#home-lab — Public Fediverse posts
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Having an iced coffee while I design the nomenclature for my upcoming network drops at home.
So far it’s:
<floor>-<zone>-<seq><run>Where:
* <floor> is a 2-letter floor code;
* <zone> is a 3-letter zone code;
* <seq> is the 1-indexed sequence;
* <run> is a letter, starting from A, identifying the run for plates with multiple ports or backup cablinge.g.:
RC-SSM-2A
RC-CUI-1A
SS-LAB-3BMy biggest dilemma comes from being reluctant to name zones according to the current function of the zone, in case that changes later. I could use cardinal points too. But they’re less intuitive.
Absolutely overthinking this but it brings me joy haha.
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About bloggning.
It was no problem SSHing home to write blog posts in Nano and then running some home-brewed scripts. But my eyes aren’t what they used to be, and the keyboard in Termius is pretty bad. Not to mention getting no help with spell check (dyslexic). So I hacked together my own very simple interface.
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Dockhand is a modern, self-hostable Docker management UI for containers, Compose stacks, remote Docker hosts, Git deployments, logs, terminals, and more.
It’s free for personal and internal business use. Note: Dockhand uses the Business Source License 1.1 (BSL 1.1), not a traditional open-source license.
More details & alternatives:
https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=dockhand#Docker #SelfHosting #Homelab #DevOps #OpenSource #DockerCompose
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Sonarr v4.0.19.3011 is here with another incremental update to keep your TV automation running smooth. Time to pull that new image. #selfhosted #homelab
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As you know I switched to #quad9 from #cloudflare the other day. My completely and scientific assessment of performance can be seen in picrel. quad9 (orange) responds in ~10ms, cloudflare in ~19ms (green), #google in ~22ms (blue). Yellow is my upstream ISP (3-5ms).
So yes if you care about milliseconds use quad9 I guess?
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Das CEPH von Proxmox nun endlich mit dem Talos Kubernetes per CSI-Treiber verbunden.
HA-fähiges Deployment von Mariadb und Redis war dann nach erstes Test mit eigenen Operatoren (und Kubernetes Datentypen) auch nicht mehr so kompliziert.
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Gonna do a livestream at 3pm Eastern today. Something in the selfh.st newsletter stuck with me and I want to talk about it and get some opinions. #homelab #selfhosting
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:haacknet: Haack's Networking :haacknet:
✍️ Hijacking DNS & Stopping DoH
🔗 https://tech.haacksnetworking.org/2026/09/06/hijacking-dns-stopping-doh/
🧻 This tutorial is designed for #openwrt users and #pihole / #unbound users looking for a clean way to protect your LAN's DNS. This tutorial used a dedicated vlan/subnet with 4 Wyze v4 cams but/and can easily be extended to any IoT devices one chooses. There are three types of actions covered in this tutorial:
- Hijacking plain-text udp 53 and udp 853 DNS requests
- Hijacking tcp 853 (DoT) requests
- Dropping DoH requests for specified upstream DNS ips📜 I hope people find this tutorial helpful. Feedback and comments are welcome. For those seeking assistance and/or if you want to chat about setup or other Linuxy stuffs, feel free to swing by the GNU/Linux Club Matrix over at https://matrix.to/#/#introductions:gnulinux.club
#OpenWrt #PiHole #Unbound #DNS #DoH #DoT #DoQ #Firewall #TrafficRules #PortForward #tcpdump #VLAN #IoT #Privacy #SelfHosted #Homelab #AWSIoT #NetworkSecurity #FOSS #Debian #floss #freesoftware #opensource
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My homelab naming scheme died years ago and I never held a funeral.
Started with planets. Ran out of planets, added moons. Then switched to Norse gods for the VMs, except the ones I named after whatever I was annoyed at that day. Somewhere in there is a host called temp-do-not-use that has been in production for two years.
I can't rename anything now because I don't remember what half of them do.
What's your scheme, and which "temporary" name is still running?
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I just realised my backups on my homelab weren’t working for several months because I had changed the IP of the target backup machine. Oops. Check your backups people!
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So now the plan is to dig deeper, into which precise metrics produce exactly how much data on disk. To have a proper basis for deciding which to keep, and which to throw away.
This might very well end with me writing a Prometheus exporter which regularly analyses the most recent 14 day block and provides the stats.
First step: Looking at the TSDB block and checking what tools for analysis are already available.
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Okay, time to chose a yak and get to shaving. The one I finally ended up on is my metrics situation. I like metrics. I like charts. And I've got the 600 GB Thanos S3 bucket to prove it. My 14 day compacted blocks currently have 565 MB per day.
And I'd like to know what produces that large amount of data. I already looked at it in detail last year, but the measures I took, excluding a lot of metrics, didn't really make much of a dent in the ingest rate.
