Then, Alex and a special guest get into docker-compose vs. nix to manage your home lab.

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• Paulus Schoutsen on GitHub — I am Paulus Schoutsen and I work on privacy focused smart homes. I do this by building Home Assistant. I started the project in 2013 and now it's one of the most active open source projects in the world! Besides that I also work on ESPHome, ESP Web Tools, Improv Wi-Fi and more.
• Nabu Casa — Nabu Casa, Inc was founded in 2018 by the founders of both Home Assistant, the open source home automation platform, and Home Assistant OS, the operating system that turns your device into a smart home hub powered by Home Assistant. These projects have seen an immense growth and have helped shape DIY home automation communities around the world.
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• Kelly Vaughn on X — How a massive publicly traded company is only going to just now start doing canary deployments is so far beyond my comprehension…
• MoKo 400x300mm DIY PC Case Dust Mesh Filter — A custom magnetic dust filter for the Sliger CX4712 server case.
• Licensing announcement - Purchase a license to support Immich! — With those notes, we have enabled a way for you to financially support the continued development of Immich, ensuring the software can move forward and will be maintained, by offering a lifetime license of the software. We think if you like and use software, you should pay for it, but we're never going to force anyone to pay or try to limit Immich for those who don't.
• Wording change and clarification for purchasing Immich — I thought about it when I went to bed, I thought about it in my dream, I thought about it while doing the dishes. Taking into consideration all of your feedback and suggestions, and on behalf of the team, I am happy to show you what we came up with.
• LinuxFest Northwest 2024: Deploying NixOS Anywhere - YouTube — NixOS, the declarative operating system taking the world by storm, can be challenging to deploy on many hosting providers. In this talk, we'll unlock the full potential of NixOS by exploring how its unique architecture enables installation just about anywhere—from bare metal and VMs to a VPS provider near you.
• nixos-infect — A script to install NixOS on non-NixOS hosts.
• simple-nixos-mailserver
• Docker-OSX — Run Mac OS X in Docker with near-native performance! X11 Forwarding! iMessage security research! iPhone USB working! macOS in a Docker container!
• Moshidon for Mastodon - Apps on Google Play — Moshidon is a modified version of the official Mastodon Android app adding important features that are missing in the official app, such as the federated timeline, unlisted posting and an image description viewer.
• SchildiChat — SchildiChat is a feature-rich messenger for Matrix based on Element with some extras and tweaks.
• SendGrid — Email API and Email Marketing Campaigns
• SSH 128 Boost Barn — Thank you Boosters!

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

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• Zigbee Door/Window Sensor Chris Uses in his Fridge — The Centralite micro door and window sensor detects the opening and closing of doors and windows.
• Zooz 700 Series Z-Wave Plus Water Leak XS Sensor — Place it under your appliances to monitor for leaks discreetly. It's OK if the device is splashed with water but it can't be fully submerged so keep that in mind when choosing the installation location.
• Alex Kretzschmar on Masto — Just made my daughter a new nightlight running WLED.
• Setup WLED in 45 Seconds! NO TOOLS NEEDED - YouTube — WLED Tutorial Video
• Domestic Automation's WLED Pre-Installed Board — For use with Individually Addressable LEDs, which allow each LED to display a different color at the same time. Hundreds of animated effects can be displayed such as: “Android”, “Rainbow Runner”,“Twinklefox” and over a hundred more.
• Domestic Automation LLC — Want to light up your home and wow your guests? Brighten up your space with some dazzling lights in a variety of colors and entertaining effects!
• Home of the QuinLED LED Controllers — This website is about DIY WiFi controllable LED dimmers (Analog) and controllers (Digital) combined with lots of general information about LEDs and LED strip!
• Push notifications can be used to track who you contact - The Washington Post — Government investigators in the United States use push notification data to track individuals, according to Sen. Ron Wyden. Apple and Google are prohibited from discussing this surveillance technique by the Justice Department.
• Apple Requires Only a Subpoena to Turn Over Push Notification Tokens to Law Enforcement; Google Requires a Court Order — Update, 11 December 2023: Apple has updated its guidelines and now requires a court order as well.
• Year of the Voice - Chapter 5 - Home Assistant — The ESPHome team has been hard at work adding support for the S3-BOX-3, including the ability to customize the display! Check out the S3-BOX-3 tutorial to get started.
• ESP32-S3-BOX-3 voice assistant - tutorial — This tutorial will guide you to turn an ESP32-S3-BOX-3 into a Home Assistant voice assistant.
• ESP32-POE - Open Source Hardware Board — ESP32-PoE is an ESP32-powered WIFI/BLE/Ethernet development board with Power-Over-Ethernet feature. It is the perfect addition to any project that requires connectivity.
• Announcing - First NixCon North America! — Date: March 14th and 15th
• SCALE 21x
• Texas Linux Festival 2024
• LinuxFest Northwest 2024: Ready or not
• SSH 112 Boost Barn — Thank you to everyone who supports the show!

