Monitoring Home Battery SOC with Grafana: OPNsense, Telegraf, and MQTT Bridge
Grafana connected to an OPNsense Telegraf plugin and an MQTT broker receiving data from a JBD or JK BMS gives…
Category: Hardware
DIY router hardware reviews and guides
Farm IoT Network Setup: Outdoor PoE VLAN and Cabling for Coop Sensors and Cameras
One outdoor PoE access point, one buried Cat6 run, one VLAN — about $120 covers a 150-foot radius of 2.4…
Networking a Greenhouse: Wi-Fi, Cameras, Sensors in a Wet Environment
A greenhouse is one of the worst environments for consumer Wi-Fi gear: high humidity, condensation, sub-freezing winters in cold climates,…
Low-Latency Networking for Online Sim Racing: QoS, Wi-Fi 6, Wired
Online sim racing punishes network latency in a way most home networks were never designed for. iRacing's netcode tolerates about…
Networked Audio: Streaming Roon and Tidal Across Your Home Reliably
Roon and Tidal both stream lossless 24-bit audio at 192 kHz, which works out to about 9.2 Mbps per stream…
Wi-Fi 6 for Smart Homes: Why Mesh Networks Beat Boosters
Wi-Fi 6 mesh networks beat range extenders for smart homes because they deliver consistent throughput across all rooms, handle the…
Sizing a UPS for Your Home Network: Router to Full Rack
UPS sizing math for home networks. Watts vs VA, runtime calculation, SLA vs LiFePO4 chemistry, and tiered shutdown strategy for…
10 GbE Router DIY: Hardware, Setup, and Cost Analysis
10 Gigabit Ethernet DIY routers target the small percentage of users with 2.5 Gbps+ fiber connections or homelabs running 10…
Raspberry Pi Router Speed Test: Real Performance Limits
Raspberry Pi as a pfSense or OPNsense router works for low-bandwidth connections (under 300 Mbps) and learning environments — but…
Old PC as Router: Build Guide and Cost Analysis
Repurposing an old PC as a pfSense or OPNsense router is the cheapest entry point to DIY networking — total…