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• H12SSL-I Stuck at "bmc initiating" — Ugh - *just* got hit by this. I installed a NIC card and lo and behold - system would not boot. The LE1 LED flashes and turns off. It stays lit when power is applied. But there's no sign of life from the LEDM1 BMC LED. Booting produces nothing, system turns 'on' in the sense the fans power up but no output from the onboard VGA.
• First Alert Z Wave Smoke Detector — The z-wave smoke/co alarm can be implemented in residential and institutional applications. Installation settings include sleeping areas within hospitals, hotels, motels, dormitories and other multi-family dwellings
• First Alert Battery Powered Z-Wave Smoke Detector & Carbon Monoxide
• Siren - Home Assistant — The Siren integration is built for the controlling and monitoring of siren/chime devices.
• Meian Zigbee Smart Siren Alarm — 110V 220V Sirene Alarme 100dB Wireless
• Aeotec Siren 6 Z-Wave Plus S2 Enabled Zwave Siren — Pre-loaded 6 security sounds, 8 safety sounds, and 30 tones in total. Each tone is volume adjustable between 80dB and 110dB
• alarmo: Easy to use alarm system integration for Home Assistant — This is an alarm system integration for Home Assistant. It provides a user interface for setting up your own alarm system completely from the browser.
• Apollo joins the Works With Home Assistant Program — Apollo Automation is a growing family-run business rooted in the Home Assistant and ESPHome communities. And yes, they’re named after their German Shepherd, Apollo 🐕.
• Apollo Automation — Expanding Smart Home Automation Capabilities
• exo: Run your own AI cluster at home with everyday devices 📱💻 🖥️⌚ — Unify your existing devices into one powerful GPU: iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, NVIDIA, Raspberry Pi, pretty much any device!

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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 110 countries.
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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.
• Amazon Makes It Clear That Kindle Books Are Licensed And Not Owned - Good E-Reader — “By clicking on above button, you agree to Amazon’s Kindle Store Terms of Use.” However, the text in the USA has been changed to “By placing your order, you’re purchasing a license to the content and agree to the Kindle Store Terms of Use.”
• Table Routing vs. Source Routing in ZHA — This article provides a clear breakdown of Table Routing vs. Source Routing, explaining their core differences, advantages, and potential drawbacks to help you make an informed decision. Most importantly, it will guide you on how to enable Source Routing in ZHA and explore why it could dramatically improve the stability and efficiency of your Zigbee network.
• ZHA Users: Are You Missing Out on Source Routing? — Most Home Assistant users running Zigbee with ZHA don’t even realize they’re using Table Routing - the default setting - which might be slowing down automations and flooding the network with unnecessary broadcasts.
• Open WebUI — Open WebUI is an extensible, self-hosted AI interface that adapts to your workflow, all while operating entirely offline.
• GitHub - open-webui — Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform designed to operate entirely offline. It supports various LLM runners like Ollama and OpenAI-compatible APIs, with built-in inference engine for RAG, making it a powerful AI deployment solution.
• bcachefs Caching — bcachefs can be configured for writethrough, writeback, and writearound caching, as well as other more specialized setups.
• Bcachefs Changes Merged Without Issue For The Linux 6.14 Kernel — So now hopefully all is well in Bcachefs land and the code will continue to be well received assuming Linus Torvalds finds no objections and there is no further friction on the Linux kernel mailing list.
• Scrub merged into master : r/bcachefs
• Bcachefs Freezes Its On-Disk Format With Future Updates Optional — The latest round of Bcachefs file-system fixes have been submitted today for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel. Besides fixes for the current kernel, it was announced today that the on-disk format for the file-system is now considered frozen in its latest development "master" branch.
• NanoKVM: The S stands for Security - YouTube — Today I'm taking a look at the Sipeed NanoKVM, a solution for remote control of a computer over a network. It does a lot of things you'd expect from a device in this class, something like a PiKVM or JetKVM, except it does all of it with no regard to data security best practices.
• Wittboy landing page
• Ecowitt - Home Assistant — The Ecowitt integration works by first creating a callback endpoint on your Home Assistant instance and then adding this configuration to the Ecowitt console so that it starts sending data.
• ShelfPlayer — ShelfPlayer is a meticulously crafted iOS and iPadOS app designed to seamlessly integrate with your Audiobookshelf library. Enjoy a captivating listening experience with its sleek interface, lightning-fast performance, and deep system integration.
• GitHub - alexmoras/hass-addon-newt — The Fossorial system - with Pangolin at its core - is a self-hosted tunneled reverse proxy with identity and access management, designed to securely expose private resources through encrypted WireGuard tunnels running in user space. Think self hosted Cloudflare tunnels.
• Self-Hosted 143 Boost Barn — Thank you everyone who supports the show!

