Self-Hosted
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.
Fri, April 18, 2025
147: The Problem with Game Streaming
Alex finally cracks a years-old mystery, Chris reveals his latest experiments, and we share updates on our freshest gear. Plus, a important show update. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Unraid : A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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. 🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — Empowering sovereign ownership with free automatic self-custody. 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Podcasts and music powered by community. Share, discover and support over 4 million shows and emerging artists. SRE Jupiter.Party Discount — Support the network at the best price ever! Use this link, or the promo code: SRE Apollo: Sunshine fork — The easiest way to stream with the native resolution of your client device Domika — Domika also offers home screen widgets, lock screen controls, critical push notifications, and other unique features, all while seamlessly supporting multiple homes. Hoarder is rebranding to Karakeep — As you might know from my previous post, Hoarder (github link) has been caught up in an ongoing trademark dispute. Since the legal process is still unresolved, I’ll have to save the full story for another time. For now, I’ve decided that the best path forward is to rebrand. karakeep: A self-hostable bookmark-everything app — Karakeep (previously Hoarder) is a self-hostable bookmark-everything app with a touch of AI
Fri, April 04, 2025
146: When AI Attacks
We're joined by Xe Iaso, who discusses a creative solution to relentless AI bots and the unexpected delights of running an outrageously overpowered homelab. Special Guest: Xe Iaso. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Unraid : A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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. 🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — Empowering sovereign ownership with free automatic self-custody 🔒 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Podcasts and music powered by community. Share, discover and support over 4 million shows and emerging artists. Xe Iaso's Blog Support Xe on Patreon Block AI scrapers with Anubis - Xe Iaso — I got tired of this and made a tool to stop them for good. I call it Anubis. Anubis weighs the soul of your connection using a sha256 proof-of-work challenge in order to protect upstream resources from scraper bots. It's a reverse proxy that requires browsers and bots to solve a proof-of-work challenge before they can access your site, just like Hashcash. Building native packages is complicated - Xe Iaso — Normally when I make projects, I don't expect them to take off. I especially don't expect to front page news on Ars Technica and TechCrunch within the span of a few days. I very much also do not expect to say sentences like "FFmpeg uses a program I made to help them stop scraper bots taking down their issue tracker". The last week has been fairly ridiculous in that regard. TecharoHQ/anubis — Anubis
Fri, March 21, 2025
145: The Great Plexodus
When your go-to tools flip the script, our thoughts on Plex's new changes, sensors, and the creeping cost of easy. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Unraid : A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Keebio : Sign up for their newsletter to get 5% off your first order. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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. 🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — Empowering sovereign ownership with free automatic self-custody 🔒 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Podcasts and music powered by community. Share, discover and support over 4 million shows and emerging artists. Important 2025 Plex Updates — We are also changing how remote playback works for streaming personal media (that is, playback when not on the same local network as the server). The reality is that we need more resources to continue putting forth the best personal media experience, and as a result, we will no longer offer remote playback as a free feature. This—alongside the new Plex Pass pricing—will help provide those resources. This change will apply to the future release of our new Plex experience for mobile and other platforms. Major Plex news - Plex is now charging for remote streaming?! - YouTube — Now they went and did it. Plex made remote streaming a paid feature. Alex breaks down the latest Plex news in todays video. AIR-1 Air Quality Sensor For Home Assistant — The Apollo AIR-1 is the most compact, feature-rich, affordable, and expandable air sensor for Ho
Fri, March 07, 2025
144: Silence of the RAMs
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! Sponsored By: Unraid : A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Keebio : Sign up for their newsletter to get 5% off your first order. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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. 🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — Empowering sovereign ownership with free automatic self-custody 🔒 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Podcasts and music powered by community. Share, discover and support over 4 million shows and emerging artists SCALE 2025 Meetup, Sat, Mar 8, 2025, 7:00 PM — This year the crew at El Cholo Cafe is hosting our gathering, and their taco’s are killer! 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 a
Fri, February 21, 2025
143: Your Data, Your Problem
The joys and headaches of self-hosting, a new Zigbee routing trick, and the ongoing BcacheFS vs. Debian showdown. Plus, why we're liking Open WebUI. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Unraid : A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Keebio : Sign up for their newsletter to get 5% off your first order. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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. 🇨🇦 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. 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. <a title="ZHA Users: Are You Missing Out on Source Routing?" rel="nofollow" href="https
Fri, February 07, 2025
142: Cloud Your Judgment
Chris geeks out over his new gadget, Alex gets Pangolin purring, and we break down the latest OPNsense release—plus more surprises! Special Guest: Brent Gervais. Sponsored By: Keebio : Sign up for their newsletter to get 5% off your first order. Unraid : A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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. 🇨🇦 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. Tempest Home Weather Station — Includes the Tempest app with your Tempest data and AI forecasts to power your personal needs for the life of the product. Tempest Forecasting Process Tempest Map WeatherFlow - Home Assistant — The WeatherFlow integration is a local-only integration that reads weather data from all WeatherFlow Tempest compatible weather station on the local network. WeatherFlow Cloud - Home Assistant Pangolin — Tunneled Reverse Proxy Management Server with Identity and Access Control an
Fri, January 24, 2025
141: Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Bambu Labs teaches us how to lose friends and alienate people. Then, Alex Tran from Immich joins us for a project update, and we shared some dreams for a community RSS project. Special Guest: Alex Tran. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Unraid : A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Keebio : Sign up for their newsletter to get 5% off your first order. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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. 🇨🇦 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. 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. <a title="Tdarr" rel="nofol
Fri, January 10, 2025
140: When Upgrades Go Wrong
Alex dives into the perils of upgrading and migrating critical infrastructure—uncovering embarrassing pitfalls and hard-won lessons along the way. Meanwhile, Chris takes his audiobook obsession to the next level, showcasing a couple self-hosted projects that are very ambitious. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Unraid : A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Keebio : Sign up for their newsletter to get 5% off your first order. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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. 🇨🇦 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. Smart Thermostats & Smart Home Devices | ecobee — Smart. Secure. Sustainable. Wi-Fi smart thermostat | ecobee — The smart choice for a balance of comfort, value, and energy savings. Renovate Bot — The home of Renovate, a bot for automated dependency updates Apollo Automation — Your Trusted Partner in Smart Home Automation ebook2audiobook — Convert ebooks to audiobooks with chapters and metadata using dynamic AI models and voice cloning. Supports 1,107+ languages! <a title="storyteller · GitLab" rel="nofollow" href
Fri, December 27, 2024
139: Okay Nabu!
The Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition is out, and Paulus Schoutsen, the founder of Home Assistant, joins us to get into the details. Then, Alex and a special guest get into docker-compose vs. nix to manage your home lab. Special Guest: Paulus Schoutsen. Sponsored By: Unraid : A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Keebio : Sign up for their newsletter to get 5% off your first order. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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. 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 Ass
Fri, December 13, 2024
138: ODROID and Chill
Brent joins to share part two of his NAS build adventure, and things take a tiny turn. Plus, picking the right encrypted chat app and Chris stacks a few Jellyfin wins. Special Guest: Brent Gervais. Sponsored By: Unraid : A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Keebio : Sign up for their newsletter to get 5% off your first order. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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. uvBeast New V3 365nm Mini - Black Light UV Flashlight — UV On A Different Level Entirely. Same high octane yet low contamination uvBeast UV as the V3 365nm. The viewing quality will really impress you. Filtered 365nm UV is considered as the gold standard sweet spot for UV users. uvBeast optimized 365nm UV is in a different league, with little visible light leak, which is exactly what you want in a UV light ODROID-H4 PLUS — Hardkernel is introducing the ODROID-H4, H4+ and H4 Ultra, which is equipped with higher performance and richer interfaces. H4 Mini-ITX Kit — The ATX PSU brings 12V to the H4 board. S
Fri, November 29, 2024
137: Mechanically Compatible
We geek out over Brian Moses's 2025 DIY NAS build guide, contemplate future builds with the new Raspberry Pi Compute 5 module, and fully embrace our digital hoarding nature with a new app. Special Guest: Brian Moses. Sponsored By: Keebio : Sign up for their newsletter to get 5% off your first order. Unraid : A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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. catt — Cast All The Things allows you to send videos from many, many online sources (YouTube, Vimeo, and a few hundred others) to your Chromecast. It also allows you to cast local files or render websites. Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 — Compute Module 5 is a powerful and scalable system on module with a 64-bit Arm processor @ 2.4GHz, an I/O controller, video and PCIe interfaces, and a range of wireless, SDRAM and eMMC options. Compute Module 5 on sale now from $45 The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Has Arrived <a title="Raspberry Pi Launches The Compute Module 5 For $45 USD " rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoroni
Fri, November 15, 2024
136: Google is Done
Breaking free from Google's grip: Our surprising journey and the tools that made it possible. Plus, Brent's NAS feature stirring up debate, s clever tool for distributed video encoding, and more. Special Guest: Brent Gervais. Sponsored By: Unraid : A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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. Perplexica — Perplexica is an open-source AI-powered searching tool or an AI-powered search engine that goes deep into the internet to find answers. Inspired by Perplexity AI, it's an open-source option that not just searches the web but understands your questions. Replacing Google with SearXNG as the default in Chrome — No tracking. No ads. Search as it was. Now when you enter a search query in the Chrome address bar it will route through your SearXNG instance automatically. An Example configuration.nix file for PMS - Perfect Media Server handbrake-web — HandBrake Web is a program for interfacing with handbrake across multiple machines via a web browser. It consists of two components: the server and one or more worker(s). <a title="SSH 136 Boost Barn" rel="nofoll
Fri, November 01, 2024
135: Rebuilding For the Last Time
From Nextcloud Breakup to Blissful Reunion: Chris's journey back to a smarter setup. Plus, Jellyfin's game-changing features and a beloved self-hosted app get the upgrade we've all been waiting for. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Unraid : A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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. Jellyfin 10.10.0 — This major release brings several new features, improvements, and bugfixes to improve your Jellyfin experience. With our faster release cadence between 10.9.0 and 10.10.0, this release should be far less daunting, so please read on for a quick peek at what's new and some important-to-know breaking changes! HA-Firemote: Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast, Homatics, NVIDIA Shield, onn., Roku, Xiaomi Mi, and Android TV remote control card for Home Assistant — Firemote is a custom Home Assistant card that is capable of controlling your media devices directly from any Home Assistant dashboard. The Firemote dashboard remotes are designed to look just like your physical remote controls, but they also contain TONS of customization options to choose from! TrueNAS 24.10 (Electric Eel) — 24.10 (Electric Eel) brings many new features and improvements t
