The NAS feature that changed my home setup wasn't RAID, snapshots, or file sharing
… Remote access changes the default relationship with the NAS You start using it better Without remote access, the NAS stays attached to the home network. …
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I don't expose my home server anymore: I let Tailscale do the scary part
4d agoHome Assistant can now see when you use the physical remote, and it changes everything
1w agoI made Jellyfin remote streaming reliable without opening everything to the internet
1w agoI bypassed Plex's remote streaming paywall with one free tool
1w agoI turned a mini PC into a 24/7 remote workstation, and KVM-over-IP was only half the story
… Making a remote workstation is easier than you think Thanks to advanced overlay networks, remote access to your home has never been easier or more secure. And thanks to more efficient mini PCs, you can keep a remote workstation on 24/7 without going broke, which is nice as power costs skyrocket. …
Why I ditched Cloudflare Tunnels for Tailscale and Caddy on my homelab
… So transferring files from my laptop to the home server really took a while. On top of that, the outages also took down my access to my homelab. In the end, I realized I was the only one accessing my homelab remotely. …
Remote 3D printing stopped feeling reckless when I added Home Assistant to the mix
… Most importantly, Home Assistant lets me define what “safe enough” means in my own space. That could be conservative notifications, automatic shutdown behavior after certain states, or simple presence-based rules that change how remote access behaves when I’m away. …
NetBird's new reverse proxy is the remote access tool I've been waiting for
… Sign in to your XDA account Remote access to your home lab is an issue that every homelabber encounters early on in their journey. …
I couldn’t get Plex remote streaming to work until I made this simple fix
… Go to Remote Access settings and enter your maximum upload speed based on your internet plan. This helps Plex understand how much bandwidth it can use for streaming. Right below that, adjust the remote stream bitrate. …
I don't use Tailscale or Nginx to access my home lab remotely, here's what I use instead
… It's security-focused, has built-in tunneling, and makes your home lab much easier to manage. Related Is Tailscale the safest way to access your home network remotely? …
Tailscale replaced my dynamic DNS setup, and I stopped worrying about IP addresses entirely
… That pushed me to explore Tailscale and the only catch was that I could only access it over that. Once I set up Tailscale with Home Assistant, I stopped thinking about the public IP addresses of my home network entirely. Related Is Tailscale the safest way to access your home network remotely? …
My Raspberry Pi 4 still has a job in my homelab, and it isn't Home Assistant
… It’s not a typical “remote access” setup for my home network. Using Tailscale, I access network monitoring dashboards directly. …
A $25 smart plug became my home lab's most reliable emergency fix
… The end result is that things wouldn't be accessible. And a home server that's not accessible isn't much of a home server. Think media servers, backups, and remote access are all going down. And the worst of it tends to happen when I'm not at home. …