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• Home Assistant Voice — Home Assistant Voice is the open source, privacy-focused voice assistant hardware built to seamlessly connect with Home Assistant, allowing anyone to preview the future of voice today. Its advanced audio processor and dual microphones allow it to hear your commands and control devices. Tactile controls, the injection-molded case and LED ring lend to its premium feel, allowing it to blend into the home.
• 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.
• Nabu Casa — Nabu Casa, Inc was founded in 2018 by the founders of both Home Assistant, the open source home automation platform, and Home Assistant OS, the operating system that turns your device into a smart home hub powered by Home Assistant. These projects have seen an immense growth and have helped shape DIY home automation communities around the world.
• Open Home Foundation — The Open Home Foundation fights for the fundamental principles of privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart homes. And for every person who lives in one. It does this by supporting the development of open-source projects, and open connectivity and communication standards.
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• Toronto Meetup, Thu, Aug 29 — Chris and Alex are slinging servers in Toronto. Come join us after we get our new box racked.
• Google is no longer making Chromecasts, updates to continue — The Chromecast with Google TV 4K and HD will remain on sale until inventory runs out, but Google is not replenishing stock after that.
• The Google TV Streamer might be the Apple TV 4K rival we’ve been waiting for — es, there are some Gemini AI tricks thrown in, and with other hardware upgrades like a built-in ethernet jack, the Google TV Streamer seems poised to be a much better entertainment hub than its predecessor. The only downside? Since it’s not a dongle anymore, you’ll have to provide your own HDMI cable when it ships on September 24th.
• The Magic Behind HexOS — HexOS combines a simplified UI, automations, workflows, and managed services with user-provided hardware to offer elegant home server management for off-the-shelf server appliances, custom-built hardware, and even recycled PCs. Powered by TrueNAS, the world's most deployed enterprise-grade storage platform, HexOS provides a highly reliable and easy-to-use solution to store, use, and protect your data. In this article, we'll take a closer look at how HexOS works to make all of this possible.
• Forgejo v8.0 is available — It comes with a number of new features, as usual. But the most impactful changes are of a different nature: increased stability, less random UI modifications and almost no breaking changes.
• ForgeFed — ForgeFed is a federation protocol for software forges and code collaboration tools for the software development lifecycle and ecosystem
• Open Letter to Gitea - Restoring Trust in the Gitea Project — After many days of hard work and preparation by a team of former Gitea maintainers and enthusiasts from the FOSS community, we are proud to announce that the Forgejo project is now live.
• Rallly — Schedule group meetings with friends, colleagues and teams. Create meeting polls to find the best date and time to organize an event based on your participants' availability. Save time and avoid back-and-forth emails.
• Fully automated DNS and DHCP with Ansible, Dnsmasq and Pihole — This post will detail how I solved a few interesting problems as I fully automated DNS overrides and DHCP reservations using Pihole, and the program it's built on top of Dnsmasq.
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• Kelly Vaughn on X — How a massive publicly traded company is only going to just now start doing canary deployments is so far beyond my comprehension…
• MoKo 400x300mm DIY PC Case Dust Mesh Filter — A custom magnetic dust filter for the Sliger CX4712 server case.
• Licensing announcement - Purchase a license to support Immich! — With those notes, we have enabled a way for you to financially support the continued development of Immich, ensuring the software can move forward and will be maintained, by offering a lifetime license of the software. We think if you like and use software, you should pay for it, but we're never going to force anyone to pay or try to limit Immich for those who don't.
• Wording change and clarification for purchasing Immich — I thought about it when I went to bed, I thought about it in my dream, I thought about it while doing the dishes. Taking into consideration all of your feedback and suggestions, and on behalf of the team, I am happy to show you what we came up with.
• LinuxFest Northwest 2024: Deploying NixOS Anywhere - YouTube — NixOS, the declarative operating system taking the world by storm, can be challenging to deploy on many hosting providers. In this talk, we'll unlock the full potential of NixOS by exploring how its unique architecture enables installation just about anywhere—from bare metal and VMs to a VPS provider near you.
• nixos-infect — A script to install NixOS on non-NixOS hosts.
• simple-nixos-mailserver
• Docker-OSX — Run Mac OS X in Docker with near-native performance! X11 Forwarding! iMessage security research! iPhone USB working! macOS in a Docker container!
• Moshidon for Mastodon - Apps on Google Play — Moshidon is a modified version of the official Mastodon Android app adding important features that are missing in the official app, such as the federated timeline, unlisted posting and an image description viewer.
• SchildiChat — SchildiChat is a feature-rich messenger for Matrix based on Element with some extras and tweaks.
• SendGrid — Email API and Email Marketing Campaigns
• SSH 128 Boost Barn — Thank you Boosters!

