Envoy on Start9 and Umbrel, good or shitty idea?

Envoy
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As a self-hosting enthusiast, I was wondering if hosting Envoy on Start9 or Umbrel would be feasible?

Digging around a bit, I noticed that both Envoy and the BLE firmware are open source, which is encouraging. But QuantumLink looks like a real blocker, it’s not standard Bluetooth.

So a generic Bluetooth proxy wouldn’t cut it, you’d need to reimplement QuantumLink on the server side, right?

Also wondering if a self-hosted backend could handle the backup side of things, whether that’s replacing Magic Backup.

Beyond the technical question, what do you think about the tradeoff between the security that Foundation’s infrastructure provides on one hand, and the full sovereignty that a self-hosted backend would allow on the other?

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What is the end goal here?

To remove the need for Foundation to hold the encrypted data under the Magic Backup scenario, or to have a version of the Envoy mobile app running on the node?

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Both, obviously,:grin: but my preference is having Envoy on the node with all the capabilities of the mobile app. The backup side can already be handled entirely air-gap with NFC cards, so that’s not the blocker. What’s really missing is being able to run the Passport Prime from your own node, with the whole infrastructure local.

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You can already connect the Envoy mobile app to your own node and have Passport Prime activity run through that. What do you aim to gain by having a native Envoy app on the node itself?

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You’re right, that’s actually a pretty bad idea.