…The most common homelab networking stacks contain access, routing, and authentication services, so either Cloudflare Tunnel with Authelia or NPM with Authelia. But there are also people running larger homelabs who often…
…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. The problem starts when your…
…That matters even more in homes where streaming is not the only network-heavy activity. Game downloads, cloud backups, video calls, smart cameras, tablets, laptops, and phones all compete for wireless airtime…
…Modern cloud-native systems like Kubernetes are powerful, but they’ve made troubleshooting far more complex. Every layer — nodes, pods, controllers, APIs, networking, autoscalers – introduces its own failure modes. To diagnose effectively…
Hi everyone I’m hoping to get some insights from the experts here on how to troubleshoot and improve the local network speed between two devices in my home. To give you a clear picture of my setup, I’ve attached a diagra…
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…
**UPDATE** I have went through tediously and re-checked everything including fixing some mistakes that were still left in version 1. I went over everything and all the feedback recieved, the second edition includes both …
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…a network. Most smart home guides skip straight to the smart home hub and the device. Meanwhile, your consumer router quietly struggles to handle computers, 4K streams, consoles, printers, and a score…
…Sign in to your XDA account Network-attached storage (NAS) becomes the central part of most home labs and smart homes. Even if you're not running stacks of used enterprise gear…
…for controlling containers spread across multiple home lab nodes – and it’s the reason I’ve moved on from a Termux + SSH setup when troubleshooting my self-hosted apps from my smartphone…
…home lab where adding hardware stops feeling like progress and starts feeling like avoidance. I’ve been there, staring at mini PCs, Raspberry Pi boards, NAS bays, spare SSDs, and network adapters…
…So I went down the rabbit hole to troubleshoot my network more deeply and learned that the quality of the DNS server affects internet connection performance. Tweaking that changed everything. Related 5…
