Best PoE Cameras for a Self-Hosted NVR
The best PoE camera for a self-hosted NVR is whichever one speaks standard RTSP and ONVIF, supports H.265, and doesn’t…
Category: Self-Hosting & Services
Self-hosting guides: Docker, Proxmox, reverse proxies, Home Assistant, media servers, and the apps that run on a homelab.
Beating CGNAT Without a Public IP: WireGuard, Tunnels, and Reverse Proxies
Reach home services behind CGNAT with no public IP and no port forwarding. Compare Cloudflare Tunnel, WireGuard to a VPS,…
IP Cameras on Their Own VLAN, No Internet Egress
Putting IP cameras on their own VLAN with no internet egress means the cameras live on an isolated subnet where…
Frigate NVR on a Homelab: Local AI Detection
Frigate is an open-source NVR that runs real-time AI object detection entirely on your own hardware — it tells a…
Bridge Mode vs Passthrough: Putting Your ISP Box Into the Right Mode
True bridge mode, IP passthrough, or DMZ: which one collapses double NAT, how to enable it on your ISP gateway,…
RTSP, ONVIF & the Protocols Behind IP Cameras
RTSP is the protocol that carries the actual video from an IP camera to your NVR, and ONVIF is the…
Home Camera Network & NVR: The Self-Hosted Guide
A self-hosted home camera network keeps every frame on hardware you own: PoE cameras feed an on-site NVR, the cameras…
Double NAT: What It Breaks, What It Doesn’t, and When to Care
Double NAT leaves browsing and streaming untouched but breaks inbound port forwarding, UPnP, and game NAT type. Here is what…
How to Tell If You’re Behind CGNAT (and Why Port Forwards Fail)
Confirm whether you are behind CGNAT with one WAN-IP test, understand the 100.64 range, and learn why CGNAT makes port…
Site-to-Site VPN for a Home Lab
A site-to-site VPN permanently stitches two networks together so machines at each location reach each other as if they shared…