Before I move forward with discussing events on my network and any cool new items I discover that I may want to post on this blog, I figure I would give you an idea of what I have setup as of today as a frame of reference. One thing that I have discovered over the years, though, is that my home lab is very dynamic. The visual diagram below depicts a very basic setup of my LAN. A few things it does not display is the separate (segmented) VLAN I have setup for all my IoT devices, a number of wireless devices that I have on my default VLAN (Roku, smartphones, tablets, printers, etc.) and the Tailscale network running on some of my nodes. In regards to the Tailscale network, just know that a few of the devices displayed below have services running that are only available on my Tailscale network (e.g. Nextcloud, Rustdesk). I am sure there is room for improvement and there are probably a few things I am doing wrong. But I am learning something new almost every day and that is why I find my LAN can be so dynamic.

A while back I had purchased an Eyoyo 7 inch mini HDMI monitor to use on my physical servers on my home network. I usually setup headless configuration on my servers but I still need to be able to see what I am doing when I install the operating system (I haven’t had the time yet to configure automated install) or troubleshoot an issue. Well the monitor has been sitting on my home office desk, most of the time, doing nothing. I also had a Raspberry Pi 3 sitting around doing nothing so I decided it was time to setup a makeshift photo frame for my desk. I ended up following the usual guides found everywhere for configuring Raspberry Pi OS in kiosk mode and partially how to setup the feh utility for the image viewer in this guide. In the article I followed the steps to disable screen blanking. I figured out, though, that I needed to add the following:

If you’re here and haven’t read my About page yet, you should expect post on this site will mostly be focused on technology, most of it probably Linux related, my passion. I can’t guarantee that there will be frequent post, but I will try to fit one in every now and then outside of school (currently working on my B.S. in I.T.) and family time.