Self-Hosted - Episodes Tagged with “Linux Academy”

17: Where Do I Start?

Jupiter Broadcasting — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 00:15:00 -0700

Knowing which hardware to buy or which apps to run on that shiny new hardware can be hard. Chris and Alex discuss networking gear and where to find some of the best getting started documentation on the net.

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

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Self-Hosted now has a Discord server! — Join us over on Discord!
Plex Blog - Two New Delicious Apps — A post from Plex about their two shiny new apps.
Plex Dash — A Medium post from Plex about their new app Plex Dash.
Plexamp — A Medium post from Plex about their new app Plexamp.
Healthchecks.io — Simple and Effective Cron Job Monitoring
Self-Hosted Healthchecks.io Container (from Linuxserver.io) — Receive alerts when your nightly backups, weekly reports, cron jobs and scheduled tasks don't run on time.
Let's Encrypt Docker Starter Guide from Linuxserver.io — The goal of this guide is to give you ideas on what can be accomplished with the LinuxServer letsencrypt docker image and to get you started.
Linuxserver.io Docker 101 Docs — A quick intro to the basics of getting started with Docker.
serverbuilds.net — A site dedicated to helping you find the best deals on used Enterprise gear.
Alex's cheap x86 pfsense build — A build log for a $150 x86 based pfsense router.
Unmanaged vs Managed network switches — What's the difference and do you really need a managed switch?
How to transfer accounts for a SmartHome when you sell up — How do you ensure future owners realize the value of your smart home devices?

16: Compromised Networking

Jupiter Broadcasting — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 04:00:00 -0700

We share some WiFi tips and essential network ideas.

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

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Self-Hosted Discord Server
Rationale for using Discord — Let's grow a community around being the best place to discuss Self-Hosting.
Barcodebuddy — Barcode system for Grocy
Quarantine-o-meter Home Assistant Dashboard
Apple acquires popular weather app Dark Sky and will shut down the Android version — The Android and Wear OS apps will work until July 1st
Wyze firmware update lets you turn its security cameras into webcams — To solve webcam shortage issues if you’re stuck working from home

15: Keeping Track of Stuff

Jupiter Broadcasting — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 00:15:00 -0700

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.

Also - we answer listener questions, and share updates.

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Grocy — ERP beyond your fridge - grocy is a web-based self-hosted groceries & household management solution for your home
Home Assistant Community Add-on: Grocy
Home Assistant External Reverse Proxy Setup with nginx — I was running into an issue for a while tonight where I could get Home Assistant itself working just fine but any add-ons that used web sockets wouldn't load properly.
Let's Encrypt, Nginx & Reverse Proxy Starter Guide
Picture Elements Card - Home Assistant — The Picture Elements card is one of the most versatile types of cards.
Screenshot of Chris' HA Watchful Eye
Genmon — Generac Generator Monitoring using a Raspberry Pi and WiFi
Salt-Level — Checks level of salt in water softner brine tank
ChrisLAS - Chris W. Fisher — Check out the ChrisLAS Cast

14: Embracing Automation

Jupiter Broadcasting — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 00:15:00 -0700

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.

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

Special Guest: Wendell Wilson.

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sshuttle — Where transparent proxy meets VPN meets ssh
Fractal Design — Fractal Design is a leading designer and manufacturer of premium PC hardware including cases, cooling, power supplies and accessories.
Tinkercad — Tinkercad is a free, easy-to-use app for 3D design, electronics, and coding. It's used by teachers, kids, hobbyists, and designers to imagine, design, and make anything!
Fusion 360 — Integrated CAD, CAM, and CAE software.
Pocket Rotary Cellphone — The 3D-printed case contains an ATmega2560V microcontroller and an Adafruit FONA 3G cell module, while a flexible mono eInk display adorns the outside.
ASRock > DeskMini A300 Series
LanCache.NET — Download your games once and serve them out to many people at your LAN.
Level1Techs Forums
Bluetooth Presence Detection for Home Automation — You might be here because you heard me mention my Bluetooth presence detection setup on the new SelfHosted podcast, or possibly because you want to subject yourself to an internet-of-things setup in your own home while desperately trying to escape the consequential corporate surveillance as a result of that action (soft chuckles for everyone). Let’s talk about what it is, why you might want it, and how you can minimize the downsides.

