r/selfhosted

8h ago

u/DeutschundAnonym

Smart Drink Fridge: a self-hosted drink inventory with barcode scanning and Home Assistant shopping lists

Product Announcement

Hi everyone, I'm Robin. I've spent the last three months building Smart Drink Fridge, a small project that started with a Raspberry Pi, a camera and the question of how much beer was actually left in my fridge.

It's a drink inventory you run on your own server. When you take a bottle or can, you scan its barcode or book it through the web interface. That updates the stock and keeps a history of what was taken. You still have to remember to scan things; it doesn't magically recognise everything inside the fridge.

The project has grown quite a bit since that first version. You can now assign several barcodes and package quantities to the same product, so a crate and a single bottle can use the same stock. It also supports multiple fridges or storage locations, USB barcode scanners and remote scanner devices.…