The services you ignore are quietly breaking your home lab
…He's written for Macworld , Tom's Hardware , groovyPost , The Mac Observer , and more before beginning here at XDA. Sign in to your XDA account Some home lab services earn a dangerous…
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I stopped jumping between monitoring dashboards with one Claude Code command
…But I made it more convenient by creating an HTML page that reads the status.json file and displays the status of my homelab in a proper dashboard. After that, I had…
My discontinued Kindle became the best smart home display I own, and it cost me nothing to set up
…Home Assistant OS Windows, macOS, Linux iOS compatible Yes See at Apple App Store See at Google Play Store See at Home Assistant Hacking the Kindle into a smart home dashboard took…
I moved everything to Proxmox and learned that fewer boxes doesn't mean more reliable
…dedicated hardware more appealing. Home automation Sometimes Yes, with caveats Home Assistant works great in a VM, but USB radios and critical automations can make a dedicated system feel safer. Dashboards, utilities…
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4 tools I install on every new home server before setting up anything else
1d agoI stopped logging into my homelab dashboard after connecting these 4 MCP servers to Claude Code
3d agoHomarr is packed with features, but Glance is what I actually use on my home servers
6d agoI revived a cheap Android tablet by turning it into a Home Assistant control panel
1w agoMy entire smart home runs on a single Docker container now, and I'm never going back
…Life in a Home Assistant house The speed factor and reliability Home Assistant offers a range of customization options. Once I moved into the dashboard editor, I realized I could build a…
I gave my NAS a local AI brain, and it finally became the home dashboard I always wanted
I gave my NAS a local AI brain, and it finally became the home dashboard I always wanted
Your home lab probably falls apart for the wrong reason, and these tools fix it
…He's written for Macworld , Tom's Hardware , groovyPost , The Mac Observer , and more before beginning here at XDA. Sign in to your XDA account A good home lab doesn’t fall…
One DNS tool did what two containers couldn't, and I'm not going back to Pi-hole
…And finally, one place to troubleshoot — instead of checking the Pi-hole dashboard, dnscrypt-proxy logs, and upstream settings — I now needed to open AdGuard Home only. The AdGuard Home dashboard was…
I stopped adding hardware to my home lab when I realized fewer moving parts meant more uptime
…More hardware still has a place in the right lab Sometimes separation is practical rather than just decorative There are good reasons to add hardware to a home lab . If you’re…
I gave a local LLM access to my Docker containers, and it replaced my monitoring scripts
…The logs finally became useful You might be wondering how a local 8B model fits into a homelab running on old hardware. An 8B model needs significant VRAM, more than a repurposed…