I manage my ESP32 boards with this free self-hosted tool
…ESP32 gizmos, in particular, are useful for smart home nuts like yours truly, as they can be used for everything from Bluetooth proxies and e-ink dashboards to reliable network scanners and…
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Your smart home needs fewer Raspberry Pis and more boring microcontrollers
…Sign in to your XDA account Having started my descent into the Home Assistant ecosystem with a Raspberry Pi, the single-board computer used to be my primary choice for DIY projects…
I replaced Cloudflare Tunnel with Pangolin, and finally own my whole ingress path
…guided installer than a DIY networking project. curl -fsSL https://static.pangolin.net/get-installer.sh | bash ./installer Once that was done, I opened the Pangolin dashboard via the initial setup domain…
Your smart home needs both an ESP32 and Raspberry Pi 5, not one or the other
…Related 4 amazing projects you can build with a Raspberry Pi and an ESP32 Looking for some cool DIY ideas involving a Raspberry Pi and ESP32 combo? We've got you covered…
I turned an old Android phone into a home server, and it’s more useful than my Raspberry Pi
…Related The best Raspberry Pi projects don’t require extra hardware anymore You don't need to spend a fortune on premium Raspberry Pi HATs and gizmos for your DIY projects Does…
TrueNAS SCALE tried to do everything, so I gave it one job and moved the rest to Proxmox
…No dashboards, Pi-hole, media streaming, and office suite. Now, don't get me wrong. The chances of this occuring are extremel slim. I've only had a single drive failure in…
I built the weirdest possible NAS from hardware I already owned, and it works surprisingly well
…While you could go for weaker systems released over a decade ago, most DIY NAS setups typically involve x86 machines capable of supporting at least a handful of storage drives. Contrast that…
Home Assistant just made every infrared device in your house controllable, and you probably already own them
…Point one at your TV or AC and control it like a remote would, except that it’s now part of your automation, scripts, and dashboard. So your morning routines can turn…
Replacing paid productivity apps with a self-hosted setup helped me save money, but I had to make some compromises
…home apps and monitoring dashboards. Considering that my wacky projects are the biggest threat to my home lab, I keep these nodes far away from my DIY misadventures. One of the biggest…
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