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Stop using Alexa. Start building a private, intelligent smart home that runs entirely on your local network. Guides for Home Assistant, Zigbee, and local AI.

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Automating OPNsense Backups: Encrypted Off-Site SFTP and Git to OpenMediaVault 8 — Architecture diagram: Encrypted OPNsense XML config backups streaming across automated SFTP and Git pipelines to OpenMediaVault ZFS storage.

Automating OPNsense Backups: Hardened SFTP to NAS, Git Audits & REST API

How I automated my OPNsense firewall backups using hardened, key-only SFTP to OpenMediaVault, Git version control, and zero-dependency API scripts with full payload encryption.

Picture of a laptop showing coding tools and Jarvis, and the background has a very large monitor or tv displaying the code being worked on. — Photo by Safar Safarov / Unsplash

Proxmox Helper Scripts: Spin Up Game Servers and Homelab Services in Minutes

Use Proxmox community helper scripts to spin up game servers, Plex, and homelab services in minutes instead of hours. What the scripts do, how to use them safely, and when to skip them.

Core Lab Website HA Dashboard, instant status view of many useful metrics!

How to Integrate Ghost CMS with Home Assistant Natively (2026 Guide)

Stop wasting time checking dashboards. Learn how to natively connect Ghost CMS to Home Assistant to monitor MRR, subscribers, and trigger custom automation.

A high-tech digital interface performs a surgical, laser-guided scan on a grid of server data blocks, illustrating the cleanup of orphaned images in Ghost CMS.

How to Safely Delete Unused Images in Ghost CMS: The Surgical Guide

🖖These instructions & information are provided without warranty, guarantee of any kind, or support, and used completely at your own risk. Please use due diligence backing up your site before utilizing these steps‼️ I am not a developer, my python script was partially written with AI/LLM. Ghost CMS is famous for being fast, but if you’ve been self-hosting for a while, you’ve likely noticed a "shadow bloat" creeping into your backups. You delete a post, but the images stay. You upload a 5MB her

Diagram of an automated Sonarr and Radarr hunting stack using Prowlarr, Profilarr, and Decluttarr on a Docker network. — Digitized view of an automated Sonarr and Radarr hunting stack using Prowlarr, Profilarr, and Decluttarr on a Docker network.

Advanced Sonarr & Radarr Guide: Implementing the "Native Hunting" Protocol

Stop settling for "good enough" media quality. Learn how to use Profilarr and Decluttarr to build a secure, self-healing, "Always Hunting" Sonarr and Radarr stack without third-party scripts.

Screenshot of the Seerr dashboard after a successful migration from Overseerr or Jellyseerr, showing the 'Discover' page with movies and TV shows. — It’s alive! Here is the new, unified Seerr interface after a successful migration. Your media, requests, and users are all still here.

Hello Seerr: A Guide to Migrating from Overseerr & Jellyseerr

Switching from Overseerr or Jellyseerr to Seerr? Here is a step-by-step guide to migrating your Docker container, fixing UID 1000 permissions, and keeping your data intact.

AI-generated digital art of two sleek robots managing a futuristic server room with glowing blue data displays and media icons for Plex and Sonarr. — The Digital Dragon Duo: Maintainerr (The Curator) and Declutarr (The Foreman) working in tandem to automate your media stack.

The Media Server Janitors: Deploying Maintainerr & Declutarr

Stop manual library cleanup. Learn how to use Maintainerr for Plex pruning and Declutarr for stalled queue management in this comprehensive 2026 guide.

Split image comparison: Left shows a sleek, glowing "Home Assistant OS" appliance tower. Right shows a user's hand on a high-end custom PC with a "Docker Stack: Full Control" screen. — The fork in the road: A simple, locked-down Home Assistant OS appliance versus a powerful, fully unlocked Docker stack.

Home Assistant Container (Docker) vs. OS: Why I Ditched the VM

Debating Home Assistant OS vs. Docker? Discover why the "limitations" of Docker are actually superpowers. Learn how to build a faster, flexible smart home.

Cloudflare Advanced - The Layered Cache Strategy (2026)

Learn how to utilize Cloudflare's FREE tier to perform advanced & powerful layered caching to give your services sub second load times!

Profilarr app as a digitized cowboy, lassoing sonarr (horse, foreground) and radarr (bull, background) and 'reigning them in'. — Profilarr 'lassoing and reigning' sonarr & radarr in!Profilarr 'lassoing and reigning' sonarr & radarr in!

How to Install Profilarr: Docker Compose & Setup Guide (2026)

Tired of Sonarr grabbing low-quality 720p files? Use Profilarr to automate "TRaSH guides" quality rules with a beautiful GUI. Complete setup guide inside.

A digitized wolf biting & attacking digital cube representations of containers, labelled Jellyfin, Radarr and Plex/Jellyfin. — Be the Digital Wolf, feeding off and wrangling your containers!

The Definitive Arr Stack Docker Compose Guide (2026) + Generator

Master the Arr Stack with this 2026 Docker Compose guide. Get a complete config for Sonarr, Radarr & Plex, plus a free interactive Generator tool.

Beyond the Fluff: Real-World CI/CD Automation for Your Homelab — Photo by Florian Olivo / Unsplash

Beyond the Fluff: Real-World CI/CD Automation for Your Homelab

Beyond the fluff: real-world CI/CD automation for your homelab. What CI/CD actually does, the core pipeline components, and why it matters even at small scale.