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• 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.1 with Nostr support, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. You can also Boost from the Web via their site.
• Local dashboard is limited to 5 nodes - Help - Netdata — All of a sudden, when I access the Web UI on 19999 on the central node, I see all the node names, but no graphs. If I hover over one of the hostnames I get “Locked! Local dashboard is limited to 5 nodes”. 1 of the nodes DOES show up, and I can navigate to it, etc. But only 1, not 5.
• tinyfeed: Generate a static HTML page from a collection of feeds wtih a simple CLI tool — tinyfeed is a CLI tool that generate a static HTML page from a collection of feeds.
• OpenZFS 2.3.0 Released — RAIDZ Expansion (#15022): Add new devices to an existing RAIDZ pool, increasing storage capacity without downtime.
• Tdarr — Clean up your media libraries, health check files, save space and much more!
• Updates and Third-Party Integration with Bambu Connect — Setting the Record Straight About Our Security Update
• Bambu Lab Authorization Control System - Consumer Action Taskforce — On January 16, 2025, the 3D-printer manufacturer Bambu Lab announced that future firmwares for their 3D printers would introduce an authorization and authentication protection mechanism for their connection and control, in the name of security. Bambu has stated the following:
• [Mega Thread] Discussion on Authorization Control System / Third-Party Integration / Bambu Connect — Mega Thread now made to focus all things to here, so people can somewhat use the sub.
• X1 Firmware Jailbroken — A crossroads for Bambu Lab - Bambu Lab Software / Bambu Firmware - Bambu Lab Community Forum
• X1Plus: Custom firmware for Bambu Lab X1 and X1 Carbon 3D printers
• Immich — Easily back up, organize, and manage your photos on your own server. Immich helps you browse, search and organize your photos and videos with ease, without sacrificing your privacy.
• monetr: Take Control of Your Finances — Take control of your finances, paycheck by paycheck
• SSH 141 Boost Barn — Thank you, episode 141 supporters!
• Colony Events — Join the LUP 600 meetup in your area!

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• 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.1 with Nostr support, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. You can also Boost from the Web via their site.
• macOS Window Manager | BentoBox 🍱 — A window manager that boosts productivity by snapping windows into predefined zones, like a Japanese bento box organizing meals.
• Ice: Powerful menu bar manager for macOS — Ice is a powerful menu bar management tool. While its primary function is hiding and showing menu bar items, it aims to cover a wide variety of additional features to make it one of the most versatile menu bar tools available.
• Easy AT&T BGW320 Gateway Bypass with UniFi UDM Pro Max via the WAS-110 SFP ONT on a stick from 8311 - YouTube
• jupiterbroadcasting.com: JupiterBroadcasting.com, hugo-based and community-driven!
• WordPress: The Drama Continues — The WordPress.org team has forked the Advanced Custom Fields plugin amidst a legal dispute with WP Engine, raising concerns about user awareness and security updates. Were they right to do so? It's complicated, but likely yes.
• Withdrawing contributions from WordPress Core and WordPress.org properties · GitHub — Before and since my WordPress Core contribution flow changed, I have tried to play my part, in the community’s interest, to encourage a change of approach by the project’s leadership. Despite this, further community-damaging actions have been taken. As a direct result of this continued unwillingness to respect the community, I am regretfully withdrawing from all contributing to WordPress Core and any WordPress.org property until further notice.
• WordPress.org’s latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin — WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg calls it “a rare and unusual situation” resulting from WP Engine’s legal moves.
• Ghost: The best open source blog & newsletter platform — Ghost is a powerful app for professional publishers to create, share, and grow a business around their content. It comes with modern tools to build a website, publish content, send newsletters & offer paid subscriptions to members.
• ktz.blog
• hugo: The world’s fastest framework for building websites. — Hugo is a static site generator written in Go, optimized for speed and designed for flexibility. With its advanced templating system and fast asset pipelines, Hugo renders a complete site in seconds, often less.
• Zola — Zola comes as a single executable with Sass compilation, syntax highlighting, table of contents and many other features that traditionally require setting up a dev environment or adding some JavaScript libraries to your site.
• Zola SSG is 4x faster than Hugo — Zola is a very fast static site generator written in Rust with 10k stars on Github.
• How to choose the right static site generator — Here's an in-depth look at 6 static site generators that deploy to GitLab Pages.
• SearXNG instances — This website shows the SearXNG public instances. It is updated every 24 hours, except the response times which are updated every 3 hours
• SearXNG Documentation — SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from more than 70 search services. Users are neither tracked nor profiled. Additionally, SearXNG can be used over Tor for online anonymity.
• pinchflat: Your next YouTube media manager — Pinchflat is a self-hosted app for downloading YouTube content built using yt-dlp. It's designed to be lightweight, self-contained, and easy to use. You set up rules for how to download content from YouTube channels or playlists and it'll do the rest, periodically checking for new content. It's perfect for people who want to download content for use in with a media center app (Plex, Jellyfin, Kodi) or for those who want to archive media!
• SSH 134 Booost Barn — Thank you Boosters!
• Ruby on Rails — Rails 8.0 Beta 1 — That was the premise of my keynote here at Rails World, and it’s the mission for Rails 8. So we are thrilled to release the first beta release of this new version in celebration with Rails World here in Toronto.

