Scott and CJ tour their homelabs, from a fully 3D printed server rack to a custom OPNsense firewall load balancing two ISPs. They dig into Proxmox, Tailscale, Caddy, Synology vs. DIY ZFS storage, Home Assistant, Jellyfin, Immich, Kiwix, and coding over the network with T3 Code and OpenCode 🔥 Be the ~19,500th person to join our super tasty newsletter https://bit.ly/syntax_snackpack
Show Notes
00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
00:56 What’s in Our Homelabs? Servers, Pis and Workhorse Machines
03:54 Proxmox Explained: A Hypervisor OS for Your Home Lab
05:49 Scott’s Fully 3D Printed Server Rack and Mac Studio
11:19 Keeping It Quiet: Server Fans and Noisy NAS Drives
12:58 Networking: Building a Custom OPNsense Firewall
15:08 Load Balancing Two ISPs With SFP+ Fiber
20:07 Wi-Fi Access Points and VLAN Network Segmentation
21:40 Scott’s Switch and Eero Wi-Fi 7 Mesh Setup
25:55 Ditching the ISP Router: PPPoE and Bridge Mode
27:51 Accessing Your Services Remotely With Tailscale
31:08 Local Domains and TLS Certificates With Caddy and Cloudflare
34:37 NAS and Storage: Synology vs. a DIY Setup
38:59 Hot and Cold Storage: Hardware RAID, ZFS and Cockpit
45:20 Container Management With OrbStack, Proxmox and Portainer
47:52 Termix: SSH Into Your Servers From the Browser
48:50 Home Automation With Home Assistant and Apollo Automation
51:02 Flashing Wyze Cams With Thingino for Frigate
52:30 Cloud-Free Smart Devices: ESPHome, Tasmota and Bluetooth Proxies
57:07 Self-Hosted Media: Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf and Immich
01:02:37 RSS, Read Later and YouTube Archiving With Tube Archivist
01:04:01 Offline Internet: Wikipedia and Stack Overflow With Kiwix
01:05:46 Paperless-ngx for Device Manuals and Documents
01:07:44 AI Coding Agents: Scott’s Pi Durable Personal Agent
01:09:46 Coding Over the Network With T3 Code and Zed Remote
01:15:39 CJ’s OpenCode, Open WebUI and code-server Setup
01:20:02 What’s in Your Homelab? Roast Our Setups
Proxmox | https://www.proxmox.com/en/products/proxmox-virtual-environment/overview
Synology DS918+ | https://link.amazon/B04rI0Qzm
oaknode Firewall Appliance | https://amzn.to/3VOFubp
AUMOX 10 Port 2.5G Switch | https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJWXPJ4N?tag=codinggardenw-20
TEROW 4 Port 2.5G PoE Switch | https://link.amazon/B05MlDhM8
Omada AX5400 WiFi Access Point | https://amzn.to/4dSK928
UGREEN USB to 2.5G Ethernet Adapter | https://link.amazon/B05teZfnU
Eero Max 7 | https://link.amazon/B0hTWxoEV
Synology DiskStation DS918+ NAS Server | https://link.amazon/B04rI0Qzm
Mediasonic PRORAID 4 | https://link.amazon/B05lF59vX
Beelink ME Mini N95 NAS Mini PC | https://link.amazon/B0eqWV68n
Cockpit | https://cockpit-project.org/
OrbStack | https://orbstack.dev/
Portainer | https://github.com/portainer/portainer
Termix | https://termix.site/
Home Assistant |
Apollo Automation | https://apolloautomation.com/
Apollo AIR-1 | https://apolloautomation.com/products/air-1
Thingino | https://thingino.com/
ESPHome | https://esphome.io/
Tasmota | https://tasmota.github.io/docs/
Matter Smart Switch | https://link.amazon/B0hzYbuHl
Kauf Smart Bulbs | https://link.amazon/B0exFwVRr
Govee Temperature Sensors | https://link.amazon/B08rEPXW0
ESPHome Bluetooth Proxy | https://esphome.io/components/bluetooth_proxy/
ZWave Long Range USB | https://link.amazon/B0bd89pgW
SONOFF Zigbee USB | https://link.amazon/B00LfYSGe
Jellyfin | https://jellyfin.org/
Audiobookshelf | https://audiobookshelf.org/
Finamp | https://github.com/finamp-app/finamp
Seerr | https://seerr.dev/
Miniflux | https://miniflux.app/
RSS Is Not Dead | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSgpW0j2eOk
Wallabag | https://wallabag.org/
Tube Archivist | https://www.tubearchivist.com/
Kiwix | https://get.kiwix.org/en/
Kiwix Library | https://browse.library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng
Zim Library Manager | https://github.com/w3cj/zim-library-manager
Paperless NGX | https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx
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