Fri, October 18, 2024
134: YouTube Unplugged
"The" self-hosted app to archive your favorite YouTube channels and easily integrate into Jellyfin/Plex. Plus, our favorite WordPress alternatives and an update on No Google October. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Unraid : A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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. 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 Dram
Fri, October 04, 2024
133: No Google October
Ditching Google Search for an entire month! We reveal the tool that's helping us break free. Plus, a special guest shares his home lab to data center journey. And, Chris raves about the ultimate Jellyfin client (and confesses to an accidental network camera purchase). Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Unraid : A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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. streamyfin: A Jellyfin client build with Expo — Welcome to Streamyfin, a simple and user-friendly Jellyfin client built with Expo. If you're looking for an alternative to other Jellyfin clients, we hope you'll find Streamyfin to be a useful addition to your media streaming toolbox. SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. — Privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine. Users are neither tracked nor profiled. SearX Search Provider - Chrome Web Store — A configurable browser extension that sets SearX as your default search engine. xSearch for Safari on the App Store
Fri, September 20, 2024
132: Uploading at the Speed of Light
Alex has been playing around at the speed of light while solving Proxmox problems, and Chris has solved a Jellyfin issue. Plus, our thoughts on the new Plex features. Sponsored By: Unraid : A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Grist : Grist - the open-source alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets. Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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. <a
Fri, September 06, 2024
131: The Value of Community
We celebrate five years of the show, chat about self-hosted Lightning, and why Alex loves his NanoKVM. Plus, it is a self-hosted replacement for Amazon Wishlists and more. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Unraid : A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Grist : Grist - the open-source alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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. Deplatformed by PayPal, Antiwar Journalists Speak Out — According to the two organizations, the PayPal ban remains in effect. PayPal had also frozen the outlets’ funds, including $9,348.14 in Consortium’s account, and threatened to seize the money as “damages.” Patreon Policy Updates — The Community Guidelines have been rewritten to be clearer and more uniform in terminology, tense, and tone. Trust & Safety moderators have also been equipped with new support language to ensure that their interactions with creators are more educational. New Patreon policy updated on tuesday <a title="30% fee on Patreon payments through iOS is cause for concern" rel="nofollow" href="https:
Fri, August 23, 2024
130: Make it or Break it
Prusa's Mk4S 3D printer seems to have hit the mark. Alex gets a tour of an awesome new maker space, we take a look at AdventureLog, and much more. Special Guest: Jscar_Hawk. Sponsored By: Grist : Grist - the open-source alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets. Unraid : A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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. 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. You can also Boost from the Web via their site. Toronto Meetup, Thu, Aug 29, 2024 — Chris and Alex are slinging servers in Toronto. Come join us after we get our new box racked. 6PM EST (meetup is in PDT). $50 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 comes with a lower price and a tweaked, cheaper CPU — Despite changes, 2GB Pi 5 is "functionally identical" to other iterations. Redbox app axed, dashing people’s hopes of keeping purchased content — "Redbox is currently not supporting this app. For questions about the service on your account, please contact Redbox” and recommends other streaming apps, like Apple TV+. <a title="Disney backpedals on saying man can't sue over wife's death because he signed up for Disney+" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/disney-backpedals-s
Fri, August 09, 2024
129: Forged Alliance
The battle for code forges is heating up. We chat about HexOS' big promises and get excited about Meshtastic. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Grist : Grist - the open-source alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets. Unraid : A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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. 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. You can also Boost from the Web via their site. 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 com
Fri, July 26, 2024
128: To Update, or Not to Update?
ESPHome dev dishes on device updates, Immich license drama heats up, Alex's DIY server fix, and Chris reports on mobile tech trip test. Special Guest: Keith Burzinski. Sponsored By: Unraid : A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Grist : Grist - the open-source alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets. Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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. 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. You can also Boost from the Web via their site. 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 purcha
Fri, July 12, 2024
127: Can't Fix What You Don't Track
Chris gets serious about tracking maintenance and alerts, why Alex is impressed by the RISC-V-powered NanoKVM, how we might end up using Docmost, and a follow-up review of LubeLogger. Sponsored By: Unraid : A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Grist : Grist - the open-source alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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. 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. You can also Boost from the Web via their site. Mitsubishi heatpump esp config — The ESP Config for Alex's Garage A/C. LubeLogger — a web-based vehicle maintenance and fuel mileage tracker Funding LubeLogger Wiki Announcing Proxmox-NixOS — The project is still in early development and might have some rough edges, but we would be very happy to have our first beta testers! Bazzite — The next generation of Linux gaming SSH 127 Boost Barn — Thank you Boosters! foot rest
Fri, June 28, 2024
126: Smart But Not Cloudy
Chris reviews the Aqara G4 Video Doorbell, Brent frees his Garmin from the cloud, and we discuss getting iMessages on Android. Special Guest: Brent Gervais. Sponsored By: Grist : Grist - the open-source alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets. Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Unraid : A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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. 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. Aqara G4 Smart Wireless Video Doorbell — Always around, even when you're not. go2rtc: Ultimate camera streaming application with support RTSP, RTMP, HTTP-FLV, WebRTC, MSE, HLS, MP4, MJPEG, HomeKit, FFmpeg, etc. — You can use HomeKit Cameras without Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, etc.), it's just a yet another protocol Gadgetbridge — Gadgetbridge is a free and open source Android application that allows you to pair and manage various gadgets such as smart watches, bands, headphones, and more without the need for the vendor application. So in short, you can use Gadgetbridge instead of relying on your gadget's own proprietary app. Garmin Protocol home-assistant-garmin_connect — The Garmin Con
Fri, June 14, 2024
125: Tiny Mini Micro Systems FTW
Alex's mini-PC surprise, why we're trying Tube Archivist, Alex's Nextcloud update, and how Chris stacks automations with Bitfocus Companion. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Grist : Grist - the open-source alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets. Unraid : A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. Lenovo Thinkcentre/ThinkStation Tiny (Project TinyMiniMicro) Reference Thread — 179 x 183 x 34.5 / 37 mm with rubber feet (7.05 x 7.2 x 1.36 / 1.5 inches with rubber feet) (around 1 litre) Lenovo ThinkCentre M720q Project TinyMiniMicro Feature CloudFree - Own Your Smart Home — Providing tinkerers with the cloud-free gadgets they need. Dell Refurbished Tubearchivist: Your self hosted YouTube media server — By indexing your video collection with metadata from YouTube, you can organize, search and enjoy your archived YouTube videos without hassle offline through a convenient web interface. <a title="Bitfocus - Companion" rel="nofollow" href="https://bitfocus.io/comp
Fri, May 31, 2024
124: The End of Ownership
The "you'll own nothing" trend got worse this week, our thoughts about the Raspberry Pi IPO, poor Nextcloud performance, and Alex's new high-fiber obsession. Sponsored By: Unraid : A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Grist : Grist - the open-source alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets. Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. Raspberry Pi IPO set for June 2024 — $40 million to be raised for engineering and sorting out the supply chain Spotify to Brick Its Own “Car Thing” Device, Won’t Offer Refund — The physical product, announced in 2021 and made available the next year, will be completely nonfunctional in December “Unacceptable”: Spotify bricking Car Thing devices in Dec. without refunds Average Age of U.S. Vehicles Continues to Rise, Now at 12.6 Years — The average age of passenger cars continues to trend higher at 14 years compared with light trucks at 11.9 years. <a title="FUTO funds Immich with 3 year commitment: the best image gallery software - YouTube" rel="nofollow" h
Fri, May 17, 2024
123: How much CPU do You REALLY Need
Alex benchmarks Intel CPUs (and an Arc GPU) to find the ideal balance of age, power, and speed for your home media server. Plus, our thoughts on Immich going full-time. Sponsored By: Grist : Grist - the open-source alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets. Unraid : A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. FacilMap — FacilMap is a privacy-friendly, open-source versatile online map that combines different services based on OpenStreetMap and makes it easy to find places, plan trips and add markers, lines and routes to custom maps with live collaboration. GpxPod - Nextcloud — Display, analyse, compare and share GPS track files. GpxEdit - Nextcloud — Simple Nextcloud app to load, edit and save GPX files on an interactive map. You can load/save files from your Nextcloud file storage. GPX, KML, CSV (unicsv format) and geotagged JPG are supported for loading. JPG files are loaded as waypoints. Files can be loaded in GpxEdit interface or in Files app. The Immich core team goes full-time — Recently, a company in Austin, Texas, called FUTO contacted the team. FUTO strives to develop quality and sustainable open software. They build software alternatives that focus on giving control to users. From their mission statement: <a title="The Best Media Server CPU... in th
Fri, May 03, 2024
122: Back to the Future
How Chris created live TV streaming from his local media collection, Alex breaks down the new Open Home Foundation and what it means for self-hosters. Brent's been trying out an open-source AirDrop replacement for all systems, and much more! Special Guest: Brent Gervais. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Unraid : A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Grist : Grist - the open-source alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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 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 <a title="Collection of 90s Commercials" rel="
Fri, April 19, 2024
121: Forbidden Fruit
Special guest Casey Liss from the Accidental Tech Podcast joins the show to discuss his homelab, how he uses HomeBridge, and his delightfully complex garage door sensor system. Then Alex and Casey do their "best" to convince Chris the Apple Vision Pro is an excellent remote admin tool. Special Guest: Casey Liss. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Grist : Grist - the open-source alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets. Unraid : A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. 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 Chargin
Fri, April 05, 2024
120: Can a VPS Replace a Homelab?
Alex goes head-to-head with budget VPS providers, which gets us into a classic debate. Plus we sit down with Adam Morales from Unraid to get the inside scoop on recent changes and exciting upcoming features. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Grist : Grist - the open-source alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. LowEndTalk 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.
Wed, March 20, 2024
119: Why So Many Llamas?
Alex rolls back a major server upgrade, and we have fun playing with local large language models. Special Guest: Wes Payne. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. This Week in Bitcoin : A high-signal Bitcoin news podcast focused on analysis you'll find valuable. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. Training AI to Play Pokemon with Reinforcement Learning Open WebUI — Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted WebUI for various LLM runners, supported LLM runners include Ollama and OpenAI-compatible APIs. Ollama — Get up and running with large language models, locally. Alex's Nix Nvidia Config tlm — Local CLI Copilot, powered by CodeLLaMa. LM Studio - Discover, download, and run local LLMs — 🤖 - Run LLMs on your laptop, entirely offline 👾 - Use models through the in-app Chat UI or an OpenAI compatible local server 📂 - Download any compatible model files from HuggingFace 🤗 repositories 🔭 - Discover new & noteworthy LLMs in the app's home page Hugging Face — The Home of Machine Learning 🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇 — 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 br
Fri, March 08, 2024
118: How Hard Could it Be?