13: IRC is Not Dead

Jupiter Broadcasting — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 04:00:00 -0800

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.

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

Special Guest: Alan Pope.

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World's Worst Best Drone Retrieval Device - YouTube — Having some fun watching my local flying crew/friends use the World's Worst Best Drone Retrieval Device.
You don't need a UI for docker containers — You really don't. Managing small deployments of containers from the command line is easier, faster and 'commit-able'. We're not talking about vast fleets of containers here but in this article I'll cover how I use docker-compose to manage over 30 docker containers in a simple, scalable and faster way than if you were using a UI.
awesome-selfhosted: A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted locally. — A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted locally. Selfhosting is the process of hosting and managing applications instead of renting from Software-as-a-Service providers
Linux Server Image Status
Quasseldroid IRC Client — Quassel makes IRC fun again – open a client anywhere, connect to your core, and have all your favourite channels and networks right there.
The Lounge — A web-based IRC client for the modern world! Once configured and started, users can access it from their browser or mobile device.
Install theloungeirc for Linux using the Snap Store
IRCCloud
Self-Hosted Show Wiki — Here you will find an open source, living and breathing repository of resources that we talk about on the Self Hosted podcast.

12: Which Wiki Wins

Jupiter Broadcasting — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 00:15:00 -0800

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

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

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Going Solar — Work, Life, and RV Podcast — It's a huge investment! So we lay out our rationale for going solar after four years in our RV. Why we think who and how it gets installed is so critical, exactly HOW MUCH we spent, and how this new set up will keep us working from the road.
Chris' Blog: Going Solar
Alex's Blog: ktz.
Developing on Remote Machines using SSH and Visual Studio Code — The Visual Studio Code Remote - SSH extension allows you to open a remote folder on any remote machine, virtual machine, or container with a running SSH server and take full advantage of VS Code's feature set. Once connected to a server, you can interact with files and folders anywhere on the remote filesystem.
Don't blindly trust Docker for the selfhosted stuff — It is my strong belief that you shouldn't go crazy with all-things-docker when deploying selfhosted services at home. Online forums, especially r/selfhosted, seem to foster an opinion that providing a Dockerfile or better yet a docker-compose.yml or even prebuilt public images on Docker Hub is an acceptable way to distribute software targeting the selfhosting crowd.
TiddlyWiki — a non-linear personal web notebook — Welcome to TiddlyWiki, a unique non-linear notebook for capturing, organising and sharing complex information.
Wiki.js — The most powerful and extensible open source Wiki software.
BookStack — BookStack is a simple, self-hosted, easy-to-use platform for organising and storing information.
Material for MkDocs — Material is a theme for MkDocs, an excellent static site generator geared towards project documentation. It is built using Google's Material Design guidelines.
Roborock S5 Robot Vacuum Cleaner
Valetudo: Self-contained control webinterface for xiaomi vacuum robots — Self-contained control webinterface for xiaomi vacuum robots
clarifies mi home app version requirement by IronicBadger · Pull Request #11401 · home-assistant/home-assistant.io · GitHub

10: Compromised Cameras

Jupiter Broadcasting — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 00:15:00 -0800

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

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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Employee error to blame for massive data leak, Wyze says — The database in question was basically a copy of the production database that Wyze created to work with
When I load the Xiaomi camera in my Google home hub I get stills from other people's homes!
Alex Kretzschmar on Twitter — "Another item off the Todo list. Self-hosted cameras using @AmcrestSecurity 4k IP8M-T2499EW
Self-hosted Speedtest — Self-hosted Speedtest for HTML5 and more. Easy setup, examples, configurable, mobile friendly. Supports PHP, Node, Multiple servers, and more
Alex's docker-compose snippet for LibreSpeedTest
Statping: Status Page for monitoring your websites — An easy to use Status Page for your websites and applications. Statping will automatically fetch the application and render a beautiful status page with tons of features for you to build an even better status page. This Status Page generator allows you to use MySQL, Postgres, or SQLite on multiple operating systems.
Amazon.com : Nelly's Security 3MP WiFi Video Doorbell Camera — W/ 2 Way Audio, Onvif Compliant, PIR Motion Sensor, Night Vision, 16GB SD Card Pre-Installed.
Smart Power Strip TECKIN WiFi Surge Protector

9: Conquering Planned Obsolescence

Jupiter Broadcasting — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 00:15:00 -0800

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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8: WLED Changes the Game

Jupiter Broadcasting — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 00:15:00 -0800

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.

