Cavelab

I’ve decided to completely rebuild my DIY alarm system.

Back in 2021 I started to tag posts with Home network v2, and wrote about my plans to improve my home network.

When we bought the Hero Camper we opted for having exterior lights installed, one in each corner of the roof-rack, with a simple controller inside the cabin.

A home office can’t just be all fun and games; there needs to be some wine too.

Back in 2021 I added Home Assistant sensor data to our Dakboard monitor.

I use Beszel to monitor all my hosts — Raspberry Pi’s, hypervisors, VMs and containers.

Hero camper recently announced their new Nested Drawer — it’s a small drawer that gets mounted above the cooler and holds the gas hob parts safely.

The kitchen space on our Hero Camper is limited — well, actually all space on the camper is limited, but this post is about the kitchen.

When we first got the camper I was confused by the low charge rate of the solar charger.

Keep it simple, stupid — less is more, or as Albert Einstein didn’t actually say: Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

For the past two years we, meaning all five of us, have taken a two-week road trip in the summer.

The keypad, or alarm panel, is an important part of a security alarm system.

Quick recap: I’m building a DIY security alarm using a Raspberry Pi, hardwired PIR sensors, and MQTT integration with Home Assistant.

In the fall of 2022 I turned off Zeta, my file server, due to the extreme price of electricity.

When I was trying out Netdata last year — I noticed I had lots of inbound_packets_dropped_ratio warnings, on multiple nodes.

I’ve looked into different video solution for this blog before — and, at the time, settled on using Coconut.co for encoding, AWS S3 for hosting, and Video.js for playing.

Getting network to the garage is a story with many chapters.

I’m using a Shelly Plus Plug S smart plug to measure the power usage of my homelab.

As I have written before; I like the concept of blog post series.

Sometimes, when I’m not too busy with my homelab or some other electronics project — I pretend to be a woodworker or carpenter.

I’ve been having a strange problem with outgoing WireGuard traffic, the problem has probably always been there — I just haven’t noticed, until now.

Two years ago we dug and laid three conduits from the house to the garage, and from the garage to the shed.

I built a rack out of wood in 2004 — it was at home, and a lab, of sorts, so I guess that makes it a homelab 🙂 Let’s take a trip down memory lane and look at 20 years’ worth of homelabbing ❤️

While doing some WireGuard testing between local peers; I noticed weird performance issues on my virtual MikroTik router.

My homelab rack has been running as is for a while now — it’s time for a few new projects.