web01.fireside.fm Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:54:33 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Self-Hosted - Episodes Tagged with “Smart Home” https://selfhosted.show/tags/smart%20home Fri, 07 Mar 2025 02:00:00 -0800 Discover new software and hardware to get the best out of your network, control smart devices, and secure your data on cloud services. Self-Hosted is a chat show between Chris and Alex two long-time "self-hosters" who share their lessons and take you along for the journey as they learn new ones. A Jupiter Broadcasting podcast showcasing free and open source technologies you can host yourself. en-us episodic A chat show between Chris and Alex two long-time "self-hosters" who share their lessons and take you on the journey of their new ones. Jupiter Broadcasting Discover new software and hardware to get the best out of your network, control smart devices, and secure your data on cloud services. Self-Hosted is a chat show between Chris and Alex two long-time "self-hosters" who share their lessons and take you along for the journey as they learn new ones. A Jupiter Broadcasting podcast showcasing free and open source technologies you can host yourself. no Self-Hosting, DIY, Linux, open source, encryption, privacy, on premise, hybrid cloud, Reverse Proxy, Dynamic DNS, HomeAssistant, hass.io, Raspberry Pi, Let’s Encrypt, Free Software, Jupiter Broadcasting, NextCloud, ngnix, Wyze, Alexa, HomeKit, remote control, ssh Jupiter Broadcasting chris@jupiterbroadcasting.com 144: Silence of the RAMs https://selfhosted.show/144 7a825949-9d2b-488f-8476-f1c9c557d06d Fri, 07 Mar 2025 02:00:00 -0800 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting 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! 52:21 no 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! Self-Hosting Podcast, Jupiter Broadcasting, Server Failure, Threadripper, EPYC, Tailscale, Z-Wave, Home Assistant, Alarmo, Smart Home, Apollo Automation, OpnSense, Ubiquiti, Exo, Pushover, Prusa, 3D Printing 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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]]> 75: In-Flight Changes https://selfhosted.show/75 a9a4f084-47ba-490c-a65b-cef65719182d Fri, 15 Jul 2022 05:30:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting Our thoughts on the new Works with Home Assistant program, some changes to Alex's off-site backup server, and a million bits of great feedback. 59:27 no Our thoughts on the new Works with Home Assistant program, some changes to Alex's off-site backup server, and a million bits of great feedback. Self-Hosting Podcast, Jupiter Broadcasting, Works with Home Assistant program, z-wave, zigbee, FlightAware, Zigbee Device Compatibility, Self-Hosted Todo, Vikunja, remote backup, ZFS, HomePod, Siri, MyCroft, LinuxCard, Aeotec, leak detector, smart home Our thoughts on the new Works with Home Assistant program, some changes to Alex's off-site backup server, and a million bits of great feedback.

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  • Introducing the Works with Home Assistant program — With Home Assistant, we integrate with over 1000 different APIs. The majority of these integrations are created and maintained by the Home Assistant community. Over the years a number of companies have stepped up to work with our community offering samples and engineering support. In a few cases, we saw companies pick up the maintenance of integrating their products in Home Assistant.
  • Database of Zigbee devices — List of Zigbee devices supported by ZHA, Tasmota, Zigbee2MQTT, deCONZ, Zigbee for Domoticz or ioBroker.zigbee
  • Vikunja — Vikunja is an Open-Source, self-hosted To-Do list application for all platforms. It is licensed under the AGPLv3.
  • Vikunja Docker Walkthrough
  • London Meetup — August 5th at 6pm GMT (meetup.com is based off JBs Pacific Time). To confirm when I say 6pm GMT I mean 6pm as you look your watch - time savings and all that be damned - you know what I mean when I say 6pm GMT :)
  • West Coast Crew Matrix Chat Room — Are you on the US West coast? Join our Matrix room and get the latest on our west coast road tour coming up!
  • LinuxCard — Using the LinuxCard is easy, insert the SD card, connect USB-C to a computer, and open your favourite serial console app (minicom, PuTTY, etc), if you do not see the boot log, try the other virtual serial port (two exist). In case of a boot error, the SD card LED will blink in an infinite pattern, you can see the code for details on what various numbers of blinks mean.
  • First Alert Z-Wave Smoke Detector — Receive real-time notifications when smoke or carbon monoxide is detected.
