128: To Update, or Not to Update?

July 26th, 2024  |  1 hr 5 mins

amazon ses, amp, android head unit, automated updates, blue bubbles, canada, canary deployments, colo, crowdstrike, dns record, docker-osx, element, email alerts, esphome, esphome devices, firmware bugs, game servers, garmin epix pro sapphire gen 2, grafana, graphene os, immich licensing, jupiter broadcasting, lan game streaming, magnetic dust filter, metrics, moonlight, moshidon, nextcloud, nix-infect, nixos, nixos-anywhere, nixos-mailserver, notifications, ntfy, offline messaging, pihole, plex server, prometheus, protonmail, sandboxed google play services, schildichat, self-hosting podcast, sendgrid, server, server naming, smtp relay, smtp server, sunshine, tailscale, toyota tundra, unified push, uptimekuma, vps, zabbix

ESPHome dev dishes on device updates, Immich license drama heats up, Alex's DIY server fix, and Chris reports on mobile tech trip test.

112: Red Light, Green Light

December 15th, 2023  |  58 mins 3 secs

amazon, amd ryzen, apple, chromecasts, connector, controller, couchdb, data signal, designers, developers, domestic automation, door/window sensor, end users, esphome, foss leaders, framework, google, home assistant, iot networks, jellyfin, jupiter broadcasting, justice department, led, leds, linuxfest northwest, livesync plugin, obsidian, obsidian sync, plex, plug, post, power, push notifications, raspberry pi satellites, relay, remote satellites, s3-box-3, scale, self-hosting podcast, southern california linux expo, sysadmins, texas linux fest, tizen, track, washington post, water leak sensor, websocket api, wled, wyoming integration, zigbee

Alex shares a new build integrating WLED, and Chirs reviews hardware that can get you started with WLED in 45 seconds.

Then, one last big update on the Year of Voice and our thoughts on self-hosting push notifications.

111: pfSense Makes no Sense

December 1st, 2023  |  1 hr 9 mins

aes-ni, ai, asrockrack, bmc, bsd, budget, chromecast, computers, control, disks, esp32, esp32-s3-box-3, esp8266, esphome, git-annex, guest network, hardware transcoding, immich, intel arc, interlock, iot devices, ipmi, jellyfin, jovian-nixos, jupiter broadcasting, licensing, linux, low power servers, media server, netgate, opnsense, pfsense, plex, poe, scott long, self-hosting podcast, servo motors, tech, touch screen, vlans, voice-assistant, wesp32, wireguard, youtube

We break down the state of the pfSense changes and the red flags we see. Plus, we're joined by Wolfgang from Wolfgang's channel to dig into his homelab and much more.

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.

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.

103: Archiving the Internet

August 11th, 2023  |  59 mins 46 secs

android, apparmor, assist, bookmark manager, collaborative, collections, cross-plex server watch syncing, docker image, esphome, flakes, floccus, folders, github, home assistant, home assistant companion app, imdb-terminal, ios home screen, jellyfin, jupiter broadcasting, linkding, linkwarden, multi-arch deployments, nabu casa, nix, nixos, pdf, piper, plex, raspberry pi 4, screenshot, self-hostable, self-hosting podcast, selinux, swiftfin app, tags, tvos client, wake word detection, webpages, yaml

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

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.

67: The No Container Theory

March 25th, 2022  |  48 mins 27 secs

ansible, asahi linux, beardedtek, docker, docker desktop, esphome, f_fullsync, fevr, frigate, fsync, jupiter broadcasting, m1, matter delayed, mqtt, nix home assistant, nixos, node-red, paperless-ngx, self-hosted, self-hosting podcast, zwavejs2mqtt

Why Chris is moving away from using Containers, Alex's new project, and some great follow-up.

47: Whose License Is It Anyway?

June 18th, 2021  |  42 mins 27 secs

ambee, chia coin, drive failure, esp web tools, esphome, frenck, home assistant, improv wi-fi, jupiter broadcasting, mergerfs, nat traversal, nixos, reproducible builds, rustdesk, self-hosted teamviewer alternative, self-hosting podcast, shucks.top, static homepage, tasmota, tinyhome

We take a look at a self-hosted TeamViewer alternative, give you our take on some Home Assistant drama and discuss the effects of a new crypto coin on hard drive prices.

45: The Future of Home Assistant

May 21st, 2021  |  38 mins 20 secs

esphome, home assistant blue, home assistant founder interview, jupiter broadcasting, nabu casa, paulus schoutsen, self-hosting podcast

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.