About the station

Laconian Engineering is a field log from a working homelab. It's written by one operator running real hardware in a real house — not a content farm, not an SEO shell.

The focus: homelab infrastructure, smart home wiring, and the kind of systems work that only makes sense after you've debugged it at 2am. Posts are build logs, gear reviews, and post-mortems. Every recommendation here is something running in the rack right now.

What you'll find

• Homelab build logs — racks, networking, storage, virtualization
• Home Assistant deep dives — automations, integrations, theatre control
• Gear reviews, honest — what's worth it, what's not
• Post-mortems from things that broke

Affiliate disclosure

Some links on this site are affiliate links. If you buy through them, I earn a small commission at no cost to you. I only link gear I actually run, or gear I'd run if I were starting over.