1053: 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. 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 Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads