This document is a work-in-progress; it will never be complete nor 100% accurate.

My homelab journey started back in 2009 with a ReadyNAS and my home automation journey started in 2013 with Arduino Nanos.

I have lots of experience, but will never consider myself an expert; there is always something to learn about!

Hardware

3D Printers

• Prusa MK4
• Prusa Mini+
• Prusa MK2S (Shared)

CNC Machines

• YoraHome Mandril

Networking

• R86S - Opnsense router w/10G SFP+ and three 2.5Gbe
• QNAP QSW-M2116P-2T2S - Multi-gig switch with two 10G SFP+/10Gbe, and the remainder are 2.5Gbe
• GWB7664 - Wifi 6 Access Point

Server(s)

Primary/General Hypervisor

Runs the clusters, NAS, and virtual workstation.

• Intel Core i7-13700 - Built-in iGPU
• AsrockRack W680D4U-2•2T - Built-in 10Gbe
• 64GB DDR5 ECC
• ESXI Hypervisor

Stratum 1 PTP/NTP Server

• Raspberry Pi CM4
• Waveshare PoE Carrier board
• UBlox LEA-M8T concurrent GNSS receiver

Cameras

• (2) Reolink Trackmix
• (3) Reolink RLC-833A
• Reolink E1 Outdoor
• Reolink Doorbell

Misc

• Zooz 700 Z-Wave Stick - My dwindling ZWave network
• ZZH Zig-a-zig-ah Zigbee Stick - Zigbee!
• (7) SmartThings Water Leak Sensors (Zigbee)
• (3) GE Switches & Dimmer Switches (ZWave)
• (5) Ikea TRÅDFRI Bulbs (Zigbee)
• (4) Ikea TRÅDFRI Smart Buttons (Zigbee)

Software

• K3S - Kubernetes is so hot right now.
• Traefik - a http load balancer, obtains certificates (both external and internal) from Let’s Encrypt, managed via labels within the stack definition.
• MetalLB - load balancer for bare-metal kubernetes
• Wireguard - a secure connection into my home network.
• ArgoCD - continuous deployment of my homelab
• Longhorn - distributed block storage
• Mosquitto - a publish-subscribe-based messaging protocol
• Home Assistant - a home automation software hub
• Grafana - a data-visualization tool; draws pretty charts and graphs from the data within Influx
• ESPHome - a sensor framework for ESP8266 and ESP32 micro-controllers; I use it for most of my other custom IoT devices like my thermostat actuator, garage door actuator, fireplace actuator, etc.
• InfluxDB - a time-series datastore; Home Assistant publishes sensor changes into Influx
• PostgreSQL - a relational database that houses data for Miniflux and Home Assistant.
• Actual - budgeting software; once Actual has a mobile interface I’m bailing on YNAB.
• Terraform - Automated K3S cluster creation on ESXI
• Kopia - automated backups
• Miniflux - an opinionated RSS feed reader; replaced Feedly and Google Reader before that.
• Plex - media streaming with hardware transcoding