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Multimode fiber (MMF) to Singlemode Fiber (SMF) Detached Garage Fiber Backhaul Upgrade

While cleaning up cables in my garage, I swapped the Multimode fiber run to my detached garage from MMF to SMF Details on my setup can be found here, as you can see, it used to be a mess. Garage Network Rack with 10G FiberThis details my 12u rack in

Texas Freeze - Part 2 - Electrical Overhaul

This post is about getting my electrical system overhauled ready for solar panels and a natural gas generator. The generator will be using a 200a ATS, but I also opted to install a 30a inlet with a manual interlock. This will let my plug in a portable gasoline generator if

Texas Freeze - Part 1 - Damage and Plans

Like a few people noticed, back in February this website was offline for a day or two. That was because like many people here in Texas I lost power (and water) for a good few days and this website is hosted out of my house. I was without power for

WeatherFlow Tempest Install

I really wanted a weather station for a long time, but I could never find one that was a reasonable price for someone new to the hobby, but had good network connectivity options The WeatherFlow Tempest looked perfect, so I bought one and installed it. Here is how I did

2019 F150 On-board Battery Tender

Since COVID I started working from home, which means the only driving I really did was the 3 mile round trip to Home Depot every now and then. I noticed my F150 stopped doing start/stop with the reason that the battery was charging, but it was doing it all

Garage Compressed Air Setup

I find myself needing compressed air for nail and staple guns, filling up tires, blowing out dust and other stuff, and I was sick of using my small and loud Pancake compressor each time. Here is my solution to this issue, it involves a 50ft auto-retracting air hose reel mounted

Blog Hosting Update

I started hosting this blog over a year ago, here is where things currently stand and how things are performing. When I set it up, I pretty much just guessed everything. So far its working well and I get no complaints about performance. I used to host the blog out

Updated ADS-B Flight Tracking setup

A while ago I setup my flight tracking setup, but I was in an apartment, and could never get very good range, you can read the original article here My New ADS-B Flight Tracking SetupI just installed my Flight Tracking setup, here are the details Here is a list of

My Lab Power Setup

A lot of people wanted to know what UPS's and PDU's I am running, and where. Here are all the details I would highly suggest you read my post on setting up the power inlets, as it explains a lot Home Server Room Power Upgrade + Multi-room UPSThis post shows how

Join my Discord Server (Or don't, I'm not your boss)

I made a discord server, it has no real topic. Join if you want, invite people to join, whatever you want. There are no rules, because I hate rules. https://discord[dot]gg/bag6U5Z Replace the [dot] with a .

Unconditioned Texas Garage Lab - 1 year later (Its all fine)

A little over a year ago I mounted a rack in my garage, threw a Cisco Switch in there, an APC UPS and my Flight Tracking setup, and a second ESXi host. See below for the original: Garage Network Rack with 10G FiberThis details my 12u rack in my detached

Load Testing USB Chargers and Cables

A while ago when I got some Raspberry Pi's, I had a ton of issues with power. I bought a YZXStudio USB power meter/analyzer and a USB load tester, and tested every charger and cable I owned. I found a TON of bad cables which I threw out Most

TinyPilot - An Open Source KVM Over IP

DISCLAIMER! - This device was sent to me free of charge from the owner, Michael, who is a redditor and saw some of my other posts and sent me one to use and give feedback on. Now, back onto the device. This device is made from a Raspberry Pi and

My whole house Ruckus WiFi setup

When I moved into my new home, I expanded my existing Ruckus setup to give me coverage across my entire property. Here is all the details of that setup and why I chose Ruckus over my old Ubiquiti Unifi setup AP's I have 1 Ruckus R510, and two R310's. There

Cyberpower UPS's - Try something else...

This is now the fourth time I have come across these issues with a Cyberpower UPS. It means your UPS really isn't a UPS, so you may want to think twice about picking one up First thing to keep in mind is that these are line interactive UPS's, that means

Full Lab Details - September 2020

After posting the full lab history post, a lot of people wanted details on what I do with everything in my home server rack. Here are the full details. I have not cleaned it up for the pictures, so expect some dust and some work in progress If you have

Homelab

9 Year Homelab history in pictures

Since 2012 I have been interested in servers and networking, and started running them at home. Here is a history of changes over the years I don't have full explanations of everything, but ill try to mention things as I go. You will have to excuse the poor image quality

Home Server Room Power Upgrade + Multi-room UPS

This post shows how I upgraded the power delivery to my home server room, as well as installing the infrastructure to replace 5 UPS's around my house with just one large UPS. Why Upgrade the power? The electrical in my home when I moved in was terrible, it was also

Private Internet Access VPN on pfSense (Last Updated 08/2020)

This guide has been updated to reflect changes made on PIA's end that stops the old guide from working NOTE! As of 12/7/2021 I have moved away from PIA and Switched to Mullvad. So this guide will no longer be updated. I highly suggest you read that guide

Blue Iris NVR - Off-site clip syncing

Blue Iris is a great NVR solution, but its extremely lacking as FTP is its only native off-site clip exporting protocol. Here is how I made that work for me I have been using Blue Iris for my NVR for over 6 years, and despite FTP being a legacy protocol

My Backup Plan & Lessons learned

I've posted about my backup plan before, but a lot of things have changed, and I have learned a lot about what works, and what doesn't work for me. Skip to the end of the post if you just want to see my backup plan Lessons learned Over the past

Archiving data to LTO Tape for long term storage and backups

This is the second part to my data archiving efforts, the first part was using M-DISC's which you can read about HERE The Tape Hardware I have been looking for a tape drive or library for a long time. Eventually I saw an IBM TS3100 with 2 x LTO5 SAS

Running 8 x CAT6a drops to media center area

Since I moved into my home I have been using wireless until I got this done, and it meant that streaming 4k movies across the network was almost impossible. I finally got around to running the networking to this area Here is all equipment used * A drill of any kind

Watchdog 15-P PoE Powered server closet environmental monitoring

I knew my server closet was too warm, but I new knew just how warm it was. I got a Geist/Vertiv Watchdog 15-P environmental monitor that does temperature, humidity and dew point and is powered by PoE The device gives you a Web UI to view charts, sends the

Registering an Intex Mariner 4 to use a Trolling motor in Texas

There was zero instruction for doing this, so I figured I would show how I filled out form PWD 143 in the year 2018