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• ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries.
• 🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — Empowering sovereign ownership with free automatic self-custody 🔒
• 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.1 with Nostr support, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. You can also Boost from the Web via their site.
• 4Kn sector disk passthrough in Proxmox — Solving an issue with 4Kn sector disks and passthrough in Proxmox with direct KVM arg injection.
• Release 10.9.11 · jellyfin/jellyfin-web · GitHub — This minor release brings several bugfixes to improve your Jellyfin experience.
• [Bug]: Jellyfin after update to 0.2.0.8 is not supported (jellyfin 10.9.2) · Issue #188 · jumoog/intro-skipper · GitHub — I can't check it because the plugin is broken
• intro-skipper for Jellyfin — Analyzes the audio of television episodes to detect and skip over intros.
• Plex Photos — Introducing Plex Photos Beta: We are thrilled to announce the release of the Plex Photos Beta, available today for iOS and Android mobile. This new app is designed to provide you with a focused experience to engage with your photo libraries stored on Plex Media Servers. Whether you’re reminiscing over family photos or sharing backups of your professional photography images,
• HEVC encoding is coming to Plex : r/PleX — This feature is still in active development and we do not yet have an estimated window for release
• Home Assistant is 11 years old! — We can’t thank our community enough for the past 11 years. You are the engine driving forward Home Assistant.
• Companion App for iOS 2024.9: Getting ready for iOS 18 — The new iOS also brings a new level of customization to Control Center, for which we are introducing five new controls: Assist, Toggle light, Run script, Activate scene, and Open page.
• ⚪ Bubble Card — Bubble Card is a minimalist and customizable card collection for Home Assistant with a nice pop-up touch.
• WiCAN Pro | Crowd Supply — Advanced OBD scanner for next-generation vehicle diagnostics and Home Assistant integration
• Self-Hosted 132 Boost Barn

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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• 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.
• Open Home Foundation — The Open Home Foundation fights for the fundamental principles of privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart homes.
• Zigbee2mqtt Home Assistant — ZigBee 1 2 3 4 Gang Smart Switch Tuya Smart Wireless Scenario Switch Button Switches Remoter Home Assistant SmartThings
• Immich — High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution
• Announcing Traefik v3 — I’m extremely proud to see that this project, born 8 years ago, has become such a critical piece of the modern cloud-native infrastructure stack, with the help of such an amazing community.
• ErsatzTV — Your Personal IPTV Server
• Introduction | ErsatzTV
• Collection of 90s Commercials — Collection of 90s commercials mostly aired on Nickelodeon.
• localsend — LocalSend is a free, open-source app that allows you to securely share files and messages with nearby devices over your local network without needing an internet connection.
• LocalSend - Flathub
• SSH 122 Boost BAAARN — Thank you so much Boosters!
• Jupiter Broadcasting Meetups

Then Alex and Casey do their "best" to convince Chris the Apple Vision Pro is an excellent remote admin tool.