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• 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
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• 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

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• Configuring Proxmox For Hetzner - YouTube — Throughout the video, we delve into the nitty-gritty of Proxmox configuration, highlighting key steps such as booting from the drives, setting up network devices, and managing SSH access over Port 2222. I'll walk you through running and connecting to your virtual machines, ensuring you understand every command and its purpose.
• Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts — Scripts for Streamlining Your Homelab with Proxmox VE
• Migrate to Proxmox VE — This article aims to assist users in transitioning to Proxmox Virtual Environment. The first part explains the core concepts of Proxmox VE, while the second part outlines several methods for migrating VMs to Proxmox VE. Although it was written with VMware as the source in mind, most sections should apply to other source hypervisors as well.
• Dockge — A fancy, easy-to-use and reactive self-hosted docker compose.yaml stack-oriented manager.

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• The Launch 🚀: Chris guides you through the most interesting stories and clips that set the stage for the rest of the week, while playing some of his favorite value 4 value tracks.
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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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• 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

Plus, getting practical about your home media setup, bringing Spook into Home Assistant, and more.

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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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• Amazon is discontinuing Alexa’s celebrity voices, even if you paid for them — “After three years, we’re winding down celebrity voices,” Amazon spokesperson Eric Sveum says in a statement to The Verge. “Customers will be able to continue using these voices for a limited time, and can contact our customer service team for a refund.”
• 45Drives Needs Your Help Developing a Homelab Server — 45Drives here to talk about a new project that we are super excited about. We’ve realized it’s time to build a home lab-level storage server.
• Emby Security Advisory - May 25, 2023
• dua-cli — dua (-> Disk Usage Analyzer) is a tool to conveniently learn about the usage of disk space of a given directory. It's parallel by default and will max out your SSD, providing relevant information as fast as possible. Optionally delete superfluous data, and do so more quickly than rm.
• Developing inside a Container using Visual Studio Code Remote Development — The Visual Studio Code Dev Containers extension lets you use a container as a full-featured development environment. It allows you to open any folder inside (or mounted into) a container and take advantage of Visual Studio Code's full feature set.
• Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Alby brings Boosts to the web.
• 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.

Plus, our thoughts on the state of self-hostable AI tools.

