…Plus, recent updates have added more QoL features to HASS and made it easier to build your centralized smart home control hub even if you have zero prior tinkering experience. Home Assistant…
…But if you’re in the home labbing community, it’s all about building a DIY firewall/router armed with tons of security provisions to keep your networking stack safe. In fact…
…A solid setup is deliberately boring A strong Proxmox setup is not the one with the most VMs, the most dashboards, or the most complicated storage layout. It is the one you…
…I wasn’t borrowing a desktop GPU or building around some giant tower with spare headroom everywhere. This was a mini PC doing double duty as a home lab host and, when…
…Even when you run Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi, it’s still a computer running your smart home hub. Meanwhile, ESP32 is exactly what you need to build a device layer…
…or connecting it to Home Assistant to manage my workspace environment, the goal is zero friction. Instead of copy-pasting text back and forth, I focus on building bridges between my local…
…4 reasons you need to use WireGuard instead of OpenVPN for connecting to your home lab remotely If you have a home lab and want to connect to it remotely, WireGuard is…
…Better yet, Hyper-V also pairs with Windows Server setups, and although there are some caveats to using it in a dedicated home lab, this setup is really fun to experiment with…
…His expertise broadly covers computers, smartphones, game consoles, headphones, smart home products, browsers, and apps. Sign in to your XDA account Building a home lab to handle all your services and experiments…
…Sign in to your XDA account I’ve spent a long time trying to build the perfect media center at home. I wanted a setup that lets me access everything on my…