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• System76 and Jupiter Broadcasting Epic Parking Lot BBQ, Sat, Apr 27, 2024, 4:30 PM | Meetup — Join Jupiter Broadcasting and System76 in the parking lot of Bellingham Technical College after the LinuxFest Northwest conference! Let's eat, drink and be nerdy!
• LinuxFest Northwest — April 26 - 28, 2024 • Bellingham Technical College
• Baseus PD 100W USB C to USB C Cable — 5A Fast Charging USB C Cable with LED Display.
• HDMI Dummy Plug — Headless Ghost, Display Emulator
• Splitscreen brings a multimonitor setup to Apple’s Vision Pro — new app called Splitscreen takes things a step further, by allowing you to add a second macOS display to your Vision Pro — even if it uses a different Apple ID.
• Splitscreen App — Right now Splitscreen only allows you to create one extra virtual display. If you also use Mac Virtual Display that means you can have up to two Mac displays on your Apple Vision Pro.

Plus, why are we building our containers with Tailscale networking now, and the latest from the Home Assistant project?

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• 🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM | Meetup — Let's put an official time down on the calendar to get together. The Yardhouse has always been a solid go-to, so sit down and break bread with the Unplugged crew during the lunch break on Saturday!
• SCALE 21x
• Yard House Menu
• SCaLE Chat Room on our Matrix Server — Join our room dedicated to organizing around SCaLE each year.
• Contain your excitement: A deep dive into using Tailscale with Docker — By putting containers directly onto your tailnet (our term for a Tailscale network), you're able to connect these isolated things together no matter the networking topology that stands in your way.
• Tailscale for Docker Container - Chris' Note — The basic idea is to create a tailscale service container, that runs along side the main app container. You then set the main app container to use the tailscale container for networking.
• audiobookshelf-docker-compose.yml — Chris' docker-compose.yml for audiobookshelf that uses a Tailscale service container for networking.
• 2024.2: More voice, more icons, more integrations, more... everything! — In general, contributions to our open-source project have been amazing this month. I’ve never seen so many contributed bug fixes, improvements, and new features in a single release. Like… 21 new integrations! This is, without a doubt, the largest release we’ve ever put out. A big shout-out to everyone who helped! ❤️
• Companion app for iOS 2024.1: CarPlay is here! — CarPlay support now gives Home Assistant users easy access to their devices and areas and the ability to create custom actions.
• home-assistant-assist-desktop — Use Home Assistant Assist on the desktop. Compatible with Windows, MacOS, and Linux
• Plex launches its rental service with some award-winning movies — The new movie rental marketplace from the streaming service gives users 30-day access to premium titles.

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• 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 is out with a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.
• Healthchecks.io — We notify you when your nightly backups, weekly reports, cron jobs, and scheduled tasks don't run on time.
• BorgBackup — Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption
• Projectivy Launcher - Apps on Google Play — Projectivy Launcher is an alternative launcher for Android TV, tailored for your TVs and projectors needs : smooth, neat, customizable and bundled with unique features. It's Projectivy Tools on steroids !
• TubesZB – TubesZB Coordinators and Router

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• ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries.
• 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 is out with a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.
• 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!

Special Guest: Wolfgang.

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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.
• 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.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Listener Jeff, and Paulus Schoutsen.

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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.
• 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.