  • Aeotec Water Leak Sensor Zigbee — lace the Aeotec SmartThings Water Leak Sensor under sinks, refrigerators, washing machines, and more to detect excess water or moisture and receive immediate alerts on your phone
  • FlightAware ADS-B Store — This kit provides you all the parts you need to create an ADS-B receiver.  It will allow you to track aircraft up to 250NM away. Using FlightAware’s open-source software you can receive data from 1090MHz equipped aircraft and have it displayed in a web-based radar-like interface. 
  • Valeronoi — A companion for Valetudo for generating WiFi signal strength maps. It visualizes them using a Voronoi diagram.
  • Shelly Leak Sensor — Connect Shelly Flood directly to your Wi-Fi network, without the need of any additional controller.
  • Get a New Podcast App and Boost the Show — Grab a Podcasting 2.0 compatible app or a Boost-specific app.
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  • Introducing the Works with Home Assistant program — With Home Assistant, we integrate with over 1000 different APIs. The majority of these integrations are created and maintained by the Home Assistant community. Over the years a number of companies have stepped up to work with our community offering samples and engineering support. In a few cases, we saw companies pick up the maintenance of integrating their products in Home Assistant.
  • Database of Zigbee devices — List of Zigbee devices supported by ZHA, Tasmota, Zigbee2MQTT, deCONZ, Zigbee for Domoticz or ioBroker.zigbee
  • Vikunja — Vikunja is an Open-Source, self-hosted To-Do list application for all platforms. It is licensed under the AGPLv3.
  • Vikunja Docker Walkthrough
  • London Meetup — August 5th at 6pm GMT (meetup.com is based off JBs Pacific Time). To confirm when I say 6pm GMT I mean 6pm as you look your watch - time savings and all that be damned - you know what I mean when I say 6pm GMT :)
  • West Coast Crew Matrix Chat Room — Are you on the US West coast? Join our Matrix room and get the latest on our west coast road tour coming up!
  • LinuxCard — Using the LinuxCard is easy, insert the SD card, connect USB-C to a computer, and open your favourite serial console app (minicom, PuTTY, etc), if you do not see the boot log, try the other virtual serial port (two exist). In case of a boot error, the SD card LED will blink in an infinite pattern, you can see the code for details on what various numbers of blinks mean.
  • First Alert Z-Wave Smoke Detector — Receive real-time notifications when smoke or carbon monoxide is detected.
  • Aeotec Water Leak Sensor Zigbee — lace the Aeotec SmartThings Water Leak Sensor under sinks, refrigerators, washing machines, and more to detect excess water or moisture and receive immediate alerts on your phone
  • FlightAware ADS-B Store — This kit provides you all the parts you need to create an ADS-B receiver.  It will allow you to track aircraft up to 250NM away. Using FlightAware’s open-source software you can receive data from 1090MHz equipped aircraft and have it displayed in a web-based radar-like interface. 
  • Valeronoi — A companion for Valetudo for generating WiFi signal strength maps. It visualizes them using a Voronoi diagram.
  • Shelly Leak Sensor — Connect Shelly Flood directly to your Wi-Fi network, without the need of any additional controller.
  • Get a New Podcast App and Boost the Show — Grab a Podcasting 2.0 compatible app or a Boost-specific app.
]]> 53: Adventurous Build https://selfhosted.show/53 23657887-4c53-4968-91ae-782f03b62c28 Fri, 10 Sep 2021 05:00:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting We chat with Matt from Adventurous Way about the home automations that have improved his quality of life, the clever way he manages their off-grid rig, and the new smart home project he's just kicking off. 37:16 no We chat with Matt from Adventurous Way about the home automations that have improved his quality of life, the clever way he manages their off-grid rig, and the new smart home project he's just kicking off. Special Guest: Matt from Adventurous Way. Self-Hosting Podcast, Jupiter Broadcasting, Node-Red, Smart Home, Home Automation, Victron, Adventurous Way, SONOFF, CARP, Color Control GX, MQTT, Pi-KVM We chat with Matt from Adventurous Way about the home automations that have improved his quality of life, the clever way he manages their off-grid rig, and the new smart home project he's just kicking off.

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  • Adventurous Way - YouTube — Our motto is to live life the adventurous way. If there is a conventional way to do something and an adventurous way to do something - we choose the adventurous way.
  • Our DIY RV electrical system 3 years later - a detailed walk-through - YouTube — We installed our DIY RV electrical system as soon as we hit the road in the RV almost 3 years ago. In this video, we give you a detailed walk-through of our system that consists of 300Ah Battle Born Batteries, Victron inverter, DC to DC charger, 600 watts of rooftop solar that lets us boondock in beautiful places that we otherwise couldn't.