Alex's new Epyc server build, and Jon Seager from Canonical joins us to chat about Nix in the homelab, packaging Scrutiny, and how Nix fits with existing infrastructure management tools. Special Guest: Jon Seager . Sponsored By: This Week in Bitcoin : A high-signal Bitcoin news podcast focused on analysis you'll find valuable. Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. Jon Seager's Blog Jon's NixOS configuration flake ❄️ — This repository contains a Nix Flake for configuring my machines. Juju — Juju is an open source orchestration engine for software operators that enables the deployment, integration and lifecycle management of applications at any scale, on any infrastructure using charms. Charmhub — The Open Operator Collection Nerding out about Nix and NixOS with Jon Seager, Canonical - YouTube Packaging Scrutiny for NixOS · Jon Seager — In a recent (well, recent-ish) episode of the Self Hosted Show, there was some talk of a hard drive monitoring tool called Scrutiny. Scrutiny is a hard drive monitoring tool that exposes S.M.A.R.T data in a nice, clean dashboard. It gathers that S.M.A.R.T data using the venerable smartd, which is a Linux daemon that monitors S.M.A.R.T data from a huge number of ATA, IDE, SCSI-3 drives. The code is available on Github. <a title="Contributing Scrutiny to nixpkgs · Jon
Fri, February 23, 2024
117: Unraid as a Service
We chat about VMware's rug pull with Bret, aka Raid Owl, and then get into Unraid's big changes and more. Special Guest: Raid Owl. Sponsored By: 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. Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Trusteebook : TrusteeBook - a simple, easy-to-use workbook that helps you take control of your digital legacy. Get started today, and take $10 off. Promo Code: SELFHOSTED Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. 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
Fri, February 09, 2024
116: Making it all Connect
Alex has been deep-diving into container networking, and Chris is trying to steelman Plex's new rental service. Plus, why are we building our containers with Tailscale networking now, and the latest from the Home Assistant project? Sponsored By: 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. Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Trusteebook : TrusteeBook - a simple, easy-to-use workbook that helps you take control of your digital legacy. Get started today, and take $10 off. Promo Code: SELFHOSTED Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. 🍔 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
Fri, January 26, 2024
115: A NAS in Every Home
Brian Moses joins us and shares his most recent NAS build and love for 3D printers. Then Alex gets into the hardware he's deploying around the house, and why we don't see eye-to-eye on ZigBee. Special Guest: Brian Moses. Sponsored By: 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. Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. The Bambu A1 Mini — It is the $299 price tag that pushes the Bambu A1 Mini ever so slightly closer to being the best beginner 3D printer than its more expensive siblings. Tindie — Buy awesome things directly from makers. I spent $420 building a 20TB DIY NAS to use as an off-site backup — I implement an off-site backup using a Mini PC, a 20TB USB HDD, TrueNAS SCALE, Tailscale, and some space at Pat's house. Inovelli Swithces — Blue Series – powered by Zigbee. Blue Series Smart Fan/Light Canopy Module | Inovelli — Control your fan speed and light dim levels individually remotely. Combining the features of our 2-1 and Fan Switch, this canopy module is the most advanced on the market. With the ability to adjust the dimmin
Sat, January 13, 2024
114: Unintended Consequences
We kick off the new year with new apps in our home lab you’ll want to try and a new way to do networking. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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. Using the occ command — Nextcloud’s occ command (origins from “ownCloud Console”) is Nextcloud’s command-line interface. You can perform many common server operations with occ, such as installing and upgrading Nextcloud, manage users, encryption, passwords, LDAP setting, and more. Jellystat — Jellystat is a free and open source Statistics App for Jellyfin OpenSSH: Release Notes — This release contains fixes for a newly-discovered weakness in the SSH transport protocol, a logic error relating to constrained PKCS#11 keys in ssh-agent(1) and countermeasures for programs that invoke ssh(1) with user or hostnames containing invalid characters. audiobookshelf — Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server Stirling-PDF: locally hosted web application — This is a powerful locally hosted web based PDF manipulation tool using docker that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files, such as splitting merging, converting, reorganizing, adding images, rotating, compressing, and more. This locally hosted web application started as a 100% ChatGPT-made application and has evolved to include a wide range of features to handle all your PDF needs. lubelog: Vehicle Service Records and Maintainence Tracker</
Fri, December 29, 2023
113: State of the Homelabs 2023
We look back at what has changed, what's failed us, and what's sticking around in our homelabs. Special Guest: Brent Gervais. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh 45drives : The HL15 from 45HomeLab is an open-source, open-platform, 15-bay homelab server. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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. 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
Fri, December 15, 2023
112: Red Light, Green Light
Alex shares a new build integrating WLED, and Chirs reviews hardware that can get you started with WLED in 45 seconds. Then, one last big update on the Year of Voice and our thoughts on self-hosting push notifications. Sponsored By: 45drives : The HL15 from 45HomeLab is an open-source, open-platform, 15-bay homelab server. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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
Fri, December 01, 2023
111: pfSense Makes no Sense
We break down the state of the pfSense changes and the red flags we see. Plus, we're joined by Wolfgang from Wolfgang's channel to dig into his homelab and much more. Special Guest: Wolfgang. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh 45drives : The HL15 from 45HomeLab is an open-source, open-platform, 15-bay homelab server. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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. 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 - OPNs
Fri, November 17, 2023
110: Google Photos Replacement
That man behind the Google Photos killer joins us to chat about the latest release of Immich. Plus, Alex's first impressions of 45Homelab's HL15. Special Guests: Alex Tran and Brent Gervais. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh 45drives : The HL15 from 45HomeLab is an open-source, open-platform, 15-bay homelab server. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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. Immich — Self-hosted Backup Solution for Photos and Videos on Mobile Devices. Immich Release v1.86.0 — In this release we have added an option to enable parter-shared photos to be displayed in the main timeline. This feature can be enabled on a per-partner basis and can be viewed and updated on both the web and mobile app. Introduction to ZFS Replication — Up your OpenZFS data management game and handle hardware failure with a minimal data loss 45HomeLab - Staff Pick Applications — 45HomeLab provides a platform to run whatever applications you want on your server. For your convenience, our staff picked their favorite applications, tested and assembled them here. SSH 110 Boost Barn
Fri, November 03, 2023
109: Alex’s Backups Disaster
How we almost lost valuable data this week, and a Chat with Doug and Mitch about their new home lab server. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. 45drives : The HL15 from 45HomeLab is an open-source, open-platform, 15-bay homelab server. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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. How to make self-hosting and local-first software work — Fom offline mode to multiplayer to heady questions about ownership, we’re rethinking the way software works. But what does better look like? GitLab + KubeCon NA 2023 | GitLab Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud — In this article we propose “local-first software”: a set of principles for software that enables both collaboration and ownership for users. Local-first ideals include the ability to work offline and collaborate across multiple devices, while also improving the security, privacy, long-term preservation, and user control of data. 45HomeLab Software — 45HomeLab provides a platform to run whatever applications you want on your server. For your convenience, our staff picked their favorite applications, tested and assembled them here. The HL15 — The HL15 from 45HomeLab is a open-source, open-platfo
Fri, October 20, 2023
108: Year of Voice: A Bigger Deal Than You Think
Home Assistant's founder, Paulus Schoutsen, shares details about the Year of Voice, recent legal actions from Mazda, and the results of a recent third-party audit. Plus, our recommended Nextcloud setup, converting dumb devices into smart ones with ESPHome, and more. Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Listener Jeff, and Paulus Schoutsen. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh 45drives : The HL15 from 45HomeLab is an open-source, open-platform, 15-bay homelab server. Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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. 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 - H
Fri, October 06, 2023
107: Laptop Dumpster Diving
With a dose of pragmatism and optimism, we chat about making the best out of old hardware and where we draw the line and buy new. Plus, getting practical about your home media setup, bringing Spook into Home Assistant, and more. Special Guest: Brent Gervais. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. 45drives : The HL15 from 45HomeLab is an open-source, open-platform, 15-bay homelab server. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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. 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. <a title="Spook 👻 a scary p
Fri, September 22, 2023
106: The Plex Situation Just got Worse
Our thoughts on two recent Plex crackdowns, why the Apple TV just got a lot better, how home Assistant could improve 10 years in, and much more. Sponsored By: 45drives : The HL15 from 45HomeLab is an open-source, open-platform, 15-bay homelab server. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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. 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 Hard
Fri, September 08, 2023
105: Sleeper Storage Technology
Alex sits down with the lead developer of mergerfs to get an update on the project, Chris has a button-pushing breakthrough and more. Special Guest: Antonio Musumeci. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. 45drives : The HL15 from 45HomeLab is an open-source, open-platform, 15-bay homelab server. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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. <a title="Quad Zigbee Smart Sw
Fri, August 25, 2023
104: Name-Not-So-Cheap
Alex does a significant overhaul of his website and unpacks a new GitHub action workflow. Chris finally achieves complete local voice control of his network, we complain about the state of domain name sellers, and more. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh 45drives : The HL15 from 45HomeLab is an open-source, open-platform, 15-bay homelab server. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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. Jupiter Broadcasting Meetups — We have several meetups coming up, don't miss out! LinuxFest Northwest 2023 Sponsorship Prospectus — PDF with community sponsorship opportunities. $13 voice remote for 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! Installing a local Assist pipeline - Home Assistant gotty: Share your terminal as a web application — GoTTY is a simple command line tool that turns your CLI tools into web applications. <a title="tmate • Instant terminal sharing" rel="nofollow" href="https://tmate.io
Fri, August 11, 2023
103: Archiving the Internet
A few tools to build your own Way Back Machine, we check in with the "Year of Voice" and more. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. 45drives : The HL15 from 45HomeLab is an open-source, open-platform, 15-bay homelab server. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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. 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 i
Fri, July 28, 2023
102: NixOS is a bit Flakey
Alex shares a suite of self-hosted apps that replace Reddit. Chris is struggling with Jellyfin, and we discuss where NixOS is killing it and where we think it falls down. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. 45drives : The HL15 from 45HomeLab is an open-source, open-platform, 15-bay homelab server. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ 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. wallabag — wallabag is a web application allowing you to save web pages for later reading. Click, save and read it when you want. It extracts content so that you won't be distracted by pop-ups and cie. wallabag/docker: Official docker-composer for wallabag. FreshRSS, a free, self-hostable feeds aggregator — FreshRSS is a self-hosted RSS and Atom feed aggregator. linuxserver/freshrss - Docker Image | Docker Hub Selfhosted show wiki: The official Wiki of the selfhosted.show Podcast. — This repository contains the backend for the Self-Hosted podcast wiki. dust: A more intuitive version of du in rust — du + rust = dust. Like du but more intuitive. <a title="duf: Disk U
Fri, July 14, 2023
101: Joining the Federation
The advantages of Federating a local and remote Nextcloud, Chris replaces Google Home Hub's photo powers and the new docker-compose feature that will change Alex's entire setup. Special Guest: Brent Gervais. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. 45drives : The HL15 from 45HomeLab is an open-source, open-platform, 15-bay homelab server. Support Self-Hosted Links: 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! <a title="Fotoo -
Fri, June 30, 2023
100: Our Essential Apps
We cover our must-have self-hosted apps, reflect on the state of Self-Hosting now, and discuss what's new in Proxmox 8. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Support Self-Hosted Links: Proxmox Virtual Environment 8.0 — This major release is based on the latest Debian 12 (“Bookworm), and comes with an extensively tested and detailed upgrade path for users of Proxmox VE 7.4 or older versions to enable a smooth upgrade. Proxmox VE 8.0 uses a newer Linux kernel 6.2 as stable default, and includes updates to the latest versions of leading open-source technologies for virtual environments like QEMU 8.0.2, LXC 5.0.2, ZFS 2.1.12, and Ceph Quincy 17.2.6. Immich — Self-Hosted Google Photos alternative. Immich Recent Releases Download iCloud photos and videos - Apple Support — With iCloud Photos, you can download a copy of your photos and videos on any device. Bulk Upload (Using the CLI) | Immich — You can use the CLI to upload an existing gallery to the Immich server iVentoy — iVentoy is extremely easy to use, without complicated configuration, just put the ISO file in the specified location and select PXE boot in the client machine. Perfect Media Server — If you're looking to build a media server, then you've come to the right place. This site documents the many aspects of building a media server using Free and Open Source Software wherever possible. PairDrop — SnapDrop Altnerative recommended. Alby:
Fri, June 16, 2023
99: Lemmy at em!
