HomeLab Guides

HomeLab Guides is a personal documentation site built around a self-hosted home. Rather than covering broad theory, it collects project write-ups from actual deployments: hardware additions, home automation tweaks, and Linux configuration. The framing is deliberately practical, treating each post as a record of something that was built and then kept running.

The guides span a range of hands-on topics, including ESPHome builds for M5Stack devices, remote access to Home Assistant, Vaultwarden and Gitea via client certificates, using a game controller as a Linux gamepad, and monitoring a Solplanet battery locally. There is also meta content describing how the blog itself is published, from Markdown files through an Astro build to Cloudflare’s cache.

Readers who benefit most are homelab hobbyists and self-hosters comfortable with command-line work, YAML configuration, and Raspberry Pi hardware. Beginners may find individual posts useful but should expect prerequisites to be assumed rather than taught from scratch.

A sensible approach is to browse by the device or service you already own, then read the change log at the bottom of a guide before starting, since later revisions may alter steps or note deprecations. Cross-referencing related posts helps when a project touches several systems at once.

Overall, it functions as a working notebook shared in public: specific, honest about revisions, and most valuable when you are mid-project and need a proven path.