Proxmox VE for Smart Home Hubs: A Practical Guide to Building, Virtualizing, and Automating Home Assistant, Node-RED, and Self-Hosted Smart Home Serve

By Juno Darian

Build a resilient, scalable, and secure smart home using Proxmox VE.
Step-by-step projects for Home Assistant, Node-RED, Frigate, MQTT and real-world automation - for hobbyists and pros.

Unlock professional-grade smart home automation with "Proxmox VE for Smart Home Hubs" - a practical, project-driven guide that teaches you how to virtualize, secure, and automate Home Assistant, Node-RED, MQTT, Frigate and more using the open-source power of Proxmox VE. Whether you're a weekend tinkerer or an advanced home-lab builder, this book gives you the exact hardware choices, network designs (VLANs & bridges), storage layouts, and automation recipes you need to run reliable, always-on smart home services.

Inside you'll find:
-Clear explanations of the virtual smart-home stack and why Proxmox is the ideal platform for consolidation and resilience.
- Step-by-step projects: set up a Proxmox host, build a compact Mini-PC lab, deploy Home Assistant as a VM, run Node-RED in containers, and configure Frigate for AI camera detection.
- Practical, production-ready network design: VLAN segmentation, firewall rules, and secure remote access (VPN/reverse proxy/Tailscale) to protect your devices and data.
- Storage & backup strategies that keep your automations running and protect camera archives - including NVMe recommendations, ZFS snapshot guidance, and offsite backup workflows.
- Energy, UPS, and power-management guidance so your always-on services survive outages and run efficiently.

Why this book works:
It blends hands-on labs and real-world architecture with troubleshooting checklists, templates, and configuration snippets so you can move from concept to a stable, scalable smart home quickly - and safely. If you want a single, reliable guide that turns piecemeal IoT setups into a resilient, testable, and upgrade-friendly infrastructure, this is it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G2SQ5G4P
• ISBN13: 9798275025156
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"