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Special Guest: Raid Owl.

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Alex has been deep-diving into container networking, and Chris is trying to steelman Plex's new rental service.

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Plus, why are we building our containers with Tailscale networking now, and the latest from the Home Assistant project?

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Brian Moses joins us and shares his most recent NAS build and love for 3D printers. Then Alex gets into the hardware he's deploying around the house, and why we don't see eye-to-eye on ZigBee.

Special Guest: Brian Moses.

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We look back at what has changed, what's failed us, and what's sticking around in our homelabs.

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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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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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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Plus, our recommended Nextcloud setup, converting dumb devices into smart ones with ESPHome, and more.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Listener Jeff, and Paulus Schoutsen.

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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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Plus, getting practical about your home media setup, bringing Spook into Home Assistant, and more.

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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Our thoughts on two recent Plex crackdowns, why the Apple TV just got a lot better, how home Assistant could improve 10 years in, and much more.

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A few tools to build your own Way Back Machine, we check in with the "Year of Voice" and more.

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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.

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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We cover our must-have self-hosted apps, reflect on the state of Self-Hosting now, and discuss what's new in Proxmox 8.

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We dive into Lemmy, a self-hosted Reddit alternative. Plus, a couple of easy-to-deploy tools that make life better.

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We chat with 45Drives about their ambitions to build a home-lab server that bridges the gap between enterprise-level servers and consumer-grade NAS products. And more.

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Alex tempts Chris with his Obsidian ways, our thoughts on Drobo going bankrupt, and Photoprism adding paid tiers. Plus, the slick suite of tools you'll want to run on your LAN.

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Chris integrates full home power monitoring into Home Assistant, while Alex tames the AI and rushes to replace Dark Sky.

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Alex goes all in on Rootless Podman, Chris is saving his Nextcloud install from disaster, and a special guest joins us.

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Join us for the surprising conclusion to our month-long challenge.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Catherine Kretzschmar.

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Sometimes your best upgrades are unplanned; Chris just got his Home Assistant Yellow fully deployed.

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Alex gives Roon Labs whole home audio a try but discovers a critical design flaw while Chris checks out his new ODROID-H3+ and plans his next epic build.

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Chris' Raspberry Pi server is dead, and Alex has a few ideas for his next build.

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Plus, Chris tries out Immich, a high-performance Google Photos alternative.

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We learned some really hard lessons this week, and reflect. Then Chris finds the perfect temperature sensor, and Alex finds a beautiful media discovery app.

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What is it like to live with another man's automations? Brent spills all.

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Plus, Chris tries out a few more Shelly devices and reports back.

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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Our guest this week has more Raspberry Pis than anyone we've ever met. We get insights into all the projects he used them for, what's worked great, and what's not worked at all.

Special Guest: Jscar_Hawk.

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A special episode today as TechnoTim joins Alex to discuss everything Kubernetes and HomeLab. The #100DaysOfHomeLab initiative from Tim is just getting started, find out what it’s all about in today's episode.

Special Guest: Techno Tim.

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A quick-fire round of projects this week, your feedback, and a discussion about the future of Self-Hosting.

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Alex replaces another Google service; we point the community spotlight at FuzzyMistborn plus your feedback!

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and FuzzyMistborn.

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Alex got some new devices for Christmas, and we set off to figure out how to integrate them into his network.

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Some old friends of JB join Alex to discuss 3D printing.

Special Guests: chzbacon and Drew DeVore.

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Recent AWS outages sent Alex on a hunt to find more self-hosted alternatives, and Chris digs into the latest Home Assistant release.

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Plus a frenzy of your excellent feedback and questions.

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This week we unlock the "Pi"tential of the Compute Module 4 and turn it into a dual gigabit router and Jellyfin server.

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How far can we push it?

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Plus, Alex shares his thoughts on the state of mobile operating systems and the challenges they are imposing on DIYers.

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Troubleshooting goes very wrong for Alex, and he puts his backups to the ultimate test.

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Plus, monitoring your freezer in Home Assistant, building a self-hosted Notion alternative, and more.

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Local self-hosted video capture with AI object detection just got easy. Morgan joins us to detail his Frigate setup and its optional tight integration with Home Assistant.

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Plus, our new favorite up time monitoring tool and an easy way to add Tailscale and other apps to OPNsense with community plugins.

