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Archer
Home server and network core: NAS, WireGuard hub, nginx reverse proxy, game-server host, local LLM box, media/services host, and central point of failure with excellent branding.
LINUXNETWORKINGSERVER
WELCOME TO MY CORNER OF THE INTERNET
reltech.click
servers, theatre automation, robots, local AI, networking, 3D printers, and whatever else accidentally becomes infrastructure.
USER rel
HOST archer
STATUS distributed systems acquired lore
ABOUT ME
hi, i'm rel.
programmer, robotics person, systems builder, theatre-tech experimenter, and accidental infrastructure administrator.
I like building systems that make completely different pieces of hardware cooperate: servers talking to laptops, tiny Raspberry Pis bridging networks, local language models turning human commands into structured actions, and theatre gear receiving commands from software it was never emotionally prepared to meet.
Most things here start as a tiny experiment. Then they get a hostname, a WireGuard address, a service file, a dashboard, and somehow become permanent infrastructure.
CURRENT OBSESSIONS
- Hermes: local AI + ETC Ion XE control for theatre automation
- movie/video analysis → color + brightness → stage-lighting data
- Archer + WireGuard as the backbone tying everything together
- Tera-Bench as the portable dev, rendering, VR, and preprocessing workstation
- turning "quick tests" into surprisingly coherent distributed systems
core nodesArcher + Hermes
mobile labTera-Bench
edge gremlinVulcan
project scopeexpanding
tip: use open network for the fleet map, open projects for the project archive, or clearwindows when relOS inevitably becomes desktop archaeology.
PROJECT ARCHIVE
12 MAJOR ITEMSsystems, experiments, and escaped side quests
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Hermes
School-side bridge and theatre automation machine. Talks to Archer over WireGuard and to the ETC Ion XE over OSC, with local AI translating human commands into lighting actions.
DEBIANOSCLOCAL AI
03
Tera-Bench
Main workstation and portable lab: development, Blender, video preprocessing, model experiments, VR nonsense, hardware testing, and remote control for the rest of the fleet.
WINDOWSDEVWORKSTATION
04
Vulcan
Raspberry Pi 3B+ edge node. Started as printer infrastructure and evolved into a WireGuard-connected bridge for school-side devices and lightweight services.
RASPBERRY PIEDGEWIREGUARD
05
Prometheus / Prome
Elegoo Centauri Carbon running COSMOS/OpenCentauri experiments, remote printer control, custom firmware work, and the occasional deeply irresponsible speed test.
3D PRINTINGKLIPPERFIRMWARE
06
Relay
Compute sidecar that began as an AMD GPU add-on for Archer and became a useful acceleration node for rendering, model experiments, and jobs Archer would rather not suffer through.
GPUCOMPUTELINUX
07
Hermes Agent Stack
Two-stage local AI: a tiny fast model handles replies/status, while a larger Qwen model produces strict JSON actions that an interpreter converts into valid Ion XE OSC commands.
QWENJSONAUTOMATION
08
Cinematic Lighting Pipeline
VLC/video analysis tools that slice frames into vertical lines, horizontal lines, grids, raw color, and brightness data, with the long-term goal of mapping movies directly onto auditorium lighting.
PYTHONVIDEOLIGHTING
09
SigmaGPT
A deliberately unserious Discord AI project built from a huge server-message dataset, local Qwen models, image support, owner controls, and experiments with LoRA-style personality training.
DISCORDLLMDATASET
10
Minecraft Infrastructure
Pelican/Wings hosting plus Trial Wings, whitelist synchronization, RelTeams, server automation, Route 53 records, and enough Java/Node glue to make blocks require DevOps.
FABRICJAVANODE.JS
11
Roblox Vision Lab
Reinforcement-learning and computer-vision experiments: automatic scene generation, dataset capture, YOLO training, real-time overlays, and agents learning to chase targets in Roblox.
YOLOVISIONRL
12
RelTech COSMOS
Custom OpenCentauri/COSMOS firmware tooling for Prome, including reproducible Yocto builds, a meta-reltech layer, WireGuard support, update artifacts, and quality-of-life tools for the printer.