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• Servo Mounted Ball Valve Blast Gate by The Brumberjack — Used to automatically open and close different parts of an airflow system.
• Wolfgang's Channel - YouTube — Hi! My name is Wolfgang and I make videos about tech, Linux and computers.
• Wolfgang's Blog
• Restricting ASRock Rack BMC to dedicated IPMI_LAN port only — During this process I came across a frustrating "bug" in the Asrock Rack BMC implementation. No matter the settings I gave the BMC it was getting two IP addresses. One on the IPMI_LAN port as expected in my management VLAN, and another on eth0 which is undesirable.
• Archive.org: opensense.com
• OPNsense.com - OPNsense.org — WIPO decides in favour of OPNsense
• pfSense Plus and pfSense CE: Dev Insights and Direction
• pfSense 2.5.0 Development Snapshots Now Available
• New license types pfSense CE & Plus
• pfSense Plus Home+Lab is no longer available as a free download. TAC Subscription now required for CE upgrades.
• Addressing Changes to pfSense Plus Home+Lab — Today, we are announcing that the Home+Lab version of pfSense Plus, the commercial fork of the popular open-source firewall pfSense, is no longer available for free download.
• Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and Family — "I can see that one of my friends is apparently watching a ton of cheesy, soft porn stuff," a user said of Plex's Week in Review email and Discover Together feature.
• wESP32 — Wired ESP32 with PoE — The wESP32™ is an ESP32-based core board with wired Ethernet connectivity and power over Ethernet (PoE)
• ESP32-S3-BOX-3 Espressif Systems AIoT — The future Home Assistant voice hardware is shipping.
• Unifi Network - Setup Chromecast between VLANs
• Chromecast casting support across IP networks
• Inter-VLAN Casting with Chromecasts
• Jovian-NixOS — A set of packages and configurations for running NixOS on the Steam Deck.
• SSH 111 Boost Barn! — Thank you Boosters!
• Post-Show: Using NixOS as a router

