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Step-by-step, how-to instructions for the things we run and maintain in the home lab. Each guide is its own page — or its own chapter when it grows long enough to need one. Pick a guide from the sidebar to get started.

Write-ups of things we've built and set up here — what was done, how, and why. These are the "how we solved it" stories: handy to look back on, and hopefully useful to anyone tackling something similar. Browse the reports from the sidebar.

Reference documentation for the home lab — the network, the virtual machines, the services, and how they all fit together. Use the sidebar to explore.

This guide covers how to update the services running in the arr-stack: Prowlarr, Radarr, Sonarr (TV), Sonarr (Anime), qBittorrent, and Seerr. All services run as Docker containers via Docker Compose on the arr-server VM. The same pattern applies to every conta...

A guide for moving a large set of seeding torrents from a qBittorrent client on Windows to qBittorrent in Docker on Linux — without breaking the seeding (which matters for private trackers like TorrentLeech and their Hit-and-Run rules). Done 2026-06-29: 193 to...

This is the story of how we got our robot lawn mower — a Husqvarna Automower 310 that goes by the name Skalman — to show up in Home Assistant, complete with battery status, what it's doing right now, and buttons to start, pause and send it home. It sounded sim...