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After some time with me new proxmox based homeserver I'm quite happy and managed to reduce the idle power consumption even further to just below 20W which is for a full homeserver with a ZFS pool and spinning disks way less than I hoped for.
Write up for this in my blog: https://solariz.de/posts/26/09-proxmox-homeserver-powersavings/
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Also working on having my own #HomeAssistant theme based on my personal home brand, in the design of Apple’s #LiquidGlass design language.
This is actually not really easy to do even with Claude. Takes a lot of iterations for him to investigate the DOM, still ongoing...
Game changers here:
- UI eXtension for HA: https://uix.lf.technology/ (card-mod on steriods)
- Adding HA as MCP via https://github.com/homeassistant-ai
- Heinzel as agentic framework https://github.com/wintermeyer/heinzel -
TrueNAS forums going down briefly on Sept 5 at 0500 UTC for a Discourse update. Should be back in 30-60 minutes. Plan your troubleshooting accordingly. #selfhosted #homelab
https://forums.truenas.com/t/upcoming-forum-maintenance-2026-09-05-at-0500h-utc/67778
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Even the Proxmox servers got their little brand!
How I did all of that? Starting to use @wintermeyer’s #Heinzel was a real boost in speed because doing all of this by hand would have been extremely time consuming!
I even gave Heinzel its own LXC with read-only access everywhere (either SSH, API’s, whatever was possible) to always help diagnose from everywhere.
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Happy to share what today's #DiDay is about for me.
I like to have all the pieces getting a branded view so I asked Claude to help me. Really like how it came out! -
Tianji v1.32.35 brings improved AI gateway observer logs, fixes for nested image previews and select dropdowns, plus updated translations. Steady progress on this solid monitoring platform. #selfhosted #homelab
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Me: Picks up random, older Homelab task that looks like it's going to be no more than an hour or two worth of fun.
The broadly grinning and very shaggy herd of yaks: Come on, you know you want to!
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Fishing for an answer: Please tell me your favorite self-hosted photo web app (or share with your friends who know one) that:
Can run in linux, docker
Supports multiple users, each with the ability to manage their own independent photos and albums.
Includes a nice slide-show feature over user-curated albums, include "smart" albums (i.e. albums created dynamically based on search criteria).
Has good metadata support (geolocation, timeline, tags, faces), including preloading metadata from EXIF tags.
Includes a smartphone app that syncs the device's camera roll.
Basically, a practical replacement for Google Photos. Any ideas?
[EDIT: Lots of love for immich and piwigo. I'm going to give immich a shot. It's looking promising.]
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@krans Excellent question for the #homelab @homelab community!
IMO:
- Set boundaries on what you are going to do with it, on a scale of: Personal-NAS -> family-ISP -> AV platform -> mini supercomputer system (eg: ML training).
- This will give an idea of scale: one machine or a rack of 'em?
- That determines software a bit, such as RAID array or cluster file system...Family-ISP here: One Dell T20 tower server, soon to be replaced with a much smaller Beelink Me Pro NAS, NetBSD+services.
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Grocy 4.7.1 fixes broken iCal exports, non-latin password login issues, and API key auth in subdirectories. Also adds a new product copy API endpoint. Solid maintenance release #selfhosted #homelab
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Tianji v1.32.34 patches a bug in the AI gateway where serialized observer dates were not being parsed correctly. Small fix, big reliability win. #selfhosted #homelab
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PasswordPusher v2.11.6 brings env variable overrides for logging, better docs for OSS vs Pro API fields, and a warning against mounting volumes over the db directory. Solid maintenance release. #selfhosted #homelab
https://github.com/pglombardo/PasswordPusher/releases/tag/v2.11.6
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Another step away from the corporate internet taken today. My continous glucose monitor's app has been sucking down 40% of my battery a day and I already have a sparky fitness self hosted instance for calories and step tracking from my Garmin watch with gadget bridge.
Juggluco desperately needs a ui overhaul but once I got it linked up it's a far better fit for me.
Live blood sugar in my status bar, doesn't kill my battery and doesn't store my data at some conglomerate. #homelab #degoogle
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Spent some time tuning my Akkoma services and now my instance is so performant. I didn’t realise before how laggy it was until now I see it acting so snappy.
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Hey #homelab folks, I could use a little help with #ethernet cables. I've installed CAT7 S/FTP cables from basement -> ground floor and one from ground floor -> first floor using keystones and dual mounting boxes. My router is placed in first floor. When plugging my laptop in ground floor I do get a signal.
However If bridge the two cables using a normal shielded patch cable I don't get a signal in the basement.
Is this expected or is something wrong with the cable to the basement?
#fedihelp