screenshots of important features without having to login to the demo.
Painting the window is noticeably slow (Firefox ESR 102), have you tested it with Firefox?
Other than that, well done! It looks good and well maintained. I wanted to evaluate Snipe-IT someday, maybe I will also give this a try
Yeah this is right up my alley. Can’t wait to install this and document everything.
I am very paranoid about security, so is there a reason you deter people from using this application in a Docker container per your website?
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.
