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Brent Gervais has been a guest on 23 episodes.
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142: Cloud Your Judgment
February 7th, 2025 | 54 mins 19 secs
acme client, advanced sensors, alex attic, cloudflare tunnels, fediverse app, forecast system, jupiter broadcasting, let's encrypt, machine learning, opnsense update, pangolin, prusa changes, reverse proxy, self-hosting podcast, tempest weather
Chris geeks out over his new gadget, Alex gets Pangolin purring, and we break down the latest OPNsense release—plus more surprises!
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138: ODROID and Chill
December 13th, 2024 | 1 hr 5 mins
flux servers, home assistant, infuse, jellyfin, jupiter broadcasting, media servers, nas, neo-nazis, obsidian sync, odroid h4, raspberry pi, self-hosting podcast, simplex chat, syncthing fork, watchstate
Brent joins to share part two of his NAS build adventure, and things take a tiny turn. Plus, picking the right encrypted chat app and Chris stacks a few Jellyfin wins.
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136: Google is Done
November 15th, 2024 | 1 hr 9 mins
bentobox, brent nas, btrfs, claude, copilot, cve, distributed transcoding, flash emulator, gippity, google, handbrake web, jupiter broadcasting, macbook, nas, nextcloud, nixos, nvidia, perplexity, ruffle, searxng, security update, self-hosting podcast, snippety, ubuntu, unraid, vaultwarden, zfs
Breaking free from Google's grip: Our surprising journey and the tools that made it possible. Plus, Brent's NAS feature stirring up debate, s clever tool for distributed video encoding, and more.
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126: Smart But Not Cloudy
June 28th, 2024 | 1 hr 19 mins
1080p video, aqara, battery powered, bluebubbles, doorbell, g4, gadgetbridge, garmin, garmin forerunner 255, go2rtc, home-assistant-garmin-connect, homekit, imessage on android, jupiter broadcasting, local storage, matter, microsd, no subscription, reolink, ring, self-hosting podcast, smart, video, wireless
Chris reviews the Aqara G4 Video Doorbell, Brent frees his Garmin from the cloud, and we discuss getting iMessages on Android.
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122: Back to the Future
May 3rd, 2024 | 55 mins 45 secs
ersatztv, grist, hd-homerun, home assistant, immich, jellyfin, jupiter broadcasting, linux, localsend, mythtv, nextcloud, open home foundation, plex, self-hosting podcast, ssh, tailscale, traefik, unraid, vps, zigbee2mqtt
How Chris created live TV streaming from his local media collection, Alex breaks down the new Open Home Foundation and what it means for self-hosters. Brent's been trying out an open-source AirDrop replacement for all systems, and much more!
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113: State of the Homelabs 2023
December 29th, 2023 | 1 hr 27 mins
10gig, 3d printer, ansible, blue iris, borgbackup, caddy, dnsmasq, docker, duplicati, emby, esp32s, framework, freshrss, google drive, grafana, healthchecks.io, home assistant, influx, invoiceninja, jellyfin, jupiter broadcasting, macos, mergerfs, monitoring, music assistant, nextcloud, nix, nixos, obsidian, octoprint, ombi, opnsense, paperless-ngx, pihole, plex, plexamp, plexjelly-watched, poe cams, prometheus, proxmox, relationship, self-hosting podcast, smokeping, snapraid, storj, tailscale, todoist, traefik, tubeszb, ubu 22.04, unifi, vpn, wallabag, xfs, zfs, zigbee
We look back at what has changed, what's failed us, and what's sticking around in our homelabs.
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110: Google Photos Replacement
November 17th, 2023 | 1 hr 11 mins
45homelab's hl15, auto backup, backblaze cloud, breaking changes, docker compose, exif info, google photos killer, heic/heif backup, image tagging, immich, jupiter broadcasting, multi-user, object detection, photo and video backup, real-time render, restic, s3 encrypted object storage, self-hosting podcast
That man behind the Google Photos killer joins us to chat about the latest release of Immich. Plus, Alex's first impressions of 45Homelab's HL15.
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108: Year of Voice: A Bigger Deal Than You Think
October 20th, 2023 | 1 hr 4 mins
ecc memory, esphome, fedora, home assistant, hp thin client, jellyfin, jupiter broadcasting, mazda, nextcloud, nextcloud setup, nvr software, paulus schoutsen, plex, rdc, self-hosting podcast, symfonium, third-party audit, ubuntu, year of voice, zimaboard
Home Assistant's founder, Paulus Schoutsen, shares details about the Year of Voice, recent legal actions from Mazda, and the results of a recent third-party audit.
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107: Laptop Dumpster Diving
October 6th, 2023 | 1 hr 10 mins
brents tv setup, buckets, developers, esphome, framework, home assistant, home media setup, hp prodesk, intel quick sync video, jellyfin, jupiter broadcasting, kodi, matter, metadata, new hardware, nextcloud, nextcloud sync, nixos, old hardware, optimism, plex, poe zigbee radio, pragmatism, raspberry pi 5, recalbox, self-hosted, self-hosting podcast, slate, spook, spook with home assistant, starlink, startmail, tailscale, tasmota, thinkpad tv party, titles, tubeszb, wireguard on esphome, x220 overheating, z2m, zha
With a dose of pragmatism and optimism, we chat about making the best out of old hardware and where we draw the line and buy new.
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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.