I’ve got a big music library on my home server and I was still paying for streaming to listen to it around the house. Here’s how I got my own library playing on the house speakers, controlled by voice, with no extra subscription. The pieces Navidrome is a small music server that runs on my
Your own music library on every speaker in the house, with Navidrome and Music Assistant Read More »
I wanted to talk to my house like Tony Stark does: “turn the office lights off”, “what’s on my calendar?”, “play some music in the kitchen”. I already ran Home Assistant, so I didn’t need to buy anything. I needed to stitch a few pieces together. It works. The first voice sounded stiff, so I
I built a Jarvis-style voice assistant for my house (and what it really costs) Read More »
TrueNAS is a great NAS. It’s a less great app platform. Here’s how I split the two: storage-heavy apps stay on the NAS, everything else moves to a plain Docker VM managed with Dockge.
Moving my apps off TrueNAS onto a Docker VM with Dockge Read More »
Vaultwarden gives you a Bitwarden-compatible password manager on your own hardware. Setting it up is the easy part. Backing it up properly is the bit that matters.
Self-hosting my password manager with Vaultwarden (and backups that actually work) Read More »
No more bookmarking IP addresses and port numbers. Proper HTTPS names for every app at home, and one login in front of all of them.
No port forwarding, no dynamic DNS, no exposing apps to the internet. One Tailscale subnet router gives me the whole home network from my phone, with ad-blocking thrown in.
Getting into my homelab from anywhere: Tailscale subnet router and Pi-hole DNS Read More »
This site is self-hosted, but there’s not a single port open on my router. Here’s the stack behind it, and why I switched from Ghost to WordPress partway through.
How this site is built: WordPress and Elementor in Docker behind a Cloudflare Tunnel Read More »
There’s a special kind of dread when your NAS tells you files are damaged. It’s worse when the drives say they’re perfectly healthy. This is the story of a week spent chasing corrupted films across my brand-new ZFS pools, and the culprit that turned out to be hiding in plain sight. The setup My homelab
My NAS was quietly corrupting files, and it wasn’t the drives Read More »
I recently cut back on a lot of the subscriptions I’d been quietly paying for without thinking. Microsoft 365 was one of them. That’s fine, until you realise that OneDrive drops back to a free 5 GB, and I had over 15 GB in it. Over the limit, Microsoft makes your account read-only, and leave
How I replaced OneDrive for free with Syncthing and my own server Read More »
