Owntracks + Home Assistant: Private Location Tracking
Stop feeding Google your daily commute. OwnTracks + MQTT broker + Home Assistant gives you real presence detection without the surveillance capitalism overhead.
Tag: self-hosting
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KVM/QEMU/libvirt: CLI Workflows
virt-manager is fine, but real homelab automation lives on the command line. virt-install, virsh, cloud-init — provision VMs in seconds, not click-by-click.
BirdNET-Pi for Self-Hosted Bird Identification
Turn a Raspberry Pi and a cheap USB mic into a self-hosted bird ID station using BirdNET-Pi and Cornell ML audio models running entirely locally offline.
Claude Code + SearXNG: Private Web Search
Wire a self-hosted SearXNG instance into Claude Code via a Bash wrapper for private, scriptable web search — and when to use it vs the built-in tool.
rclone vs Restic: Sync vs Backup
rclone copies and syncs files to cloud storage. Restic does deduplicated encrypted snapshots. Confusing them costs you restores at 2 AM.
Scrypted vs Frigate for Self-Hosted Cameras
Scrypted bridges your IP cameras to HomeKit and Google Home. Frigate adds AI object detection on your own hardware. Here's how to pick — or run both at once.
mtr vs traceroute: Packet Loss
traceroute lies. mtr tells the truth. Here's how to read packet-loss reports like an oncall engineer and stop blaming your ISP for the wrong hop.
ESPresense: Room-Level Bluetooth Presence in Home Assistant
Track which room you're in using cheap ESP32 nodes and BLE signal distance — real room-level presence for Home Assistant automations that don't annoy you daily.
Hetzner vs DigitalOcean vs Vultr
Picking a cheap VPS for home-lab overflow — off-site backups, public endpoints, CGNAT escape. Real tradeoffs, honest picks per scenario.
iperf3 + nload: Network Diagnosis
Your gigabit link drops to 200 Mbps and you don't know why. iperf3 measures throughput honestly, nload visualizes traffic — together they find the bottleneck fast.
Plex Meta Manager: Posters, Collections, Sanity
Stop staring at a Plex library that looks like a clearance bin. Kometa (formerly Plex Meta Manager) automates collections, posters, overlays, and bulk ratings.
Syncthing vs Resilio vs Seafile
Dropbox got expensive and your data left the building. Syncthing, Resilio Sync, and Seafile compared — pick the one that fits your threat model.