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• Olympia Linux Spring Meetup , Sat, Apr 29, 2023, 1:00 PM — Let's have a local PNW get-together.
• We're no longer sunsetting the Free Team plan — Last week we felt our communications were terrible but our policy was sound. It’s now clear that both the communications and the policy were wrong, so we’re reversing course and no longer sunsetting the Free Team plan
• LUP 502: Docker Shocker — The story of an open-source hero who became a villain.
• Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.4 — Proxmox VE 7.4 is based on Debian 11.6 (“Bullseye”), but uses a newer, long-term supported Linux kernel 5.15 and includes updates to the latest versions of leading open-source technologies for virtual environments, such as QEMU 7.2, LXC 5.0.2, and ZFS 2.1.9.
• Pricing v3, plans, packages, and debugging · Tailscale — The new plans should save money for essentially everyone, but you can keep your old plan if you want.
• web-whisper — OpenAI's whisper on your web browser!
• KTZ Systems - YouTube — Creating videos and tutorials about Self-hosting, Homelabs, Networking, Linux, Containers, Home Automation, and much more...
• Auto-GPT — Auto-GPT is an experimental open-source application showcasing the capabilities of the GPT-4 language model. This program, driven by GPT-4, chains together LLM "thoughts", to autonomously achieve whatever goal you set. As one of the first examples of GPT-4 running fully autonomously, Auto-GPT pushes the boundaries of what is possible with AI.
• gpt4all chatbot ui — This is a Flask web application that provides a chat UI for interacting with llamacpp based chatbots such as GPT4all, vicuna etc...
• turbopilot — TurboPilot is a self-hosted copilot clone which uses the library behind llama.cpp to run the 6 Billion Parameter Salesforce Codegen model in 4GiB of RAM. It is heavily based and inspired by on the fauxpilot project.
• You all NEED these Obsidian community plugins - YouTube — In this YouTube video, I’m talking about how Obsidian can do so much more than just note-taking and writing technical documentation.
• Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go.
• 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.

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• LinuxFest Northwest 2023 — October 20-22, 2023, Bellingham Technical College. LFNW2023: ❝Your Fest is Back!❞
• Alex Network Diagram v4 — A updated version of Alex's network diagram.
• Dell Refurbished — promo code: 7050DELL4U 50% off and free shipping!
• Use 1 PiKVM instance to control 4 systems — One PiKVM able to control and view up to 4 systems at once.
• Newish M720q OPNsense firewall in the making — Just the software left. Lenovo Tiny M720q with an i5-8500T and 256gb NVME SSD and Supermicro AOC-STGN-I2S dual SFP+ card. Wicked good and fitting bracket made by /u/kz476 Big shoutout to him. Awesome little package
• Authentication bypass Supervisor API — A remotely exploitable vulnerability bypassing authentication for accessing the Supervisor API through Home Assistant has been discovered.
• CVE - CVE-2023-27482 — This impacts all Home Assistant installation types that use the Supervisor 2023.01.1 or older.
• Pockethernet — A smartphone connected Ethernet network analyzer & cable tester that fits into your pocket
• Klein Tools VDV526-200 Cable Tester — Alex's new cable tester.
• Alby — Lightning for your Browser! — Alby brings Boosts to the web.
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• blog.ktz.me - Fully automated DNS and DHCP with Ansible, Dnsmasq and Pihole — For the longest time I've made do with clicking through the Opnsense UI to add static IP reservations via MAC address mapping. It's been one of those minor friction points of network administration that I've put up with because automating the process seemed daunting. This post will detail how I solved a few interesting problems as I fully automated DNS overrides and DHCP reservations using Pihole, and the program it's built on top of Dnsmasq.
• Cluster Manager - Proxmox VE — The Proxmox VE cluster manager pvecm is a tool to create a group of physical servers. Such a group is called a cluster. We use the Corosync Cluster Engine for reliable group communication. There’s no explicit limit for the number of nodes in a cluster. In practice, the actual possible node count may be limited by the host and network performance. Currently (2021), there are reports of clusters (using high-end enterprise hardware) with over 50 nodes in production.
• Pi-hole — You can run Pi-hole in a container, or deploy it directly to a supported operating system
• Ubiquiti WiFi
• Reolink Video Doorbell PoE — At least twice clearer than the 2MP (1080p), 2K+ (5MP) resolution means a lot more information and a wider range. Individuals will be easier to recognize with richer details.
• Alby — Lightning for your Browser! — Alby brings Boosts payments to the web.
• Self-Hosted on the Podcastindex.org — You can Boost from the Podcast Index website, just top up Alby first, and then visit the Podcast Index and boost from our page.

