Cheap kit only stays cheap if the software side stays disciplined. A home lab software stack turns into a mess the moment settings live in web forms and half the logic sits in your head, which is a rubbish place for infrastructure to live.
I took a glossy EV launch page and turned the useful bits into a Home Assistant MQTT car charging dashboard, then spent most of the time fighting the...
Home Assistant Tablet Dashboard offers a wall-mounted control panel for your smart home. You will learn how to pick hardware, install Home Assistant, build a fast Lovelace dashboard and keep the...
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Setting Up a Mini Rack: Essential Software Configurations for Your Homelab I use a Raspberry Pi 4B in a compact rack to run local file services. This guide walks through the software setup I use for...
Optimising Your Homelab: Storage and Backup Strategies I keep my homelab practical and lean. Storage costs and power draw matter more than shiny specs. My aim here is clear: reduce wasted capacity,...
