I bought a KVM-over-IP for my home lab, and I can't believe I waited this long
…Even worse if it goes down, and I'm not at home, Home Assistant is no longer running my smart home. To fix it, I picked up a capable KVM-over-IP…
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Proxmox running Xpenology gave me the best of both worlds for my home NAS
…It's also likely capable of running services such as Home Assistant and Jellyfin, among countless others. It's where most journeys start, and mine was no different a decade ago. I…
A $40 label maker and QR codes completely changed how I manage my home lab
…Related 9 Docker containers that run 24/7 on my $100 mini PC Maximum value budget homelab. It's quick, easy, and convenient Printing a new label takes around a minute or…
Local LLMs work best when you're not loyal to just one
…Meanwhile, Qwen 3.5 and DeepSeek are better for calling tools on external apps (namely, my NAS server , Nextcloud instance , and Home Assistant hub ) via MCP servers. Related I built a local…
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I turned my phone into a local LLM server, and it handles vision, voice, and tool calls
…A decent GPU has typically been a minimum requirement, or at least a mini PC like a Mac Studio, Mac Mini, or one of those 128GB DGX-adjacent workstations . What it didn…
I turned an old Android phone into a home server, and it’s more useful than my Raspberry Pi
…The first could be a home system voice satellite. In the Home Assistant 2026.3 update, it brought high-performance local-only wake word detection to the Android app, meaning that you…
You don't need an expensive GPU to run a local LLM that actually works
…As a tool, they're great at offloading mundane tasks, quickly looking something up, or even interacting with other parts of your home. Throw in a smart home platform like Home Assistant…
I replaced ChatGPT with a local model on my gaming PC, and it's beating the cloud where I didn't expect
…Qwen pulled fresh information through SearXNG and produced a walkthrough with citations to ESPHome's docs, the Home Assistant community forum, Reddit, and a handful of beginner guides. Its hardware picks were…
I stopped jumping between monitoring dashboards with one Claude Code command
…NAS, storage solutions, and PC internals to help readers master their tech. Sign in to your XDA account I had built a solid monitoring setup for my homelab. I had visibility for…
I moved everything to Proxmox and learned that fewer boxes doesn't mean more reliable
…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, and test services No…