An ESPHome LED Matrix Display: From Wiring Plan to PCB
Designing a Home Assistant connected LED matrix display using a LilyGo T7-S3, a P5 64×32 HUB75 panel and ESPHome, and the lessons from planning its wiring, power and eventual PCB.
Homelab
Self-Hosted Email: Running My Own Mail Server Again
How I moved my domain’s email from a hosted provider to a self-hosted Postfix and Dovecot server in my home lab, the design choices behind it, and what I learned along the way.
Self-Hosted Matomo Behind a Reverse Proxy
How I self-host Matomo analytics for a static Hugo site. Matomo stays on an internal server, and a DMZ reverse proxy carries the tracking traffic, with the real visitor IP and GeoLite2 geolocation preserved.
Live TV in Jellyfin with NextPVR
How I run NextPVR alongside Jellyfin in a single LXC container to provide live TV, and how a one-line config setting broke every channel behind a generic transcoder error.
MagicMirror² Wall Dashboard: From Pi Zero to Odroid to Brix
A MagicMirror² dashboard with weather, Home Assistant sensors, Spotify, news, stock prices and live Queenstown webcams, now on a Gigabyte Brix in Firefox kiosk mode after earlier Pi Zero W and Odroid-N2 builds.