What’s in Our Home Lab

Scott and CJ tour their homelabs, from a fully 3D printed server rack to a custom OPNsense firewall load balancing two ISPs. They dig into Proxmox, Tailscale, Caddy, Synology vs. DIY ZFS storage, Home Assistant, Jellyfin, Immich, Kiwix, and coding over the network with T3 Code and OpenCode 🔥 Be the ~19,500th person to join our super tasty newsletter https://bit.ly/syntax_snackpack Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 00:56 What’s in Our Homelabs? Servers, Pis and Workhorse Machines 03:54 Proxmox Explained: A Hypervisor OS for Your Home Lab 05:49 Scott’s Fully 3D Printed Server Rack and Mac Studio 11:19 Keeping It Quiet: Server Fans and Noisy NAS Drives 12:58 Networking: Building a Custom OPNsense Firewall 15:08 Load Balancing Two ISPs With SFP+ Fiber 20:07 Wi-Fi Access Points and VLAN Network Segmentation 21:40 Scott’s Switch and Eero Wi-Fi 7 Mesh Setup 25:55 Ditching the ISP Router: PPPoE and Bridge Mode 27:51 Accessing Your Services Remotely With Tailscale 31:08 Local Domains and TLS Certificates With Caddy and Cloudflare 34:37 NAS and Storage: Synology vs. a DIY Setup 38:59 Hot and Cold Storage: Hardware RAID, ZFS and Cockpit 45:20 Container Management With OrbStack, Proxmox and Portainer 47:52 Termix: SSH Into Your Servers From the Browser 48:50 Home Automation With Home Assistant and Apollo Automation 51:02 Flashing Wyze Cams With Thingino for Frigate 52:30 Cloud-Free Smart Devices: ESPHome, Tasmota and Bluetooth Proxies 57:07 Self-Hosted Media: Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf and Immich 01:02:37 RSS, Read Later and YouTube Archiving With Tube Archivist 01:04:01 Offline Internet: Wikipedia and Stack Overflow With Kiwix 01:05:46 Paperless-ngx for Device Manuals and Documents 01:07:44 AI Coding Agents: Scott’s Pi Durable Personal Agent 01:09:46 Coding Over the Network With T3 Code and Zed Remote 01:15:39 CJ’s OpenCode, Open WebUI and code-server Setup 01:20:02 What’s in Your Homelab? Roast Our Setups Proxmox | https://www.proxmox.com/en/products/proxmox-virtual-environment/overview Synology DS918+ | https://link.amazon/B04rI0Qzm oaknode Firewall Appliance | https://amzn.to/3VOFubp AUMOX 10 Port 2.5G Switch | https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJWXPJ4N?tag=codinggardenw-20 TEROW 4 Port 2.5G PoE Switch | https://link.amazon/B05MlDhM8 Omada AX5400 WiFi Access Point | https://amzn.to/4dSK928 UGREEN USB to 2.5G Ethernet Adapter | https://link.amazon/B05teZfnU Eero Max 7 | https://link.amazon/B0hTWxoEV Synology DiskStation DS918+ NAS Server | https://link.amazon/B04rI0Q