Home Server

I love smart devices. But I don’t like external commercial cloud services.

I decided quite early to build my smart home in such a way that the control takes place locally in the own network. A Raspberry Pi 4 with 4 GB and an external 500 GB SSD is easily sufficient for this.

The Raspberry runs the current Raspberry Pi OS . All services are provided via Docker containers. In my case this includes:

• Portainer (Web GUI for Docker)
• Home Asstistant (smart home control system).
• AdGuard Home (blocking ads & tracking)
• Mosquitto (MQTT broker)
• Deconz (control software for my ZigBee stick)
• Jellyfin (media streaming)
• MariaDB (SQL server for NextCloud)
• Grafana (analytics and interactive visualization)
• InfluxDB (time series database for Grafana)
• node-red (flow-based development tool for visual programming)
• Watchtower (auto updating Docker images)

The server is connected to my router via ethernet cable and runs 24 hours a day.