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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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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• Plex is Cracking Down on Pirated Content — Plex is cracking down on at least one hosting service supporting pirated content in a move that may result in some collateral damage.
• Plex Will Block Media Servers at Abuse Prevalent Hosting Company
• Account banned : PleX — Today I got my account banned in plex "this Plex account has accepted monetary compensation in exchange for services based in part on Plex". Which is totally untrue.
• I need your help with Intel Quick Sync benchmarking! — Please help me benchmark as many Intel CPUs Quick Sync transcoding performance as possible!
• Is Quick Sync Video any good? Media Server Hardware Encoding Tests | Enquire within, help needed! - YouTube — Therefore I'm pleased to announce the first release of a Quick Sync benchmarking script allowing us to do just that.
• Apple TV, now with more Tailscale · Tailscale — The newly released tvOS 17 offers support for VPNs, and we’re proud to say Tailscale is among the first to use this new feature. You can now add your Apple TV directly to your tailnet, unlocking three powerful new use cases that we’re excited to share.
• Use Tailscale on your Apple TV! - YouTube
• 10 years Home Assistant - Home Assistant — I wasn’t planning on changing the world. It was a playground, a place where I could use the latest technology and explore all the possibilities with Python. But bit by bit Home Assistant gained traction, more contributors joined and we slowly started to build a community.
• Introducing Home Assistant Green — We’ve taken that to heart, and today, we are introducing an affordable way for new users to upgrade their smart homes to Home Assistant. It’s the Home Assistant Green – and it costs only $99 (MSRP).
• Home Assistant Green - Seeed Studio
• A new chapter in the Home Assistant Yellow journey — Unfortunately, Raspberry Pi CM4s are still in short supply. At this point we can’t build enough Home Assistant Yellow (with CM4) to fulfill demand. Unfortunately, we can’t make accurate estimates on when Home Assistant Yellow (with CM4) variants will ship, as we have not gotten delivery dates from Raspberry Pi
• Nest devices get major downgrade as part of legal challenge — This is the latest Nest feature to be nerfed following a legal battle.
• TubesZB – TubesZB Coordinators and Router
• SSH 106 Boost Barn — Thank you Boosters for helping produce episode 106!

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• 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.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Catherine Kretzschmar.

