Starting with Home Assistant 2026.5, developers can now officially register Home Assistant custom dashboard strategies — making them discoverable directly in the UI, just like custom cards. This…
Ever bought a cheap IP camera and spent hours hunting for the right RTSP URL? You’re not alone. Most budget cameras ship with zero documentation, wrong stream paths,…
This post is a direct continuation of CrowdSec with Nginx Proxy Manager on Home Assistant OS: 8 Steps to Ultimate Homelab Security. If you haven’t set up CrowdSec…
If you run containers at home, your base images are quietly accumulating CVEs you never asked for. 🔒 That changed in December 2025, when Docker made its entire…
If you’re running Home Assistant OS with Nginx Proxy Manager as an add-on and have multiple services exposed to the internet — Bitwarden, Nextcloud, Jellyfin, Home Assistant itself…
Want a dedicated touchscreen panel to control your music without touching your phone? 🎵 This guide shows you exactly how I built an ESP32-4848S040 Media Controller with ESPHome…
Just installed Proxmox VE 9.1 and your repository panel looks like this? 👇 Old bookworm entries sitting next to the new trixie ones, an orange banner about the…
Home Assistant 2026.4 new features landed on April 2, 2026 — and this is one of the most interesting releases in a while. If you’re running a homelab…
Setting up a private VPN used to mean hours of config files, key management, and debugging. Not anymore. In this guide, you’ll install WireGuard VPN on Proxmox in…
If you’ve been thinking about building a home lab or a production-grade hypervisor, now is a great time to install Proxmox VE 9.1 on bare metal. This guide…
