# My Home Lab, V2

DevFeed: [My Home Lab, V2](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/my-home-lab-v2-10752.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://eduuh.com/blog/my-home-lab-v2>)

Author: EduuhMuraya

Published: 2026-08-17T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [EduuhMuraya](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/eduuhmuraya.md>)

Topics: [Homelab](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/homelab.md>), [Home Assistant](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/home-assistant.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>), [Firewall](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/firewall.md>), [Internet of things](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/iot.md>), [MQTT](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mqtt.md>), [Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/server.md>), [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>)

Tags: [firewall](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/firewall.md>), [home-lab](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/home-lab.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [networks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/networks.md>), [proxmox](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/proxmox.md>), [smart-home](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/smart-home.md>), [usb](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/usb.md>)

## AI overview

An updated home lab replaces a multi-node Kubernetes setup with one mini PC running Proxmox. The article covers segmented networks enforced by OPNsense, firewall testing from within each segment, and a solar-power system integrated with Home Assistant through USB and MQTT. It also describes load-shedding and shutdown safeguards during battery depletion.

## Source excerpt

The Kubernetes cluster is gone. One mini PC runs the whole house now: four network segments, a solar inverter Home Assistant can act on, and a guard that shuts the servers down before the battery does.