In this article I am going to explain how I got control of my UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) installation using NUT via PFSense+ so I can monitor and manage the UPS from the main router in my HomeLab. In addition I will show how I have configured Zabbix with a new NUT template for monitoring, alarm generation and long term metrics for my UPS.
The Linux KVM server is one of the central components in the HomeLab. The server was going to run KVM[^k] and all the virtual machines in my HomeLab so I spent some time trying to find out a good balance between number og CPU cores, memory size and fast storage before I decided what I needed.
Will OpenAI/Whisper recognized my “Andalusian accent” when I speak Spanish and transcribe the audio to text without problems? I had to use 0.032759 kWh of energi to find this out.
