Home Lab Tour 2024

Logical Network Diagram

Having a diagram of the local network helps visualize what is where and everything is connected.

HomeCloud Server

• ASUS Prime B560M-A LGA
• MSI Geforce RTX-2060
• Intel i5-11600K: The 11th gen K was important for the onboard igpu to use for Plex transcoding or other light graphics work. The K was important for virtualization.
• 2X Corsair Vengence 16GB DDR4 Memory: Will update soon.
• Rosewill 4U Server Chassis 9 Bay Server

  Storage

• SEAGATE Skyhawk 4TB Surveillance Drive
• 3X Western Digital 10T Red: 2 shucked from WD Elements enclosures
• Intel 660p Series 1TB
• Intel SSD DC P4610 Series Commercial 3.2TB

  Power and Cooling

• Super Flower Leadex III Gold 550W
• Noctua NF-R8 80mm case exhaust fans
• Noctua NF-P12 120mm case intake fan
• Noctua NH-U125 CPU Cooler

  Rack Parts and Power

• CyberPower CP1500UPS Rackmount
• StarTech 8 Outlet 1U PDU
• Raising Electronics 22U 19” Server Rack 24” deep

  Networking Gear

• Ubiquiti Dream Machine Pro (UDM)
• Ubiquiti Unify 24 Port Switch 250w: Upgraded fans to Noctua NF-A4x20 for quieter performance. Direct Attach Copper (DAC) directly to UDM
• Ubiquiti Switch Lite 8 PoE
• 2x UAP AC LR Access Points
• U6 Lite Access Point
• and about a 1000’ of ethernet cable

  Services Used

  Dashboards

• *Grafana great visualization tool for network activity and server stats including power consumption. unPoller is used to retrieve information about the Ubiquity devices including client insights, AP insights, network insights, and USG insight. unRaid server stats are also displayed providing insight into VMs usage, memory allocation, CPU usage, disk space, docker containers, etc.
• *HomePage provides a great default window for all new browser windows. Quick glance at relatives stats for each service running, server statistics, and bookmarks to common websites internal and external.

Home Security

Cameras:

• Reolink Duo 2
• Reolink RLC-810A
• Reolink RLC-820A NVR and Detection:
• Frigate
• Deepstack AI
• Doubletake Hardware:
• SEAGATE Skyhawk 4TB Surveillance Drive
• Google Coral TPU

Network Management & Access

• Traefik
• Authelia: Need to set up two factor
• L2TP VPN: hosted on UPD, but needs to upgraded to Teleport or Wireguard due to depreciation. Also consider unifi-ddnsfor Cloudflare DDNS support
• Wireguard: unRaid hosted
• Cloudflare DDNS Tunnel: Temp disabled since I don’t want to rely on cloud based services

Monitoring

• Uptime Kuma
• unRaid-API
• Glances
• Telegraf
• Portainer
• unPoller
• Dozzle
• iPerf

DBs

• InfluxDB & InfluxDB2: unPoller requires legacy InfluxDB 1.x. HassIO and NutServer both use InfluxDB2
• MariaDB:
• Redis: Used for for Authelia session data.

WebDev

• GitTea
• Bookstack: random documentation for cars, home items, thoughts, etc
• WordPress: A couple projects for clients
• Obsidian: MD file based note taking. Where I wrote this post!
• Jekyll: static website generator. How I built this site!

DNS

• PiHole
• Cloudflare
• Unbound

Media Processing

• Plex
• Ombi
• Tautulli
• Radarr: Two instances; one for SD/HD/UHD and another for remux
• Sonarr
• TDARR: distributed transcoding system
• Wizarr: user onboarding UI
• YoutubeDL
• Notifiarr

Tools

• Binhex
• Adminer
• Whoami: used as simple heart beat for remote UptimeKuma on Digital Ocean
• iCloudSync: used primarily for icloud backup as well as Obsidian Note to Jekyll pipeline

  VMs

• Windows 11: primarily used as gaming machine, which is rarely used, but fun to have. Paired with the RTX-2060, I am able to stream all games to both NVIDIA Shield Pros in the house using Moonlight
• HASSIO: Home Assistant OS Amazing open source home automation platform that enables all connected devices to be monitored or controlled through user built dashboards and automations.
• Ubuntu Desktop: Main OS for desktop directly wired from HomeCloud through the walls and crawlspace to my office desk. Great for distraction free development.
• Ubuntu Servers: Used primarily as test environments for CI/CD deployments or emulating production environments.

Whats Next?