How I Put IPTV Inside Plex and Rebuilt the Guide Data That Came With It
How I used Threadfin and zap2xml to put IPTV inside Plex, isolate the media stack on its own VLAN, and replace bad provider guide data with accurate local listings.
How I Spent $149 on a Data Pack My Network Devoured in One Night (And Built an Automated Fix)
Last Friday, Comcast went down. I don’t know why. Comcast doesn’t really explain itself. One moment there was internet; the next moment there wasn’t, in the proud tradition of cable ISPs everywhere. The UniFi Dream Machine Pro Max did exactly…
Seeing Everything: Building a Full Observability Stack Across Two Locations
How I built a full Prometheus, Loki, and Grafana observability stack covering a home Unraid setup and a remote four-node Proxmox cluster on enterprise Dell hardware, and what it took to get logs and metrics flowing from every host across both sites.
Queue4Download (Q4D): The Complete Setup Guide
If you’ve read my post about fixing my media pipeline, you know Q4D is the glue that holds the whole thing together. It’s the piece that gets completed downloads from a remote seedbox back to your home NAS automatically, so…
How I Fixed My Broken Media Pipeline and Built a Monitoring Stack in One Day
My media setup was a mess. Not “a few things could be better” kind of mess. More like “nothing has imported successfully in months and I had no idea because I wasn’t watching logs” kind of mess. Here’s how I…
HomeLAB 2021 | Part 2
Update: As I’ve been jumping back into my homelab adventures, I realized I had this post in my drafts folder partially finished. While I’ve moved on from this configuration, it’s worth at least posting it in case someone else wants…
Upgrading your GKN Twinster RDU (Focus RS, MKZ, Continential)
Thanks to the great work by Daft Racing, the Ford family of products that use a GKN Twinster RDU with Torque Vectoring can take advance of reverse-engineered firmware to enhance their driving experiences! This tutorial is going to outline using…
HomeLAB 2020 | The Plan – Part 1
What is a Home Lab you might ask? A lab is a place to experiment and learn, safely. For those working in IT, it allows us the ability to learn and experiment with hardware/software that would normally be used in…
VMware – Auto Deploy & Host Profiles | Making large deployments, easy! – Part 1
When I started my currently role at the Institute for Cyber Science I was handed a fairly large VMware environment, at least in my career, and tasked with making it better. We started with 16, 2-socket, 512GB Dell M630 blades…
3-in-1 Virtualized Gaming/Streaming rig | Update 1
Hey everyone! I haven’t forgotten about this project! I haven’t updated in awhile but I ran into an issue I couldn’t work around and ended up backing away from the project for the time being. The major issue was getting…