I’m excited to share a brand-new community-driven integration that brings real-time visibility and control of your Veeam Backup & Replication environment directly into Home Assistant! As always, a big shoutout to @mkevenaar for encouraging my crazy ideas like this, mainly through rubber duck debugging and alpha testing. 🔗 Project: https://github.com/Cenvora/ha-veeam-br💡 Purpose: Surface…
Native Backups & S3-Compatible Storage After the 2025.1 Overhaul Back in my original article — Safeguarding Home Assistant: 3-2-1 Backups Using rclone, S3, and Veeam 12.1 — I walked through building a fully off-site, fully automated backup pipeline. That method used rclone jobs, encrypted S3 storage, and even Veeam tiering…
Introduction In my last post, I showed how compiling Whisper with TensorRT dramatically boosted transcription speed for Home Assistant’s voice features. Since then, I’ve pushed the project even further—optimizing performance, reducing VRAM usage, and laying the groundwork for a voice assistant whose responsiveness rivals cloud services like Alexa or Google…
As part of my ongoing efforts to evolve my home lab, the early 2025 overhaul brings a mix of exciting upgrades, optimizations, and migrations. From enhancing game server performance to further automating my smart home setup, these updates aim to improve efficiency, reduce noise, and increase the versatility of my…
In this third installment of my lab overhaul series, I’ll cover some of the most significant upgrades and migrations that I’ve implemented to enhance the performance, reliability, and versatility of my home lab environment. From flipping to Proxmox VE and leveraging TrueNAS with ZFS over iSCSI to migrating my smart…