Home lab, automation and self-hosting

Hi there 👋 I’m Roland, a self-taught tinkerer focused on building gadgets, automation systems, and process control solutions. I brew beer, but the real interest is in measurement, repeatability, and continuously improving consistency from batch to batch.

That focus led me deeper into electronics, including heating and cooling systems, temperature control, and embedded hardware. I also run a home lab where I experiment with infrastructure, networking, and self-hosted services.

New here? Start with the guided tour of my home lab, which links every project write-up.

Diagram of the home lab suite: public site, LAN-only console, private Git server, knowledge base and the hypervisor cluster underneath

My Home Lab Suite: A Guided Tour

A start-here tour of my home lab as one connected suite, from the Proxmox cluster and mail server to publishing, media, electronics and brewing, with a link to every project write-up.

The Home Assistant integrations page showing a grid of configured integrations

Home Assistant OS in My Home Lab: Add-ons and Integrations

What my Home Assistant OS setup runs: add-ons, integrations, dashboards, and how it connects to the Proxmox cluster and certificate automation.

Rolling Hills Brewery: Home Brewing with Home Assistant

My home brewing setup: a stainless fermenter, Cornelius kegs, a DIY kegerator, and fermentation temperature control with Home Assistant and ESPHome.

The wall dashboard showing the home lab status page: host tiles, cluster quorum, guests running and an empty alert list

MagicMirror² Wall Dashboard, Now With Home Lab Pages

A MagicMirror² dashboard with weather, Home Assistant, Spotify, news, stocks and webcams, now rotating through two read-only Grafana pages for the home lab. Covers the hardware history, the kiosk setup and how Grafana is embedded safely.

The Homelab Console dashboard in dark mode, showing Publish and Certificates actions and a recent jobs table

A LAN-Only Web Console for My Home Lab

The scripts I used to run by hand from my desktop now live behind a small LAN-only web console. It uses passkey sign-in and a fixed list of audited actions. Claude drafts pages, and a security gate checks them before I approve anything.