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1053: What’s in Our Home Lab
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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.
Show Notes
00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
00:56 What’s in Our Homelabs? Servers, Pis and Workhorse Machines
TEROW 4 Port 2.5G PoE Switch
Proxmox
03:54 Proxmox Explained: A Hypervisor OS for Your Home Lab
05:49 Scott’s Fully 3D Printed Server Rack and Mac Studio
Synology DS918+
11:19 Keeping It Quiet: Server Fans and Noisy NAS Drives
12:58 Networking: Building a Custom OPNsense Firewall
oaknode Firewall Appliance
15:08 Load Balancing Two ISPs With SFP+ Fiber
AUMOX 10 Port 2.5G Switch
20:07 Wi-Fi Access Points and VLAN Network Segmentation
Omada AX5400 WiFi Access Point
21:40 Scott’s Switch and Eero Wi-Fi 7 Mesh Setup
UGREEN USB to 2.5G Ethernet Adapter
Eero Max 7
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
Cockpit
45:20 Container Management With OrbStack, Proxmox and Portainer
Portainer
47:52 Termix: SSH Into Your Servers From the Browser
48:50 Home Automation With Home Assistant and Apollo Automation
Apollo AIR-1
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
Seerr
01:02:37 RSS, Read Later and YouTube Archiving With Tube Archivist
Miniflux
Wallabag
01:04:01 Offline Internet: Wikipedia and Stack Overflow With Kiwix
Zim Library Manager
01:05:46 Paperless-ngx for Device Manuals and Documents
Paperless NGX
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
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