Homelab Infrastructure
A small lab. A lot to learn.
A case study of the personal lab used for networking practice, smart home automation, backups, media, private remote access, and AI experiments.
Open projectNetwork engineer. Curious builder.
Hi, I’m Trevor.
Always making
things work.
I build useful systems and tools,
and document what I learn along the way.
Infrastructure / Automation / AI / MakingMade of small, connected things.
On the workbench
Good systems.
Built in layers.
From the infrastructure underneath to the small tools I use every day. These are a few things I’m building and maintaining.
All projectsPull a thread. See what connects.
Home Assistant Automations
Little routines that make home work.
Smart-home automations for lights, fans, climate, media, object detection, and daily convenience, documented with privacy-safe examples.
Open projectAI Agent Workflows
Useful tools, thoughtful boundaries.
Local and hybrid AI-agent workflows for documentation, project work, homelab research, and controlled automation.
Open projectWhere it all connects
The homelab is
my learning ground.
Networking, backups, home automation, and the lessons that come from keeping things running.
Step inside the laba simple view of the moving parts
Networkthe connections
Servicesthe useful pieces
Everyday toolswhere it comes together
From the field notebook
Things I’ve learned
along the way.
Debugging a connected vehicle integration in Home Assistant
A field note on separating authentication, reads, entity setup, and unresolved commands in a connected-vehicle integration.
A small object-detection automation that made the lab feel real
A story about using camera object detection and smart home automation for a funny household problem.
What my homelab taught me about reliability
A short note on DNS, backups, snapshots, sync, updates, and knowing which services actually matter.