Tomasz is an electrician by trade and a home-lab builder by habit. Raspberry Pis, mini PCs, VLANs, UPS units and tidy cabling are his beat, always on a budget.
Network UPS Tools from the USB cable to a tested shutdown: drivers, upsd, upsmon, what upsc tells you, and which box should go down last.
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A five-VLAN plan for a house: what goes where, which switch ports carry tags, the firewall rules between networks and how to keep casting working.
Continue reading VLANs at home: separating IoT, guests and servers ›
A Raspberry Pi, a USB SSD and two days: the home-lab monitoring box I would build again, from SNMP on the router to power and cooling.
Continue reading Monitoring a home lab from a Raspberry Pi: a weekend build ›
