Smart Home Guides
Best overall bulbs for home assistant 2026
The best Home Assistant-compatible bulbs compared by lumens, wattage & colour temp — Hue, Innr, IKEA, Sengled & Aqara, all local-control, no cloud required.
Equipment Reviews
Picking the best UPS for your homelab
Five real UPS picks for your homelab — covering pure sine wave, NUT & Home Assistant integration, and how to automate a graceful shutdown.
Smart Home Guides
Best Z-Wave Door Sensors (What Reddit Actually Uses)
The best Z-Wave door sensors for Home Assistant: Zooz ZSE41, Aeotec Recessed 7, Ring 2nd Gen, and Sensative Strips — real specs, no cloud lock-in.
Equipment Reviews
ThirdReality Zigbee Plug Gen2 vs Gen3: Which Wins?
Gen3 wins for new buyers: better Zigbee chip, live OTA updates, and a metering-only mode. Gen2 still holds up if the price gap justifies it.
How-To Guides
Accessing a network drive from an LXC (read and write)
Learn how to give a Proxmox LXC container full read and write access to an SMB or NFS network drive using the host bind-mount method.
Equipment Reviews
Best Zigbee Smart Plugs with Energy Monitoring
The best Zigbee smart plugs with energy monitoring for Home Assistant, ranked by accuracy, entity depth, and local-control reliability.
How-To Guides
Creating Your First VM and LXC Container in Proxmox
Step-by-step guide to creating your first VM and LXC container in Proxmox VE, with every setting explained for beginners.
How-To Guides
Setting Up Proxmox: The Next Step After a Raspberry Pi
Outgrown your Raspberry Pi? How to move your homelab to Proxmox: choosing a mini PC, installing Proxmox VE, first setup and finding your way around.
Equipment Reviews
Best Mini PCs for Proxmox Homelabs
Five verified mini PCs for your Proxmox homelab — from budget N150 boxes to 10GbE powerhouses — with real specs, honest trade-offs, and clear buying advice.
Smart Home Guides
Zigbee Hub vs Dongle: Which Should You Buy?
USB dongle or standalone Zigbee hub for Home Assistant? We break down the real differences and pick the best coordinators for local control in 2026.