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.

6: Low Cost Home Camera System

Jupiter Broadcasting — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 00:30:00 -0800

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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Wyze Cam | 1080p HD Smart Home Camera With Free AWS Cloud
Wyze Cam RTSP – Wyze
Shinobi Official Documentation - Get Started
Shinobi Official Documentation - Motion Detection
Shinobi Articles - How to use Motion Detection
Shinobi Articles - How I optimized my RTSP camera
Nest camera hacked: Hacker spoke to baby
You should not run your mail server because mail is hard — In this article, I will voluntarily use the term mail because it is vague enough to encompass protocols and software. This is not a very technical article and I don’t want to dive into protocols, I want people who have never worked with mail to understand all of it.
12tb Easystore drive for $179.99

5: ZFS Isn’t the Only Option

Jupiter Broadcasting — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 08:30:00 -0800

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.

Plus, we share a few recent project mishaps.

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The Perfect Media Server - 2019 Edition — Reliable means you don't lose data. And that's exactly what the MergerFS + Snapraid combo I first wrote about in 2016 has provided. A solid, boring and reliable way of storing multiple TBs of data with little fuss.
Getting started with ZFS on Linux — Here's a short article giving a ZFS 101 intro and list of commands in one place.
New Hard Drive rituals — It is for these reasons that I now religiously do not commit any data to a drive until it has undergone at least one full cycle
The 'hidden' cost of using ZFS for your home NAS — With ZFS, you either have to buy all storage you expect to need upfront, or you will be wasting a few hard drives on redundancy you don't need.
Mergerfs: a featureful union filesystem
A Chat with mergerfs Developer — Alex, Drew from ChooseLinux and Brent (of the Brunch fame) sit down with Antonio Musumeci, the developer of mergerfs during the JB sprint.
Alex's one line mergerfs fstab entry
My Photography Workflow

3: Home Network Under $200

Jupiter Broadcasting — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 04:00:00 -0700

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

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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5.11 Taclite Trousers — Constructed using premium polyester and cotton mechanical stretch Taclite ripstop fabric with a triple-stitching built, this pair of pants is sturdy and flexible to ensure maximum performance in the field.
Amazon.com: Gigabit Travel AC Router OpenWrt — Slate Comes with Pre-installed VPN server and client functions in WireGuard and OpenVPN.
GL-AR750S - The SLATE Our favorite travel router — The first dual-band Gigabit AC travel router. We upgrade Ethernet ports (totally 3) to Gigabit ports so that it get faster speed in your travel. We also added 128MB Nand Flash to provide dual flash for more storage and faster operation speed. It has a MicroSD (TF) slot which increase your storage space up to 128GB.
Raneto - A free, open, simple Markdown powered Knowledgebase — Raneto is an open source Knowledgebase platform that uses static Markdown files to power your Knowledgebase.
raneto - Docker Hub
SmokePing — SmokePing keeps track of your network latency.
smokeping - Docker Hub
Find the Containers Chris Uses
Migrate qcow2 images from KVM to VMWare — I recently switched from Proxmox to ESXI for my primary Hypervisor due to better support for automation tools like Ansible and Terraform plus better integrations with Red Hat Satellite.
Gotchas when migrating Fedora qcow2 images to vmware — My issue was that the initramfs didn't contain the necessary drivers for the emulated hardware and as such the VM refused to boot except into emergency mode.

2: Why Self-Host? With Wendell from Level1techs

Jupiter Broadcasting — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 07:45:00 -0700

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.

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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