Homelab

lm-sensors’ nct6683 driver silently refused to bind on a Lenovo M900 Tiny running Proxmox — no error, just no fan data. The cause was a vendor/build check in the driver tripping on this box’s EC firmware, and the fix was a one-line force=1 module param made persistent.

A small Proxmox cluster, a managed switch or two, some IP cameras, and Home Assistant eventually stop being a pile of gadgets and start being infrastructure. Here’s how I built observability, a live topology graph, and an AI-assisted ops layer for mine — without letting anything have unsupervised write access to the network.