As an IT/Linux enthusiast I've watched plenty of videos about homelabs. I’ve seen what people do at home and have always been trying to find a good excuse to dive into it.
My current homelab (if you can call it that) is made up of a Raspberry Pi 4 (RPi) running PiHole and a Synology NAS running some applications (file syncing, photo management, jellyfin). Clearly nothing spectacular.
The Seed
I don’t really know why, but since recently I’ve been reading and watching videos about Home Assistant (HA), and it has always sounded very appealing but I’m a bit change averse and don’t want to commit to something if I’m not sure that I’ll make good use of it. So, when I recently started seriously considering purchasing a Home Assistant Green (which is a preconfigured system running HA), my inner self pushed me into the hole:
Why don’t you build it yourself and try it out before commiting? Shouldn’t be difficult, should it?
