121: Forbidden Fruit

April 19th, 2024  |  50 mins 43 secs

accidental tech podcast, casey liss, esp32, hdmi kvm over ip, homebridge, jellyfin, jupiter broadcasting, mac mini server, plex, raspberry pi, remote desktop, self-hosting podcast, vnc

Special guest Casey Liss from the Accidental Tech Podcast joins the show to discuss his homelab, how he uses HomeBridge, and his delightfully complex garage door sensor system.

116: Making it all Connect

February 9th, 2024  |  55 mins 54 secs

ansible, appletv, automation, bambu, carplay, container networking, deep dive, desktop assistant, docker compose, gitea, home assistant, homekit integration, images, jupiter broadcasting, markdown, mk3s+, mk4, nixcon, nixos, obsidian, plex, proxmox, prusa, rendering, rental service, scale, self-hosting podcast, tailscale, truenas scale, wireguard

Alex has been deep-diving into container networking, and Chris is trying to steelman Plex's new rental service.

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.

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.

106: The Plex Situation Just got Worse

September 22nd, 2023  |  57 mins 33 secs

account banned, apple tv, garage door controller, google home, google nest, home assistant, home assistant cloud, home assistant green, home assistant yellow, ipad os 17, jupiter broadcasting, legal challenge, nextcloud, obsidian, pirated content, plex, quicksync benchmarking, rotary phones, self-hosting podcast, sonoff, synology nas, tailscale, usb-c, vps, webdav, z-wave buttons, zigbee

Our thoughts on two recent Plex crackdowns, why the Apple TV just got a lot better, how home Assistant could improve 10 years in, and much more.

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.

89: Jellyfans

January 27th, 2023  |  58 mins 9 secs

audio books, hard drive giveaway, jellyfin, jupiter broadcasting, live tv, metadata plugin, plex, self-hosting podcast, storage, streaming, tailscale reverse tunnel, youtube with jellyfin, ytdl-sub

Join us for the surprising conclusion to our month-long challenge.