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• Raid Owl - YouTube — Hi there, my name is Brett and I'm just a nerdy dude who is passionate about home lab stuff, networking, pc builds, and tech in general. I created Raid Owl to provide a creative outlet for my passion and hopefully help people along the way.
• Broadcom terminates VMware's free ESXi hypervisor — Broadcom has discontinued the free version of VMware's ESXi hypervisor.
• VMware is "killing off" 56 products amid "tectonic" infrastructure shift
• Raid Owl on X — This #30DaysOfLinux challenge is not going as expected…
• Unraid | Upcoming Changes to Unraid OS Pricing — Again, this change does not apply to any current license holders. You will still be able to access all updates for life, as promised.
• Core NGINX Developer Forks Web Server Into Freenginx — As such, starting from today, I will no longer participate in nginx development as run by F5. Instead, I’m starting an alternative project, which is going to be run by developers, and not corporate entities:
• PurrfectProse — About halfway through January 2024 we reorganized the spare room and Alex pointed out that I’d hardly been reading since Ella had been born and my ‘to read’ staging bookcase was getting perilously full. So a mission began to get back on the wagon.
• Wyze confirmed a camera issue last week caused 13,000 owners to see videos from other homes — The end result was that for a brief but not revealed period of time, 13,000 Wyze camera owners were seeing thumbnail videos from locations that were not their own. Also, 1,504 users tapped on those thumbnails, which could have expanded it or launched an Event video.
• R36S Handheld Game Console — On The Go Design: Ultra-compact size and old style design, it is very convenient whether you carry it with you during business trips, travel or camping. Recall the dream of the games anytime, anywhere.
• CitraVR: Port of the leading 3DS emulator, Citra — designed for playing 3DS homebrew and personal game backups in 3D on the go with your Quest. — Play 3DS homebrew and personal game backups in 3D on the go with your Quest. CitraVR is a GPL-licensed, engineless OpenXR application with all source code publicly available.

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• I’m done with Wyze — Wyze knew hackers could remotely access your camera for three years and said nothing
• Plex adds universal watchlist, search and discovery — “You’re going to open up Plex every day,” Williams said. “It’s going to be your trusted source.”
• Self-Hosted 4: The Joy of Plex with Elan Feingold — Plex Co-Founder and CTO Elan Feingold shares why he started Plex, its future direction, his home setup, his love for electric cars and the beach.
• Release 10.8.0 Beta 1 · jellyfin — We're pleased to announce the first Beta pre-release of our upcoming 10.8.0 version. This release has a dedicated branch in preparation for the final 10.8.0 release. At this time, only bugfixes will be merged.
• 2022.4: Groups! Groups! Groups! - Home Assistant — 👋 I’m not sure where to start with this release; It’s April, and I can assure you: This release is no joke. Seriously, it is packed with features and incredible new things 🤯.

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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
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• 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.
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• Feedback - Docker skeptic with some questions
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• Employee error to blame for massive data leak, Wyze says — The database in question was basically a copy of the production database that Wyze created to work with
• When I load the Xiaomi camera in my Google home hub I get stills from other people's homes!
• Alex Kretzschmar on Twitter — "Another item off the Todo list. Self-hosted cameras using @AmcrestSecurity 4k IP8M-T2499EW
• Self-hosted Speedtest — Self-hosted Speedtest for HTML5 and more. Easy setup, examples, configurable, mobile friendly. Supports PHP, Node, Multiple servers, and more
• Alex's docker-compose snippet for LibreSpeedTest
• Statping: Status Page for monitoring your websites — An easy to use Status Page for your websites and applications. Statping will automatically fetch the application and render a beautiful status page with tons of features for you to build an even better status page. This Status Page generator allows you to use MySQL, Postgres, or SQLite on multiple operating systems.
• Amazon.com : Nelly's Security 3MP WiFi Video Doorbell Camera — W/ 2 Way Audio, Onvif Compliant, PIR Motion Sensor, Night Vision, 16GB SD Card Pre-Installed.
• Smart Power Strip TECKIN WiFi Surge Protector

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• 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