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• You can't buy a Raspberry Pi right now — ...or at least, not without a lot of patience or a fat wallet.
• Matter is now official! — The Connectivity Standards Alliance has certified and released the first version of the Matter smart home interoperability protocol Tuesday and I couldn’t be happier.
• Paulus Schoutsen on Twitter — Ladies and gentlemen, we've got it! That's the first release.
• Invoice Ninja — Focus on doing what you love. We’ll help with the invoicing.
• Docker files for Invoice Ninja — Introducing our very own Helm Chart that helps you launch a simple standalone app to a production-ready, highly available Invoice Ninja setup.
• InvoicePlane — InvoicePlane is a self-hosted open source application for managing your quotes, invoices, clients and payments.
• Cloudflare Zero Trust and Yubico — Yubico is providing Security Keys at “Good for the Internet” pricing - as low as $10 per key.  Yubico will ship the keys to customers directly.
• SSH with YubiKey
• Bitwarden Two-step Login via YubiKey
• expanse — fully selfhosted multi-user web app for externally storing Reddit items (saved, created, upvoted, downvoted, hidden) to bypass Reddit's 1000-item listing limits
• Use Bitwarden to Generate Email Aliases with Fastmail — As of the September release, the Bitwarden username generator now supports creating email aliases
• netbird — NetBird is an open-source VPN management platform built on top of WireGuard® making it easy to create secure private networks for your organization or home.
• RuneAudio — RuneAudio is a free and open source software that turns embedded hardware into Hi-Fi music players.
• Volumio - The Audiophile Music Player — A very powerful and convenient music aggregator, now Volumio can also be used with great results in all sorts of different situations.
• snapcast: Synchronous multiroom audio player — Snapcast is a multiroom client-server audio player, where all clients are time synchronized with the server to play perfectly synced audio. It's not a standalone player, but an extension that turns your existing audio player into a Sonos-like multiroom solution.
• ConBee II Zigbee USB Gateway — Universal Zigbee USB gateway integrates Zigbee products across manufacturers
• Slaesh Zigbee 3.0 USB Stick - CloudFree — Recommended by Zigbee2MQTT
• Badgers Stack — A new page for May 2022, here's a high level overview snapshot of PMS as it stands today.
• Install Proxmox VE on Debian 11 Bullseye — The installation of a supported Proxmox VE server should be done via bare-metal ISO installer. In some cases it makes sense to install Proxmox VE on top of a running Debian Bullseye 64-bit, especially if you want a custom partition layout. For this How-To any official Bullseye installation medium should work.
• ironicbadger/infra: 99.9% less leaked credentials
• Send a Boost with a New Podcast App — Upgrade to a Podcasting 2.0 compatible app.

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• Upcoming Jupiter Broadcasting Meetups — We've always got something planned. Check out our meetup page.
• Meetup Space on Matrix — A directory of our various meetup rooms on Matrix.
• A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal. — Google has an automated tool to detect abusive images of children. But the system can get it wrong, and the consequences are serious.
• After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won. — Email is now an oligopoly, a service gatekept by a few big companies which does not follow the principles of net neutrality.
• Carlos Fenollosa on Twitter — Email is now an oligopoly, a service gatekept by a few big companies which does not follow the principles of net neutrality.
• Immich — High performance self-hosted photo and video backup solution.
• Here is another Immich's progress update — I apologize for the late update. August had been a very productive month for the project and the team. I hope you all had a great one as well.
• 2022.9: Home Assistant Birthday Release! — On September 17th, 2013 Paulus Schoutsen made the first commit for Home Assistant
• Android IP Webcam - Home Assistant — The Android IP Webcam integration connects with Android IP Webcam to turn any Android phone or tablet into a network camera with multiple viewing options.
• Fully Kiosk Browser - Home Assistant — Fully Kiosk Browser is a powerful kiosk browser for Android devices. It provides a number of features for monitoring and controlling your Android device. This integration gives you access to control your device and view the status in Home Assistant.
• Tailscale - Home Assistant — This integration DOES NOT make your Home Assistant accessible via Tailscale VPN remotely!
• hassio-addons/addon-tailscale: Tailscale - Home Assistant Community Add-ons — Tailscale is a zero config VPN, which installs on any device in minutes, including your Home Assistant instance.
• Supported SSO identity providers by Tailscale — Tailscale works on top of the SSO/IDP/IAM identity provider you or your company already use.
• Jellyamp — A stylish, cross-platform desktop client for listening to music from a Jellyfin server. Inspired by Plexamp.
• Jellyfin-audio-player — This is a React Native-based audio streaming app for Jellyfin.
• Podverse.fm — The GPL Podcasting 2.0 Client.
• Find ChrisLAS on Fountain.FM — Fountain Streams you sats while you listen and has a great clips ecosystem for discovering new Podcasts.

