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…You think you are covered, but monitoring dashboards are dependent on the same infrastructure. I have hosted many services, such as Immich, Jellyfin, and Nextcloud, on my home server, and Uptime Kuma…
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I let Claude audit my messy Home Assistant setup, and it was a massive wake-up call
1w agoI stopped checking my home lab backups manually after Claude Code helped me build these checks
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I stopped using my NAS as a NAS, and it became the most useful machine in my house
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Turned an old laptop and spare TV into a self hosted kitchen dashboard and home server
I had an old Lenovo laptop and a spare 40 inch TV, so I repurposed them into a small home server and kitchen dashboard. The laptop runs Ubuntu Server. The TV sits near the kitchen and displays a local dashboard through a…
Netdata keeps begging me to create an account and Im done
I installed Netdata on my home server a few months ago Thought it was cool seeing all the graphs nd metrics Then it started showing a little banner at the top asking me to sign up for a free account Okay fine I ignored i…
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Hi HN, I'm Antoine Zambelli, AI Director at Texas Instruments.I built Forge, an open-source reliability layer for self-hosted LLM tool-calling.What it does:- Adds domain-and-tool-agnostic guardrails (retry nudges, step e…
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IT support by day, homelab by night. Built this with Google, YouTube, and r/homelab as my only teachers. Here's what 12 months looks like.
Lurked here for a while, learned a ton from posts like the one I'm hoping this becomes. Time to give back. Quick context: I'm IT support by trade. Not a developer, not a sysadmin. Everything in this post I figured out by…
Your smart home needs both an ESP32 and Raspberry Pi 5, not one or the other
…Bluetooth proxies and Infrared proxies are integrated directly into Home Assistant to run automations and serve data on the dashboard. The ESP32 boards handle all their tasks quietly, without any crashes. I…
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…Put that kind of hardware inside an unventilated enclosure, and the internal components end up baking. Plugged in forever is not battery care Wireless devices made the modern smart home possible, and…
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