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This latest gadget has got me interested in voice control and skills programming and prompted me to set up secured external access to my Node-Red docker via Apache reverse proxy and SSL.Not sure if many people use SageTV here. Scattered around the house are some other components such as z-wave devices, WeMo sockets, PCs and TVs, receivers, projectors and the latest acquisition, an Amazon Echo Dot.

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That requirement drove the decision to set this up as Windows rather than Linux and I've since added in additional functionality including a custom driver to interface MQTT with Comfort, a modem to capture callerID on incoming calls, an openHAB install for automation control, a Z-Stick z-wave controller and a few other bits and pieces which I expect to grow over time.

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The legacy comfort alarm system I'm integrating is configured through a serial connection by proprietary Comfigurator software which runs only on windows.

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The HA Utility VM is a Windows 8 instance that's a core part of the home automation project.This is my main working system and is powerful enough to be used for light gaming as well.

This has an R9 270X GPU passed through with cables running to a pair of displays.

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The Workstation VM is a windows 10 instance with 12GB RAM and 4x CPUs assigned.

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This allows the TV access to all locally stored video and audio files via Emby integration as well as live TV and recordings through TVHeadEnd. HDMI and USB cables run from the physical server to our family room TV.

The vHTPC VM is a windows 8 machine running Kodi with an AMD 5450 GPU passed through.

In addition to the various Dockers, there are also a few Virtual Machines (For more details, see posts labelled SqueezeServer or Spotify) Still going strong after many years of service and managed via the LMS docker. Supports both local files and network services such as Spotify. A central mediaserver powers a range of hardware devices and a few virtual players to provide a network of zoned audio playback.

One of the longest serving technologies I have in use is the now sadly defunct Squeezebox ecosystem.

(For more details, see posts labelled Emby or Kodi). Now, all my Kodi clients remain in sync and I can mange media in one place only thanks to the Emby Server docker. Step in Emby which is an excellent media server that integrates really well with Kodi. I moved to Kodi for the client side but found replicating the central server features of Plex cumbersome.

I used to run Plex for media serving and playback and loved it's client/server architecture but was frustrated by it's lack of support for Live TV.

It's maintained by the team at LinuxServer.io. This is a special build of the unRAID OS that integrates tuner card drivers. Special mention here to unRAID DVB edition. I'm currently running the TvHeadEnd plug-in put plan to migrate to the docker shortly. This serves TV and recordings to a range of clients, mostly running Kodi. There's a Digital Devices Octopus PCIe card with 3x DuoFlex tuners (2x DVB-T and 4x DVB-S2) in the server and plenty of storage on the unRAID array.

TVHeadEnd provides Live TV and PVR services through the house.

(For more details, see posts labelled MQTT).

The MQTT docker facilitates communications between various apps via a lightweight machine-to-machine (M2M) 'Internet of Things' connectivity protocol.

The mySQL docker provides database services for various applications including openHAB persistence, Node-RED permanent storage and other elements requiring record keeping.

(For more details, see posts labelled Node-RED).

Node-RED is ' is a tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways.' The Node-RED docker runs it on unRAID and it's rapidly becoming the glue that holds together all the disparate elements of my ever-evolving HA setup.

(For more details, see posts labelled Apache). Specifically, this docker implements SSL, reverse proxies and user authentication and as a bonus, provides a web server where in future I plan to host a dashboard where we can review home status.

An Apache Docker to act as a gateway to other services exposed to the interweb.

This allows me urls to my home server for external services that I use.

A DuckDNS docker syncs my dynamic IP address with the free DuckDNS service.

Secure and fast, this just makes life easier.

An openVPN docker allows me access the system remotely as if I'm sitting at a system at home.

Currently host all our movies, music, PVR recordings as well as a bunch of other files and OSX TimeMachine backup.

Storage Array - the primary function of unRAID, it provides parity protected storage with drives of different sizes.

The unRAID server hosts the following services