Special Guest: Morgan Peterman.

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A lot is changing in Home Assistant land, and it's almost all for the better; we break down the essential items. Chris gets wired about energy monitoring and shares his journey to get incorrectly formatted power stats working in Home Assistant's new Energy dashboard.

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Plus, off-line YouTube backup, backing up iCloud photos, Tailscale feedback, and more.

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Alex is abroad and uses the opportunity to build out not one but two ultimate self-hosted off-site servers. We share the hardware, software, and networking details.

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Plus, how Chris built a Nest-type thermostat using parts he already had.

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We chat with Matt from Adventurous Way about the home automations that have improved his quality of life, the clever way he manages their off-grid rig, and the new smart home project he's just kicking off.

Special Guest: Matt from Adventurous Way.

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We report back on our DeGoogle challenge and read your top Google Alternative apps and services.

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Plus, a new way to locally capture network cameras, our reaction to Kobol pulling the plug, and more.

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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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.

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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We discuss Chris's latest wall-mounted tablet solution for Home Assistant and several scripts to pimp your Plex setup.

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Join us for a very special birthday episode as we celebrate our 50th.

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Join us for a chat with Paulus, the founder of Home Assistant, as we look to the project's future, hardware devices, new standards, and more.

Special Guest: Paulus Schoutsen.

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Plus, our thoughts on Duplicati alternatives and more.

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Plus Chris' master plan to save everyone's batteries.

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A record is broken, a life goal is achieved, and why we are going long on Linksys.

Special Guest: Jake Howard 🍊.

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Special guest Jeff Geerling tells us how he got 16 drives connected to one Pi.

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Plus his thoughts on automation, self-hosting, and more.

Special Guest: Jeff Geerling.

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Our favorite LastPass alternative, why more boxes might be better than one, and we confess to an undying love.

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Alex shocks Chris with his latest project, then lays down some quick-fire picks.

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Plus what's wrong with OPNsense's Wireguard setup?

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Plus a bunch of follow up, emails, and more!

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Note: This episode was recorded before the recent second Home Assistant vulnerability

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Our favorite Google Docs killer with markdown support has a big update. We explain how we host it and why we love it.

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Plus Chris reviews the Home Assistant Blue.

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Alex reveals the culmination of five years of work into the Perfect Media Server.

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And we respond to a ton of feedback.

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Chris discovers a networking miracle, Alex has been playing with electrics, and we review the Wyze Cam 3.

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Alex puts the fantastic-looking, ARM-powered NAS known as the Helios64 to the test.

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Plus feedback, and more.

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Plus our tips to manage and stream audiobooks.

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We have a philosophical debate on cloud vs local and Alex experiences full-blown Americana this Halloween.

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Plus how Chris built the most reliable and high-performance mobile internet setup possible in his RV.

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Chris gets left out in the cold after a Home Assistant glitch, and Alex puts a big batch of USB hard drives to the test

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Plus a great pick for you pack rats, feedback, and more.

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We speak to Kevin and Patricia from Traefik, discuss Alex's recent ZFS snafu and we wonder if the new Chromecasts can match up to the Nvidia Shield.

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We get fancy with Traefik labels, and gush over some new Home Assistant features while saving our data from inevitable future failure.

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Plus some power monitoring updates, and more from the community.

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Mike and Wes join us to discuss the recent Docker news, freeing your Robovac from the cloud, and why Alex really loves Terraform.

Special Guests: Michael Dominick and Wes Payne.

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Jonathan Panozzo, aka Johnp join us to talk all things Unraid. He hints at future subscription plans, details performance features coming soon, shares the story of how Docker came to Unraid, and much more.

Special Guest: Jonathan Panozzo.

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Chris figures out how hot is too hot, Alex performs an extreme remote firewall install, and we share some of our favorite SSH tricks.

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Chris is slow cooking some servers, Alex has self-hosted AI with a nasty gotcha and a damp basement.

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Serverbuilds.net’s founder JDM joins us to discuss the perfect sever for low or high-end needs, and Alex stages a Pi intervention.

Special Guest: JDM_WAAAT.

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You're not a true self-hoster until you've lost your entire configuration at least once. Alex does a deep dive into cloud backup, plus we need your help to find the right Wifi solution for a listener.

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Plus why Chris continues to collect Raspberry Pi's at an alarming rate.