We dive into Lemmy, a self-hosted Reddit alternative. Plus, a couple of easy-to-deploy tools that make life better. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Support Self-Hosted Links: Reddark — These subreddits are going dark or read-only on June 12th and after. Some already are. Click here to find out why. Lemmy 🐀 — A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs, or Hacker News: you subscribe to forums you're interested in, post links and discussions, then vote, and comment on them. Behind the scenes, it is very different; anyone can easily run a server, and all these servers are federated (think email), and connected to the same universe, called the Fediverse. Install with Docker - Lemmy Documentation — Make sure you have both docker and docker-compose Install with Ansible - Lemmy Documentation — Follow the instructions on the Lemmy-Ansible repo. Mlem — The Lemmy client for iOS. Jerboa — An Android client for Lemmy, a federated reddit alternative
Fri, June 02, 2023
98: The One with 45Drives
We chat with 45Drives about their ambitions to build a home-lab server that bridges the gap between enterprise-level servers and consumer-grade NAS products. And more. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Support Self-Hosted Links: 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 fo
Fri, May 19, 2023
97: Tempted by the Fruit of Another
Alex tempts Chris with his Obsidian ways, our thoughts on Drobo going bankrupt, and Photoprism adding paid tiers. Plus, the slick suite of tools you'll want to run on your LAN. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Support Self-Hosted Links: Garden - planning with Canvas — I am using Obsidian to keep track of my gardening stuff. I have notes for all vegetables i am growing, how much i harvested etc...This year i decided to use the canvas feature to help with planning.Overall its a rough sketch of my garden and the beds, thats also why there is a huge empty spot in the middle as there are my garden-house and lawn etc... obsidian-text-extractor — Text Extractor is a "companion" plugin. It's mainly useful when used in conjunction with other plugins (like Omnisearch), but you can also use it to quickly extract texts from images & PDFs. Drobo, having stopped sales and support, reportedly files Chapter 7 bankruptcy — Company posted in January that it had "transitioned to a self-service model." Drobo - Wikipedia 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. Pricing & Editions – PhotoPrism — Simple, affordable pricing. Upgrade or downgrade at any time. <a title="Fasten" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/fastenhealth/fa
Fri, May 05, 2023
96: Outdoor Home Assistant
Why Chris needs ANOTHER Home Assistant instance and a major breakthrough for self-hosters. Special Guest: Brent Gervais. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Support Self-Hosted Links: A Chat about Linus' DATA Recovery w/ Allan Jude - YouTube 2023.5: Let's talk! - Home Assistant — What an exciting release we have for you this month! This release is all about voice (well, almost fully), and I’m super excited we can ship you all this truly amazing stuff! Installing a local Assist pipeline - Home Assistant — For text-to-speech we have developed Piper. Piper is a fast, local neural text to speech system that sounds great and is optimized for the Raspberry Pi 4. It supports many languages. On a Raspberry Pi, using medium quality models, it can generate 1.6s of voice in a second. New Voice Assistant UI — A brand new and exciting menu item can be found in your Settings menu: Voice assistants! 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. Fisher Garden Overhead View — Photos of Chris' Nerd Garden Industrial Linux Mini Pc — Intel Atom CPU Industrial Computer Mini PC With XP/Win 7/Win 10/Linux System Support WiFi/3G/4G/LTE qBoxMini DIY IOT
Fri, April 21, 2023
95: Docker U-Turn
We debate if users learned their lesson from the Docker Hub drama, and the silent self-hosting winner going from strength to strength. Proxmox gets some big updates. Plus, our thoughts on the state of self-hostable AI tools. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Support Self-Hosted Links: 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... <a title="Auto-GPT" rel="nofo
Fri, April 07, 2023
94: Full Power
Chris integrates full home power monitoring into Home Assistant, while Alex tames the AI and rushes to replace Dark Sky. Special Guest: Brent Gervais. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Support Self-Hosted Links: Jupiter Broadcasting Meetups — Two meetups in April! KTZ Systems - YouTube — Creating videos and tutorials about Self-hosting, Homelabs, Networking, Linux, Containers, Home Automation and much more... WAAS: Whisper as a Service — GUI and API for OpenAI Whisper web-whisper — A light user interface for OpenAI's Whisper right into your browser! Features - web-whisper + openAI API — Web-whisper allows you to add an OpenAI token and make use of the OpenAI API as backend, this brings some advantages as well as some concerns. Victron GX modbusTCP integration — This integration scans for all available registers of a provided GX device. It then uses the defined register ledgers to create entities for each and every register that is provided by the GX device. Modbus TCP/IP Protocol Overview — The most common use of the protocols at this time is for Ethernet attachment of PLCs, I/O modules and gateways to other simple field buses or I/O networks. Energy Management in Home Assistant — Home Assistant is adding official support for home energy management. Our energy management will help users monitor the energy usage, transition to sustainable energy and save money. <a t
Fri, March 24, 2023
93: The Podman Perspective
Alex goes all in on Rootless Podman, Chris is saving his Nextcloud install from disaster, and a special guest joins us. Special Guest: Alex Ellis. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Support Self-Hosted Links: Secret Management with Ansible Vault and docker-compose - YouTube — Secret management with docker-compose doesn't have to be an enigma. This video shows how I use Ansible and Ansible Vault in conjunction with docker-compose to keep my secrets safe and encrypted whilst still being able to push my repos to Github publicly. KTZ Systems — We specialize in professional cloud infrastructure management and business network services. Gitea 1.19.0 is released — We are proud to present the release of Gitea version 1.19.0. Linode Green Light Beta Program — Get early access and test new Linode products before they hit the market, provide valuable feedback to influence product direction, and become part of a community of developers helping us build the cloud that works for you. Docker is deleting Open Source organisations — Yesterday, Docker sent an email to any Docker Hub user who had created an "organisation", telling them their account will be deleted including all images, if they do not upgrade to a paid team plan. The email contained a link to a tersely written PDF (since, silently edited) which was missing many important details which caused significant anxiety and additional work for open source maintainers. Alex Ellis' Web Site Podman issue pulling from local registry <a title="/etc/subuid and /etc/
Fri, March 10, 2023
92: Rip it all Out
Find out why Alex ripped out everything installed last episode and is starting fresh with new gear, wires, and a new goal. Special Guest: Brent Gervais. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Support Self-Hosted Links: 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 <a title="Klein Tools VDV526-200 Cable Tester" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09
Fri, February 24, 2023
91: Total Network Rebuild
Alex has been swapping hardware and standing-up services. It's a network rebuild episode and more! Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Support Self-Hosted Links: Images for this episode — Alex's Network Diagram and stuffs! SSH 003: Home Network Under $200 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. BadCo-NZ Scaling the PiKVM - Using the Raspberry Pi PiKVM with Multiple Machines - YouTube — The PiKVM is a fantastic device to remote control your Windows, Mac, or Linux machines. It turns a Raspberry Pi into an IP based KVM switch that lets you remote control any machine from anywhere in the world! You can build your own, or buy a pre-assembled PiKVM like I did. In this video we try to scale the PiKVM to 8 devices, but things don't always go as planned. PiKVM - Control up to 4 servers simultaneously — This is every homelabbers dream isn't it? Controlling multiple systems that don't have IPMI natively, remotely. Thanks to PiKVM, now we can. USB 3.0 KVM Switch HDMI 4 Computer 1 Monitor — HDMI KVM Switcher USB3.0 Hotkey 4 In 1 Out
Fri, February 10, 2023
90: Proxmox ClusterF
Alex has major Proxmox problems. What happened, and the fix for now. Plus, the real downside to Wifi cameras and the batch of network gear on the way. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Support Self-Hosted Links: 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. <a title="Self-Hosted on the Podcastindex.org" rel="no
Fri, January 27, 2023
89: Jellyfans
Join us for the surprising conclusion to our month-long challenge. Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Catherine Kretzschmar. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Support Self-Hosted Links: 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. HD Giveaway Sad Stories Repo JB's Jobs Matrix Chatroom — Looking for work? Have an open position? Join our open Matrix jobs board. k8s at home search — We index Flux HelmReleases from Github repositories with the k8s-at-home topic. To include your repository in this search it must be public and then add the topic k8s-at-home to your GitHub Repository topics. To learn more visit the website from k8s@home
Fri, January 13, 2023
88: Great Scott!
