Self-hosted in Gloucestershire, powered by coffee and questionable impulse purchases

RizoHomeLab

Infrastructure. Energy. AI.

A personal infrastructure lab combining Victron energy storage, MikroTik networking, Proxmox compute, TrueNAS storage and local AI systems — built, broken, rebuilt and hosted on my own infrastructure.

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50kWh Battery Storage

10Gb Networking

2x RTX AI Compute

100% Self Hosted

About

Built by Jon

RizoHomeLab is my personal infrastructure and energy lab. It brings together smart energy management, segmented networking, self-hosted services, storage, backups and local AI into one constantly evolving system. The goal is simple: learn by building useful things, then document the chaos before I forget how any of it works.

Smart Energy

Victron ESS

A 48V Victron ESS built around large LiFePO4 storage, solar generation, intelligent tariff charging and Home Assistant automation. The system is designed to soak up cheap overnight energy, capture solar during the day and keep the house running with minimal grid reliance.

50kWh LiFePO4 Storage

Three 16S battery packs provide a large home energy buffer for overnight charging, solar capture and resilience.

Solar + Forecasting

PV generation, Solcast forecasting and automation help decide when to charge, hold battery capacity or divert surplus energy into useful loads.

Home Assistant Control

Automations coordinate battery state of charge, immersion loads, tariff windows and visibility across the house.

3 Battery Packs

16S LiFePO4 storage built around Seplos battery management systems.

~50kWh Capacity

Large energy reserve for overnight charging and grid independence.

Victron Ecosystem

MultiPlus-II, MPPT solar chargers, Cerbo GX and Home Assistant integration.

Solar Optimised

Forecast-driven charging and surplus energy utilisation throughout the year.

Infrastructure

HomeLab

A practical self-hosted lab built around Proxmox, TrueNAS, MikroTik routing and switching, VLAN separation, WireGuard access and a healthy disregard for leaving things alone once they work.

Proxmox Compute

Virtual machines and containers for services, testing, automation and the occasional late-night side quest.

TrueNAS Storage

Bulk storage for media, backups, datasets, service data and the files that definitely should have been organised years ago.

MikroTik Network Core

RB5009 routing, CRS326/CRS328 switching, VLAN segmentation, 10Gb links and enough firewall rules to make future me question my choices.

Local Models

AI Infrastructure

A self-hosted AI platform built around AMD EPYC compute, professional NVIDIA GPUs, Mellanox 10Gb networking and enough RAM to run virtual machines, local LLMs, coding agents and automation workloads without relying on cloud services.

AMD EPYC 7452 Platform

32 cores, 64 threads and 128GB ECC memory provide the foundation for virtual machines, containers, local AI tooling, development environments and the occasional infrastructure experiment that gets slightly out of hand.

Dual NVIDIA RTX 5000

Two professional RTX 5000 GPUs provide 32GB of combined VRAM for local inference, coding agents, reasoning models, Open WebUI and rapid experimentation without API costs.

10Gb AI Infrastructure

Mellanox 10Gb networking, TrueNAS storage, Ollama, OpenCode and Open WebUI combine into a practical local AI environment where models, agents and services stay entirely under my control.

32 Cores

AMD EPYC 7452 enterprise compute.

128GB ECC

Memory capacity for AI, containers and virtualisation.

32GB VRAM

Dual RTX 5000 GPUs for local inference.

Mellanox 10Gb

High-speed backbone for storage, compute and services.

Current Builds

Projects

A rolling collection of infrastructure, automation and AI projects. Some are finished, some are useful, and some started with the dangerous words “I wonder if…” before becoming suspiciously permanent.

RizoHome Website

Self-hosted on Debian and Caddy, replacing a VPS with a public IP, HTTPS, static files and a much better excuse to relearn web design.

WireGuard Mesh

Routed VPN links between home, work and family infrastructure for backups, remote access and general sysadmin convenience.

Infrastructure Monitoring

Uptime, network visibility and service dashboards to spot problems before they become “why is nothing working?” moments.

AI Agent Workflow

Local coding agents, SFTP file access and model testing to make the HomeLab less of a black box and more of a useful assistant.

Local AI Research

Exploring OpenCode, Ollama, local LLMs and agent workflows running entirely on self-hosted infrastructure.

Perimeter Monitoring

Enzo Security Department

Physical security is provided by Enzo, a Fox Red Labrador specialising in parcel alerts, garden patrols, snack detection, stair surveillance and sock-theft incident response.

Status

Operational, unless asleep, eating, or pretending not to hear recall commands.

Threat Level

Elevated. Multiple socks remain unaccounted for and all cheese is considered vulnerable.

Response Time

Immediate for cheese, delayed for actual security incidents.