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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• AWS explains outage — A major Amazon Web Services outage on Tuesday started after network devices got overloaded, the company said on Friday.
• Arthur on Twitter — The AWS outage trickled down to my automated Christmas lights not turning on tonight
• WLED — Control WS2812B and many more types of digital RGB LEDs with an ESP8266 or ESP32 over WiFi!
• John Foreman on Twitter — AWS had an outage and now I can't vacuum the dog hair in my living room. What a time to be alive
• Valetudo — Valetudo is a standalone binary, which runs on rooted Vacuums of the Xiaomi ecosystem and aims to enable the user to operate the robot vacuum without any Cloud Connection whatsoever.
• Amazon Web Services crashed today : amazonecho — I spent about an hour restarting routers, checking for updates, unplugging and plugging in devices, and scouring the web for answers and finally saw in the news that an AWS outage took out a huge chunk of the internet. Amazon hasn’t released a statement yet, that I know of, but I assume this is what’s affecting all of the devices, e.g., my smart plug stopped working and my echo dot and show only stream one song before quitting for no apparent reason.
• Tasmota — Total local control with quick setup and updates. Control using MQTT, Web UI, HTTP or serial. Automate using timers, rules or scripts. Integration with home automation solutions. Incredibly expandable and flexible.
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• 2021.12 - Home Assistant — New configuration menu, the button entity, and gorgeous area cards!
• Paulus Schoutsen on Twitter — With @NabuCasa we’re doing all our meetings in VR. It feels more like being together compared to a grid of webcam feeds. Especially for collaborative sessions this is a big win.
• How to Approach a company about building an HA integration on their API? — From the web UI I can see that the system is designed with security in mind - each request must contain various tokens generated with a combination of AES256 encryption, MD5 and SHA512 hashing of the rest of the request, along with device-provided keys and various state-tracking.
• Infrastructure as Code - Perfect Media Server — This simple philosophy of managing configuration in the same way as we do with source code revolutionized the way I approach building systems.
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• Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs and other services go down in multiple countries — Google experienced an authentication system outage for approximately 45 minutes due to an internal storage quota issue.
• Pictures of Chris' new Server Cupboard — Just finished my new spot for networking equipment in my RV Lady Jupiter.
• Aeotec Multisensor 6 — 6-in-1 Z-Wave Plus MultiSensor: motion, humidity, temperature, light lux, UV, vibration sensor.
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• Home Assistant Conference 2020 - Home Assistant — The Home Assistant Conference is an online event to celebrate the community. It’s where the Home Assistant community will share their ideas, creations and major milestones. The event will take place on December 13, 2020.
• Home Assistant Blue! — We challenged ourselves: what would the perfect home automation hub look like. Not just software, but also hardware and looks.
• Automate with Blueprints! — Say hello; to the major new feature of Home Assistant 2020.12: Blueprints!
• Latest Blueprints Exchange topics - Home Assistant Community
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• Mini ITX Motherboard with Intel QuickSync Support — ASRock J5040-ITX Intel Quad-Core Pentium Silver Processor J5040
• OpenYourMouth — Open Source Recipes from the Jupiter Broadcasting community
• Chowdown — Chowdown is my attempt at fixing recipe app burnout, by moving my recipes out of closed services and into plain text.
• groceri.es — groceri.es is a web-based application to manage your recipes and plan your meals ahead. groceri.es keeps track of your menu plans and generates a groceries list for you.

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• Chris' Z-Wave USB Dongle — Z-Wave Plus certified for wide compatibility
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• Chris' Fav sensor: Aeotec Multisensor 6 — Z-Wave Plus 6-in1 motion, temperature, humidity, light, UV, vibration sensor
• Chris' Outdoor Z-Wave Power Plugs — GE Enbrighten Z-Wave Plus Smart Plug, 1 On/Off Outlet, Weather-Resistant, Built-in Repeater/Range Extender
• 500-Watt Ceramic Small Space Personal Mini Heater — Compact personal space heater design that is small enough for tables or desktops
• Chris' Portable Oil-Filled Radiator — 1200 watts of heating power, silent operation, Best for small to medium rooms that need constant heat in the colder seasons.
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• Alex's Fav Smart Plug — Teckin Mini Smart Socket with Schedule and Timer Function
• Smart RGB LED strips with Home Assistant — This article will detail how to build a fully open source, 3D printable smart LED strip for $16.38.
• Mosquitto - An open source MQTT broker — The MQTT protocol provides a lightweight method of carrying out messaging using a publish/subscribe model. This makes it suitable for Internet of Things messaging such as with low power sensors or mobile devices such as phones, embedded computers or microcontrollers.
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