Tag: self-hosting

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.

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 copies and syncs files to cloud storage. Restic does deduplicated encrypted snapshots. Confusing them costs you restores at 2 AM.

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.

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.

Track which room you're in with cheap ESP32 nodes and BLE signal distance, real room-level presence for Home Assistant automations that actually work.

Picking a cheap VPS for home-lab overflow, off-site backups, public endpoints, CGNAT escape. Real tradeoffs, honest picks per scenario.

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.

Stop staring at a Plex library that looks like a clearance bin. Kometa (formerly Plex Meta Manager) automates collections, posters, overlays, and bulk ratings.

Dropbox got expensive and your data left the building. Syncthing, Resilio Sync, and Seafile compared, pick the one that fits your threat model.

Disks fail. SMART tells you when. Here's how smartctl and smartd actually predict failure, and the attributes that matter (most don't).

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