…The community is made up of like-minded PC gamers who prefer installing Windows to dual-boot alongside SteamOS, and it's home to an impressive amount of support documents and how…
…the troubleshooting process, I learned some lessons in what to do (and not to do) for next time. Related 3 reasons I love my Proxmox cluster (even though the average home labber…
…Treat the router as a part of your smart home Restarting the app, smart device, or the integration — usually the first troubleshooting step, albeit a wrong one. The error logs are rarely…
…Cloud AI platforms are more than enough for the average user External providers surpass local models in sheer reasoning capabilities I’m a home labber through and through, so deploying AI models…
Hi everyone I’m hoping to get some insights from the experts here on how to troubleshoot and improve the local network speed between two devices in my home. To give you a clear picture of my setup, I’ve attached a diagra…
Hi, Homelab user here. This is the first I've experienced a big kernel upgrade on proxmox and since rebooting after the upgrade, only my VM boots but all my LXC's show the error below. Any idea what is going on here or b…
Spent two days debugging Plex 4K playback on Proxmox. I ended up rebuilding my VM, configuring GPU passthrough, fighting VFIO/UEFI issues, and migrating my media stack... only to discover the real issue was an Ethernet c…
I had an old Lenovo laptop and a spare 40 inch TV, so I repurposed them into a small home server and kitchen dashboard. The laptop runs Ubuntu Server. The TV sits near the kitchen and displays a local dashboard through a…
Finally got my Intel Arc Pro B50 fully stable and properly working on Unraid 7.3.0 running kernel 6.18.29-Unraid, so thought I’d share for anyone else struggling with Battlemage cards. Current setup: Ryzen 9 7950X Superm…
…Device Troubleshooting Remote device management solutions give IT teams the ability to be proactive when troubleshooting, diagnosing, and resolving problems. IT can use real-time telemetry analysis to diagnose a system’s…
…Naming these devices on the smart home platforms themselves is another good practice: Home Assistant, Google Home, and Apple Home all support rooms, groups, and custom device names. Using them and staying…
…But an MCP server has its own utility in my Home Assistant hub, as it bridges my smart home setup with practically any client app that can use LLM-based prompts – including…
…Sign in to your XDA account HDMI eARC was supposed to be the part of modern home theater that finally made things less annoying. One cable from the TV to the soundbar…
…stop buying smart home gadgets and start building them. Related I replaced Google Home with Home Assistant and a local LLM, and I'm not looking back I've almost retired Google…
…It was the gradual realization that "probably fine" isn't the same thing as being intentional, especially in a home lab where services have a habit of multiplying. One container turns into…
