ORSON / HOME LAB CONTROL PLANE
What needs
my attention?
Service health and project context, in one dashboard.
The Home Lab Control Plane gathers monitoring and project information into one interface. I use it to check services and return to a project with its context in view.
ORSON is its companion panel. Its manual pilot is installed, with a first check-in recorded on 30 September. The newer web-panel integration is a separate upgrade: its verification and no-write dry run have passed, but it is not installed yet.
WORKSHOP COMPANION
Meet ORSON.
A character and companion panel for the dashboard. The pilot has started; its wider connections are still evolving.
Part of the Home Lab Control PlaneINSIDE THE BUILD
Project context, in one place.
The control plane shows service information and project views. ORSON is the part I’m developing to turn that context into suggestions I can review.
ORSON panel · development snapshot. Automatic dispatch is disabled in this capture. This is a saved development state, not a live status display.
View full-size panelTHE HARDWARE BEHIND THE DASHBOARD
A home lab on a small shelf.
Two repurposed office computers make up the lab: one for the services I use, and another for experiments. The control plane brings their service health and project context into view.
My actual home lab · September 2026. Familiar hardware, put back to work.
PERSONAL PROJECT / IN USE & EVOLVING
A working home base.
In use
The dashboard is in use. On 30 September, the pilot passed its installation review, its installed files were verified, and its first manual check-in was recorded.
Upgrade checked, not installed
On 3 October, the exact web-panel release passed 145 tests in an isolated verification run, with no skips. On 4 October, a dry run against the target system succeeded without writes and matched the running Research console.
The upgrade has not been deployed. Its guarded installation, live service-permission checks, and signed-in laptop/phone checks remain open. The wider research and coding connections are still developing.
Read the 5 October rollout update
The progress above comes from saved review and installation records. This website update is not a fresh inspection of the running lab; the panel image remains an earlier development snapshot.
See how the lab projects fit togetherFROM THE WORKBENCH
Related build notes.
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