homelab

A Pi 5 and a Synology NAS — Home Assistant, DNS, backups, the works.

A Raspberry Pi 5 and a Synology NAS running production-shaped infrastructure for an audience of one. Home Assistant on the Pi with custom Lovelace cards and two Python daemons replacing broken upstream behavior. Pi-hole, Tailscale, and cloudflared on the network layer. Forgejo, Paperless, and Uptime Kuma on the NAS, backed by a two-layer backup scheme and ntfy-monitored watchdogs.

pi5.tail — zsh — 80×24

$ docker ps —format '{{.Names}}\t{{.Status}}'
NAMES           STATUS
homeassistant   Up 18 days (healthy)
pihole          Up 47 days
cloudflared     Up 32 days
go2rtc          Up 5 days
$ systemctl is-active ‘tapo-*’ vault-inbox-fetch.timer
active
active
active
$ sudo ufw status numbered | head
Status: active
To                Action       From
[ 1] 22/tcp           LIMIT IN     Anywhere
[ 2] 443/tcp          ALLOW IN     Anywhere
[ 3] 80/tcp           DENY IN      Anywhere

specifications

HOSTS: pi5 + nas
STACK: home assistant
NET: tailscale + cf