Monitoring Realm Labs didn’t start as one big project. Like most things in the home lab, it grew. Initially, I just wanted to know whether a Raspberry Pi was getting hot. Then I wanted to know what Proxmox was doing.…
Raspberry Pi MQTT monitoring is a simple way to bring useful system health data into Home Assistant without installing a full monitoring platform on every device. In Realm Labs, Raspberry Pi systems often sit in the background running automation, scripts,…
Publishing Home Assistant through Cloudflare Tunnel looked like it should be straightforward. I already had Cloudflare Tunnel working for other Realm Labs services, so the basic path was familiar: The tunnel connected. The hostname resolved. Cloudflare could reach the server.…
