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...
I use Proxmox CLI GPU Passthrough every time I need raw GPU power inside a VM. This guide strips the noise and gives the commands and checks that actually matter. Read it top to bottom, then copy the...
Smart Lock Automation with Home Assistant keeps your door control local and secure. You get concise automation scenes, presence checks and door sensor safeguards you can copy. Learn testing steps,...
Modbus home automation guide. You will wire RS-485 correctly, map coils and registers, and assign unique slave IDs. You will test with a single node, check termination and parity, and log CRC errors....
Sophos XGS Firewall: optimise VoIP settings for reliable calls. Start by mapping your NAT, public IPs, VLANs, and ports. Lock firewall rules and allow only required SIP and RTP ranges. Mark media...
I get this question a lot. An institution hands me a spreadsheet of 200 MACs and IPs and asks for a quick way to push those as static IP-MAC reservation entries into a Sophos firewall. Manual clicking...
Configure inbound TLS/SSL inspection on Sophos XG and XGS. You will learn when to use the Sophos WAF or a reverse proxy. You will see where to bind certificates and how to map public IPs with DNAT....
Sophos Connect vulnerabilities, including CVE-2022-48310, may appear on macOS scans. Check your app version, confirm the flagged library with mdls and otool, then follow Sophos guidance or apply...
Sophos Firewall v22 user experiences show Health Check and XDR are key. Back up your configuration, check disk space, and test XDR in a lab before you upgrade. Clean your rule base, enable two-factor...
Prepare before you upgrade. Check device support and free disk space, back up configs and snapshots. Use clear rule names, narrow objects and specific service ports. Enable logging and review hit...
Sparse files let you create large logical files that consume little physical disk space until you write data. Use them for VM images, test files or temporary swap, but monitor actual usage with du and...
