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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/CrispyBegs on 2025-07-08 23:21:48+00:00.
if you don't know, OliveTin is a UI for executing shell commands with button presses and (although I'm still learning it) it's really great.
e.g. I have two Pi-Hole instances and from time to time I want to disable ad blocking and it was a bit of a faff to disable both of them. But you can see from my screenshot there I have two buttons that disable pi-hole (for 5 / 10 / 15 mins) or enable them again with a click. That's great and much more convenient, but you still have to load up the OliveTin UI and click the buttons etc and I was wondering if I could do it more easily from my phone.
Enter Macrodroid (android device automation app). I was messing around with this and only just realised you can create quick tiles, and you can use OliveTin's API to trigger actions from a third party service, like Macrodroid. You create the macro that executes an action in OliveTin, and trigger it using a quick tile (or voice command, or nfc tag, or shortcut or geofence or whatever other trigger you want to use). So as you can see here, I can now disable two pi-hole instance for 5 mins with a quick press on my phone's quick tiles. Or restart my calibre container (which i have to do now and again because we live in hell)
This is fantastic, but i had a search and no one ever seems to have mentioned it? Is it something really obvious that everyone's already doing.. and it's so mundane that it's not even worth mentioning? Why have a web UI and button presses to execute commands when you could restart your jellyfin container by tapping your phone on an NFC tag stuck to the fridge or whatever.
If I am late to this, I feel really dumb tbh. You could have told me earlier.