Alex dives deep to find out if Kubernetes is overkill for the home and finds solutions to simplify things. And Chris has a new firmware that turns his favorite network cameras up to 11. Plus an update on Jellyfin January. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh LogScale : Take logs from any source and make them usable. Get started with LogScale Community Edition for free. Support Self-Hosted Links: 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! infra/dev at master · ironicbadger/infra 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
Fri, December 30, 2022
87: Jellyfin January
We kick off our Jellyfin January challenge and invite you to join us. Plus, Chris has some new hardware and our thoughts on the trouble at the Matrix foundation. Special Guest: Brent Gervais. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh LogScale : Take logs from any source and make them usable. Get started with LogScale Community Edition for free. Support Self-Hosted Links: 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 <a title="The Matrix Holiday Update 2022" rel="nofoll
Fri, December 16, 2022
86: Disqus-ting Tracking
What disgusted Alex about Disqus, and how he replaced it with a Self-Hosted solution, a hot HDHomeRun tip, and an update on Chris' hunt for the perfect notes app. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh LogScale : Take logs from any source and make them usable. Get started with LogScale Community Edition for free. Support Self-Hosted Links: Self-Hosted 86 - Live Stream Recording - JupiterTube — The live stream of episode 86's recording. Infinity for Reddit — Infinity is a beautiful, feature-rich app that offers a smooth Reddit browsing experience. It is completely free and ad-less; you can browse Reddit without interruptions or distractions. Built by a passionate university student, Infinity is open source. Please check out, support or contribute to the project at https://github.com/Docile-Alligator/Infinity-For-Reddit! Apprise - Push Notifications that work — Apprise allows you to send a notification to almost all of the most popular notification services available to us today such as: Telegram, Discord, Slack, Amazon SNS, Gotify, etc. Dump Disqus for Giscus — This is an easy project. Sure it will probably take an hour or two to get your head around but don't put it off. The end result is great and means no ads or tracking are insidiously injected into your content anymore. giscus — A comments system powered by GitHub Discussions. Let visitors leave comments and reactions on your website via GitHub! Heavily inspired by utterances. How to make your own self-hosted VPN in under 30 minutes — As you might have expected, making your own VPN server has multiple advantages and disadvantages. Here are the main points to remember when deciding if you want to go through with hosting a server or not. <a title="HDMI Distribution over your Home Network? " rel="nofollow" href
Fri, December 02, 2022
85: Wendell's Hot Pi
Wendell from Level One Techs joins us to catch up on low-power hardware, his home automation setup, and thoughts on so much more. Special Guest: Wendell Wilson. Sponsored By: LogScale : Take logs from any source and make them usable. Get started with LogScale Community Edition for free. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Support Self-Hosted Links: Level One Techs — Go find more Wendell! A Look at the INTEL ARC A770 — A new challenger appears in the GPU arena! But do they have what it takes to compete? Wendell investigates! reTerminal CM4104032 — The reTerminal is a Human-Machine Interface facility, designed in modularization, offered multiple interfaces and components. It is your hand-size, powerful, Raspberry Pi-based all-in-one board, assisting you to develop individual IoT & AI projects and being ready to materialize industrial-level monitor and control functions. Presenting: Obsidian OCR 🎉 — Obsidian OCR allows you to search for text in the images and PDFs in your vault. AppFlowy.IO — You are in charge of your data and customizations. Joplin — Joplin is an open source note-taking app. Capture your thoughts and securely access them from any device. Send a Boost into the Show — Upgrade to a Podcasting 2.0 compatible app, and Boost into the show.
Fri, November 18, 2022
84: Hidden NAS
We're chatting about workstation builds for a home NAS with Joe Ressington this week. Chris chews on the news of the Evernote buyout and his challenges with Zigbee. Special Guest: Joe Resington. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh LogScale : Take logs from any source and make them usable. Get started with LogScale Community Edition for free. Support Self-Hosted Links: 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. <
Fri, November 04, 2022
83: Unintended Upgrades
Sometimes your best upgrades are unplanned; Chris just got his Home Assistant Yellow fully deployed. Sponsored By: CloudFree.shop : CloudFree Smart Plug – Runs Tasmota for $9. Use code SELFHOSTED and support the show. Promo Code: SELFHOSTED Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Support Self-Hosted Links: Home Assistant Yellow — At the heart of Home Assistant Yellow is the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. Scheduler card/custom component — The scheduler integration is an alternative for HA automations which use the time or sun as trigger. Generic Thermostat - Home Assistant — 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. When in air conditioning mode, if the measured temperature is hotter than the target temperature, the air conditioning will be turned on and turned off when required temperature is reached. Shelly 2.5: Flash ESPHome Over The Air! — Here's how I flashed ESPHome onto them over-the-air. No wires! Sengled Zigbee Smart LED Strip Lights Starter Kit — All in one led strip lights kit that comes with a HUB, an AC adapter, a remote control receiver, 1 reel of 16.4ft light strip; no need for any other expensive devices. NixOS Search - Jellyfin MycroftAI/skill-homeassistant: Mycroft Skill/Integration for Homeassistant — Control your lights, garage door, thermostats and more using your voice! ZimaBoard — World’s First
Fri, October 21, 2022
82: Roon Ready Ruh-Roh
Alex gives Roon Labs whole home audio a try but discovers a critical design flaw while Chris checks out his new ODROID-H3+ and plans his next epic build. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh CloudFree.shop : CloudFree Smart Plug – Runs Tasmota for $9. Use code SELFHOSTED and support the show. Promo Code: SELFHOSTED Support Self-Hosted Links: ODROID-H3+ — Intel® Quad-Core Processor Jasper Lake N6005 has a base clock of 2GHz and a boost clock of 3.3GHz with 1.5MB L2 and 4MB L3 cache by a 10 nm process. Roon 2.0 & ARC: WHAT'S GOING ON? - YouTube Roon Labs - The audiophile player for music fanatics — Whether you’re working out at the gym, heading to the office, or traveling thousands of miles from home – Roon ARC gives you mobile access to your full library of artists, albums, playlists, and tags. No more settling for second-best from streaming apps when you’re on the go. Roon ARC makes everywhere feel like home. How to prepare for a time when I’m tired of tinkering with Home Assistant? — I know from experience that there will come a time when I won’t find home automation as flattering any more but I’ll still need my lights and whatnot to function properly. Zigbee Binding — Zigbee has support for binding which makes it possible that devices can directly control each other without the intervention of Zigbee2MQTT or any home automation software. # Badgers Stack - May 2022 - Perfect Media Server — A new page for May 2022, here's a high level overview snapshot of PMS as it stands today. Your free and decentralized audio platform - Funkwhale — Funkwhale is a community-driven project that le
Fri, October 07, 2022
81: The Badger Stack
Chris' Raspberry Pi server is dead, and Alex has a few ideas for his next build. Special Guest: Brent Gervais. Sponsored By: CloudFree.shop : CloudFree Smart Plug – Runs Tasmota for $9. Use code SELFHOSTED and support the show. Promo Code: SELFHOSTED Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Support Self-Hosted Links: 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,
Fri, September 23, 2022
80: Solving Whole Home Audio
Alex is replacing his Chromecast and Google Nest Mini with an open-source solution, and why we’re all getting a little hyped about Matter. Special Guest: Brent Gervais. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh LogScale : Take logs from any source and make them usable. Get started with LogScale Community Edition for free. Support Self-Hosted Links: OWC Thunderbolt Dock — Compatible with M1 Macs, Thunderbolt 3 Equipped Macs, and Thunderbolt 4 PCs Snapcast — 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. piCorePlayer — Free software that plays local music as well as online music streaming services on a Raspberry Pi Welcome to mysqueezebox.com! BroadLink RM4 Mini IR Universal Remote Control — Wi-Fi Infrared Blaster Rosewill RSV-SATA-Cage-34 Paulus Schoutsen on Twitter — Oh hello Matter v1 esphome-remote — iPod style wifi smart home remote. Uses ESPHome and Home Assistant to integrate with Sonos, Roku and run custom scenes and scripts. AsRock IPMI websocket connection failed Caddy V2 Jupiter Broad
Fri, September 09, 2022
79: Google is a Hostile Actor
We've made some changes since the last episode, and share why we have doubled down on Self-Hosting as much as possible. Plus, Chris tries out Immich, a high-performance Google Photos alternative. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh LogScale : Take logs from any source and make them usable. Get started with LogScale Community Edition for free. Support Self-Hosted Links: 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 a
Fri, August 26, 2022
78: We Should Know Better
We learned some really hard lessons this week, and reflect. Then Chris finds the perfect temperature sensor, and Alex finds a beautiful media discovery app. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh LogScale : Take logs from any source and make them usable. Get started with LogScale Community Edition for free. Support Self-Hosted Links: Plex was compromised — Change your password now Authentication for local network access — When your Plex Media Server is claimed or signed in to a Plex account, then all access to the server will require authentication by default. That means that you either need to be signed in with the server’s admin/owner account or with an account with which the server is shared. Overseerr — Overseerr is a request management and media discovery tool A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal. - The New York Times Fully automated offline gmail backup? Searchable? Got Your Back (GYB — Got Your Back (GYB) is a command line tool for backing up your Gmail messages to your local computer. It uses Gmail's API over HTTPS. immich — High performance self-hosted photo and video backup solution. Aqara Temperature Humidity Sensor — Monitors temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure in real time. Jupiter B
Fri, August 12, 2022
77: Automations Gone Wrong
