I found a website hosted by Robert Pooley with a lot of technical posts, many of which relate to homelabs. in 2024, Robert decided to move away from Austin. He has lived in several international cities since. He built a fit-in-your-suitcase homelab for the road that I really liked. He setup started with a GMKtec G3 and 7x4TB used SSD rives in an ICY DOCK enclosure running TrueNAS. More recently he was using a Beelink ME Mini that has room for six M.2 slots.

I stumbled on Robert’s website looking for a way to use a Blink camera to monitor my RV with a Franklin T9 hotspot running on house batteries. The T9 is notorious for shutting down for inactivity, requiring the press of a button to restart it. Robert has a fantastic post on hacking the T9. I’m hoping to last a month with this setup.