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I stopped using my NAS as a NAS, and it became the most useful machine in my house

… Before moving a service to your NAS, ask whether it benefits from living near your stored data. Media servers, backup tools, dashboards, and low-maintenance utilities usually make sense there. …

May 9, 2026 · Jeff Butts

A modern NAS replaced my smart home hub, backup solution, and media server

… A personal media streaming setup that isn't limited by platforms It gives my photos and media a new home It's one of the most common use cases for a NAS and for a good reason. The NAS combines my media and photos and makes them useful. For media, the NAS acts as a personal server. …

Mar 30, 2026 · Dhruv Bhutani

I built the weirdest possible NAS from hardware I already owned, and it works surprisingly well

… However, the community port works surprisingly well for simple NAS operations. Sure, the TrueNAS dashboard may have trouble identifying the processor, but it’s possible to spin up ZFS pools on this makeshift setup. …

May 11, 2026 · Ayush Pande

I stopped jumping between monitoring dashboards with one Claude Code command

… Sign in to your XDA account I had built a solid monitoring setup for my homelab. I had visibility for uptime, system metrics, and network performance, but everything was scattered around separate dashboards. …

Apr 11, 2026 · Shekhar Vaidya

This open-source dashboard finally gave me the unified view my home lab desperately needed

… Sure, a container manager like Portainer will show you containers and your network setup. Unifi, in my case, will show network clients, but what you really need is a unified dashboard. …

Apr 29, 2026 · Dhruv Bhutani

Stop reading raw server logs: These terminal tools turn them into visual dashboards

… Related 5 open-source dashboards I use that make monitoring my NAS fun If you want to monitor your NAS in a fun and interesting way, these are some of the best open-source dashboards to do just that.

Mar 23, 2026 · Anurag Singh

I built a 4K Jellyfin server from an old gaming PC, and it transcodes everything I throw at it

… I noticed this after moving away from my old laptop and NAS setup. The laptop could run Jellyfin, but transcoding was inconsistent, especially with larger 4K files or formats. The NAS had the same issue, except worse. …

May 18, 2026 · Anurag Singh

My homelab needed a lightweight dashboard, so I had Claude and a local LLM race to build it

… This setup resulted in no separate frontend and only two files, app.py and dashboard.html. …

May 11, 2026 · Shekhar Vaidya

TrueNAS just made sharing files from your NAS as easy as a Google Drive link

… Also, the Datasets page in the TrueNAS dashboard doesn't load if one of the datasets is in a WebShare. But TrueNAS 26.04 is still a few weeks away, so hopefully things will be polished up for the final release. …

Mar 24, 2026 · João Carrasqueira

My homelab monitoring broke silently until I switched from SMS to ntfy in an afternoon

… Related I stopped jumping between monitoring dashboards with one Claude Code command Automation that actually understands your homelab. SMS was the plan. ntfy was the fix. My old SMS-based setup was never a bad idea. …

May 15, 2026 · Shekhar Vaidya

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