During my project of rationalizing and isolating my home network infrastructure from my lab (a project that should never have been needed… don’t put your lab in prod :D), i wanted to upgrade my router from Pfsense to Opnsense. This forced me to drop Pfsense very flexible pfblockerNG and i migrated to a small Pi Hole instance on my lab K8s . This only moved the issue, because i still need my lab to be up and running if i want DNS filtering to work… And i wanted to avoid running another computer with K8s on prod.

I went for AdGuard home, running directly on Opnsense, but after the first-time setup. i realize that the blacklist and whitelist will be a real pain to move… So i decided to make a tool for myself :D

For those of us who rely on Logitech Media Server (LMS), now known as the Lyrion Music Server, to stream music and radio throughout our homes, a recent change threw a wrench into our routines (if you are french). In April 2024, the partnership between Radio France and TuneIn came to an end, leaving many users without access to their favorite French radio stations.

Let’s fix that !

If you ever tried to setup ZFS replication between 2 TrueNAS instance, you might have been very surprised by how easy it is. But what if you don’t want or don’t need a dedicated TrueNAS instance for your backup ? Maybe you want it to replicate to a Linux machine that does other type of backup for example ? In this post, I’ll show you how I’ve done it in a secure and reliable way, and hopefully make it way easier for you to do the same.

A couple of years ago, I made this DIY add-on to my gate controller to manage it through Home Assistant. It’s Wi-Fi enabled, can warn me if it’s stuck, allows me to check its state, and control it reliably through Home Assistant, and didn’t cost much more than 15€.

Because the gate controller was provided with the house, I didn’t want to replace or damage it in any way, so I needed to make something that works in harmony with what I had.