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• Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup Page
• Tailscale mesh network using OPNsense — OPNsense is an open source router and firewall platform built using FreeBSD. Tailscale can be installed on an OPNsense platform, joining it to your WireGuard-based mesh network.
• OPNsense repo by mimugmail — Here you'll find source of a couple of plugins but it's mainly just for tracking bugs or new feature requests.
• Install AdGuard Home on an OPNsense router
• Hard Drive Life Expectancy — Using the Drive Stats data we’ve collected since 2013, we have selected 10 drive models that have a sufficient number of both drives and drive days to produce Kaplan-Meier life expectancy curves we can use to easily visualize their life expectancy. Using these life expectancy curves we’ll compare drive models in cohorts of 4TB, 8TB, 12TB, and 14TB to see what we can find.
• Shelly Flood
• Shelly Flood Notification on Water Detection
• SHELLY FLOOD Detect any leakages immediately — I will show you how to use Home Assistant and Shelly Flood Sensor to detect any leakages at your home immediately. We will use some Home Assistant automations and MQTT protocol.
• UNNotificationInterruptionLevel.timeSensitive — The system presents the notification immediately, lights up the screen, and can play a sound, but won’t break through system notification controls.
• Shelly Plus H&T — With over 1 year of battery life, Shelly Plus H&T will make sure that you are always aware of the temperature and humidity levels in your home. Enhanced with a faster processor, Shelly Plus H&T monitors even the slightest change in the conditions and will help you prevent dryness or mold while maintaining comfortable conditions at the premises.
• Shelly Plus Plug US — Shelly Plus Plug US will monitor and control lighting, heating, or any other connected electrical appliance at home.
• Leviton joins as a Works with Home Assistant partner — Today we are happy to announce our first Works with Home Assistant partner: Leviton!
• Shelly Smoke — When there is smoke detected, Shelly Smoke activates a Voice and Light alarm, and sends a notification instantly.
• Jellyfin CSS Customization — Custom CSS provides customization such as changing colors, changing layouts, and item size and behavior. Below is a list of various tweaks that can be applied.
• What is the Lightning Network? — The Lightning Network was proposed in 2015 by two researchers, Thaddeus Dryja and Joseph Poon, in a paper titled “The Bitcoin Lightning Network.” Their writings were based on previous discussions of payment channels made by Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous creator of Bitcoin. Nakamoto described payment channels to fellow developer Mike Hearn, who published the conversations in 2013. 
• Umbrel — Run a personal server in your home, self-host open source apps like Nextcloud and Bitcoin node, break away from big tech, and take full control of your data. For free.
• nix-bitcoin — nix-bitcoin is a collection of Nix packages and NixOS modules for easily installing full-featured Bitcoin nodes with an emphasis on security.
• Grab a New Podcast app — Get a Podcasting 2.0 compatible app.

