Cruise Tracker Price Checks + Home Assistant Alerts (Issue #1555)

Cruise Tracker Price Checks + Home Assistant Alerts (Issue #1555)

I finally wired my Cruise Tracker to automatically check Royal Caribbean pricing every 6 hours, record price changes, and push a phone + HA notification ... Read More

Gear List: Text-First Catalog for Home Assistant

Gear List: Text-First Catalog for Home Assistant

I get asked two questions all the time: “What gear are you using?” and “What do you actually recommend for Home Assistant?” This is my ... Read More

Making Pi-hole Highly Available (and Fixing a Hidden Frigate Disk Trap)

Making Pi-hole Highly Available (and Fixing a Hidden Frigate Disk Trap)

A single Pi-hole reboot used to take my whole network’s DNS/DHCP offline. Here’s how I added a secondary DNS Pi-hole on a separate host, kept ... Read More

Scan the Panel: QR-Powered Breaker Notes

Scan the Panel: QR-Powered Breaker Notes

Breaker panels are the perfect example of “small problem, huge pain.” Labels drift over time, additions get scribbled in, and the panel turns into a ... Read More

MCPs in My Homelab: Turning Codex Into a Real Ops + Dev Copilot

MCPs in My Homelab: Turning Codex Into a Real Ops + Dev Copilot

I spent a couple sessions wiring up MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers in my homelab so Codex can stop guessing and start verifying: live Home ... Read More