Displaying all 8 Episode of Self-Hosted with the tag “opnsense”.
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144: Silence of the RAMs
March 7th, 2025 | 52 mins 21 secs
3d printing, alarmo, apollo automation, epyc, exo, home assistant, jupiter broadcasting, opnsense, prusa, pushover, self-hosting podcast, server failure, smart home, tailscale, threadripper, ubiquiti, z-wave
Alex’s server meets a tragic end—but its replacement is shaping up to be a beast. Meanwhile, Chris experiments with budget CO₂ detectors, sirens, and smart integrations. Plus some surprises!
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113: State of the Homelabs 2023
December 29th, 2023 | 1 hr 27 mins
10gig, 3d printer, ansible, blue iris, borgbackup, caddy, dnsmasq, docker, duplicati, emby, esp32s, framework, freshrss, google drive, grafana, healthchecks.io, home assistant, influx, invoiceninja, jellyfin, jupiter broadcasting, macos, mergerfs, monitoring, music assistant, nextcloud, nix, nixos, obsidian, octoprint, ombi, opnsense, paperless-ngx, pihole, plex, plexamp, plexjelly-watched, poe cams, prometheus, proxmox, relationship, self-hosting podcast, smokeping, snapraid, storj, tailscale, todoist, traefik, tubeszb, ubu 22.04, unifi, vpn, wallabag, xfs, zfs, zigbee
We look back at what has changed, what's failed us, and what's sticking around in our homelabs.
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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.
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92: Rip it all Out
March 10th, 2023 | 58 mins 38 secs
10gb network upgrade, attic time, bellingham technical college, cable analyzer, cve-2023-27482, fiber strands, home assistant cve, jupiter broadcasting, lenovo m720q, lightning node, linuxfest northwest 2023, multi-site dns tricks, opnsense, pikvm, remotely exploitable vulnerability, self-hosting podcast, server relocation, sff homelab pcs, split dns setup, tailscale
Find out why Alex ripped out everything installed last episode and is starting fresh with new gear, wires, and a new goal.
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46: Pastebin Alternative
June 4th, 2021 | 42 mins 6 secs
ansible, comparing arrays, docker, easy self-hosted pastebin, exbin, foldersync, greyhole, jupiter broadcasting, loops, off-grid server, opnsense, peplink, perfect media server, self-hosted pastebin alternative, self-hosting podcast, solar power, victron, yaml
We'll share how we deployed a painless, Self-Hosted Pastebin replacement, and what we like the most about it.
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38: Crouching Pi, Hidden Server
February 12th, 2021 | 41 mins 8 secs
config backup, duplicati, filerun, google drive backup, home assistant, home assistant on the raspberry pi, igpu passthrough, odroid n2, opnsense, plex gpu, quicksync, self-hosted, self-hosting podcast, snapshots, termpad, tinypin, wireguard
Alex shocks Chris with his latest project, then lays down some quick-fire picks.
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24: OPNsense Makes Sense
July 30th, 2020 | 37 mins 49 secs
github, kodi, linux, nextcloud, open source, open-source, opnsense, pfsense, plex, power monitoring, proxyjump, pull request, raspberry pi, self hosted, self-hosted, self-hosting, shinobi, ssh, texas, vpn, whole home power monitoring, wireguard, zwave
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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17: Where Do I Start?
April 23rd, 2020 | 40 mins 46 secs
a cloud guru, containers, discord, docker, firewall, healthchecks, home automation, home networking basics, jupiter broadcasting, let's encrypt, linux academy, linuxserver, low power build, lutron, managed switch, networking, opnsense, pfsense, plex, plex dash, plexamp, self-hosted, self-hosted discord, smart home, switch, unmanaged switch
We share some of our top tips for getting started with Self-Hosting and cover some more network basics.