…Sign in to your XDA account I consider my dashboards , monitoring agents, and notification services an essential part of my home lab management stack, but if I had to pick one app…
Rich Edmonds Mar 24, 2026, 10:00 AM EDT Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building…
…But if you stick with it, Home Assistant will provide more robust automations and dashboards than anything manufacturers can come up with on their first-party tools. All you have to do…
…Whether any smart home tutorial told you to segment or network, take XDA's default advice and set it right away. Making your automations, integrations, and dashboards function independently sounds great. However…
Ayush Pande Apr 11, 2026, 3:30 PM EDT Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with…
…s Hardware , groovyPost , The Mac Observer , and more before beginning here at XDA. Sign in to your XDA account Mini PCs have become almost too easy to recommend for a home lab…
…Not only are files suddenly inaccessible, but the entire home lab stack is now offline. No dashboards, Pi-hole, media streaming, and office suite. Now, don't get me wrong. The chances…
Ayush Pande Apr 3, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with…
…a good place on a VPS, resulting in a stable and reliable network at home. A monitoring dashboard like Uptime Kuma is another example; it can’t effectively monitor the same server…
Jasmine Mannan May 19, 2026, 3:30 PM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…