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• Aeotec Z-Wave Smart Switch 7 — Aeotec’s smallest, best-certified smart plug built with Gen7, Z-Wave Plus, S2, and SmartStart. 30% smaller than past smart switches at only 2.4x1.5x1.2 inch - so small that it doesn’t block other power outlets!
• Spotify Takes Down Neil Young’s Music — Folk-rock star had over six million monthly listeners on the service
• Lidarr — Lidarr is a music collection manager for Usenet and BitTorrent users. It can monitor multiple RSS feeds for new albums from your favorite artists and will interface with clients and indexers to grab, sort, and rename them. It can also be configured to automatically upgrade the quality of existing files in the library when a better quality format becomes available.
• AMD — RandomNinjaAtk/amd is a Lidarr companion script to automatically download music for Lidarr
• Plexamp
• finamp
• Google will shut down your free G Suite account — Google announced yesterday (Jan. 19) that all users of the G Suite "legacy free edition" would need to "to upgrade to a paid Google Workspace subscription" by July 1, 2022 in order to keep using Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive and the Google office suite, including Docs, Sheets and Slides.
• Google could face class action lawsuit over free G Suite legacy account shutdown
• Google relents: Legacy G Suite users will be able to migrate to free accounts
• Let's Encrypt is revoking lots of SSL certificates in two days — Let's Encrypt will begin revoking certain SSL/TLS certificates issued within the last 90 days due to a bug, starting January 28, 2022. The move could impact millions of active Let's Encrypt certificates.
• ChrisLAS Birthday Party Hang and Chow | Meetup — Join us at the studio up in Arlington for a hang and chow. Attendees are encouraged to bring their favorite dish or at least an appetite.
• Mobile Internet Bundles — Most bundles come with everything you need to get you online and connected
• PepVPN - Peplink — PepVPN is our foundation VPN engine. It is ideal for establishing a secure tunnel over any WAN link and is probably the world’s easiest VPN technology.
• Speedify VPN review
• PDF: SpeedFusion and PepVPN — Our patented SpeedFusion technology powers enterprise VPNs that tap into the bandwidth of up to 13 low-cost cable, DSL, 4G LTE/3G, and other links connected anywhere on your corporate or institutional WAN.

And Brent's tale of giving the gift of Jellyfin.

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• homebridge — Homebridge is a lightweight NodeJS server you can run on your home network that emulates the iOS HomeKit API. It supports Plugins, which are community-contributed modules that provide a basic bridge from HomeKit to various 3rd-party APIs provided by manufacturers of "smart home" devices.
• HomeKit - Home Assistant — The HomeKit integration allows you to make your Home Assistant entities available in Apple HomeKit, so they can be controlled from Apple’s Home app and Siri; even if those devices do not natively support HomeKit.
• How to Easily Program NFC Tags with Your iPhone — The best part is that you can do many things with an NFC tag. Basically, the sky is the limit – and if you can program it, you can use an NFC tag to automate it.
• Apple TV - Home Assistant — The Apple TV integration allows you to control an Apple TV (any generation).
• Infuse 7 on the App Store — Ignite your video content with Infuse – the beautiful way to watch almost any video format on your iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and Mac. No need to convert files! Infuse is optimized for macOS 12, with powerful streaming options, Trakt sync, and unmatched AirPlay & subtitle support. Gorgeous interface. Precise controls. And silky-smooth playback.
• Docker - Perfect Media Server
• Dozzle — Dozzle is a real-time log viewer for docker containers.
• ChrisLAS Birthday Party Hang and Chow Meetup — Join us at the studio up in Arlington for a hang and chow. Attendees are encouraged to bring their favorite dish or at least an appetite.

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• Tailscale · Best VPN Service for Secure Networks — Create a secure network between your servers, computers, and cloud instances. Even when separated by firewalls or subnets, Tailscale just works.
• headscale — An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale coordination server.
• Intelligent Platform Management Interface — The Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)
• ASUS Hyper M.2 X16 PCIe 3.0 X4 Expansion Card — Supports 4 NVMe M.2 (2242/2260/2280/22110) Upto 128 Gbps
• TRÅDFRI Shortcut button — Shortcut button, white
• restic · Backups done right! — Restic is a modern backup program that can back up your files
• autorestic: High level CLI utility for restic — Autorestic is a wrapper around the amazing restic. While being amazing the restic cli can be a bit overwhelming and difficult to manage if you have many different locations that you want to backup to multiple locations. This utility is aimed at making this easier 🙂.
• Backing up your data with Restic (+ Autorestic) and Minio
• Generic Thermostat - Home Assistant — The generic_thermostat climate platform is a thermostat implemented in Home Assistant. It uses a sensor and a switch connected to a heater or air conditioning under the hood. When in heater mode, if the measured temperature is cooler than the target temperature, the heater will be turned on and turned off when the required temperature is reached.
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