learn from my mistakes…
Foreword I have security cameras. A bunch of them. They record footage, they send me alerts, and they dutifully capture every person who walks onto my property in beautiful 4K. You know what they don’t do? Anything about it. Every security camera on the market is a passive witness. Someone walks up to your door…
Foreword I got tired of the runaround. Check on backups? SSH into the backup server. Spin up a new client instance? Click through Railway’s dashboard, then Cloudflare’s DNS panel, then set up 15 environment variables. Add a new service to the network? Log into Nginx Proxy Manager, configure the proxy host, then log into Pi-hole…
Foreword I’ve been running a NAS and Proxmox nodes at home for years. Two hypervisors, a bunch of VMs, plenty of idle compute just sitting there. Meanwhile I was paying monthly for shared hosting to run a couple WordPress sites. At some point it hit me: why am I paying for hosting when I have…
Foreword So I’ve been running breadAI for a few months now. It pulls data from 30+ sources across my homelab, compresses 11 million characters of logs down to about 2,800, and sends me a daily Discord report. It’s great. Except for the part where it sometimes just… makes stuff up. Not maliciously. LLMs do this…
Foreword My kid’s school does a raffle fundraiser every year. My wife runs it. Kids get tickets, they choose which prizes to put them toward, someone does a drawing, everyone cheers. The problem was how they were running it: spreadsheets, paper tickets, and manually tracking who put what where. One day my wife asked me…
So I run a homelab. Nothing crazy. A couple Proxmox hypervisors, a Synology NAS, pfSense firewall, a managed Brocade switch, UniFi APs, three Pi-holes, an Emby server… okay, maybe it’s a little crazy. Point is, there’s a lot of stuff generating logs, and I was not reading any of them. Every morning I’d tell myself…
I’m all about setting it and forgetting it and hopefully this wrapper script helps you do that. I setup this script in 2018 and it’s been performing flawlessly ever since. I know PFsense does it’s own cloud backup but I like to have my own local backup just in case. Everything is available on github:…
Foreward This is just a little helper on how to get Purple Air and AwAir JSON data into Grafana. It’s pretty straightforward and of course that means it took me a couple days of tinkering to figure it out. The way telegraf parses the Purple Air JSON data needs to be modified as it pulls…
What is this? Just another site to log all my computer/networking/home automation stuff. Similar to my other site, this is just a place to jot down all the steps I took to make something work for reference later. Hopefully somebody in the same situation I was in finds some of this data useful.