self-hosting

In my apartment I control my lights using Zigbee2MQTT, Mosquitto (MQTT), and openHAB all running on Kubernetes. Here’s the how and why for this over-engineered nonsense. But why? You could probably get similar features with various smart home hubs. Philosophically, I am opposed to my lights relying on services outside of my control. My goals are: Everything can run locally and if the internet is down. No hard dependencies on third party services....

I don’t have a password on my WiFi. The internet is the 21st century library. Everyone should have access to a public library. Similarly, everyone should have access to public internet. I have more bandwidth available than I need, so sharing my extra bandwidth is the neighborly thing to do. For more details, openwireless.org aligns with my views. Isn’t that dangerous? There are some risks but we can manage them:...