Local LLM and Voice Assistant with Home Assistant

My most recent project is an attempt to remove the Google Nest Mini device I use and substitute it with a local solution. This way I can fine-tune what I would like, giving me granular control over what my assistant can do and customize the voice to one of my...

OPNsense/Pfsense Router

Router

I decided to make my own router and firewall after seeing the possibilities there were out there to tinker with your home network, and the restrictions that normal consumer hardware imposes in their all-in-one router-switch-APs. The first thing I did was create 4 different networks to separate my own devices,...

Home Assistant

Local IoT control

I configured Home Assistant in my home network to control my IoT devices, and in some cases, remove the cloud element from them to run them locally, saving both bandwidth and increasing the overall security of the network. Once I got started, I linked my Plex Media Server to it...

Tailscale

Mesh VPN

Using a secure, peer‑to‑peer mesh VPN by using WireGuard to exchange keys via a central coordination server and configure lightweight, encrypted tunnels that work seamlessly through NATs and firewalls. I decided to implement this so that our Home Assistant could be accessed from outside of our home network and still...

Windows Server VM

Virtualization

I wanted to make an environment that I could practice using Active Directory, group policy, windows server and user management.