Ditch the Cloud: Local Control of Your Mitsubishi Heavy Industries AC with ESP32-S3 & ESPHome
🎧 Listen to the 60-Second Audio Recap: This guide covers complete Mitsubishi AC Home Assistant ESPHome local control via ESP32-S3. The official Mitsubishi WF-RAC WiFi dongle works. It pairs quickly, the app is polished, and the integration is seamless. It...
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Stop Sending Your Door & Window Data to Big Tech — The Case for a Local 433MHz Gateway
🎧 Listen to the 60-Second Audio Recap: The Privacy Problem — What Happens Every Time Your Front Door Opens his guide covers the complete RFX-433EMC Home Assistant MQTT setup with Auto Discovery. Every time a door sensor fires a 433MHz...
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Homarr Dashboard: A Front Door for Your Docker Containers
🎧 Listen to the 60-Second Audio Recap: The Problem Every Homelab Owner Recognizes This guide covers the complete Homarr dashboard Docker Portainer setup. It starts innocently enough. You install Home Assistant. Then Jellyfin. Then Nextcloud, Portainer, Paperless-ngx, and a handful...
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Pair Your First Zigbee Sensor with Home Assistant ZHA — Keep Your Bathroom Data Off Foreign Servers
🎧 Listen to the 60-Second Audio Recap: What’s Actually Happening With Your Sensor Data Right Now This guide covers how to pair Zigbee sensor Home Assistant ZHA without a vendor hub. A Zigbee humidity sensor costs about $8. The hub...
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USB Passthrough in Proxmox: Z-Wave & Zigbee Antennes Koppelen aan Home Assistant
This guide covers USB passthrough Proxmox Home Assistant for dual-chip Z-Wave and Zigbee dongles in your HAOS VM, then configuring both ZHA and Z-Wave JS as active, fully local integrations. This guide assumes you already have a running HAOS VM...
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Install Home Assistant OS HAOS Proxmox VM Guide
🎧 Listen to the 60-Second Audio Recap: This guide covers how to install Home Assistant OS HAOS Proxmox VM using the community helper script. Every time you ask Google Home to dim your lights, that command travels to a server...
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Homepage Dashboard Proxmox LXC: API Setup Guide
🎧 Listen to the 60-Second Audio Recap: What Is Homepage Dashboard and Why Does It Belong on Your Homelab? This guide covers the complete Homepage dashboard Proxmox LXC setup. Homepage is a self-hosted, YAML-configured start page that pulls live data...
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18TB Proxmox Backup: ZFS Pool, SMB Share & Rsync LXC
🎧 Listen to the 60-Second Audio Recap: This guide covers building a Proxmox backup ZFS pool with automated rsync and SMB. Google One charges roughly €10 per month for 2TB. Dropbox charges more. Over three years, that is €360 or...
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Network Boot Server — Install Netboot.xyz via Docker (And Ditch Rufus Forever)
🎧 Listen to the 60-Second Audio Recap: What Is Netboot.xyz and Why Should You Care? This guide covers the complete Netboot.xyz Docker on Proxmox setup. Netboot.xyz is a PXE boot server that serves operating system installers over your local network...
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Ditch Amazon Kindle & ComiXology — Self-Host Your Entire Library with Kavita on Proxmox
🎧 Listen to the 60-Second Audio Recap: The Privacy Problem — What Big Tech Tracks When You Read This guide covers a complete Kavita on Proxmox deployment via Docker. Every time you turn a page on a Kindle, Amazon logs...
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Your Own Local Spotify: Install Navidrome via Docker on Proxmox
🎧 Listen to the 60-Second Audio Recap: Why Pay Monthly for Music You Don’t Own? This guide covers a complete Navidrome Docker Proxmox deployment. Every month you pay Spotify or Apple Music, you are renting access to a catalog you...
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Matrix Synapse Part 2: Migrate to PostgreSQL & Enable Element Client Discovery
This is Part 2 of the Matrix Synapse Self-Hosting Series. This guide covers the Matrix Synapse PostgreSQL migration process for a running Synapse instance. In Part 1, we built a working Synapse instance on Docker with SQLite. This Matrix Synapse...
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Host Your Own Matrix Synapse Server with Docker, SQLite & Cloudflare Tunnels
🎧 Listen to the 60-Second Audio Recap: Important Update: If your existing Matrix server is lagging or crashing due to high user load, it is time to ditch SQLite. Read our new guide on Migrating Matrix Synapse to PostgreSQL for...
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Your Own Netflix, Zero Subscriptions: Installing Jellyfin on Proxmox with Intel QuickSync GPU Passthrough
What Is Jellyfin and Why Does It Beat Plex in 2025? 🎧 Listen to the 60-Second Audio Recap: This guide covers a complete Jellyfin on Proxmox Docker deployment. Jellyfin is a fully open-source media server. You install it on your...
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Paperless-ngx on Portainer: Docker Compose Setup Guide (OCR & Split Storage)
This guide covers a complete paperless-ngx Docker Proxmox deployment. Your tax returns, pay stubs, medical invoices, and passport scans are sitting in a Google Drive folder right now. Google’s OCR engine has read every word. Adobe Scan has processed your...
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Self-Hosted Google Drive: Installing Nextcloud in Docker on Proxmox with Split NVMe + HDD Storage
This guide covers a complete Nextcloud Docker Proxmox deployment with split NVMe and HDD storage. Your tax returns, family photos, and personal documents are almost certainly living on servers you do not control, in data centers you will never visit,...
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Build Your Privacy Machine Room: Docker + Portainer on Proxmox LXC
🎧 Listen to the 60-Second Audio Recap: What This Guide Builds (And Why It Matters) Your Proxmox server is the building, and running Docker on Proxmox LXC is the machine room inside it. Every privacy-first application you will ever self-host...
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Ditch Google Photos Forever: Install Immich on Proxmox with ZFS & Docker
The Privacy Problem With Google Photos 🎧 Listen to the 60-Second Audio Recap: This guide covers how to install Immich on Proxmox with Docker and ZFS. Google Photos is not a free storage service. It is a data collection engine...
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Ultra-Efficient DIY NAS on Proxmox: Native ZFS + Ubuntu LXC FileServer (Bind Mounts)
Build a Privacy-First DIY NAS on Proxmox with Native ZFS and a Lightweight LXC FileServer 🎧 Listen to the 60-Second Audio Recap: Your First Step Away from Google Drive and Google Photos This guide covers building a Proxmox ZFS file...
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QNAP TS-669L Running OMV: The Right Way to Resurrect Abandoned Enterprise Hardware
🎧 Listen to the 60-Second Audio Recap: This guide covers QNAP TS-669L running OMV as a backup server on end-of-life hardware. The QNAP TS-669L has been end-of-life for years. QNAP stopped shipping QTS updates for it long ago, and anyone...
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