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The Ware Family Log

One house in Oklahoma runs on a small rack of computers — and is home to seven people with full calendars. This site keeps both stories: an IT log documenting the network, cameras, and automations that run the place, and a family log documenting the people it's all for.

Everything here is public on purpose — a running documentary of what's being built, fixed, and lived, written as it happens. No schedule, no polish; entries land when there's something worth logging.

— The Ware household, est. Moore, OK

7People in the family
11Cameras on the house
28,392Photos in the home archive
3NUCs in the rack
1New house going up
Illustration of the home server rack at night, with a monitor showing the house floor plan and camera views
The IT Log

How the house runs

Home Assistant on a bare-metal NUC, Frigate watching ten cameras, an Omada network with its own IoT lane, and a self-hosted archive of every family photo. Build notes, breakage reports, and the fixes that stuck.

Latest: “Swap day: the old house runs on its new controller” — Oct 28

Illustration of the new house framed up at golden hour, pickup truck on the dirt drive and a water tower on the horizon
The Family Log

Who it's all for

A new house going up across town, five kids' worth of football, basketball, pom, and dance, chiropractor Mondays, and the weekly puzzle of who drives whom. The documentary side of the documentary.

Latest: “A Betty Crocker in the house” — Oct 21

Latest entries

Nothing in the log matches that yet — try a different word, or clear the filters.

The homelab stack

The gear and software behind the IT log, as it stands today.

Home Assistant
Bare-metal HAOS on a dedicated NUC, Core 2026.10.1 — lights, locks, dashboards, and a few hundred automations.
Frigate
Recording and detection for the Tapo camera fleet, feeding the kitchen tablet's motion popups.
Immich
Self-hosted photo library — 28,392 assets, rebuilt on a new host in September.
Omada network
Three access points — Garage, Shed, and Inside — with cameras and IoT on their own VLAN and SSID.
Tapo H500 hub
HomeBase for the cameras and doorbell on a reserved address.
On the bench
A spare NUC earmarked for a local Ollama model as a Home Assistant voice agent, and a new NAS to replace the VM file server.

The week at our house

The standing rhythm the family log keeps interrupting.

  • MondaysChiropractor day at Thrive on 19th in Moore for the whole crew, Amilio's pickup at 5:00, then dance.
  • TuesdaysSplit shift: Toby's basketball at Apple Creek Elementary, Tori and Tinley at dance — two cars, two directions.
  • 3× a weekGym days — back-friendly A/B lifting, about fifty minutes, incline walk to finish.
  • WeekendsOut to the build site to see what changed on the new house, plus whatever the week left unfinished.

On the horizon

Known next entries, in roughly the order they'll happen.

  • The 3D model, rebuilt — the updated house plans are coming; the model gets redrawn from them, stairs in the right places this time.
  • A NAS joins the rack — network storage for backups and media, replacing the VM-based file server.
  • A local voice for the house — Ollama on the spare NUC, tested as a Home Assistant conversation agent.
  • One stubborn camera — the hot tub camera still dodges its hourly snapshot; a hard power-cycle is next on its list.