Aazim Haque.
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Home lab

Home Assistant · Self-hosting

A NUC that runs the home automation and a NAS that hosts the things I don't want to pay subscription fees for.

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The home lab rack - mesh WiFi, a network drive, a Home Assistant Yellow and the NUC server
The rack: mesh WiFi, a network drive, a Home Assistant Yellow and the NUC that does most of the always-on work.
The desktop, lit up, that trains models and runs local LLMs
The desktop. When it's idle it trains the trading experiments and runs language models locally. The cables and the dust are a work in progress.

What it does

A NUC server and a desktop run Home Assistant, Plex and a handful of services. The automations handle the small stuff so I don't have to: lights warming down to a red hue through the evening, the projector waking five minutes before kickoff, everything switching off when no one's home.

How it works

Home Assistant ties the sensors, lights and devices together with rules; the NUC serves media through Plex, with Radarr and Sonarr keeping the library fed alongside a few other self-hosted bits; and the desktop doubles as the trainer for the trading experiments and the machine I run language models on locally when it's otherwise idle.

It's not the flashiest project but runs a huge part of my life.

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