What is it like to live with another man's automations? Brent spills all. Plus, Chris tries out a few more Shelly devices and reports back. Special Guest: Brent Gervais. Sponsored By: LogScale : Take logs from any source and make them usable. Get started with LogScale Community Edition for free. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Support Self-Hosted Links: I'm sick... Jeff Geerling Channel Update - YouTube Shelly Plus H&T - Shelly Cloud — 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 Sensors Guide: Humidity and Temperature — Connecting to WiFi and performing other computations causes the internal temperature of the H&T to rise. All electronic devices generate a little bit of heat, so this fact is unavoidable. The small size of the H&T intensifies this challenge. The part of the H&T that takes temperature measurements is close by and confined within the same case that houses the heat-generating components like the CPU. Shelly engineers devised a way to get around the problem by having the device sleep, then quickly take a measurement before the locally-produced heat can skew the measurement. Aqara Wireless Smart Temperature Humidity Sensor — Monitors temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure in real time. Upcoming Jupiter Broadcasting West Coast Meetups — The west coast road tour is coming. Join us at one of our various meetups! Join the West Coast Crew on Matrix — West coast locals, join us in the Matrix! Boost the Show — Grab a Podcasting 2.0 compatible app, a
Fri, July 29, 2022
76: Solid as a Rock
Alex runs us through his new and improved off-site backup setup, and Chris is trying out some Shelly devices. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh LogScale : Take logs from any source and make them usable. Get started with LogScale Community Edition for free. Support Self-Hosted Links: 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. <a title="UNNotificationInterruptionLevel.timeS
Fri, July 15, 2022
75: In-Flight Changes
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. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh LogScale : Take logs from any source and make them usable. Get started with LogScale Community Edition for free. Support Self-Hosted Links: 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
Fri, July 01, 2022
74: A Pi For Every Problem
Our guest this week has more Raspberry Pis than anyone we've ever met. We get insights into all the projects he used them for, what's worked great, and what's not worked at all. Special Guest: Jscar_Hawk. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Support Self-Hosted Links: London Meetup August 5th at 6pm GMT — VENUE: Jubilee Park & Garden on the Southbank of River Thames near the London Eye. August 5th at 6pm GMT Matrix Meetup Space — Let's plan future meetups, both physical and virtual in our Matrix space. ✅ Nanoleaf Elements - Wood Look Hexagons — Nanoleaf Elements are both beautiful wall art and customizable ambient lighting made to look beautiful on or off. Nanoleaf - Home Assistant — The Nanoleaf integration allows you to control and monitor Nanoleaf Light Panels, Canvas, Shapes, Elements, and Lines. Josh's Raspberry PI Projects List — Josh has been keeping a list of awesome projects he uses his Raspberry Pi's for. Josh's Lab Hardware Self-Hosted Storage Leaderboard Fountain.FM Chris' Favorite Podcasting 2.0 App — Try out Fountain, a Podcasting 2.0 app with Boosts. BoostCLI — Command-line tool to send and review Podcasting 2.0 Value. <a title="Podcasting 2.0 Apps" rel="nofollow" href="https://podcastindex.org/apps
Fri, June 17, 2022
73: 100 Days of HomeLab
A special episode today as TechnoTim joins Alex to discuss everything Kubernetes and HomeLab. The #100DaysOfHomeLab initiative from Tim is just getting started, find out what it’s all about in today's episode. Special Guest: Techno Tim. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Support Self-Hosted Links: Self-Hosted Discord London Meetup TechnoTim on YouTube Join the 100 days of HomeLab Challenge — #100DaysOfHomeLab is a challenge to improve your IT skills. The HomeLab Challenge Video — This challenge is meant to accelerate your knowledge in servers, networking, infrastructure, automation, storage, containerization, orchestration, virtualization, Windows, Linux, and more! 12factor.net — Introduction In the modern era, software is commonly delivered as a service: called web apps, or software-as-a-service. The twelve-factor app is a methodology for building software-as-a-service apps that: Use declarative formats for setup automation, to minimize time and cost for new developers joining the project; Have a clean contract with the underlying operating system, offering maximum portability between execution environments; Are suitable for deployment on modern cloud platforms, obviating the need for servers and systems administration; Minimize divergence between development and production, enabling continuous deployment for maximum agility; And can scale up without significant changes to tooling, architecture, or development practices. The twelve-factor methodology can be applied to apps written in any programming language, and which use any combination of backing services (database, queue, memory cache, etc). Flux — Flux is a set of continuous and progressive delive
Fri, June 03, 2022
72: First Account is Free
A quick-fire round of projects this week, your feedback, and a discussion about the future of Self-Hosting. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Support Self-Hosted Links: Join our Discord — Join our growing community of Self-Hosters! London Meetup *PROVISIONAL* — Alex from Self-Hosted will be in the UK in August and is proposing a meetup in London. scrutiny: Hard Drive S.M.A.R.T Monitoring — WebUI for smartd S.M.A.R.T monitoring, Historical Trends & Real World Failure Thresholds. Cartridge — A self-hosted game library made with Laravel + Vue.js. Servas — A self-hosted bookmark management tool. Pinkt — Pinkt is an unofficial Pinboard Android client. Pinboard is a fast, no-nonsense bookmarking site for people who value privacy and speed. Dogsheep — Dogsheep is a collection of tools for personal analytics using SQLite and Datasette. Gitea Webhook Change — In PR #17482 the Gitea project introduced a breaking change for security reasons. They introduced a new webhook.ALLOWED_HOST_LIST value which needed to be configured in order for webhooks to work. Welcoming Rocket.Chat to Matrix — We just wanted to take a moment to welcome Rocket.Chat to Matrix, given the recent announcement that they are switching to using Matrix for standards-based interoperable federation! OliveTin — OliveTin gives safe and simple access to pr
Fri, May 20, 2022
71: Recipe for Success
Alex has found the perfect tool to bring your recipe management into the future. Plus, a convenient trick for scripts with passwords, dying hard drives, and the killer new Proxmox feature. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. CloudFree.shop : CloudFree Smart Plug – Runs Tasmota for $9. Use code SELFHOSTED and support the show. Promo Code: SELFHOSTED Support Self-Hosted Links: Tandoor Recipe — The recipe manager that allows you to manage your ever growing collection of digital recipes. 🥧Tandoor Recipe v1.4 released — Hi everyone, more than 6 month have passed since I last brought to you the latest and greatest changes we have made to the Tandoor Recipemanager. Since then lots of awesome things happened. What's new in Proxmox VE 7.2 — Support for the accelerated virtio-gl (VirGL) display driver What's new in Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.2 - YouTube bcachefs — Bcachefs is an advanced new filesystem for Linux, with an emphasis on reliability and robustness and the complete set of features one would expect from a modern filesystem. Storing Ansible Vault password in Bitwarden — Ansible vault exists to enable storing secrets safely in a public repository, encrypted using a password. But where does that password live. switched to bitwarden backed vault <a title="Secret Management with docke
Fri, May 06, 2022
70: Plausible Deniability
Alex replaces another Google service; we point the community spotlight at FuzzyMistborn plus your feedback! Special Guests: Brent Gervais and FuzzyMistborn. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Support Self-Hosted Links: Office Hours 3: New Website Energy — It's a summer of projects, we get into our plans to totally rebuild our website, some new Podcasting 2.0 features and, Brent takes his first bite of the Raspberry Pi. Website Rebuild Ideas & Explorations · Discussion Fuzzy's Random Musings FuzzyMistborn/infra — This repo contains the code used to deploy and managing my various LXC's on Proxmox. Ansible is the main way I deploy things. Self-Hosted Show Storage Leaderboard Plausible Analytics — Plausible is lightweight and open source web analytics. No cookies and fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA and PECR. Umami — Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics. eufy Security Indoor Cam 2K Pan & Tilt — 2K Pan and Tilt Plug-in Indoor Security Camera, Home Security Camera for Indoor Surveillance, Human and Pet AI, Voice Assistant Compatibility, Motion Tracking, Night Vision. wz_mini_hacks: v3 camera mods — Run whatever firmware you want on your v3/PANv2 and have root access to the device. This is in early stages of testing, use CAUTION if you are unsure of what you are doing. No support whatsoever is offere
Fri, April 22, 2022
69: Get Off My Lawn, The Robot's Got It
Alex shares some handy tools, and some old friends join us for a special edition of the show. Special Guests: Brent Gervais and chzbacon. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Support Self-Hosted Links: LINUX Unplugged 453: Raleigh Action Show — We just wrapped up our East Coast meetup and have a bunch of great stories to share. Plus some Nix ups and downs, and more. OpenMower - The affordable Open Source DIY Smart GPS Robotic Mower - YouTube — The Open Mower project allows you to build your own smart lawn mower robot using the Raspberry Pi and an Arduino. The robot is able to localize itself using very precise RTK GPS. As base for this project, an off-the-shelf robot mower is used. The electric components and the software are published as an open source project. OpenMower: Let's upgrade cheap off-the-shelf robotic mowers to modern, smart RTK GPS based lawn mowing robots! — Let's be honest: The current generation of robotic lawn mowers sucks. Shameful: Insteon looks dead—just like its users’ smart homes — The app and servers are dead. The CEO scrubbed his LinkedIn page. No one is responding. Hey Insteon users! - Home Assistant — If you’re one of the impacted Insteon users, this post is for you. PlexTraktSync: A python script that syncs the movies, shows and ratings between trakt and Plex (without nee
Fri, April 08, 2022
68: Unwyze Choices
We chat about Wyze's recent real bad, no-good security news, why Plex Discover has potential but hasn't impressed us yet, and a brief tour of Alex's home network setup. Special Guest: Wes Payne. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Support Self-Hosted Links: 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 🤯.
Fri, March 25, 2022
67: The No Container Theory
Why Chris is moving away from using Containers, Alex's new project, and some great follow-up. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Support Self-Hosted Links: Jupiter Broadcasting East Coast Meetup — Let's hang out at the park across the street from Prime BBQ. Speed boost achievement unlocked on Docker Desktop — . During testing with our amazing macOS community of users, we have observed that these changes have reduced the time taken to complete filesystem operations by up to 98%. [Docker Desktop] Improve Mac File system performance Hector Martin on Twitter — Well, this is unfortunate. It turns out Apple's custom NVMe drives are amazingly fast - if you don't care about data integrity. If you do, they drop down to HDD performance. Thread. Upgrading from Paperless-NG to Paperless-NGX — As of February 2022, the paperless-ng community created a new fork to continue development due to the inactivity on the original repo 1. This has means new docker images, new configs, etc. Announcing first release of Paperless-ngx, the community-supported successor to Paperless-ng paperless-ngx — Paperless-ngx is a document management system that transforms your physical documents into a searchable online archive so you can keep, well, less paper.
Thu, March 10, 2022
66: Mmm. Pi.