YOCTOFIRMWARELINUX
SIDE QUESTS / ACTIVE EXPERIMENTS
Archer/Tera-Bench video hosting pipeline · Nomad mobile/edge experiments · Steam Deck + Windows/SteamOS · Quest/SteamVR · transparent LCD builds · robotics/VEX · Epson projector investigation · 18650 power systems · custom Python dialects · theatre pan/tilt web controls · network proxy experiments · whatever appeared five minutes ago.
HOSTNAMEloading...
LOCAL IPloading...
UPTIMEloading...
LOAD AVGloading...
CPU USAGE--
MEMORY--
ROOT DISK--
DATA DISK--
SERVICESloading...
NETWORK RX / TXloading...
fetching live data from /api/status...
RELTECH FLEET / LIVE NODE TELEMETRY
● CHECKINGone dashboard for the machines that somehow became infrastructure
ONLINE--
CONFIGURED--
TOTAL NODES4
LAST POLL--:--:--
CORE // HOMECHECKING
Archer
status API
CPU--
RAM--
UPTIME--
NET--
NAS · VPN hub · reverse proxy · services · storage
THEATRE CORECHECKING
Hermes
status API
CPU--
RAM--
UPTIME--
ION XE--
Debian · iond/ionctl · local AI · auditorium bridge
EDGE NODECHECKING
Vulcan
status API
CPU--
RAM--
UPTIME--
TEMP--
Raspberry Pi 3B+ · generic WireGuard-connected node
WORKBENCHCHECKING
Tera-Bench
node API slot
CPU--
RAM--
UPTIME--
NET--
Windows workstation · dev · rendering · preprocessing · VR
BACKBONEreltech.click → Archer → WireGuard → Hermes / Vulcan / Tera-Bench / other nodes
THEATRE LINKHermes → Ion XE: checking...
public browser→/api/fleet on Archer→private node APIs→sanitized telemetry only
fetching fleet data from /api/fleet...
BUILD LOG
UPDATED 2026-08-11recent additions to the pile
fleet telemetry came online
Standardized read-only node status APIs and added an Archer-side fleet aggregator so relOS can monitor the major machines without exposing WireGuard addresses to the public browser.
APIMONITORINGWIREGUARD
video → lighting experiments got stranger
Expanded the VLC color slicer from vertical bands into horizontal bands and full pixel grids, building on the color/brightness separation and multi-window preview tools.
PYTHONVIDEOLIGHTING
color and brightness split
Built previews for source video, raw color, grayscale brightness, and reconstructed lighting output. The path from movie frame to fixture data is now much less theoretical.
distributed video processing
Moved expensive media preprocessing onto Tera-Bench, then hand the finished result to Archer for hosting and later HDD archival. Apparently even uploading a video needed an architecture diagram.
Hermes became an actual control stack
iond + ionctl can drive the Ion XE over OSC. Added local voice/agent experiments, structured JSON actions, status reading, and temporary web controls for fixtures.
HERMESOSCAI
the fleet acquired an architecture
Archer, Hermes, Vulcan, Tera-Bench, Relay, and the rest stopped looking like unrelated machines and started behaving like one weird distributed toolchain.
small agent / big agent split
Hermes now has a clear model architecture: a tiny fast model for status/replies, and a larger model reserved for strict JSON action generation.
SigmaGPT dataset escalation
Discord export and cleaning grew into a six-figure-message dataset for training/testing a deliberately stupid channel-specific bot. Human civilization remains technically intact.
relOS website overhaul
Added the window manager, mobile layout, project browser, live status displays, taskbar tools, music player, Minecraft status, and the deeply necessary fake operating system framing.
0:000:00
VOL
PLAYLIST0 TRACKS
querying /api/music...
music currently sourced from Good Kid's creator-safe catalog.
MINECRAFT SERVER LIST
blocks currently being served
pinging servers...
fetching status from mcstatus.io...
UNSIGNED EXECUTABLE
this is definitely safe.
No documentation, no rollback plan, and no obvious purpose. Exactly how software should be.
awaiting terrible decisions...