Ask, don’t configure.
Name the thing you want. Sparky picks sane defaults, wires the storage and puts it behind a name that works on your network.
A home server that looks after itself.
Sparky is a small box you plug in at home. Tell it what you want running and it installs the software, keeps it updated and backs it up. You ask in Telegram, in plain English.
telegram · sparky
set up plex with sonarr and radarr
Done. Media is on the second disk, and it’s watching for your shows from tonight.
and keep them updated
Already am — nightly, with a backup before each one.
Self-hosting gives you your own services. It usually also gives you a second job.
Compose files, reverse proxies, disks filling at 2am, an update that breaks the stack while you’re away. Sparky does that job: it installs, wires up, updates, backs up and restarts what falls over, and asks you only when something needs a decision.
- film library
- ad blocking, house-wide
- documents
- backup nightly 03:00
telegram · sparky
Heads up: the media disk is nearly full. Want me to clear watched films older than a year?
do it
A real homelab, without the evenings it usually costs.
Updates, backups, watching.
It updates itself and what it installed, backs up nightly and restarts dead services instead of failing quietly.
Your hardware, your data.
Everything runs on the box in your house. No subscription owns your library, your files or your logs.
It grows with you.
Add a service later and it fits into what’s already there, sharing storage, network and backups.
The same open source, set up properly.
Nothing proprietary, nothing locked. If you outgrow Sparky, it is a Linux box with your data on it.
- plex
- jellyfin
- pi-hole
- home assistant
- paperless-ngx
- tandoor
- n8n
- karakeep
- portainer
- …and more
Tell it what you want running. It handles the rest.
Join the waitlist and we’ll tell you when it’s ready.