We look back at our favorite moments from the last ten years of the Raspberry Pi, why you might want to start considering one, and where we want to see the platform evolve. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Support Self-Hosted Links: 10 years of Raspberry Pi - YouTube — Almost exactly ten years ago today, thousands of you set your alarms, and woke on leap-day morning to discover that we’d started selling Raspberry Pi computers. By the time our all-volunteer team gathered in the pub that evening for celebratory drinks, our licensees Farnell and RS Components had taken over 100,000 orders (despite struggling to keep their websites online under the load); we had (briefly) out-trended Lady Gaga; and Raspberry Pi was on the road to becoming a little larger than we’d planned. Too expensive to run in the UK now?! — My server uses 136 watts, and will costs £1.80 a day to run from June when the price increases kick in costing £54 a month. I'm starting to think maybe it's not worth it anymore having it run all the time! Is anyone else re-thinking their home servers given the current cost situation? Check if the energy price cap affects you The future of computers is only $4 away, with Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton — TodayToday I’m talking to Eben Upton, the CEO of Raspberry Pi, a fascinating company that makes beloved tiny hackable computers that are extremely inexpensive: the cheapest Raspberry Pi is just $4, the most popular model is about $35, and the most expensive model that comes with a keyboard is $70. They run Linux, and you can do just about anything with them: people build robots, they learn to code, they run media servers. <a title="SmartThings water lea
Fri, February 25, 2022
65: Failing at Scale
Alex gives the new TrueNAS SCALE a go and hits a snag. Plus the future Home Assistant update that has Chris so concerned he might stop updating forever. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Support Self-Hosted Links: Z-Wave and OpenZwave integrations pending removal — This is just based on the 2022.3 beta release notes, but wanted to give a heads up as soon as possible for anyone who hasn't updated to Z-Wave JS yet. You probably only have until April to switch over to one of the new Z-Wave JS integrations. Z-Wave (deprecated) - Home Assistant Home Assistant docs is a nightmare - a new user perspective TrueNAS SCALE — TrueNAS® SCALE is an Open Source Hyperconverged Infrastructure solution. Built on TrueNAS CORE, SCALE adds Linux Containers, KVM, and scale-out ZFS storage capabilities. TrueCommand — Manage your TrueNAS fleet all from one place Nextcloud Two-factor authentication — Two-factor authentication adds an additional layer of security to user accounts. In order to log in on an account with two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled, it is necessary to provide both the login password and another factor. 2FA in Nextcloud is pluggable, meaning that they are not part of the Nextcloud Server component but provided by featured and 3rd-party Nextcloud apps. Two-Factor TOTP Provider - Apps - App St
Fri, February 11, 2022
64: Analysis Paralysis
Sometimes we get a bit carried away; we dial it back and share some self-hosting long-timer insights. Plus the networked way to Retro game, and more. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Support Self-Hosted Links: Use a Raspberry Pi, old computer or VM as network storage for different retro computers and consoles — RetroNAS is a suite of tools designed to turn a low cost Raspberry Pi, old computer or even Viritual Machine into a NAS (Network Attached Storage) device for retro PCs, microcomputers and consoles. RetroNAS - PlayStation3 + ps3netsrv - YouTube — Convert your own #PlayStation3 discs to ISO images and host them via ps3netsrv from RetroNAS to your console RetroNAS - Cockpit and Storage - YouTube — Use the web based GUI tool "Cockpit" to manage your RetroNAS storage. StickFreaks - YouTube Orange's Matrix Setup Social — Want to join the matrix? Not sure what it is, how to set it up, or why? Want to just chat about the project, its uses, or anything else Matrix related? Come along, hang out, and lets mob on getting people some matrix servers setup! Jupiter Broadcasting Matrix Seerver — Join the Jupiter Broadcasting Matrix and participate in decentralized messaging. Subscriptions Update — New subscriptions or changes to payment method after February 1, 2022 will start at $6.50 per month. This is our first price increase since we launched Home Assistant Cloud more than three years ago. <a title="gelli" rel="nofoll
Fri, January 28, 2022
63: Pulling the Rug Out
Alex has a new high-quality self-hosted music setup, and Chris solves complicated Internet problems. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Support Self-Hosted Links: 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. <a title="Google could face class action lawsuit over free G Suite legacy account shutdown" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.androidpolice.com/google-gsuite-free-legacy-class-action-in
Fri, January 14, 2022
62: Succumbing to the Ecosystem
Alex got some new devices for Christmas, and we set off to figure out how to integrate them into his network. And Brent's tale of giving the gift of Jellyfin. Special Guest: Brent Gervais. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Support Self-Hosted Links: 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 <a title="Dozzle" rel="nofollow"
Fri, December 31, 2021
61: That First Layer Squish
Some old friends of JB join Alex to discuss 3D printing. Special Guests: Drew DeVore and chzbacon. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Support Self-Hosted Links: Octoprint — The snappy web interface for your 3D printer. Thingiverse — A collection of freely available 3d models to print out. Prusa Research — Maker of the Prusa 3d printers. Ender 3 — The Creality Ender 3 is one of the cheapest ways to get started with 3d printing. 3d printer maintenance — Sometimes we have so much fun with our 3D printers that we get carried away. We forget that our precious printers need some TLC every now and then. This video will give you all the information that you need in order to maintain and service your 3D printer. blog.ktz.me - The Tinkerspace — I needed a space where I could explode an entire computer, or 3d printer, or some other overly complex piece of equipment without getting in the way of the rest of the house. Improve 3d print finish quality — One of our biggest gripes about 3D printing is that your finished print invariably ends up looking, well... a bit 3D printed. Sometimes that's fine, but other times it's not. Here are our top tips on how to finish 3D prints, condensed into one lovely infographic for you.
Fri, December 17, 2021
60: Someone Else's Computer
Recent AWS outages sent Alex on a hunt to find more self-hosted alternatives, and Chris digs into the latest Home Assistant release. Plus a frenzy of your excellent feedback and questions. Sponsored By: Backblaze Unlimited Backup : Get peace of mind knowing your files are backed up securely in the cloud with Backblaze. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Support Self-Hosted Links: AWS explains outage — A major Amazon Web Services outage on Tuesday started after network devices got overloaded, the company said on Friday. Arthur on Twitter — The AWS outage trickled down to my automated Christmas lights not turning on tonight WLED — Control WS2812B and many more types of digital RGB LEDs with an ESP8266 or ESP32 over WiFi! John Foreman on Twitter — AWS had an outage and now I can't vacuum the dog hair in my living room. What a time to be alive Valetudo — Valetudo is a standalone binary, which runs on rooted Vacuums of the Xiaomi ecosystem and aims to enable the user to operate the robot vacuum without any Cloud Connection whatsoever. Amazon Web Services crashed today : amazonecho — I spent about an hour restarting routers, checking for updates, unplugging and plugging in devices, and scouring the web for answers and finally saw in the news that an AWS outage took out a huge chunk of the internet. Amazon hasn’t released a statement yet, that I know of, but I assume this is what’s affecting all of the devices, e.g., my smart plug stopped working and my echo dot and show only stream one song before quitting for no apparent reason. Tasmota — Total local control with quick setup and updates. Control using MQTT, Web UI, HTTP or serial. Automate using timers, rules or scripts. Integration w
Fri, December 03, 2021
59: I Tried to Love Portainer
We try out a couple of very popular Docker GUI's and report back, and discuss our biggest Self-Hosted regrets. Sponsored By: Backblaze Unlimited Backup : Get peace of mind knowing your files are backed up securely in the cloud with Backblaze. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Support Self-Hosted Links: Join the Jupiter Broadcasting Matrix — I mean might as well! LINUX Unplugged 433: The Lessons of Jellyfin — We revisit some old assumptions about the open-source Plex-alternative, Jellyfin. We each try it out, and along the way, gain a few insights about open source. Portainer — Accelerate container adoption and reduce time-to-value on Docker and Kubernetes with a smart, self-service management portal, allowing you to deliver containerized applications from the data centre to the edge lazydocker — The lazier way to manage everything docker. A simple terminal UI for both docker and docker-compose, written in Go with the gocui library. lazydocker screenshots Dozzle — Dozzle is a real-time log viewer for docker containers. What’s New In Docker Compose v2? — Docker Compose v2 was announced at DockerCon 2021. It promises big changes to the Compose experience by integrating it into the docker CLI. v2 also comes with new convenience features to help you manage your container stacks. Monolithic docker-compose files filtered with profiles — This post will provide an overview of using profiles with docker-compose to address multiple services within a monolithic file. 1.4 Display Port KVM Switch — Have you ev
Fri, November 19, 2021
58: Pi Server Upgrade
This week we unlock the "Pi"tential of the Compute Module 4 and turn it into a dual gigabit router and Jellyfin server. How far can we push it? Plus, Alex shares his thoughts on the state of mobile operating systems and the challenges they are imposing on DIYers. Sponsored By: A Cloud Guru : Go through a series of hands-on labs picked to showcase Docker and gain experience with it. Backblaze Unlimited Backup : Get peace of mind knowing your files are backed up securely in the cloud with Backblaze. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Support Self-Hosted Links: Original Prusa XL — The Original Prusa XL is a large-scale CoreXY 3D printer with a build volume of 36×36×36 cm Dual Gigabit Ethernet Carrier Board for Raspberry Pi CM4 — The Dual Gigabit Carrier Board powered by Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 is equipped with dual Gigabit Ethernet ports and dual USB 3.0 ports Getting Started with OpenWrt - Seeed Wiki Buy a Compute Module 4 IO Board — Exposing every interface from Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4, the Compute Module 4 IO Board provides a development platform and reference base-board design for our most powerful Compute Module yet.
