Tag: homelab

Stop guessing whose request is clogging your 4K library. Jellyseerr tags + Sonarr/Radarr + Maintainerr = real per-user quota control that actually holds up.

Sonarr handles TV. Radarr handles movies. But who handles comics and adult content? Meet Mylar3 and Whisparr, the *arr apps nobody talks about, until now.

LazyLibrarian vs Readarr for ebook and audiobook automation in 2026, why Readarr got retired, what to run instead, with real Docker Compose configs.

Google Photos went paid and the alternatives matured fast. Immich, PhotoPrism, and Ente: which self-hosted photo library actually fits your life in 2026?

Picking a recursive DNS resolver for your home lab, Unbound, Technitium, and BIND9 compared on speed, GUI, DNSSEC, and split-horizon.

HACS custom integrations can brick your Home Assistant setup overnight. Here's how to use them safely, recover when they don't, and know when to skip them.

ntopng vs darkstat: full DPI flow analysis vs a tiny always-on stats page. Pick the right tool for home-lab network visibility without losing your mind.

Gemma 4 vs Qwen3.6: sizes, reasoning, coding benchmarks, and which model you should actually pull for your home lab rig.

HAOS Add-Ons vs bare Docker Compose for Mosquitto, ESPHome, Frigate, when the Supervisor magic is worth it and when it just gets in your way.

Pixtral, Qwen3-VL, and Gemma 4 compared for local multimodal use in 2026. LLaVA is dead; here's what to run in Ollama for OCR, screenshots, and vision tasks.

Wyoming protocol vs Rhasspy for local Home Assistant voice, which offline stack actually works in 2026, hardware requirements, and when to choose each one.

Promtail is deprecated. Here's how to migrate your scrape configs, pipeline stages, and Docker log setups to Grafana Alloy without losing your mind or data.