Notes on how I set things up, so I remember later
Homelabs, self-hosting, home automation, and the odd networking rabbit hole — written down mostly for future-me, shared in case it saves you an evening too.
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Move from OpenZWave to Zwave JS
I noticed that I got “depreciated” in my OpenZWave dashboard on HomeAssistant. Though the official documentation did not provide an easy migration, thus I me...
ZoneMinder on Ubuntu with Hikvision Cams using NFS Storage
Another home project of mine was to set up cameras around my house to keep annoying peeps away. But instead of buying an expensive NVR (Network Video Recorde...
Simple Mincraft Server on Ubuntu
My two daughters are becoming gamers as they see their dad gaming from time to time. Besides Roblox, they love Minecraft but just have 1 account. Thus I deci...
[Draft] Getting Started with OpenShift
You might have heard that IBM has bought Red Hat. Now we can start to speculate why but IMHO it had something to do with talking to the "cool kids" with Open...
SABnzbd on FreeNAS 11.2
I did a blog in the past on installing SABnzbd on FreeNAS though with code release 11.2 this changed and the plugin is not listed by default anymore. There a...
Migrate Domoticz to new RasPi
I have been running Domoticz for quite some time now and it has become the central point of our home. We don't use it just for the lights but also camera's, ...
Deploy IBM Cloud Private
From my current System job at IBM, we talk a lot of "IBM Cloud Private" where you can build your own Cloud using, at its core, Kubernetes, Docker and Helm. I...
Python & Jupyter on Ubuntu
Recently I started an online course to learn Python to understand the global concepts of Machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), Big Data, and Roboti...
OPNsense & OpenVPN on VMWare
I decided to pull my dedicated server from “collocation” and rebuild it for home use. I was running VMWare on my NAS (see earlier post) and was about to hit ...
Sickbeard & SABnzbd on VM
Now that I have virtualized my FreeNAS installation I no longer need to run "Jails" on FreeNAS and can use a normal Ubuntu installation to run my downloading...
Migrate FreeNAS to VMware
I was running my FreeNAS installation dedicated on my NAS BuildI did last year. Though I wanted more freedom thus installing a hypervisor (VMware) to run mul...
Building my new PC
Here is a short build blog for my 5th PC. My old one was almost 6 years old and after the memory and GPU upgrade during 2016 I was unable to scale more and g...
SABnzbd & Sickbeard on FreeNAS 9
One of the things my NAS at home does is Downloading! I am using SABnzbd as a the download engine. This tool connects to the usenet provider and can download...
Deciding on a NAS and installing FreeNAS
After my hardware build I looked into what operating system my NAS should be running. Because I have 4 drives it should be capable of doing a type of RAID, a...
DYI Building my NAS
As a storage enthusiast I love to build my own NAS. I am sure that if you read this you know already what a NAS is, but for those of you who don’t; a NAS (Ne...
DDWRT on Asus RT-AC66U
Here in Holland the hype to get fiber to home is booming. Unfortunately where I live Cable is still the fastest connection available with 200 Mbit download a...
