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• ⚡ 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.
• QuickSync Benchmarking Script — Written by cptmorgan (Morgan the doorbell guy!). Use this script to benchmark the performance of your Quick Sync iGPU video transcoder. Submit those results to Alex via the Gist linked (as a comment).
• GitHub Gist - QuickSync Test Results — Post your QuickSync test results here as a comment.
• ESPClicker — Espclicker is a small device that you can use to integrate not IoT devices into your smart home setup
• Tuya-CloudCutter with ESPHome Beken Devices | How To Guide Home Assistant - YouTube
• Home-Assistant-Switch-Manager — Switch manager is a centralised component to handle button pushes for your wireless switches. This includes anything passed through the event bus or MQTT.
• Quad Zigbee Smart Switch - Chris' Current Fav — Each button has three pairing modes, allowing the 4 scene switches to create 12 unique scenes, including Home Mode, Away Mode, Movie Mode, and more.
• Zooz 700 Series Z-Wave Scene Controller — Connect a 120 V light fixture (up to 150 W for LED's) to control it via Z-Wave or use the main button for wireless control only with up to 7 button triggers available.
• Read-it-later app Matter can now transcribe your favorite podcasts — The company this morning is debuting “Readable Podcasts,” a feature that will let you save favorite podcasts and transcribe their audio to text. By doing so, you can use Matter’s other tools to interact with the podcast content as you would a saved article, including by doing things like highlighting, taking notes and sharing quotes.
• mergerfs: a featureful union filesystem — mergerfs is a union filesystem geared towards simplifying storage and management of files across numerous commodity storage devices. It is similar to mhddfs, unionfs, and aufs.
• trapexit on GitHub — Find the mergerfs lead dev on GitHub.
• llama-gpt — A self-hosted, offline, ChatGPT-like chatbot, powered by Llama 2. 100% private, with no data leaving your device.
• LUP 486: Goodbye, Google — Chris ditches the iPhone and switches to GrapheneOS, a security and privacy-focused project that lets you take control back from Google.
• Voice over IP - Home Assistant — The VoIP integration enables users to talk to Assist using an analog phone and a VoIP adapter.
• HomeCam for HomeKit on the App Store — HomeCam is the only app to allow you to view multiple cameras live at once and control their surroundings.

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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• Berlin with Brent, Sat, Jul 22, 2023 — Brent loved his time in Berlin so much, he's going back for more!
• Berlin Buds Matrix Chat — Join the realtime Berlin chat room on Matrix.
• MicroBin v2 Released — I am proud that MicroBin now contributes to a world-wide effort towards making privacy accessible and easy, and I hope v2 will help it towards becoming the secure self-hosted file-sharing solution.
• Docker | MicroBin — For Docker, you can either use our setup script, or download the Dockerfile and .env file in the repository and set it up yourself. The image is also available on DockerHub.
• MicroBin Demo Page
• 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.
• Fotoo - Photo Frame Slideshow — Turn your tablet/TV/phone into an elegant digital photo frame and photo slideshow player!
• Fotoo - Digital Photo Frame Photo Slideshow Player on Amazon
• Samba - NixOS Wiki — This guide will help you on how to use samba on nixos.
• USB Smart WiFi Adaptor for USB — Splenssy Tuya Micro DC 5V. Turn on/off the light with your smartphone from miles away.
• What Exactly Is Federation, Anyways? — Really, federation is just, well, decentralization with extra features. Decentralized software is where, in effect, anyone can run their own instance, there is no one ‘central’ location.
• Configuring Federation Sharing — Nextcloud — Federated Cloud Sharing is now managed by the Federation app (9.0+), and is now called Federation sharing. When you enable the Federation app you can easily and securely link file shares between Nextcloud servers, in effect creating a cloud of Nextclouds.
• Include | Docker Documentation — A Compose application can declare dependency on another Compose application.
• introduce include to load sub-compose projects as dependencies by ndeloof — Pull Request #416
• Plex Dupefinder — Plex DupeFinder is a python script that finds duplicate versions of media (TV episodes and movies) in your Plex Library and tells Plex to remove the lowest rated files/versions (based on user-specified scoring) to leave behind a single file/version.
• Free your notes - Obsidian — The first conversion format we have added is .enex for Evernote.
• Why I stopped using Intel GVT-g on Proxmox with Quick Sync — The promise of GVT-g technically was very high. One box to rule them all. However in practice, it just didn't live up to expectations.
• Crackpipe — the decentralized gaming platform for 'alternatively obtained' games
• ⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Send a Boost into the show, first grab Alby and then top it off directly or with the CashApp.
• ⚡ Self-Hosted on the Podcastindex.org — Once Alby is topped off, head over to the Podcast Index and Boost from their website! 🍻

Plus, monitoring your freezer in Home Assistant, building a self-hosted Notion alternative, and more.

