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3 posts on homelab infrastructure, hardware hacking, Linux internals, and the occasional deep dive into something that probably didn't need this much investigation.
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Building a Local-First Smart Home with Home Assistant
From a bare KVM VM to facial recognition door greetings — how I built a fully self-hosted Home Assistant setup on ELITEBOOK with Frigate, CompreFace, and zero cloud dependency.
- 02
Reverse Engineering the 2GIG EDGE Security Panel
A never-cloud-activated alarm panel, a UART header, and a goal: local Home Assistant integration without Alarm.com. Here's what I found.
- 01
Ditching the USB NIC: Migrating to the Built-in Ethernet on CachyOS
The r8152 driver had been causing random drops for weeks. Here's how I migrated the entire stack from a USB NIC to the built-in interface without losing the home lab.