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

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• ESPHome — ESPHome is a system to control your microcontrollers by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems.
• WLED High Power Addressable LED Strip Controller — WLED Addressable Strip Controller
• 3pcs ESP8266 NodeMCU — ESP8266 CP2102 NodeMCU LUA ESP-12E WIFI Serial Wireless Module
• 2pcs 5V One Channel Relay Module Relay Switch — The module uses genuine quality relay, normally open interfaces , Maximum load: AC 250V/10A, DC 30V/10A.
• 2023: Home Assistant's year of Voice - Home Assistant — TL;DR: It is our goal for 2023 to let users control Home Assistant in their own language. Mike Hansen, creator of Rhasspy, has joined Nabu Casa to lead this effort. We’re starting off by building a collection of intent matching sentences in every
• Removal of Mazda Connected Services integration - Home Assistant — Home Assistant is disappointed that Mazda has decided to take this position. We’re also sad that Mazda’s first recourse was not to reach out to us and the maintainer but to send a cease and desist letter instead.
• Year of the Voice - Chapter 4 - YouTube — We’re building an open voice assistant that does not share your data. Join us for our fourth progress update. You don't want to miss this one.
• Year of the Voice - Chapter 4: Wake words - Home Assistant — We’ve got great news: wake words are finally here! After 4 chapters, we now have the final building block for voice in Home Assistant.
• $13 voice assistant for Home Assistant - Home Assistant — This tutorial will guide you to turn an ATOM Echo into the world’s most private voice assistant. Pick up the tiny device to talk to your smart home. Issue commands and get responses!
• ATOM Echo Smart Speaker Development Kit — ATOM ECHO is a Programmable Smart Speaker based on the M5ATOM design. With its compact form factor measuring only 24 * 24 * 17 mm, this speaker delivers impressive capabilities. Easily play music wirelessly using the BT capabilities of the ESP32 from your mobile phone or tablet.
• Unleash Your Creativity with ESP32-S3-BOX-3 — ESP32-S3-BOX-3 is based on Espressif’s ESP32-S3 Wi-Fi + Bluetooth 5 (LE) SoC, with AI acceleration capabilities. In addition to ESP32-S3’s 512KB SRAM, ESP32-S3-BOX-3 comes with 16MB of Quad flash and 16MB of Octal PSRAM.
• Anker PowerConf S330 USB Speakerphone — A USB speakerphone with 4 high-sensitivity microphones to pick up all voices within 3m in super-high clarity.
• piper: A fast, local neural text to speech system — A fast, local neural text to speech system that sounds great and is optimized for the Raspberry Pi 4. Piper is used in a variety of projects.
• wyoming: Peer-to-peer protocol for voice assistants — A peer-to-peer protocol for voice assistants (basically JSONL + PCM audio)
• wyoming-faster-whisper — Wyoming protocol server for faster whisper speech to text system
• openWakeWord: An open-source audio wake word (or phrase) detection framework with a focus on performance and simplicity. — openWakeWord is an open-source wakeword library that can be used to create voice-enabled applications and interfaces. It includes pre-trained models for common words & phrases that work well in real-world environments.
• Symfonium: Music player & cast - Apps on Google Play — Symfonium is a simple, modern, beautiful and highly configurable music player, with a unique vision to be the central control point of your music. Add one or multiple media providers.
• ZimaBoard - World's First Hackable Single Board Server — World’s First Hackable Single Board Server Starting at $119.9

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

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• TubesZB — TubesZB Coordinators and Router
• HP ProDesk 600 G1 Desktop Mini PC — HP ProDesk 600 G1 Desktop Mini PC is HP’s smallest business desktop yet. Efficiently crafted to save space and energy.
• HP ProDesk 600 G1 Desktop Mini PC for sale | eBay
• Intel Quick Sync Video
• Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5! — Priced at $60 for the 4GB variant, and $80 for its 8GB sibling
• WireGuard Component — ESPHome — This component uses a custom implementation not developed by original authors and currently available for ESP32 platform only.
• Spook 👻 a scary powerful toolbox for Home Assistant. — Spook ships with a lot of goodness for you to explore. Currently, there are three main areas of functionality that Spook sprinkles on top of Home Assistant.
• SSH 023: Shields Up - — We've spent thousands of dollars and over a decade refining the perfect home media setup. We get nostalgic and share what worked and what REALLY didn't.
• Incorrect and missing videos - Official Kodi Wiki — Errors arise from either mistakes by the user, inherent limitations of the scraper, and/or errors at the site of the information provider.
• Naming video files/Episodes - Official Kodi Wiki — Be aware of the following
• MediaElch: Media Manager for Kodi — MediaElch is a MediaManager for Kodi. Information about Movies, TV Shows, Concerts and Music are stored as NFO files. Fanarts are downloaded automatically from fanart.tv.
• tinyMediaManager — tinyMediaManager is a media management tool written in Java/Swing. It is written to provide metadata for the Kodi Media Center (formerly known as XBMC), MediaPortal and Plex media server. Due to the fact that it is written in Java, tinyMediaManager will run on Windows, Linux and macOS (and possible more OS).
• FileBot - The ultimate TV and Movie Renamer — FileBot is the ultimate tool for renaming and organizing your movies, TV shows and Anime. Match and rename media files against online databases, download artwork and cover images, fetch subtitles, write metadata, and more, all at once in matter of seconds. It's smart and just works.
• ESPHome — ESPHome is a system to control your microcontrollers by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems.
• Tasmota — Tasmota is an open source firmware for Espressif ESP8266, ESP32, ESP32-S or ESP32-C3 chipset based devices created and maintained by Theo Arends.
• A Call for Developers | Jellyfin — We'd like to call on you, the wider community, to help make Jellyfin better! We need contributors, fresh ideas and blood to help the project move past our current funk and into something more.
• SSH 107 Boost Barn — Thank you for helping produce episode 107 of Self-Hosted!
• LinuxFest Northwest | Meetup — Friday Oct 20th - Oct 21st 2023