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• SONOFF CC2531 USB Zigbee Dongle — The CC2531 USB dongle is a fully operational USB device which provides a PC interface to IEEE802.15.4 / ZigBee application
• Shuck 'em if you got 'em — WD external drive price tracker
• Alex Kretzschmar on Twitter — Let the drive burn in commence!
• Obsidian — Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.
• 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. Start by reading the introductory tutorial, then check the User Guide for more information.
• Drone CI — Drone is a self-service Continuous Integration platform for busy development teams.
• 2021.11: Icon picker, device links and entity categories
• Home Assistant 2021.11 Release Party
• Home Assistant on Twitter — We encountered a daylight savings bug last weekend when Europe transitioned last weekend. A restart will resolve the issue. If you are yet to transition to a new summer/winter time, update to 2021.10.7.
• tuya-home-assistant

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• OPNsense Repo — Welcome to my custom community repository, offering a couple of packages and plugins which are not available in core and even wouldn’t fit.
• Michael @mimu_muc
• Uptime Kuma — It is a self-hosted monitoring tool like "Uptime Robot".
• Frigate — A complete and local NVR designed for Home Assistant with AI object detection. Uses OpenCV and Tensorflow to perform realtime object detection locally for IP cameras.
• Frigate integration for Home Assistant
• Morgan's Config 1
• Morgan's Config 2
• Morgan's Config 3
• Wyze Doorbell Camera
• WallPanel and Alarm Panel Application Maintainers Wanted — I am looking for an individual or individuals to take over these projects. WallPanel is very popular for displaying the Home Assistant home page. Alarm Panel integrates with the Home Assistant Alarm component and the Alarmo integration.
• Fully Kiosk Browser Lockdown
• Plex Meta Manager — Plex Meta Manager is a Python 3 script that can be continuously run using YAML configuration files to update on a schedule the metadata of the movies, shows, and collections in your libraries as well as automatically build collections based on various methods all detailed in the wiki.
• ktz-plexmetamanager at master · IronicBadger/infra

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• 2021.10.0: Z-Wave S2 support, Tuya, secure ESPHome and 400 new icons - Home Assistant — Anyways, about this release: Z-Wave JS is stepping up its game! If you have a Z-Wave network and are not using Z-Wave JS yet… well… it might be time to bite the bullet and go for it. You won’t regret it.
• Z-Wave JS - Home Assistant — This integration allows you to control a Z-Wave network via the Z-Wave JS driver. This is our recommended Z-Wave integration for Home Assistant.
• Home Assistant Amber | Crowd Supply — This flagship version of Home Assistant Amber is ready to go out of the box. It comes pre-assembled in a custom enclosure with a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 (CM4) and a custom heat sink for fanless, silent operation. The CM4 is a version without wireless and has 2 GB RAM and 16 GB eMMC storage, pre-installed with Home Assistant.
• Tuya Devices List
• Integration - Riemann sum integral - Home Assistant — The integration platform provides the Riemann sum of the values provided by a source sensor. The Riemann sum is an approximation of an integral by a finite sum. The integration sensors is updated upon changes of the source.
• integration example from Chris' configuration.yaml
• History Stats - Home Assistant — The history_stats sensor platform provides quick statistics about another integration or platforms, using data from the history integration.
• Utility Meter - Home Assistant — The utility meter integration provides functionality to track consumptions of various utilities (e.g., energy, gas, water, heating).
• History Stats and Utility Meter example from Chris' configuration.yaml
• Tubesync — TubeSync is a PVR (personal video recorder) for YouTube. Or, like Sonarr but for YouTube (with a built-in download client). It is designed to synchronize channels and playlists from YouTube to local directories and update your media server once media is downloaded.
• Gimme-iPhotos: Download media files from iCloud. — Downloads media files from iCloud in parallel

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• Wyze Doorbell
• Home Assistant on Twitter announces Tuya partnership — "We had a call with @tuyasmart this morning. They are working on an official Home Assistant integration maintained by them. The beta is already available as a custom component at https://t.co/71bjKySm4X It connects to their official cloud API. But local access will follow.
• mergerfs-tools
• PiKVM
• PiKVM - 4 servers 1 Pi - blog.ktz.me — This is every homelabbers dream isn't it? Controlling multiple systems that don't have IPMI natively, remotely. Thanks to PiKVM, we now can.
• Mailrise
• Apprise
• Feedback - Docker skeptic with some questions
• Feedback - Let's talk VLANs