vibescoder
all tags

// Posts tagged: proxmox

Smart Home, Dumb Luck, Episode 4: The Backup Plan That Would Have Silently Failed

·8 min read

Episode 4 gives an agent real write access to Uptime Kuma, retires the last manually-copied secret files, test-builds Proxmox Backup Server in Docker (catching a build that silently deleted the very package it installed), and catches a Wake-on-LAN plan that was about to fail for a reason nobody had checked yet.

Smart Home, Dumb Luck, Episode 3: Hacking HACS and Tuning Kuma for Home Assistant Monitoring

·9 min read

Episode 3 installs HACS and an MCP server entirely over SSH, chases a phantom outage down to a single stuck config value, and wires nine Uptime Kuma checks with Discord alerts, then fixes a cron bug and a false-alarm habit before publishing.

Smart Home, Dumb Luck, Episode 2: Giving My AI Agent the Keys, Then Watching AdGuard Judge Tom’s Hardware

·8 min read

Episode 2 of the SmartThings-to-Proxmox series: hardening the ThinkCentre, wiring up Tailscale so a Coder Agent can SSH in and administer it directly, standing up the Home Assistant OS VM, Uptime Kuma, and AdGuard Home, and ending on a single page load that quietly fired 53 blocked ad-tech requests.

Smart Home, Dumb Luck, Episode 1: Firing SmartThings and Booting Proxmox With No USB Drive in the House

·10 min read

Kicking off a series on replacing a Samsung SmartThings hub with a self-hosted Home Assistant box. Episode 1: picking the hardware, fighting a Lenovo BIOS setting hidden behind a decoy, and the increasingly absurd path to actually getting an OS onto the machine when there wasn’t a single working USB drive anywhere in reach.