Easy Management Tools for Home Servers

Easy Management Tools for Home Servers

Tool Name: Runtipi Tool Type: Computer Software Function Overview: Runtipi is a home server software designed for everyone; it sets up with a single command and allows one-click installation of self-hosted applications; based on Docker, it comes with a simple web interface for easy management of various services. Is it Paid: Free Specific Functions: 1. … Read more

Complete Guide to the Shiguang Dock N3: A Versatile NAS for Downloading, Home Server, and Cloud Integration

Complete Guide to the Shiguang Dock N3: A Versatile NAS for Downloading, Home Server, and Cloud Integration

Hi everyone, I am Xiao Shi Jun When it comes to NAS, the first reaction for many is that it’s expensive and hard to use, but the Shiguang Dock N3 is designed to address these pain points. It is user-friendly and cost-effective, a lightweight NAS under 500 yuan that can back up photos and files … Read more

How to Build Your Personal Home Server

How to Build Your Personal Home Server

Previously, I shared a lot of content about “home servers,” but some friends feedback that the information was too scattered, leading to many questions after reading. Therefore, I organized the entire process of building a home server and shared my experiences with everyone: Step 1: Choose Hardware The threshold for a personal server is lower … Read more

The Ultimate Home Server Operating System: Unraid from Scratch

The Ultimate Home Server Operating System: Unraid from Scratch

When building a home server, choosing the right operating system can be overwhelming. Many options are either too complex to set up and manage, or too limited to tweak according to your needs. After years of experimentation—from setting up a basic, headless Ubuntu server from scratch, to trying user-friendly options like CasaOS, and even dabbling … Read more

Mastering Your Raspberry Pi: A Deep Dive into Raspberry Pi Server

Mastering Your Raspberry Pi: A Deep Dive into Raspberry Pi Server

Raspberry Pi is a popular single-board computer widely used for education, development, and prototyping. However, when using Raspberry Pi for GPIO control, many developers often face a challenge: writing, maintaining, and scheduling custom scripts. This not only increases development difficulty but can also lead to unnecessary errors. To address this issue, raspberry-pi-server was born. It … Read more

Installing Home Assistant OS Smart Home System on HomeLab Development Board (ARM64) [PVE]

Installing Home Assistant OS Smart Home System on HomeLab Development Board (ARM64) [PVE]

NO.1 HA Smart Home Successfully imported PVE Home Assistant Attempted to use TF card to flash the entire Home Assistant system (with the most complete functionality) However, there are the following issues The HA system needs to be re-flashed when issues occur TF card damage MQTT and database need to be deployed on separate servers, … Read more

Installing HACS in Home Assistant on OpenWrt Soft Router (NanoPi For NAS All In One R4S)

Installing HACS in Home Assistant on OpenWrt Soft Router (NanoPi For NAS All In One R4S)

NO.1 Introduction to HACS What is HACS? HACS stands for Home Assistant Community Store, which can be understood as an application store. It can enhance plugin functionality and supplement features that are not implemented by the official version. NO.2 Installing HACS First, you need to enter the Docker container (in terminal form). Click on the … Read more

Building a Home Server: Upgrading Hardware, Port Mapping, Wake-on-LAN, Auto Startup, Bastion Host, Personal Homepage, and More

Building a Home Server: Upgrading Hardware, Port Mapping, Wake-on-LAN, Auto Startup, Bastion Host, Personal Homepage, and More

1. Upgrading Hardware Added memory and hard drive to my home server. The current configuration is: Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q commercial mini PC I3-6100T 32G + 4G 240G SATA MLC SSD 512G NVMe PCIe 4.0 TLC SSD. ESXi base system installed ALMA 9 + 1 Panel running Docker containers Win10 LTSC 2021. 2. Port Mapping I … Read more

Using code-server in Browser on OpenWrt (NanoPi For NAS All In One R4S)

Using code-server in Browser on OpenWrt (NanoPi For NAS All In One R4S)

NO.1 Introduction to code-server GitHub address https://github.com/coder/code-server Documentation address https://coder.com/docs/code-server/latest VS Code in Browser Run VS Code anywhere on any machine and access it through the browser NO.2 Usage Scenarios Not very accustomed to the visual panel operation of Docker on OpenWrt Although all necessary variables are present and translated into Chinese, simple images can … Read more

Beginner’s Guide to Raspberry Pi: Setting Up Your Own NAS Server

Beginner's Guide to Raspberry Pi: Setting Up Your Own NAS Server

Beginner’s Guide to Raspberry Pi (Part 1) Smart Embedded Apprentice, WeChat Official Account: Smart Embedded Apprentice Beginner’s Guide to Raspberry Pi (Part 1) After the previous article, our Raspberry Pi microcomputer can be used as needed, and based on my actual situation (I have a WD-SSD-1T-2024: ÂĄ500) and needs, I plan to set up a … Read more