I recently started building my first at-home server from scratch running CentOS, a branch off of Fedora. So far everything’s been running exceptionally well. The server’s purpose, rather than just serving web pages is to give control of my house and computers both inside and outside of the house all through a browser, with a mobile friendly layout. I’ve decided to call the project “Black Box”, hopefully I’m not infringing on anyone’s rights..

At this point in the project I have the servers up time, available disk space, running applications,  access to media and a user log. Next to be added is support for the Arduino micro controller reading of the servers temperature, ambient temperature and humidity, as well as control of house lighting, and dehumidifier (the server’s running in a fairly moist basement currently).

I’ll be posting all my Black Box scripts up here for anyone interested in implementing something similar for their own house. I’ll be publishing the Server Up Time script (pictured below) later this week.