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We were almost outsmarted by a not so smart doorbell, Jellyfin makes Alex's prediction dreams come true and Chris tries QOwnNotes again.

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Plex have been busy and launched two new apps, we cover that and more in this episode of Self-Hosted.

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We share some WiFi tips and essential network ideas.

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And discuss one of our most significant compromises in the show so far.

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We have a neat self-hosted home inventory management system for preppers of any type, plus Chris' simple Home Assistant trick and Alex's valiant battle with the WebSockets daemon of the reverse proxies.

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Also - we answer listener questions, and share updates.

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Wendell Wilson is back, and he and Chris are struggling with their automation setups. Also, we chat about ideal home server hardware for a server or a pfSense box.

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Plus Wendell's home-rolled presence detection rig, some 3D printing chat, and more.

Special Guest: Wendell Wilson.

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Self-Hosted IRC solutions are better than ever. Alan Pope joins us to make a case for the classic way to communicate online and tells us about a modern client for the web, mobile, and desktop you run on your server.

\n\n

Plus, follow up on the new Self-Hosted wiki, and more.

Special Guest: Alan Pope.

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We try out the top self-hosted Wikis and tell you which we like best, and Chris has a major project off-grid update.

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Plus Alex tells us about his robot vacuum that runs Ubuntu.

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We each like different blogging platforms, and share why. Then our tips for keeping your server secure.

\n\n

Plus a great way to score cheap drives, a Project Off-Grid update, making your household light switches smart, and Alex's review of the HDHomeRun.

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Wyze and Xiaomi suffer major cloud hosted blunders, so Alex tells us about his new fully offline camera security system, tied into Shinobi.

\n\n

Plus Chris gets ready for Project Off-Grid's solar upgrade, our new favorite self-hosted speed test app, and a Ring alternative.

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Master of details, open source advocate and YouTuber, Quindor from Intermittent.Tech joins us for a chat about tuya-convert to avoid planned hardware obsolescence, his new 100TB server build, highly available home setups, and his DIY LED project.

Special Guest: Andries Faassen.

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Sometimes one project can lead to a hundred more. We celebrate Home Assistant's new release, the inclusion of the WLED integration and fall down the DIY project rabbit hole.

\n\n

Plus some clever power solutions, cheap LED light strips, and a test drive of Project Off-Grid.

\n\n

We recorded our first ever live stream to accompany this where we flash an ESP8266 board in seconds using WLED and esptool. This can be found on YouTube.

Links:

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Home Assistant has changed our families' lives for the better. We share tips for getting started, implementing automation, devices we use, and our favorite integrations.

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Plus Alex's thoughts on automating his new LG TV and be sure to check the links!

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Chris follows up on his Shinobi troubles and extols the virtues of $25 Wyze Cams to Alex, who has some exciting house news to share.

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Getting your storage setup just right often takes making painful mistakes first. We share ours, our current storage setups, when ZFS is not the tool for the job, and what you should consider when protecting your data.

\n\n

Plus, we share a few recent project mishaps.

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Plex Co-Founder and CTO Elan Feingold shares why he started Plex, its future direction, his home setup, his love for electric cars and the beach.

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Also Alex convinces Chris to give Ghost (the blogging platform) a try.

Special Guest: Elan Feingold.

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How far can you get with a Raspberry Pi 4? We go all in and find out.

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Plus our favorite travel router with WireGuard built in, and Chris kicks off Project Off-Grid. Meanwhile, Alex adopts proprietary software.

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We visit Wendell Wilson of Level1Techs and get a tour of his self-hosted setup, what he does and does not trust in the cloud, and we reminisce about the early days of computing and the internet.

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Plus we discuss craftsmanship in the Linux Kernel, and address the fundamental question of "why self-host."

Special Guest: Wendell Wilson.

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You've been wanting to host a Nextcloud instance (or anything else) for your family for a while now. Where on Earth do you start? We share some hard learned lessons about self-hosting, discuss the most important things to consider when building a home server, and Chris gives Alex a hard time about Arch as a Server OS.

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A new show that is your gateway to self hosting all the things.

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Discover new software, regain control of cloud services and own your data. Learn how you can take steps to free yourself from the agenda of large corporations and business models designed to sell your information.

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Join Alex and Chris on their Self Hosting journey on this new podcast from Jupiter Broadcasting.

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