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• ⚡ Self-Hosted on the Podcastindex.org — Send a Boost into the show via the web. First, top-up Alby, then head over to our entry on the Podcast Index.
• gmail-unsubscribe: Bulk unsubscribe from lists in your Gmail inbox for free without compromising privacy — This Google Apps Script + Google Spreadsheet combo unsubscribes you from all the messages with a specific label (default "Unsubscribe"). Unlike services such as Unroll.me that sell your data but don't actually work, this script is completely private: all data stays in your Google account, and you can verify the script's behavior by reading its source before giving it access to your account.
• Year of the Voice - Chapter 3: Ready when you are - Home Assistant — For Chapter 3, we bring the full power of Assist to the million active Android devices running the Home Assistant Companion app. Got an Android phone, tablet, or watch? Set Assist as your default digital assistant and talk to your Home Assistant with one push!
• 2023.8: Translated services, events, and wildcards! - Home Assistant — Pretty much all features in this release are absolutely amazing, and it is hard to pick a favorite. Great translation improvements that help with the user experience, a new entity to capture events from things like remotes, and the new Assist features are, again, mind-blowing!
• Linkwarden — Linkwarden is a fully self-hostable, open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize and archive webpages.
• Linkwarden Docker Compose · GitHub
• linkding — linkding is a bookmark manager that you can host yourself. It's designed be to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker.
• floccus — Sync your bookmarks privately across browsers an devices
• devopsdays Chicago 2023 — Devopsdays is coming to Chicago!
• Chicago Matrix Chatroom — A spot for listeners from Chicago to organize.
• IMDB for the Terminal — IMDB for the terminal uses three APIs - one to scrape IMDB for the top 1000 lists, one to give you details on the movies and series and one to show you where you can stream it
• Page2API — Page2API is a delightful and versatile API that empowers you to scrape the web like a PRO.
• Workgroup:SELinux - NixOS Wiki — This group is about adding SE Linux support to NixOS both booting and when run on a system like Debian or Fedora with SE Linux support.
• hass-rename-entities: Home Assistant CLI script to rename entities in bulk — This script allows you to rename entities in your Home Assistant setup using the command line interface.
• Supported SSO identity providers · Tailscale — Tailscale works on top of the identity provider (IdP) or single sign-on (SSO) provider that you already use.
• Introducing Custom OIDC · Tailscale
• dotfiles-flake — This repo contains a minimal set of configuration needed for installing NixOS on a computer with ZFS as root filesystem.
• ChrisLAS on Nostr — pubkey: npub1awyzkzaktxlhyg6syzst3pxy5lvp0c908yphz4ekk9rp3zcapp5qxn79n4 / eb882b0bb659bf72235020a0b884c4a7d817e0af3903715736b146188b1d0868
• Baby Breathing Monitor | Angelcare AC027 — Our Movement Sensor Pad is designed to be placed under your baby's mattress, where it will sense even the smallest of movements.

