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Build Your Homelab: 36 – Plant-it in Docker With Portainer
Using Portainer, it is very easy to install Plant-it in our Docker environment. If you prefer to rather have it in an existing environment in stead of creating another LXC, the install is very straightforward and easy.
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Build Your Homelab: 35 – Manage Your Flaura: Plant-it In An LXC Container
For all the green fingered users out there, but probably more so those that don’t quote have that magic touch with plants – let’s install the magic wand called Plant-it in our homelab
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Take Your Surveillance Footage Out Of The Cloud With Frigate
In this article, we’ll introduce Frigate NVR – a free, open-source, locally-hosted network video recorder with built-in AI-powered object detection.
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The Cerebro Clusterboard – Immense Processing Power For Your SBCs
The Cerebro Clusterboard is an upcoming modular “motherboard” designed to host up to four interchangeable compute modules—such as Raspberry Pi CM4/CM5, NVIDIA Jetson NX, or Radxa CM5—on a single micro-ATX/1U rack form factor
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How Image Upscaling Is Giving Your Gaming Rig More Performance
In modern gaming, GPU upscaling technologies allow graphics cards to render at lower resolutions and then intelligently scale images up to higher resolutions, boosting performance without sacrificing visual quality
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Is OPNSense Really That Good In Our Homelabs?
OPNSense is a FreeBSD-based, open-source firewall/router forked from pfSense, offering enterprise-grade features via a web GUI. Homelabbers choose it for granular security controls, VLAN support, VPNs and plugin extensibility.
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Host Your Own Password Manager With Vaultwarden
Vaultwarden is a lightweight, open-source implementation of the Bitwarden API that you can host yourself, giving you full control over your password data without recurring subscription fees.
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Self-hosting Your Notes with Joplin
Self-hosting your note-taking applications offers both control and economy. Today we look at Joplin as an alternative to Trilium Next and compares features between the two most popular self-hosted note-taking apps.
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Pterodactyl: A Guide to Game Server Hosting
If you’ve ever tried setting up a game server for Minecraft, Rust, or Valheim, you know it can be confusing – especially when managing multiple servers or giving access to friends. That’s where Pterodactyl comes in.
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Build Your Homelab: 34 – Access Local Network Devices via Tailscale
The last part of our Headscale installation – getting exit nodes set up and routes activated to be able to access network resources
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Build Your Homelab: 33 – Connect To Headscale From Android
We have a Headscale aup and running and configurated, so now we can connect to Headscale from a different device, let’s get our Android phone connected.
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Build Your Homelab: 32 – Configuring Headscale
Once Headscale is installed, there is quite a bit of intricate setup and config to complete before we will be able to connect to our VPN. Let’s get it sorted and set up so we can start using our VPN.
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Build Your Homelab: 31 – Host Your Own Tailscale VPN In Proxmox With Headscale
Now that we know we can access our locally hosted services from outside our home network with the help of a VPN, let’s get our own local VPN installed and set up via Headscale
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Introducing the Radxa Dual 2.5G Router HAT
Ever thought that 1Gbps connectivity for your Raspberry Pi is not enough? What happens when 2.5Gbps is no longer enough? And what if it costs you your NVMe connectivity? Enter dual 2.5Gbps with and NVMe slot.
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Build Your Homelab: 30 – Custom Domain Usage and Setup
Having a domain name for our homelab will enable us to give a unique subdomain address for each of our services that we want to expose to the world wide web. We can also secure this with SSL certificates.
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Give Your Homelab a Name: How to Purchase a Domain Name
To access more than one service at a time on our homelab, we will need to start thinking about our very own domain name for easier access to our homelab services.
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Build Your Homelab: 29 – Access Local-only services via VPN
We need to take a step back to explain how to access our local-only services via the secure channel provided by a VPN. This is quick, easy and one of the most secure ways to access our home network services.
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XCP-ng vs. Proxmox: A Homelab Showdown
Although most of our tutorials uses Proxmox to run your homelab, there is an equally awesome alternative to Proxmox called XCP-ng. Let’s take a quick look at this awesome tool.
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Homelabs: Tips For First Time Users That I Wish I Knew Sooner
A Homelab can be one of the most rewarding endeavours, however, if you are not careful, it can turn into a nightmare. Here are some tips from our homelab years.
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Introducing the Raspberry Pi 45W USB‑C Power Supply
The new Raspberry Pi 45W USB‑C Power Supply is now on sale, and it is set to redefine how enthusiasts and professionals alike power their projects.
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Build Your Homelab: 28 – Uptime Kuma Integration Into ntfy
Now that we have Uptime Kuma running in our Docker LXC Container, we can start monitoring our other services in our Homelab. We can also alert us if one of the services goes down, with the help of the ntfy instance we have running that can send notifications to our phone. Let’s get started with…