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• Plex now has more streaming users than media server users — The company announced earlier this month that it now has 16 million monthly active users. While it didn’t specify how many are still on the server side, Scott Hancock, Plex’s vice president of marketing, said in an interview that Plex customers using the software’s media server features had been overtaken by customers using Plex’s online streaming capabilities in 2022.
• ytdl-sub: Automate downloading and metadata generation with YoutubeDL — ytdl-sub is a command-line tool that downloads media via yt-dlp and prepares it for your favorite media player, including Kodi, Jellyfin, Plex, Emby, and modern music players. No additional plugins or external scrapers are needed.
• Youtube Metadata Plugin for Jellyfin — Plugin for Jellyfin that retrieves metadata for content from Youtube.
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• HIGH AVAILABILITY k3s (Kubernetes) in minutes! - YouTube — Have you been thinking about running Kubernetes but don't know where to get started? Let's start with k3s!
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• Telmate/terraform-provider-proxmox — This repository provides a Terraform provider for the Proxmox virtualization platform and exposes Terraform resources to provision QEMU VMs and LXC Containers.
• k8s at home search — We index Flux HelmReleases from Github repositories with the k8s-at-home topic.
• Discussions · selfhostedshow/hdd-giveaway
• Kubernetes for Full-Stack Developers - Free Guide — This comprehensive resource covers everything from the fundamental concepts of Kubernetes to the components of a Kubernetes cluster and network model implementation. New in the 2022 edition are sections on understanding the Standard Kubernetes Dashboard, the high-availability control plane, and autoscaling.
• wz_mini_hacks — Run whatever firmware you want on your v2/car/PANv1/v3/PANv2 and have root access to the device, wz camera mods... make your camera better.
• DO NOT Upgrade to 4.36.10.2163 beta — this BETA release has significant back end changes, and breaks all libcallback functionality.
• Support Matrix on Donorbox
• CloudFree.shop
• Jellyfin — Jellyfin is the volunteer-built media solution that puts you in control of your media. Stream to any device from your own server, with no strings attached. Your media, your server, your way.
• LINUX Unplugged 492: A New Challenge Approaches — Join us on a journey to true software freedom. We embark on our 30-day challenge and discover a whole new philosophy that will change the way you think about technology.
• Swiftfin on the App Store — As of today, Swiftfin, our native iOS/iPadOS/tvOS app is now on the Apple App Store.
• Swiftfin on GitHub
• New Fanless 4x 2.5GbE Intel N5105 i226-V Firewall Tested — We are going to focus on the newer 4x Intel i226-V version in today’s article.
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Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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• Home Assistant SkyConnect — The Home Assistant SkyConnect is the easiest way to add Zigbee support to your Home Assistant instance and make it Matter-ready.
• Amazon.com: TP-Link EAP245 V3
• TP-Link EAP245 V3 on eBay
• [OpenWrt Wiki] Techdata: TP-Link EAP245 v3
• It Took MONTHS to Solve This WiFi Problem but I DID! — My family has been hounding me to figure out an audio issue that's ruining our movie nights. Problem is, it's really a Wi-Fi issue, and diagnosing it - even with cool Wi-Spy tools from MetaGeek - could be quite the rabbithole...
• Jellyfin — Jellyfin enables you to collect, manage, and stream your media. Run the Jellyfin server on your system and gain access to the leading free-software entertainment system, bells and whistles included.
• Swiftfin: Native Jellyfin Client for iOS and tvOS — Swiftfin is a modern video client for the Jellyfin media server. Redesigned in Swift to maximize direct play with the power of VLC and look native on all classes of Apple devices.
• linuxserver/jellyfin - Docker Image
• Jellyfin - NixOS Wiki
• The Matrix Holiday Update 2022 — This is directly putting core Matrix development at risk. We are witnessing a classic tragedy of the commons.
• ntfy.sh — a simple HTTP-based pub-sub notification service. It allows you to send notifications to your phone or desktop via scripts from any computer, entirely without signup, cost or setup. It's also open source if you want to run your own.
• Alby — Lightning buzz for your Browser! — Alby brings Bitcoin payments to the web with in-browser payments and identity, all with your own wallet.
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Special Guest: Joe Resington.

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• Late Night Linux — Late Night Linux is a podcast that takes a look at what’s happening with Linux and the wider tech industry.
• 2.5 Admins — 2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/editor who can just about configure a Samba share called Joe Ressington.
• Choose your Zigbee channel wisely — Before optimizing your channels, it’s best to reduce the amount of traffic on the 2.4 GHz band. There are a few different ways of doing that. But it all boils down to removing as many devices from the 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi band as possible. As Zigbee devices can only use the 2.4 GHz band, there isn’t much you can do with them except minimizing the number of commands sent using Zigbee Groups.
• Z Wave vs Zigbee — While Z Wave has a better track record of compatibility between products and never interferes with your Wi-Fi network, Zigbee is faster,has a greater range of signal, boasts on open protocol standard, and owns a significantly larger marketshare of the smart home product space.
• Aeotec MultiSensor 7, 6-in-1 Zwave Sensors — Contains Monitor Motion, Temperature, Light, Humidity, UV, and Vibration, Z-Wave Plus, Gen7, S2, SmartStart Enabled, Compatible with Zwave
• Evernote’s Next Move: Joining the Bending Spoons Suite of Apps — In the deal signed between Bending Spoons and Evernote, Bending Spoons agrees to take ownership of Evernote in a transaction expected to complete early in 2023.
• Jupiter Broadcasting Matrix Info — Jupiter Broadcasting’s Rooms are organized into groups called “spaces”.
• UptimeRobot: Free Website Monitoring Service — The world's leading uptime monitoring service.
• The Helpful Idiot — Idiots don't have time for cable management.
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• Millions of websites offline after fire at French cloud services firm — The fire, which broke out on Wednesday shortly after midnight at OVHcloud, destroyed one of four data centres in Strasbourg, in eastern France, and damaged another, the company said.
• Pwned passwords and secrets - Home Assistant — We are using the Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) service for detecting leaked or compromised secrets, like passwords.
• Troy Hunt: Home Assistant, Pwned Passwords and Security Misconceptions — Two of my favourite things these days are Have I Been Pwned and Home Assistant. The former is an obvious choice, the latter I've come to love as I've embarked on my home automation journey. So, it was with great pleasure that I saw the two integrated recently.
• Validating Leaked Passwords with k-Anonymity — Cloudflare continues to support Pwned Passwords by providing CDN and security functionality such that the data can easily be made available for download in raw form to organisations to protect their customers.
• crt.sh — Certificate Search.
• Shelly 2.5 — No HUB required – Connect Shelly 2.5 directly to your Wi-Fi at home.
• filebrowser: 📂 Web File Browser — filebrowser provides a file managing interface within a specified directory and it can be used to upload, delete, preview, rename and edit your files.
• Tandoor Recipes — Today i am happy to announce that I have released a new version which finally gives the application its well deserved name and logo: Tandoor Recipes.

