Projects

I like computers and electronics — here is what I have going on at the moment, and some links to my electronics, homelab, and computer projects.

Featured

Ongoing

• Upgrade my file server; Zeta 🐘
  • With only an Intel Pentium G4560 CPU, my file server is a bit weak. It needs an upgrade!
• Redundant core switches, with MLAG 🐘
  • I now have two MikroTik CRS317-1G-16S+, the plan is to connect distribution switches and servers to both and use MLAG.
• Rearrange homelab rack 🐘
  • Move servers around in my homelab rack, better utilizing the space.
• Replace motion sensors on RPi security system 🐘
  • I will be replacing all Aqara motion sensors with Hue — they seem more reliable, have better battery life, short cool-down and I like the mounting options better.
• Whole house alarm system buzzers/sounders 🐘
  • Having sounder that are audible throughout the house is nice. Getting attention without using the 90 dB indoor siren.
• External voltage ref on RPi security system 🐘
  • Using an external voltage reference to get more accurate voltage measurements on my RPi security system.
• Wine cabinet in home office 🐘
  • Finding room for a wine cabinet in my home office.
• Garage door control 🐘
  • Control the garage door from Home Assistant — using a Shelly PRO relay
• DIY fire alarm 🐘
  • I'm looking into implementing professional smoke detectors into my RPi security system.
• Test Netdata for homelab monitoring 🐘
  • I've been without a monitoring solution for a while now — didn't want to spend time setting one up. With Netdata I might not have to.
• 5V power rail improvements on the RPI DIY security system 🐘
  • My 5V rail was a bit weak, giving under-voltage errors on the Raspberry Pi. It needs improving.
• Expand and improve the water alarm on my RPi DIY security system 🐘
  • Add custom actions to the water alarm; like turning off the dish washer and main water valve.
• Power and battery setup for the RPi DIY security system 🐘
  • I still have some work to do on the power and battery setup on my home made security system.
• Build a module to show electricity price and consumption
  • I'm making a simple module, using WeMos D1 mini, to show the current electricity price and consumption — using LEDs.
• Running MikroTik CHR as my border router
  • Setting up a virtual instance of MikroTik's CHR router, and replace my EdgeRouter.

Last completed

• Zeta is back!
  • In the fall of 2022 I turned off Zeta, my file server, due to the extreme price of electricity. I migrated all the data to a 3x18 TB raidz1 pool on Alpha instead. But last year I brought it back — and …
• Moving videos to Bunny Stream
  • I’ve looked into different video solution for this blog before — and, at the time, settled on using Coconut.co for encoding, AWS S3 for hosting, and Video.js for playing. Bunny Stream was on the table …
• Finally getting fiber between the house and garage
  • Getting network to the garage is a story with many chapters. I started out with Wi-Fi mesh, then CAT6 — and now, finally, fiber!
• Making a pub table — with an old oak tabletop
  • Sometimes, when I’m not too busy with my homelab or some other electronics project — I pretend to be a woodworker or carpenter. This time I made a pub table, using an old kitchen tabletop of oak. I …
• Underground conduits to garage and shed
  • Two years ago we dug and laid three conduits from the house to the garage, and from the garage to the shed. Primarily to get more power to the garage — and any power to the shed. I used the …

Electronics

Tags

• electronics 68
• electronics-lab 6

Controllers

• Arduino Uno 2
• AVR AT90S2313 3
• AVR AT90S8515 1
• AVR ATmega8 12
• AVR ATtiny2313 17
• Raspberry Pi 5
• Raspberry Pi Zero W 2
• WeMos D1 mini 3

Computing

Tags

• home-assistant 18
• homelab 43
• linux 15
• networking 37
• website 25