Smart Home & Automation
Makes the physical home respond to presence, routines and context instead of acting like a collection of disconnected devices.
Ronald's connected home environment
HYPERSHELL
A personal homelab where automation, self-hosting, infrastructure and intelligent agents operate as one connected environment.
Spiny-powered. Built for chaos. Runs on coffee, beer and bad ideas.
Explore the labInside the Lab
A home that happens to run a datacenter.
Hypershell is the name of my homelab and connected home environment. It combines the physical house, self-hosted services, infrastructure, intelligent agents and the operational tooling required to understand and maintain the whole thing.
Agentic AI & Knowledge
Lets agents use governed tools and shared knowledge to help operate the environment instead of existing as isolated chatbots.
Infrastructure & Networking
Keeps compute, storage and networking dependable enough that everything above the platform can keep evolving.
Applications & Digital Life
Brings the services used every day under one environment without making self-hosting the goal by itself.
Operations & Observability
Turns inventory, telemetry and drift into enough context to know what exists, what changed and what needs attention.
Identity, Access & Resilience
Makes secure access and recovery part of the platform so experimentation does not quietly become fragility.
Why Hypershell
One environment, not a pile of services.
The interesting part is not how many things are self-hosted. It is treating the house, infrastructure, applications, agents and knowledge as parts of one evolving system.
Connected by context
Automation and agents can act with knowledge of the environment instead of through isolated one-off integrations.
Operable by design
Inventory, identity, observability and recovery are treated as parts of the system, not cleanup work after experimentation.
Built to evolve
Local-first where it helps, hybrid where it adds value, and transparent enough to understand what changed.
Architecture
The house is the top layer.
This public view deliberately shows responsibilities rather than internal endpoints, addresses or complete topology.
People, devices & the physical home
Interfaces & automation
Smart HomeSelf-hosted AppsAI Agents
Identity & AccessObservabilityData & Backup
ContainersVirtual MachinesStorage & Network
Physical hardware
Projects
Things built around the lab.
31projects
Core initiatives shape the environment itself; maintained software turns recurring needs into reusable tooling.
Core initiatives
4 core initiativesLong-running work that changes how Hypershell is operated, understood or protected.
HomeSight
A canonical inventory and architecture insight layer for understanding what exists, how it relates and where reality drifts from intent.
Hermes
A local and hybrid agent environment with access to tools, skills and governed knowledge.
Unified Identity
Moving supported services toward native OIDC, passkeys and consistent secure remote access.
Backup Modernisation
Bringing application data, host data and off-site protection into a recovery model that remains understandable.
Maintained software
27 maintained projectsSoftware and tooling actively maintained around the lab. Visibility is metadata; lifecycle status is shown only when it is explicitly known.
Hypershell Reach
MCP providing a capability layer between agents and their environment. Giving governed access to tools, scripts, skills, execution, Runs and Task continuity without coupling the product to one agent or one MCP gateway.
View on GitHubASUSWRT MCP
Community-maintained downstream MCP server for bounded AsusWRT and AsusWRT-Merlin administration over SSH.
View on GitHubBitwarden Secrets Manager MCP
Secure, value-blind Model Context Protocol server for Bitwarden Secrets Manager using the official Python SDK.
View on GitHubDBackup
Self-hosted backup automation for databases and files. Supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MSSQL, Redis, Valkey, MariaDB, SQLite & Firebird, plus full directory backups with incremental snapshots. Encrypts and compresses to S3, FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, SMB, Dropbox, Google Drive & more, with retention policies and web-based restores.
View on GitHubDBackup MCP
Typed MCP server for curated DBackup backup administration through its authenticated API.
View on GitHubDiscord Research MCP
Read-only Discord research via authorized local RPC and a provenance-aware local archive MCP facade.
View on GitHubDiscourse MCP
Community-maintained Discourse MCP downstream with configurable allowlisting and a restricted anonymous research profile
View on GitHubFirefly III MCP
Bounded semantic MCP server for safe, read-only Firefly III financial analysis.
View on GitHubHypershell Media Extraction MCP
Bounded source-agnostic read-only Media Extraction MCP for Hypershell research.
Hypershell Mobile Bridge
On-demand self-hosted Android control bridge for Mobilerun Portal reverse sessions
View on GitHubHypershell Research Speech-to-Text MCP
Bounded read-only MCP adapter for Research Speech-to-Text through Media Extraction and a fixed private whisper.cpp backend.
Hypershell Website
Public website for the Hypershell homelab, connected home environment, and maintained projects.
View on GitHubMCP Server Docker
Community-maintained Docker MCP server with safer container recreation and bounded command output.
View on GitHubMCP Server Filesystem
Community-maintained filesystem MCP server with inode-preserving writes to existing files.
View on GitHubMicrosoft 365 MCP
Community-maintained container distribution for @softeria/ms-365-mcp-server with reproducible builds and release validation.
View on GitHubMobilerun Portal
Maintained self-hosted/on-demand downstream of Mobilerun Portal for Hypershell mobile control
View on GitHubmsgvault
Maintained downstream of kenn-io/msgvault for bounded local Discord observation import and explicit read-only MCP support.
View on GitHubNexterm MCP
Community-maintained typed MCP server for bounded Nexterm administration.
View on GitHubNL Health Sources MCP
Read-only semantic MCP adapters for Dutch and European medical information sources.
Pocket ID MCP
Typed MCP server for bounded Pocket ID administration and identity management.
View on GitHubQMD MCP
Unified QMD MCP server for read access and bounded administration.
View on GitHubRomM MCP
Typed, bounded Model Context Protocol server for RomM library management.
View on GitHubSecrets Delivery Manager
Configuration-driven Bitwarden Secrets Manager renderer with local and SSH targets, atomic file delivery, and optional Dockhand deployment activation.
Technitium DNS MCP
Community-maintained hardened distribution of Slyke/mcp-technitium-dns for Technitium DNS Server
View on GitHubUltimate Updater
Hypershell-maintained upstream-first downstream of BassT23/Proxmox Ultimate Updater.
Ultimate Updater Notify
Safe, deduplicated ntfy notifications for Proxmox Ultimate Updater checks and manual runs.
View on GitHubYouTube Research MCP
Hypershell-maintained downstream of coyaSONG/youtube-mcp-server for production-grade YouTube research.
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About Hypershell
Never finished. Usually working.
Hypershell started as a collection of experiments and gradually became the name for my complete digital home environment. It is where infrastructure, automation, AI and daily-life services meet.
Spiny is the mascot, the architecture keeps changing, and every solved problem tends to reveal two more interesting ones.
Self-learning. Self-hosted. Spiny-powered.