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• Perfect Media Server — Alex's new site for the Perfect Media server.
• Serverbuilds.net
• MkDocs — MkDocs is a fast, simple and downright gorgeous static site generator that's geared towards building project documentation. Documentation source files are written in Markdown, and configured with a single YAML configuration file
• TP-Link AV1000 Powerline Starter Kit
• groceri.es
• ASRock J5040-ITX — QuickSync supporting Intel Quad-Core Pentium Silver Processor J5040 (up to 3.2 GHz) Mini ITX Motherboard / CPU Combo - Newegg.com
• vabene1111/recipes — Recipes is a Django application to manage, tag and search recipes using either built in models or external storage providers hosting PDF's, Images or other files.

Special Guest: Jonathan Panozzo.

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• Open Hardware Energy Monitor Group Buy
• Unraid — Unraid OS allows sophisticated media aficionados, gamers, and other intensive data-users to have ultimate control over their data, media, applications, and desktops, using just about any combination of hardware.
• Unraid OS 6.9.0-Beta25 is Now Available — This new feature permits you to define up to 35 named pools, of up to 30 storage devices/pool.
• Soon | Unraid — The Unraid team has been hard at work on something new we're calling My Servers, to be released Soon™️.
• Forums - Unraid

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• Raspberry Pi Power Monitor Flyer
• Roundcube — ...is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface. It provides full functionality you expect from an email client, including MIME support, address book, folder manipulation, message searching and spell checking.
• SquirrelMail - Webmail for Nuts!
• Install Docker Engine — Docker provides convenience scripts at get.docker.com and test.docker.com for installing edge and testing versions of Docker Engine - Community into development environments quickly and non-interactively.
• Netdata Installation guide
• Setup a secure (SSH) tunnel as a systemd service. — Setup a secure (SSH) tunnel as a systemd service. #systemd #ssh #ssh-tunnel #ssh-forward
• Self healing reverse SSH setup with systemd
• How to install OPNSense on PCEngines' APU2
• pfSense Makes Sense | LAS s28e09 - YouTube
• OPNsense WireGuard Road Warrior guide
• Rewrote Wireguard Road Warrior manpage to be clearer and more concise by IronicBadger — Pull Request #275
• SSH over SMS | Devpost — Our python project listens for a text message (through a dedicated SMTP email server) then reads and parses the email to get a bash command.
• Raspberry Pi Power Monitor — The power monitor project we discuss in the show.

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• Boxee Box — Boxee Box by D-Link is a Linux-based set-top device and media extender that first began shipping in 33 countries worldwide on 10 November 2010.
• Getting Started with Media Browser for Windows Media Center
• MythTV, Open Source DVR — MythTV is a Free Open Source software digital video recorder (DVR) project distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL. It has been under heavy development since 2002, and now contains most features one would expect from a good DVR (and many new ones that you soon won't be able to live without).
• Popcorn Hour A-100 review
• Microsoft Windows Media Center Extenders — The Media Center Extender with DVD Player (DMA2200) from Linksys, a division of Cisco, is an elegant solution that combines an upscaling DVD player with a dual-band Wireless-N Extender for Windows Media Center.

