Gear List: Text-First Catalog for Home Assistant
I get asked two questions all the time: “What gear are you using?” and “What do you actually recommend for Home Assistant?” This is my ... Read More
Making Pi-hole Highly Available (and Fixing a Hidden Frigate Disk Trap)
A single Pi-hole reboot used to take my whole network’s DNS/DHCP offline. Here’s how I added a secondary DNS Pi-hole on a separate host, kept ... Read More
Scan the Panel: QR-Powered Breaker Notes
Breaker panels are the perfect example of “small problem, huge pain.” Labels drift over time, additions get scribbled in, and the panel turns into a ... Read More
MCPs in My Homelab: Turning Codex Into a Real Ops + Dev Copilot
I spent a couple sessions wiring up MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers in my homelab so Codex can stop guessing and start verifying: live Home ... Read More
Using Home Assistant Time Machine to Back Up and Restore Dashboards
If you’ve ever broken a Lovelace view and wished for a quick “undo,” Home Assistant Time Machine is the safety net. It’s a lightweight web ... Read More