MidgardNet Blog (EN) https://midgardnet.org/en/blog/ Practical notes from a real homelab — Linux, Docker, self-hosted systems, and real deployments. en Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:57:19 GMT Local AI Camera System on the Orange Pi 5: Frigate Without the Cloud, Without Monthly Fees https://midgardnet.org/en/blog/orange-pi-5-frigate-lokalny-ai-kamerovy-system/ https://midgardnet.org/en/blog/orange-pi-5-frigate-lokalny-ai-kamerovy-system/ Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT A practical guide to a stable local AI camera system with Frigate and the Orange Pi 5 (RK3588 NPU) — built on real, long-running production use, not a weekend experiment. homelabself-hosted Why I Built My Own 'Second Brain' Instead of a Notebook (and What It Taught Me About Data) https://midgardnet.org/en/blog/mimir-vlastny-druhy-mozog/ https://midgardnet.org/en/blog/mimir-vlastny-druhy-mozog/ Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT How Mímir came to be — a personal chronicle of a daily log, build notes, and a checklist over an API — and why the rule "also write it down in a .md file" kept reliably failing, until it became mechanically enforced. self-hostedhomelab Why I'm Building My Own Homelab Operations Center (and What It's Taught Me About Testing So Far) https://midgardnet.org/en/blog/midgardops-operacne-centrum/ https://midgardnet.org/en/blog/midgardops-operacne-centrum/ Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT MidgardOps — in development, internally under the working codename Heimdall — is an operations center for the whole homelab, built on one rule: 'verify it for real, not just in theory.' The story of a project in progress, not a finished product. self-hostedhomelab Rebuilding a Work Laptop on LUKS+Btrfs: Everything That Can Go Wrong During an 'Ordinary' Fresh Install https://midgardnet.org/en/blog/victus-luks-btrfs-migracia/ https://midgardnet.org/en/blog/victus-luks-btrfs-migracia/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT A real diary of a multi-day migration to Pop!_OS 24.04 with full disk encryption — from BusyBox on the third reboot, through subvolume hell in Timeshift, to a hibernation bug that only one specific command could fix, not the obvious one. linuxtroubleshooting When Your Home Server Runs Dozens of Containers: Why Power and I/O Aren't a Detail https://midgardnet.org/en/blog/napajanie-a-io-na-preplnenom-sbc/ https://midgardnet.org/en/blog/napajanie-a-io-na-preplnenom-sbc/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT A real story from an Orange Pi 5 — dirty boots and a kernel panic looked like a software bug, but it turned out to be two independent hardware problems at once. homelabtroubleshooting Why I Finally Swapped dd for restic After Years — and What It Saved Me (419 GB, If You're Asking) https://midgardnet.org/en/blog/dd-na-restic-zalohovanie/ https://midgardnet.org/en/blog/dd-na-restic-zalohovanie/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT A weekly full-disk backup via dd worked for years. It kept working even after it became ten times bigger than it needed to be. What moving to a deduplicated, verified backup looks like — plus an off-site copy on top. homelabbackups Getting a Paid TV Package Somewhere the Vendor Never Intended: Magio GO in Jellyfin https://midgardnet.org/en/blog/magio-jellyfin-most/ https://midgardnet.org/en/blog/magio-jellyfin-most/ Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT The Slovak IPTV service Magio GO has no official bridge to Jellyfin. What the road from finding an existing open-source solution to months of chasing down details, until it actually played reliably, looks like. self-hostedhomelab A Security Key Instead of a Password at Boot: the Road to FIDO2 LUKS Unlock (and Eight Attempts Before It Actually Worked) https://midgardnet.org/en/blog/fido2-luks-boot-unlock/ https://midgardnet.org/en/blog/fido2-luks-boot-unlock/ Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Why enrolling a FIDO2 key into LUKS isn't enough, and what the real path to unlocking a disk with a touch of a hardware key looks like — through the Plymouth splash screen, dracut vs. initramfs-tools, and the systemd ask-password agent. linuxsecurity How Do You Debug a Bug You Can't Trigger on Demand: a Tool for Waiting on Evidence https://midgardnet.org/en/blog/dock-watch-intermitentny-bug/ https://midgardnet.org/en/blog/dock-watch-intermitentny-bug/ Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT A dock sometimes fails to bring up all monitors, a laptop sometimes won't power off. Both are random and can't be reproduced on demand — instead of debugging by hand after the fact, a tool was built to wait and collect evidence ahead of time. linuxtroubleshooting From Scattered Scripts to a Sandboxed Catalog: How Sindri Came to Be https://midgardnet.org/en/blog/sindri-katalog-skriptov/ https://midgardnet.org/en/blog/sindri-katalog-skriptov/ Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT A homelab app that started as a side effect of routine maintenance — and within a few days grew into a sandboxed, tested, security-reviewed tool ready to go public on GitHub. self-hostedsecurity A Custom App for Archiving Invoices and Documents — and the Moment Right Before Launch When Real Data Almost Leaked https://midgardnet.org/en/blog/muninn-ai-archivacia/ https://midgardnet.org/en/blog/muninn-ai-archivacia/ Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT A self-hosted document archive with AI extraction instead of plain OCR — from a silent bug that was losing mail, to a final pre-launch screenshot that nearly revealed more than it should have. self-hostedsecurity