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?

Plus a great way to score cheap drives, a Project Off-Grid update, making your household light switches smart, and Alex's review of the HDHomeRun.

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• Telegram: Contact @hddsale — HDD Sales Telegram Channel
• What SMART Stats Are Telling Us About Hard Drive Reliability — As of September 30, 2019, Backblaze had 115,151 spinning hard drives spread across four data centers on two continents. Of that number, there were 2,098 boot drives and 113,053 data drives.
• How to disable the 3.3v pin on Western Digital USB White Label Drives - YouTube — This is an amazing way to get super cheap storage for your #Plex Media Server. The catch? The shucked #Western #Digital White label drives may not work right out of the box. Don't worry, the fix is simple..
• Amazon.com: StarTech.com 4X SATA Power Splitter Adapter Cable (PYO4SATA): Home Audio & Theater — The PYO4SATA SATA power splitter cable (1-to-4) features a SATA male power connector that connects to a single computer power supply SATA connector and breaks out into four SATA female power connectors.
• OpenLiteSpeed-WordPress - Linode Manager — Blazing-fast WordPress with LSCache, 300+ times faster than regular WordPress
• LinuxServer.io Blog
• ktz. - Alex's Blog
• Shelly 2.5 - Shelly Cloud — Shelly 2.5 comes with a programming/debug header which can be used to flash alternative firmware on the device. It has an ESP8266 inside, with a 2MB flash chip. A USB-to-UART adapter is needed as well as a reliable 3.3V with at least 350 mA drive capability.

Plus Alex's thoughts on automating his new LG TV and be sure to check the links!

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• Hard Drive Sales Telegram Group
• Nabu Casa — No longer worry if you left the garage door open. Quickly access your Home Assistant instance from your phone, your favorite coffeeshop or at work. All data is fully encrypted between your device and your Home Assistant instance. No snooping
• Home Assistant Cloud
• Chris' Z-Wave USB Dongle — Z-Wave Plus certified for wide compatibility
• Chris' White Noise Makers — The Original White Noise Machine - Marpac Dohm
• 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.
• TP-Link Smart Plug two Pack — Smart WiFi Plug Mini by TP-Link
• Home Assistant Integrations Directory
• 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.
• Complete guide on setting up Grafana/InfluxDB with Home Assistant

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

Also Alex convinces Chris to give Ghost (the blogging platform) a try.

Special Guest: Elan Feingold.

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• Executive Bios | Plex
• Elan's Twitter @leafmuncher
• elan (Elan Feingold) · GitHub
• Elan Feingold - CTO, Co-Founder @ Plex | Crunchbase
• Plex McStreamy T-Shirt - Apparel - Plex Store
• Announcing Ghost 3.0
• ktz.
• Example Ghost Docker-Compose Snippet

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.

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• @SelfHostedShow on Twitter
• Your preferred Linux "server" OS? — I currently host a bunch of services inside of Docker containers. Had been using Ubuntu Server, but I felt like the OS is kind of bloated and I wanted to try some new things so I switched to Alpine. Alpine is a bit too minimalistic for my tastes and I've run into some compatibility issues with it (even when using it just as a Docker host). At this point I'm planning on staying with a Linux OS and with Docker as the way I run my actual services, just not sure of what I want to actually use next.
• Wireless Security Camera System - EufyCam E Review — What's the best wireless security camera system? Here's my EufyCam E review, which covers my main criteria for a good camera system: battery-operated, easy to setup, good image quality, no subscription fees, local storage, and integrations with my smart home.
• Ending Note by TouchRemix

Discover new software, regain control of cloud services and own your data. Learn how you can take steps to free yourself from the agenda of large corporations and business models designed to sell your information.

Join Alex and Chris on their Self Hosting journey on this new podcast from Jupiter Broadcasting.

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