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Brent Gervais has been a guest on 14 episodes.
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101: Joining the Federation
July 14th, 2023 | 1 hr 3 mins
45drives, alper's project, berlin buds on matrix, berlin with brent, decentralized chat, dmitry's storage setup, docker, docker-compose 2.20, email, federation, fotoo, fully kiosk browser, include keyword, intel gvt-g on proxmox, jupiter broadcasting, linux host monitoring, mastodon, matrix, meetup, microbin, nextcloud, obsidian evernote import, peertube, pixelfed, plex dupefinder, samba, self-hosting podcast, smart usb wifi adaptor, splenssy, tablet battery sensor, tablet photo frame, tuya, xmpp
The advantages of Federating a local and remote Nextcloud, Chris replaces Google Home Hub's photo powers and the new docker-compose feature that will change Alex's entire setup.
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96: Outdoor Home Assistant
May 5th, 2023 | 53 mins 6 secs
automation, budget-friendly, capacitive soil moisture sensors, dashboards, data recovery, esphome automation, exposed entities, garden data, garden operation, home assistant, industrial linux mini pc, ip67, joplin, joplin server, jupiter broadcasting, lazydocker, lazygit, obsidian livesync, piper, plex prometheus exporter, prometheus format, qboxmini diy iot enclosure, raspberry pi 4, self-hosting podcast, step-down dc-dc converter, ticonn waterproof electrical junction box, trigger watering, voice, webhook trigger options, xiaomi flora
Why Chris needs ANOTHER Home Assistant instance and a major breakthrough for self-hosters.
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94: Full Power
April 7th, 2023 | 56 mins 46 secs
ansible, chatgpt-ui, cpp, energy management in home assistant, jellyfin, jellyseer, jupiter broadcasting, modbus, nextdns, obsidian, plex credits skip, self-hosting podcast, stacking ws, victron home assistant integration, vpn, waas, web-whisper
Chris integrates full home power monitoring into Home Assistant, while Alex tames the AI and rushes to replace Dark Sky.
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92: Rip it all Out
March 10th, 2023 | 58 mins 38 secs
10gb network upgrade, attic time, bellingham technical college, cable analyzer, cve-2023-27482, fiber strands, home assistant cve, jupiter broadcasting, lenovo m720q, lightning node, linuxfest northwest 2023, multi-site dns tricks, opnsense, pikvm, remotely exploitable vulnerability, self-hosting podcast, server relocation, sff homelab pcs, split dns setup, tailscale
Find out why Alex ripped out everything installed last episode and is starting fresh with new gear, wires, and a new goal.
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89: Jellyfans
January 27th, 2023 | 58 mins 9 secs
audio books, hard drive giveaway, jellyfin, jupiter broadcasting, live tv, metadata plugin, plex, self-hosting podcast, storage, streaming, tailscale reverse tunnel, youtube with jellyfin, ytdl-sub
Join us for the surprising conclusion to our month-long challenge.
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87: Jellyfin January
December 30th, 2022 | 1 hr 3 mins
hdhomerun, home assistant skyconnect, intro skipping, jellyfin, jellyfin challenge, jellyfin january, jupiter broadcasting, matrix funding, matrix holiday update, matter, ntfy, openwrt, plex, self-hosting podcast, swiftfin, tp-link eap245, unifiedpush
We kick off our Jellyfin January challenge and invite you to join us. Plus, Chris has some new hardware and our thoughts on the trouble at the Matrix foundation.
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81: The Badger Stack
October 7th, 2022 | 1 hr 5 mins
bitwarden, calyx, can't buy pi, conbee, expanse, fastmail, home assitant, invoice ninja, jupiter broadcasting, matter, netbird, proxmox, pulseaudio, rapberry pi home server, reddit automatic archiver, runeaudio, self-hosting podcast, slaesh, snapcast, tailscale, volumio, wireguard, yubico, z-wave, zigbee
Chris' Raspberry Pi server is dead, and Alex has a few ideas for his next build.
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80: Solving Whole Home Audio
September 23rd, 2022 | 52 mins 26 secs
a2dp, automations, broadlink rm4, esphome, fwupd, google home, home assistant, ipod, jupiter broadcasting, light switches, logitech media server, matter, paulus, picoreplayer, podverse, rosewill lsv4500, rpi-audio-receiver, self-hosting podcast, spotify connect, thunderbolt dock, unraid, z-wave, zooz
Alex is replacing his Chromecast and Google Nest Mini with an open-source solution, and why we’re all getting a little hyped about Matter.
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77: Automations Gone Wrong
August 12th, 2022 | 58 mins 56 secs
adguard, automation, bedtime automation, bitwarden emergency contact, eink, energy monitoring, h&t sensor, home assitant, jupiter broadcasting, motion, mqtt, opensense, power plug, self-hosting podcast, sensor, shelly, wireless smart temperature humidity sensor, z-wave, zigbee button
What is it like to live with another man's automations? Brent spills all.
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70: Plausible Deniability
May 6th, 2022 | 53 mins
community spotlight, containers, fuzzymistborn, google analytics alternative, google anayltics, home assistant, jupiter broadcasting, plausible, security cameras, self-hosting podcast, storage leaderboard, umami, wyze hacks
Alex replaces another Google service; we point the community spotlight at FuzzyMistborn plus your feedback!
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69: Get Off My Lawn, The Robot's Got It
April 22nd, 2022 | 47 mins 14 secs
10gig, 900 mhz, audbile, audiobookshelf, docker stats, home assistant, insteon, jellyfin trakt sync, jupiter broadcasting, networking, openmower, plextraktsync, raleigh, self-hosted audiobook server, self-hosting podcast, trakt, wyze rtsp
Alex shares some handy tools, and some old friends join us for a special edition of the show.
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62: Succumbing to the Ecosystem
January 14th, 2022 | 49 mins 15 secs
automation, docker, dozzle, home assistant, homebridge, homekit, hub, infuse, iplayer apple tv, jupiter broadcasting, log viewer for docker, nfc tags, self-hosting podcast, smartthings, tailscale, wireguard
Alex got some new devices for Christmas, and we set off figuring out how to integrate them into his network.
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52: Navigating DeGoogling
August 27th, 2021 | 41 mins 45 secs
apple maps privacy, docker wyze bridge, helios64, hls, jupiter broadcasting, kobol, lan mode, pikvm, rtmp, rtsp, self-hosting podcast, vaultwarden, wyze cameras
We report back on our DeGoogle challenge and read your top Google Alternative apps and services.
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51: Apple's Rotten Scanning
August 13th, 2021 | 53 mins 6 secs
1pasword, adblock, apple, bitwarden, brent gervais, csam, degoogle, fully kiosk browser, icloud, jupiter broadcasting, mobile internet, off-grid, pihole, raspberry pi, road tripping, rv, self-builde, self-host, self-hosting podcast, vaultwarden, wallpanel
We discuss the ramifications of Apple's local photo scanning announcement on your privacy, why everything seems to be a subscription these days, and a new challenge for the show.