…It gave me a more coherent view of my setup without forcing me to open five dashboards and pretend I was enjoying myself. There is a risk in making automation feel too…
…I started thinking of it as a staging area for services that didn’t quite belong on my NAS or main Proxmox node yet. That included monitoring tools, small automation jobs, and…
…You set them up, watch the first job complete, and then slowly stop thinking about whether they still work. The Proxmox dashboard may show a task as completed , but that doesn’t…
…While I consider my dashboards, cards, and device-specific integrations borderlines essential, the AI-specific tools have a special place in my setup. After all, few things can match the convenience of…
…I knew that my NAS, phone, and smart TV were doing the things that I'd configured them for, but I couldn't say for certain what other kind of traffic they…
…At my desk, I used my PC, and everywhere else, I relied on my MacBook. My MacBook had become my main control hub for the homelab server and my NAS. I didn…
…Some of them have fairly complex setups. For example, Immich, Jellyfin, and Nextcloud were hosted on my server, but their media lived on my NAS. I always had to make sure the…
…That flexibility also allowed me to move my setup over keep everything as I had it. Before switching over to Proxmox, I was able to back up my Home Assistant configuration and…
…define and easier to review. “Check whether these backups completed” is a much better request than “fix my Proxmox setup.” “Show me unhealthy Docker containers” is safer than “optimize my NAS.” Narrow…
…Sign in to your XDA account A Raspberry Pi still makes sense in plenty of home lab setups, especially when the job is small, quiet, and specific. I’ve used them for…