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15 tutorials tagged local-ai
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OpenClaw Part 6: HTTPS & Clean URLs with Caddy
Harden an OpenClaw setup with HTTPS and clean hostnames. Add Pi-hole DNS records and Caddy reverse-proxy entries so every service loads securely, no warnings.
caddy · ssl · local-ai
~20 minDifficulty: intermediate
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OpenClaw Part 5: Backup, Restore & Maintenance
Back up and restore a self-hosted OpenClaw AI monitoring stack: what to capture, how to run the backup, and how to recover the whole setup after a disk failure.
backup · local-ai · homelab
~30 minDifficulty: intermediate
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OpenClaw Part 4: Local Model Shootout on Strix Halo
Benchmark local LLMs on AMD Strix Halo's 128GB unified memory. Compare speed and answer quality across models to pick the best one for your OpenClaw agent.
local-ai · amd
~60 minDifficulty: intermediate
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OpenClaw Part 3: Self-Hosted Command Center with Matrix
Give your OpenClaw AI agent a real home. Self-host a Matrix server with Continuwuity in an LXC for persistent, searchable, threaded incident reports.
local-ai · self-hosted · homelab
~45 minDifficulty: intermediate
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OpenClaw Part 2: AI-Powered Incident Response with Uptime Kuma
Wire OpenClaw into Uptime Kuma so a local AI agent catches outages and runs SSH diagnostics on its own, using a dispatcher, a host script, and restricted keys.
uptime-kuma · local-ai · monitoring
~40 minDifficulty: intermediate
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OpenClaw on AMD Strix Halo: Set Up a Self-Hosted AI Agent with 128GB Unified Memory
Set up a self-hosted OpenClaw AI agent on AMD Strix Halo: upgrade the kernel, install ROCm 7.2, and configure 128GB of unified memory for running local models.
local-ai · amd · homelab
~45 minDifficulty: intermediate
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Qwen Coder 30B on a Mini-PC
Testing Qwen3-Coder-30B on a GMKTec K12 mini-PC with an AMD Radeon 780M and 32GB of shared memory to see if it's usable for local AI inference.
local-ai
~15 minDifficulty: intermediate
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ComfyUI + ROCm 7.1 + PyTorch 2.8 + Strix Halo
Install ComfyUI with ROCm 7.1 and PyTorch 2.8 on an AMD Strix Halo system running Ubuntu 24.04 for Stable Diffusion image generation without an NVIDIA GPU.
local-ai · comfyui · amd
~3 minDifficulty: intermediate
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Strix Halo + ROCm 7.1 + Ubuntu 24.04
Install ROCm 7.1 on the AMD Strix Halo (GMKtec EVO X2, AI MAX+ 395) running Ubuntu 24.04 with kernel 6.14 upgrade, AMD GPU drivers, and shared memory (TTM) configuration.
local-ai · amd · ubuntu
~6 minDifficulty: intermediate
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ComfyUI System Monitor
Crystools is a "Swiss Army knife" toolkit that adds monitoring, debugging, and workflow organization tools to ComfyUI.
local-ai · comfyui · monitoring
~3 minDifficulty: beginner
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Install ComfyUI Manager
ComfyUI Manager is the "app store" for ComfyUI. It's a custom node that lets you manage everything through the web interface instead of using command line.
local-ai · comfyui
~3 minDifficulty: beginner
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Install ComfyUI on Ubuntu Server 24.04
A quick guide on getting ComfyUI set up on Ubuntu Server 24.04 using CUDA 13 and PyTorch 2.9 with an NVIDIA GPU.
local-ai · comfyui · ubuntu
~3 minDifficulty: intermediate