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I wanted a web-based, self-hosted way to organize a pile of game backups with real metadata. RomM was the only option that fit. Here is the Docker-in-LXC deployment, the two gotchas that cost me time, and the NAS mount mistake that bit me later.
Seven Apple TVs and four HomePods on a separate VLAN from Home Assistant. The integration refused to find them until I forwarded mDNS between segments. Here is the fix, the re-pairing, and the one thing Apple will not let you have.
Three RTSP cameras registered fine in Home Assistant but showed nothing. The cameras were healthy. The fix came down to making the FFmpeg and Stream components explicit in configuration.yaml.
What I changed in UniFi to cut WiFi bufferbloat, why it helps, and how to test it safely at home.
VLAN 30 blocks all IoT traffic from the internet by default. This is how I punch selective holes for specific devices without rewriting the firewall per device.
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