  • The ultimate DIY SMART RV - tour our SMART HOME on wheels - YouTube — A tour of our DIY smart RV, packed full of home automation technology that makes our full-time RV life more comfortable, secure and efficient!
  • SONOFF SV — Wi-Fi DIY Smart Switch for low voltage goodness
  • CARP — CARP is the Common Address Redundancy Protocol. Its primary purpose is to allow multiple hosts on the same network segment to share an IP address. CARP is a secure, free alternative to the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) and the Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP).
  • Color Control GX — The Color Control GX is the communication-centre of your installation. It offers at-a-glance live information, and lets you control all products connected to it.
  • Node-RED — Node-RED is a programming tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways.
  • Pi-KVM — This device helps to manage servers or workstations remotely, regardless of the health of the operating system or whether one is installed. You can fix any problem, configure the BIOS, and even reinstall the OS using the virtual CD-ROM or Flash Drive.
  • Adventurous Way - Technology / Smart Home website — A highly informative blog series from Matt on his smart RV experience.
  • dbus-mqtt Github repo — The Github repo for Victron's MQTT implementation.
  • Self-Hosting Victron Venus OS on a Raspberry Pi — This page explains how to install the Victron Energy Venus OS onto a RaspberryPi.
  • Home Assistant - set_location service — Set your location programmatically with Home Assistant.
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  • Adventurous Way - YouTube — Our motto is to live life the adventurous way. If there is a conventional way to do something and an adventurous way to do something - we choose the adventurous way.
  • Our DIY RV electrical system 3 years later - a detailed walk-through - YouTube — We installed our DIY RV electrical system as soon as we hit the road in the RV almost 3 years ago. In this video, we give you a detailed walk-through of our system that consists of 300Ah Battle Born Batteries, Victron inverter, DC to DC charger, 600 watts of rooftop solar that lets us boondock in beautiful places that we otherwise couldn't.
  • The ultimate DIY SMART RV - tour our SMART HOME on wheels - YouTube — A tour of our DIY smart RV, packed full of home automation technology that makes our full-time RV life more comfortable, secure and efficient!
  • SONOFF SV — Wi-Fi DIY Smart Switch for low voltage goodness
  • CARP — CARP is the Common Address Redundancy Protocol. Its primary purpose is to allow multiple hosts on the same network segment to share an IP address. CARP is a secure, free alternative to the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) and the Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP).
  • Color Control GX — The Color Control GX is the communication-centre of your installation. It offers at-a-glance live information, and lets you control all products connected to it.
  • Node-RED — Node-RED is a programming tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways.
  • Pi-KVM — This device helps to manage servers or workstations remotely, regardless of the health of the operating system or whether one is installed. You can fix any problem, configure the BIOS, and even reinstall the OS using the virtual CD-ROM or Flash Drive.
  • Adventurous Way - Technology / Smart Home website — A highly informative blog series from Matt on his smart RV experience.
  • dbus-mqtt Github repo — The Github repo for Victron's MQTT implementation.
  • Self-Hosting Victron Venus OS on a Raspberry Pi — This page explains how to install the Victron Energy Venus OS onto a RaspberryPi.
  • Home Assistant - set_location service — Set your location programmatically with Home Assistant.
]]> 17: Where Do I Start? https://selfhosted.show/17 cdf08989-30c0-46e1-85e5-a3745e66a184 Thu, 23 Apr 2020 00:15:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting We share some of our top tips for getting started with Self-Hosting and cover some more network basics. 40:46 no 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. 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, plexamp, plex dash, self-hosted, self-hosted discord, smart home, switch, unmanaged switch 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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Plex have been busy and launched two new apps, we cover that and more in this episode of Self-Hosted.

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]]> 8: WLED Changes the Game https://selfhosted.show/8 f4779209-7b93-457d-a586-034b65301711 Thu, 19 Dec 2019 00:15:00 -0800 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting 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. 34:23 no 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 (https://youtu.be/aQyigSkcjMQ). LED Light Strips, ESPHome, WLED, Home Assistant, Omnicharge, Raspberry Pi, Kodi, Wyze person detection, Flashing firmware, Hass.io, Self-Hosted, Smart Home, DIY podcast, Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Academy 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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]]> 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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