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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

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&

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

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

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

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

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

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

Archiving pictures to 1000 year M-DISC

This is the first part of my plan to archive family photos for long term storage. The second upcoming part is archiving to LTO Tape Why am I doing this? I came to the realization that if an old picture got deleted or corrupted, it might be many years until

$6 F150 Bed Divider

I wanted a bed divider, and I didn't want to spend the $310 Ford charges for the OEM one. So I just made one If you have a Circular saw, or Jigsaw, Sawzall, Hand saw you can make this in less than 10 minutes, and it just costs

Cleaned up my Rack and "Server Room"

After 7 months I finally cleaned up room that has my rack in I got very lucky in that my new house has a closet in the center of the house off of the hallway, it's quite large, has an HVAC duct and has a wall with a

Does older hardware cost MORE than newer hardware when you factor power cost?

Yes, in most cases You see this on reddit all the time; People will post saying they just got a new Dell 2950 (Which is 14 years old) and asking for advice on what to do with it. Generally people will tell them it's terrible and to get

Recessed Lighting and Electrical Receptacle install for Picnic Table

I needed some lights outside so I could sit at my picnic table at night without it being pitch dark. I decided to install some 4 inch recessed lights with a dimmer switch My table is right next to my garage, so I have easy access to power and a

Updated Low Power PFSENSE Build for Gigabit Fiber

Since moving into a house I now pay for power, so I wanted to upgrade my PFSENSE box while at the same time saving power I also got gigabit fiber, so it needed to be able to handle that. This is the updated 2020 build of my pfSense Firewall. I

Garage Network Rack with 10G Fiber

This details my 12u rack in my detached garage which has a 10G uplink to my main network I needed some networking in my detached garage for an access point, my flight tracking setup, 3 x PoE cameras and some future additions, and instead of running multiple Cat6 cables across,

Why you might want a FLIR Camera

When I bought my house I bought a $200 FLIR Camera that attaches to your phone, the FLIR One. I bought it to check windows and a doors for air leaks, and to check where I needed more insulation Above my bathroom there was a lot of insulation, but there

First Alert Z-Wave Smoke/CO Detectors with Hubitat

I recently bought a home, and it had no smoke detectors. Here is what I ended up with I have never owned any Z-Wave devices before as I never had the need, but I wanted to know if my smoke alarms were going off, and I didn't want

New Blue Iris NVR server build

After purchasing a house, I needed to do what anyone interested in technology would do, and install a ton of cameras. I was already running Blue Iris, and even after taking a look at the alternatives again, it was clear that for now Blue Iris is still the best choice.

10G Networking Upgrade: Intel X540 Problems

I decided it was time to upgrade the 10G networking in my lab, here is the story about the problems I faced. My main ESXi box has a dual port Intel X540 10G NIC built in, but I don't have any 10GBaseT ports, so I have ran it

Self Contained Encrypted iSCSI Datastore in VMware ESXi

Hopefully the title made sense. Alternate title could be * LUKS Encrypted iSCSI SAN in Debian * LUKS Encrypted iSCSI Target in Debian * How to share a volume via iSCSI in Debian You get the idea. This article is about creating an encrypted ESXi datastore out of existing storage you have in