Welcome to sunnySide ↑ projects.
We are an open-source first, family home lab computing project with specializations in Linux gaming, addressable LED, home automation, single board computing, containers, firewalls, anonymization, BSD & illumOS.
We aim to provide the Internet community with simple, high-quality tutorials on specific hardware, software, operating systems, & virtualization we use at sunnySide ↑.
We hope you enjoy your stay. Thank you for visiting.
- deploy WLED into the outdoor home landscape with ESP32 & addressable LED strips [project details]
- deploy Home Assistant running on a HardKernel ODROID-M1 with ZigBee, Z-Wave & SDR USB radios [project details]
- deploy ESPHome & environmental sensors for Home Assistant automation & Grafana graphing [project details]
- plan, build & configure 'The Rings of Saturn' -- a long-term, large-scale, outdoor addressable LED garden in my backyard [project details]
- plan, build & configure 'Dad's Garden' -- a long-term, large-scale, outdoor addressable LED garden in my sideyard [project details]
- migrating primary firewall & router zeus1 from pfSense to OPNsense [project details]
- install, setup & configure minotaur005 as a Proxmox storage hypervisor [project details]
- learn, setup & configure Lutris for steam, retroarch, windows & DOS gaming [project details]
- create, backup & stage RSA, ECDSA, & ED25519 personal SSH keys [project details]
- learn, setup & configure AdGuard Home in Docker as ath3na001 & ath3na002 for use as primary DNS servers for home with StevenBlack general & Sinfonietta porn block lists applied & automatically updated [project details]
- install & configure SnipeIT using Docker for inventory management [project details]
- install & configure OPNsense for WireGuard anonymization [project details]
- install & configure OPNsense for OpenVPN anonymization [project details]
- Deploy Void Linux virtual machine on OmniOS host minotaur005 using bhyve for use as a Docker engine as v01d002 [project details]
- install & configure Jekyll using Docker [project details]
- setup a Copy to Clipboard button in Jekyll [project details]
- install & configure Ghost using Docker [project details]
- setup a Copy to Clipboard button in Ghost [project details]
- setup & deploy Minecraft Java Edition servers in Docker with fully automated rclone backups [project details]
- learn, setup, deploy & administer Linuxserver.io SWAG Docker, an NGINX reverse proxy with automated Let's Encrypt SSL certificates [project details]
- learn, setup & configure NetBSD 9.3 & Unbound on sn00pyBSD, a Raspberry Pi 4 [project details]
- learn, setup & configure OpenBSD 7.2 & Unbound on k00lPi, a Raspberry Pi 4 [project details]
- learn, setup & configure NetBSD 9.3 & nsd on w00dst0ck, a Raspberry Pi 3 [project details]
- learn, setup & configure Linux Slackware 15.0 on r00k, a Raspberry Pi 4 [project details]
- learn, setup & configure FreeBSD 13.1 on BSDpi, a Raspberry Pi 3 [project details]
- install & configure OpenNTPD & join pool.ntp.org using OpenBSD 7.2 on a Raspberry Pi 4 [project details]
- deploy BIND slave DNS server as galaxy running NetBSD 9.3 [project details]
- re-deploy BIND master DNS server nebula from Debian 11 to NetBSD 9.3 [project details]
- learn, setup & configure Void Linux on v01D001, a 2010 Mac Mini Intel Core 2 Duo & 500GB SSD [project details]
- learn, setup & configure Pop!_OS 22.04 on mnretrogamer001 [project details]
- learn, setup & configure Tiger VNC on a small group of servers for MATE & Window Maker VNC console sessions [project details]
- deploy QEMU/KVM & setup NetPlan with VLANs on endeavor, mnretrogamer003, & thinkpad001 -- all running Kubuntu 22.04 [project details]
- deploy 3x Void Linux virtual machines in QEMU/KVM serving as Docker engines & MATE SPICE workstation consoles - hosted on endeavor, mnretrogamer003, & thinkpad001 [project details]
- install, setup & configure Flatcar Container Linux on FLATship001 & FLATship002 [project details]
- goodbye VMware ESXi; hello Proxmox & OmniOS; the future of the home lab open source hypervisor OS [project details]
- install, setup & configure a SuperTuxKart dedicated server using Docker on endeavor [project details]
- deploy DietPi, Docker, Portainer, SnipeIT & Netdata on a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB (Adam Herrman) [project details]
- install, setup & configure XigmaNAS as a Bhyve zone using OmniOS [project details]
- install, setup & configure XigmaNAS as a virtual machine using Proxmox [project details]
- install & configure OPNsense using OmniOS & Bhyve hypervisor [project details]
- OmniOS beginner administration guide [project details]
- Bhyve beginner administration guide [project details]
- Void Linux beginner administration guide [project details]
- Portainer beginner administration guide [project details]
- manually input all Docker stack & container data into heinzsolar.com snipeIT for inventory management [project details]
- pop.os intel NUC