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