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• OWC Thunderbolt Dock — Compatible with M1 Macs, Thunderbolt 3 Equipped Macs, and Thunderbolt 4 PCs
• Snapcast — Snapcast is a multiroom client-server audio player, where all clients are time synchronized with the server to play perfectly synced audio. It's not a standalone player, but an extension that turns your existing audio player into a Sonos-like multiroom solution.
• piCorePlayer — Free software that plays local music as well as online music streaming services on a Raspberry Pi
• Welcome to mysqueezebox.com!
• BroadLink RM4 Mini IR Universal Remote Control — Wi-Fi Infrared Blaster
• Rosewill RSV-SATA-Cage-34
• Paulus Schoutsen on Twitter — Oh hello Matter v1
• esphome-remote — iPod style wifi smart home remote. Uses ESPHome and Home Assistant to integrate with Sonos, Roku and run custom scenes and scripts.
• AsRock IPMI websocket connection failed Caddy V2
• Jupiter Broadcasting Meetups — Keep an eye out for a meetup near you!
• Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup Rooms on Matrix
• Z-Wave – ZOOZ Switches
• Using Bitwarden with Fastmail — If you have a Bitwarden account, you can create Masked Email addresses quickly and easily through Bitwarden's Generator.
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• Jupiter Broadcasting East Coast Meetup — Let's hang out at the park across the street from Prime BBQ.
• Speed boost achievement unlocked on Docker Desktop — . During testing with our amazing macOS community of users, we have observed that these changes have reduced the time taken to complete filesystem operations by up to 98%.
• [Docker Desktop] Improve Mac File system performance
• Hector Martin on Twitter — Well, this is unfortunate. It turns out Apple's custom NVMe drives are amazingly fast - if you don't care about data integrity. If you do, they drop down to HDD performance. Thread.
• Upgrading from Paperless-NG to Paperless-NGX — As of February 2022, the paperless-ng community created a new fork to continue development due to the inactivity on the original repo 1. This has means new docker images, new configs, etc.
• Announcing first release of Paperless-ngx, the community-supported successor to Paperless-ng
• paperless-ngx — Paperless-ngx is a document management system that transforms your physical documents into a searchable online archive so you can keep, well, less paper.
• Ansible Role: paperless-ng
• Matter’s delay means you’ll have to wait longer — And some current Thread products won’t be part of the new standard
• MQTT Explained + MQTT Home Assistant and Node-RED integration
• node-red-contrib-ha-mqtt (node) - Node-RED
• ZwaveJS2Mqtt
• Argon EON: 4-Bay Network Storage powered by Raspberry Pi 4 — Argon EON, a 4 - Bay SATA NAS Enclosure, powered by the most versatile single board computer. By the very nature and essence of the Raspberry Pi the Argon EON is a Build Your Own Network Attached Storage (BYO-NAS).
• fEVR -frigate Event Video Recorder — fEVR works along side of frigate and home assistant to collect video and snapshots of objects detected using your existing camera systems.

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• RustDesk - Yet another remote desktop software — A great alternative to TeamViewer and AnyDesk! You have full control of your data, with no concerns about security. You can use our rendezvous/relay server, set up your own, or write your own rendezvous/relay server.
• RustDesk-server
• rustdesk-server-demo: A working demo of RustDesk server implementation
• Home Assistant drama
• “Please don't add any of my stuff to this project” | Hacker News
• Home Assistant Forum Thread
• Shuck 'em if you got 'em — WD external drive price tracker.
• Chia Network — Chia Network develops a blockchain and smart transaction platform created by the inventor of BitTorrent, Bram Cohen. It implements the first new Nakamoto consensus algorithm since Bitcoin in 2008. Proofs of Space and Time replace energy intensive “proofs of work.”
• ESPHome - Version 1.19.0 — Wow. Ok, so this release may not look big, but there are a number of new features that are not new components.
• ESP Web Tools — ESP Web Tools is a set of open source tools to allow working with ESP devices in the browser
• Tasmota v9.5.0 Release
• Monica - Personal CRM done right — Monica helps you organize the social interactions with your loved ones.
• tinyhome: Static homepage generator — tinyhome generates a static HTML homepage via shell script.

