Homelab

I wanted Obsidian web on Proxmox, but I did not want to go through the entire dancing with the wolves around it. I already use Obsidian for everything. Notes, knowledge base, Quartz, Rabin.blog, random bits of brain dump. So when I started looking at Ignis, the goal was not some grand replacement story. It was something simpler: can I use Obsidian from the browser and phone? will it support the plugins can I keep it private? can I avoid certificate warnings bothering me? can I keep this low-effort enough that I will actually use it? Honestly, that is the real test in homelab land. ...

The UPS looked ordinary right up until NUT refused to see it the way I expected. These Prolink 650VA and 850VA units do not behave like the USB HID UPS gear many people assume they are. Both units showed up as 0665:5161 USB-to-serial devices, and the shortest working path was to use nutdrv_qx, not usbhid-ups. This post is the cleaned-up version of the setup I ended up with across two Linux hosts: ...

I have been eying implementing OIDC in the homelab for a while now. After a lot of research, while I found out Authentik is much more diverse and detailed, I went with the simpler solution. I will explain below how to connect Pocket ID to a standalone Proxmox VE installation using OpenID Connect, or OIDC. The result is a Proxmox login flow where users authenticate through Pocket ID using a passkey. Proxmox users and groups are created automatically, while administrator permissions are assigned through a Pocket ID group instead of directly to individual users. ...

If a Dell OptiPlex Micro running Proxmox stays around 70+ °C at low load, check whether Linux is using the performance CPU governor with intel_pstate active; switching to powersave and persisting it with a small systemd oneshot service can drop temperatures kind of, magically. Problem: Proxmox Host Stayed Hot Even After Hardware Maintenance This incident happened on a Dell OptiPlex 7070 Micro running Proxmox VE as an always-on homelab control-plane node. To avoid exposing private infrastructure details, I will call the machine Proxmox node-02 for the readers. ...

This incident happened on a Dell OptiPlex Micro running Proxmox VE. The machine is my always-on Node02 host and carries critical home infrastructure: Home Assistant AdGuard Home Unbound DNS MQTT Zigbee2MQTT Other LAN support services At first, this looked like a disaster spread across half the house. That host is the backbone for the living room stack. It runs Home Assistant and several supporting services, so when its network dies, the failure can look like everything is broken at once. That is what makes these incidents so sneaky - the real problem is hidden behind a long chain of symptoms. ...