I replaced Portainer, Grafana, and Prometheus with this stack
…It can trigger alerts on the dashboard whenever a certain hardware use exceeds the programmed limit. Even if you don’t want to use the alerts, the tool is sufficient for occasional…
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My homelab needed a lightweight dashboard, so I had Claude and a local LLM race to build it
…Currently available dashboards, such as Homarr and Homepage, are good, but they focus on links and basic status pings. Homarr has a clean and modern UI, but it has an opinionated layout…
My home lab dashboards were a mess until I let ChatGPT tie them together
…s Hardware , groovyPost , The Mac Observer , and more before beginning here at XDA. Sign in to your XDA account My home lab has never suffered from a lack of dashboards. I have…
I turned an old iPhone into a Home Assistant wall panel, and it beats every dedicated controller I've tried
…And now the iPhone is locked to Home Assistant and is ready to be used as a controller. Setting up Home Assistant We needed a touch dashboard Using Home Assistant on larger…
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7 ESP32 projects that replaced commercial smart home gadgets in my house with cheaper, local hardware
1d agoI revived a cheap Android tablet by turning it into a Home Assistant control panel
4d agoHome Assistant is way more than a smart home dashboard, and here's what I actually run on it
5d agoI gave my home lab self-healing powers using Prometheus, Grafana, and one free monitoring stack
1w agoESPHome's Device Builder finally lets you compile multiple devices at once, and it changes everything
…That’s one reason why home lab users move their Home Assistant instances to a mini PC or NAS for better hardware utilization. Typically, it takes about 5–8 minutes to compile…
Most network problems aren't your internet—they're your router's dirty secret
…This is the TP-Link BE800, which we've reviewed , and while the hardware was good, I can't get over that dashboard UI. Even custom firmware like DD-WRT, OpenWrt, or…
My old Google Pixel has replaced half of my smart home products without costing me a penny
…A major perk is that the recent Home Assistant 2026.4 dashboard update enables contextual cards. This means that your Pixel can use its front-facing camera to detect who is standing…
I stopped jumping between monitoring dashboards with one Claude Code command
…But I made it more convenient by creating an HTML page that reads the status.json file and displays the status of my homelab in a proper dashboard. After that, I had…
The services you ignore are quietly breaking your home lab
…He's written for Macworld , Tom's Hardware , groovyPost , The Mac Observer , and more before beginning here at XDA. Sign in to your XDA account Some home lab services earn a dangerous…
My discontinued Kindle became the best smart home display I own, and it cost me nothing to set up
…Home Assistant OS Windows, macOS, Linux iOS compatible Yes See at Apple App Store See at Google Play Store See at Home Assistant Hacking the Kindle into a smart home dashboard took…