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Barnes Home Lab / Proxmox edge testbed

One small chassis.
One full-size home lab.

This in-home lab turns a compact KAMRUI HYPER H2 into a private, modular platform for home automation, local AI, voice services, networking, and resilient storage.

ComputeIntel Core i7-13620H
Memory32 GB RAM
VirtualizationProxmox VE 9.2.3
KAMRUI HYPER H2 mini PC chassis
KAMRUI HYPER H2 mini PC used as the Barnes Home Lab host.
01 / System blueprint

One host, purposeful workloads.

Virtual machines and containers keep the services isolated, reproducible, and easy to test as the lab evolves.

Proxmox VM 101

Home Assistant OS

The primary automation environment for integrations, dashboards, devices, and local voice orchestration.

2 vCPU4 GB RAM192.168.86.251
Proxmox LXC 100

Pi-hole / DNS

Network-wide DNS filtering and local name resolution for the private home infrastructure.

1 vCPU512 MB RAM192.168.86.254
Proxmox LXC 102

Nginx Proxy Manager

Reverse proxy and secure service routing, with external storage available for media workloads.

2 vCPU1 GB RAM192.168.86.252
Proxmox LXC 103

Ollama LLM Engine

Local AI for voice, vision, coding, automation, and document context without sending household data to a cloud service.

6 vCPU16 GB RAM192.168.86.25310.0.10.3 backend
Proxmox LXC 104

Wyoming Voice Services

Private voice pipeline support for satellite audio, Piper speech, and Home Assistant communication.

2 vCPU2 GB RAMPort 10200
Proxmox LXC 105

Twingate Connector

Secure remote access to the home network through a dedicated connector with a small resource footprint.

1 vCPU512 MB RAM192.168.86.247
02 / Build documentation

Build it. Test it. Share it.

Installation procedures, configuration notes, and reference material turn the working lab into a repeatable blueprint.

Home Lab Guides

Home Lab Reference

Tools & Services