… Home Assistant with device passthrough Smart home hubs dislike clever containment tricks Home Assistant can run in several ways, and some are more container-friendly than others. …
… Related HACS is an underrated tool for Home Assistant lovers The Home Assistant Community Store is a treasure trove of useful integrations and dashboards Remote Home Assistant Control entities on different networks via a single UI As a smart home fanatic, I’ve stacked my family home and my current … …
… Related Proxmox gave me Home Assistant plus a NAS, media server, and backup system on one PC Proxmox lets you do so much Don't limit your server to what it can do I'm not saying you can't run a NAS OS on your home server, but it does limit what you can do. …
… Here's why NAS is great for storing data and not running a home lab, too. Let's say your NAS is also your VM host, media server, automation hub hello, Home Assistant! , DNS filter, and more. …
… Let’s say I wanted my LM Studio models to access my home lab notes. …
… It's also likely capable of running services such as Home Assistant and Jellyfin, among countless others. …
… On the software front, installing Proxmox to run VMs opened a new horizon. I now run a number of containerized self-hosted services. Most importantly, I moved Home Assistant from the Pi to the mini PC. …
… Cheap unmanaged switches have their uses Not every part of your network needs max speed If the lab is mostly Home Assistant, Pi-hole, a couple of Docker containers, and Jellyfin streaming to two TVs in the house, gigabit is honestly more bandwidth than the workload needs. …
… Sign in to your XDA account My home lab has never suffered from a lack of dashboards. I have separate pages for Proxmox, Pi-hole, Home Assistant, Jellyfin, Uptime Kuma, and whatever I happened to spin up during a productive weekend. …
… Related How I turned my SBC into a Minecraft server Don't waste your time or money using online providers; here's how I setup a Minecraft server on my Raspberry Pi Power your smart home Home Assistant is amazing One of the few projects I've ever done for work that I actually still use actively to t… …