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• No Privacy Compromise Home Automation - YouTube — Chris' YouTube interview with Paulus in 2017.
• Home Assistant Blue! — Hardware that is affordable and fast, packed in a gorgeous case and powered by the most powerful home automation software on the planet: Home Assistant
• ESPHome 1.17
• Upgrade to Lit 2.0
• ESPHome on Twitter @esphome_ — ESPHome is the easiest way to use ESP8266/ESP32 via simple configuration files and control them remotely via home automation systems like @home_assistant.
• Nabu Casa on Twitter @NabuCasa — The missing cloud piece for @home_assistant, by the founder of Home Assistant. Control your Home Assistant from anywhere. Fully encrypted.
• Nabu Casa

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

Special Guest: Jeff Geerling.

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• Jeff Geerling - YouTube — K8s, Ansible, Raspberry Pi, photography, tech, DIY, tools, etc. Most anything has the potential for showing up on this channel. I might focus on one thing someday, but it's more fun to do ALL THE THINGS!
• Hardware RAID on the Raspberry Pi CM4 | Jeff Geerling — Now I have actual enterprise SAS drives running on a hardware RAID controller on a Raspberry Pi, and it's faster than the 'fastest' SATA RAID array I set up in that other video.
• Enterprise SAS RAID ...on a RASPBERRY PI?! - YouTube
• I built the fastest Raspberry Pi SATA RAID NAS! - YouTube
• IT WORKED! - 16 Hard Drives on the Raspberry Pi (Pi Day Special) - YouTube
• Building the fastest Raspberry Pi NAS, with SATA RAID

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

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• Security Bulletin 1- Home Assistant — It has come to our attention that certain custom integrations have security issues and could potentially leak sensitive information.
• Security Disclosure 2: vulnerabilities in custom integrations HACS, Font Awesome and others - Home Assistant — . The conclusion is that some custom integrations are still vulnerable to a directory traversal attack while not being authenticated with Home Assistant. It allows an attacker to access any file without having to log in. This access includes any credentials that you might have stored to allow Home Assistant to access other services.
• Generic Thermostat - Home Assistant — The generic_thermostat climate platform is a thermostat implemented in Home Assistant. It uses a sensor and a switch connected to a heater or air conditioning under the hood.
• ATC_MiThermometer — Custom firmware for the Xiaomi Thermometer LYWSD03MMC and Telink Flasher via USB to Serial converter.
• ESPHome — ESPHome is a system to control your ESP8266/ESP32 by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems.
• Xiaomi Mijia BLE Temperature and Humidity Sensor - Home Assistant — The mitemp_bt sensor platform allows one to monitor room temperature and humidity. The Xiaomi Mijia BLE Temperature and Humidity sensor with LCD is a small Bluetooth Low Energy device that monitors the room temperature and humidity.
• Xiaomi Mijia Bluetooth Thermometer — New Xiaomi Mijia Bluetooth Thermometer 2 Wireless Smart Electric Digital Hygrometer Thermometer
• Google-drive-backup: Automatically create and sync Hass.io snapshots into Google Drive — A complete and easy way to back up your Home Assistant snapshots to Google Drive.
• Troubleshooting your configuration - Home Assistant

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

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.

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• Hass.io - Home Assistant — Hass.io turns your Raspberry Pi (or another device) into the ultimate home automation hub powered by Home Assistant. With Hass.io you can focus on integrating your devices and writing automations.
• Home Assistant Community Store — HACS gives you a powerful UI to handle downloads of custom needs.
• Omni 20c+ 100W USB-C/Wireless Charging — Portable Power Bank with USB Hub
• ESPHome — ESPHome is a system to control your ESP8266/ESP32 by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems.
• Home Assistant Smart LEDs using WLED and ESP8266 — A platinum level Home Assistant integration for the WLED project was released with version 0.120 on Nov 20th 2019. I'm going to walk you through flashing a D1 Mini (though the same steps apply for a NodeMCU too) using Linux. You can probably expect this process to take about 5-10 minutes.
• WLED: Control WS2812B RGB LEDs with an ESP8266 over WiFi! — A fast and feature-rich implementation of an ESP8266/ESP32 webserver to control NeoPixel (WS2812B, WS2811, SK6812, APA102) LEDs!
• LED strips - Google Sheets
• 0.102: Official Android App, Almond, Scene editor
• Self-Hosted Live Hack Livestream Recording — DIY ESP device based LEDs just got a whole lot easier.