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Matt Deiter
Homelab engineer. I write about self-hosting, Linux internals, hardware hacking, and the kind of problems you only find at 2am when a container won't start.
recent posts
all posts →- Building a Local-First Smart Home with Home AssistantFrom 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.
- Reverse Engineering the 2GIG EDGE Security PanelA never-cloud-activated alarm panel, a UART header, and a goal: local Home Assistant integration without Alarm.com. Here's what I found.
- Ditching the USB NIC: Migrating to the Built-in Ethernet on CachyOSThe 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.