Fri, November 05, 2021
57: Alex Deletes it All
Troubleshooting goes very wrong for Alex, and he puts his backups to the ultimate test. Plus, monitoring your freezer in Home Assistant, building a self-hosted Notion alternative, and more. Sponsored By: A Cloud Guru : This course covers the various software, tools, and utilities used to configure web services on a Linux host. Backblaze Unlimited Backup : Get peace of mind knowing your files are backed up securely in the cloud with Backblaze. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Support Self-Hosted Links: 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 <a title="
Fri, October 22, 2021
56: Feeling Wyze
Local self-hosted video capture with AI object detection just got easy. Morgan joins us to detail his Frigate setup and its optional tight integration with Home Assistant. Plus, our new favorite up time monitoring tool and an easy way to add Tailscale and other apps to OPNsense with community plugins. Special Guest: Morgan Peterman. Sponsored By: A Cloud Guru : When you’ve finished this course, you’ll have a better understanding of the topics on the exam, including installing Ansible Tower, managing Ansible inventory, managing Tower templates, and additional functions. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Backblaze Unlimited Backup : Get peace of mind knowing your files are backed up securely in the cloud with Backblaze. Support Self-Hosted Links: 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 <a title="WallPanel and Alarm Pan
Fri, October 08, 2021
55: Home Assistant Turns Amber
A lot is changing in Home Assistant land, and it's almost all for the better; we break down the essential items. Chris gets wired about energy monitoring and shares his journey to get incorrectly formatted power stats working in Home Assistant's new Energy dashboard. Plus, off-line YouTube backup, backing up iCloud photos, Tailscale feedback, and more. Sponsored By: A Cloud Guru : Learn the Linux kernel. This is a standalone course, but it's also part of a learning path to prepare you for the LPIC-2 201-450 exam. From build to boot. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Backblaze Unlimited Backup : Get peace of mind knowing your files are backed up securely in the cloud with Backblaze. Support Self-Hosted Links: 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 - Rieman
Sat, September 25, 2021
54: Ultimate Off-Site Setup
Alex is abroad and uses the opportunity to build out not one but two ultimate self-hosted off-site servers. We share the hardware, software, and networking details. Plus, how Chris built a Nest-type thermostat using parts he already had. Sponsored By: A Cloud Guru : Looking to make a high-paying career move into the cloud? Get going: acloudguru.com Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh CloudFree.shop : CloudFree Smart Plug – Runs Tasmota for $9. Use code SELFHOSTED and support the show. Promo Code: SELFHOSTED MyLocalBytes : Smart Home gear pre-flashed with Tasmota - For an exclusive discount, use code SELFHOSTED and support the show. Promo Code: SELFHOSTED Support Self-Hosted Links: 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 b
Fri, September 10, 2021
53: Adventurous Build
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. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh A Cloud Guru : Students will install and configure various use cases for Apache, Squid, and NGINX, including virtual hosts, proxy and reverse proxy servers, HTTPS/SSL, and load balancing. Support Self-Hosted Links: 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). <a title="Color Control GX" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.victronenergy.com/panel-systems-
Fri, August 27, 2021
52: Navigating DeGoogling
We report back on our DeGoogle challenge and read your top Google Alternative apps and services. Plus, a new way to locally capture network cameras, our reaction to Kobol pulling the plug, and more. Special Guest: Brent Gervais. Sponsored By: A Cloud Guru : Looking to make a high-paying career move into the cloud? Get going: acloudguru.com Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh CloudFree.shop : CloudFree Smart Plug – Runs Tasmota for $9. Use code SELFHOSTED and support the show. Promo Code: SELFHOSTED Support Self-Hosted Links: Kobol Team is pulling the plug ;( — Hi Folks, a bit saddened that after 4 months of radio silence we are coming up with a news that is clearly not the one you were expecting. SSH 033: Helios64 Review — Alex puts the fantastic-looking, ARM-powered NAS known as the Helios64 to the test. docker-wyze-bridge — Docker container to expose a local RTMP, RTSP, and HLS stream for all your Wyze cameras including v3. No Third-party or special firmware required. PiKVM v3 HAT by Maxim Devaev — Kickstarter — Raspberry Pi based open-source KVM over IP. Manage your servers or workstations remotely! vaultwarden: Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs — This project was known as Bitwarden_RS and has been renamed to separate itself from the official Bitwarden server in the hopes of avoiding confusion and trademark/branding issues. Magic Earth: Free Maps & Navigation App — Turn-by-turn navigation, OpenStreetMap, Crowd-Sourced Traffic, 3D maps, Satellite maps, Offline maps and Transit. Entirely free. <a title="Apple Maps & Privacy - Apple Support" r
Fri, August 13, 2021
51: Apple's Rotten Scanning
We discuss the ramifications of Apple's local photo scanning announcement on your privacy, why everything seems to be a subscription these days, and a new challenge for the show. Special Guest: Brent Gervais. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh A Cloud Guru : Demystify the sometimes difficult and deep topic of systemd, the most widely used service management scheme in Linux today. CloudFree.shop : CloudFree Smart Plug – Runs Tasmota for $9. Use code SELFHOSTED and support the show. Promo Code: SELFHOSTED Support Self-Hosted Links: Child Safety - Apple — CSAM detection will help Apple provide valuable information to law enforcement on collections of CSAM in iCloud Photos. 1Password 8 will be subscription only and won’t support local vaults Why can we not have an explicit statement about 1Password being a subscription-only service? Fourteen years after launching, 1Password takes a $200M Series A 1Password for Mac Moving to Electron Bitwarden Open Source Password Manager vaultwarden — Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs Adventurous Way - YouTube <a title="SmallNetBuilder" rel="nofollow" href="https://ww
Fri, July 30, 2021
50: Perfect Plex Setup
We discuss Chris's latest wall-mounted tablet solution for Home Assistant and several scripts to pimp your Plex setup. Join us for a very special birthday episode as we celebrate our 50th. Sponsored By: Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh A Cloud Guru : This course is a deep-dive course on Linux File Sharing. CloudFree.shop : CloudFree Smart Plug – Runs Tasmota for $9. Use code SELFHOSTED and support the show. Promo Code: SELFHOSTED Support Self-Hosted Links: Chris and The Badger T-Shirt — A limited edition "Chris and The Badger" t-shirt to commemorate the Self-Hosted podcasts 50th episode. Get yours whilst supplies last! Chris and The Badger Sticker — To celebrate the 50th episode of Self-Hosted we're launching a new Chris and The Badger sticker! Self-Hosted T-Shirt — We challenge you to tell the world you are nerd without saying a word. This new t-shirt is sure to be a conversation starter! Available for a limited time. Self-Hosted Square Sticker — We love this one because it's our MP3 album art turned into a sticker. And we think that makes it pretty darn special. WallPanel — WallPanel is an Android application for Web Based Dashboards and Home Automation Platforms. You can either side load the application to your Android device from the release section, install the application from Google Play or get WallPanel from the Amazon Appstore. Amazon Fire Toolbox — Now, thanks to XDA Senior Member Datastream33, owners of Amazon Fire/Fire HD tablets can more easily sideload Google Play Store, replace the
Fri, July 16, 2021
49: Update Roulette
Updates gone wrong, surprise hardware failures, and flooding out all our electronics in a single go. We've got a lot to catch you up on. Sponsored By: CloudFree.shop : CloudFree Smart Plug – Runs Tasmota for $9. Use code SELFHOSTED and support the show. Promo Code: SELFHOSTED Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh A Cloud Guru : When you’ve finished this course, you’ll have a better understanding of the topics on the exam, including installing Ansible Tower, managing Ansible inventory, managing Tower templates, and additional functions. Support Self-Hosted Links: Authelia — Protect your applications with Single Sign-On and 2 Factor. 2 Factor Auth and Single Sign On with Authelia - YouTube — Authelia is an open source Single Sign On and 2FA companion for reverse proxies. It helps you secure your endpoints with single factor and 2 factor auth. It works with nginx, traefik, and HA proxy. Today, we'll configure Authelia with Portainer and Traefik and have 2 Factor up and running with brute force protection! infra/roles/ktz-authelia at master · IronicBadger/infra Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup owntracks/recorder — We developed the Recorder as a one-stop solution to storing location data published by our OwnTracks apps Valetudo Roborock S5 Zoned Cleanup for Valetudo 2021.06 — Here's how to configure segment based cleanup for Valetudo based Robovacs. <a title="Proxmox VE 7.0 Released" rel="nofollow" href="https://pve.proxmox.com/wik
Fri, July 02, 2021
48: A Solution Looking for a Problem
Tuya shocks us by announcing native Home Assistant support, we have an update on a smart doorbell Ring alternative, and we tell all about how PiKVM just leveled up in awesome. Special Guest: Morgan Peterman. Sponsored By: A Cloud Guru : Looking to make a high-paying career move into the cloud? Get going: acloudguru.com Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh CloudFree.shop : CloudFree Smart Plug – Runs Tasmota for $9. Use code SELFHOSTED and support the show. Promo Code: SELFHOSTED Support Self-Hosted Links: 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
Fri, June 18, 2021
47: Whose License Is It Anyway?
We take a look at a self-hosted TeamViewer alternative, give you our take on some Home Assistant drama and discuss the effects of a new crypto coin on hard drive prices. Sponsored By: A Cloud Guru : You will learn what containers are and why use them; how to manage containers, pods, and images using Podman. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh CloudFree.shop : CloudFree Smart Plug – Runs Tasmota for $9. Use code SELFHOSTED and support the show. Promo Code: SELFHOSTED Support Self-Hosted Links: RustDesk - Yet another remote desktop software — A great alternative to TeamViewer and AnyDesk! You have full control of your data, with no concerns about security. You can use our rendezvous/relay server, set up your own, or write your own rendezvous/relay server. RustDesk-server rustdesk-server-demo: A working demo of RustDesk server implementation Home Assistant drama “Please don't add any of my stuff to this project” | Hacker News Home Assistant Forum Thread Shuck 'em if you got 'em — WD external drive price tracker. Chia Network — Chia Network develops a blockchain and smart transaction platform created by the inventor of BitTorrent, Bram Cohen. It implements the first new Nakamoto consensus algorithm since Bitcoin in 2008. Proofs of Space and Time replace energy intensive “proofs of work.”</
Fri, June 04, 2021
46: Pastebin Alternative
We'll share how we deployed a painless, Self-Hosted Pastebin replacement, and what we like the most about it. Plus Chris enters the "No Change Zone" with a Project Off-Grid Update. Sponsored By: A Cloud Guru : Looking to make a high-paying career move into the cloud? Get going: acloudguru.com PrivadoVPN : PrivadoVPN is a ZERO-LOG VPN, with crazy fast speeds and P2P support. So visit privadovpn.com/ssh and try it out for free. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Support Self-Hosted Links: Alex's Loop Buster Exbin: A pastebin clone written in Elixir/Phoenix. — Post pastes publicly and privatley List of all public pastes Use nc to pipe text and get the URL. (e.g., cat file.txt | nc exbin.call-cc.be 9999) "Raw View" where text is presented as is, ideally to share code for copy and pasting. Syntax highlighted view. "Reader View" where text is presented in a more readable manner. Better suited to share prose text. ExBin Demo awesome-selfhosted — A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers Greyhole — An application that uses Samba to create a storage pool of all your available hard drives, and allows you to create redundant copies of the files you store, in order to prevent data loss when part of your hardware fails. Perfect Media Server FolderSync LINUX Unplugged 408: Linux Road Warrior — We’re joined by a special guest who’s built his very own Linux battle bus. We get the technical details on how Linux is at the core of this open road machine.
Fri, May 21, 2021
45: The Future of Home Assistant
Join us for a chat with Paulus, the founder of Home Assistant, as we look to the project's future, hardware devices, new standards, and more. Special Guest: Paulus Schoutsen. Sponsored By: A Cloud Guru : Looking to make a high-paying career move into the cloud? Get going: acloudguru.com Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh PrivadoVPN : PrivadoVPN is a ZERO-LOG VPN, with crazy fast speeds and P2P support. So visit privadovpn.com/ssh and try it out for free. Support Self-Hosted Links: No Privacy Compromise Home Automation - YouTube — Chris' YouTube interview with Paulus in 2017. Home Assistant Blue! — Hardware that is affordable and fast, packed in a gorgeous case and powered by the most powerful home automation software on the planet: Home Assistant ESPHome 1.17 Upgrade to Lit 2.0 ESPHome on Twitter @esphome_ — ESPHome is the easiest way to use ESP8266/ESP32 via simple configuration files and control them remotely via home automation systems like @home_assistant. Nabu Casa on Twitter @NabuCasa — The missing cloud piece for @home_assistant, by the founder of Home Assistant. Control your Home Assistant from anywhere. Fully encrypted. Nabu Casa
Fri, May 07, 2021
44: Plex Skeptics
Plex announces some big plans that make us a little nervous, Alex solves Chris's tablet performance woes, and we chat about Prometheus. Plus, our thoughts on Duplicati alternatives and more. Sponsored By: A Cloud Guru : Looking to make a high-paying career move into the cloud? Get going: acloudguru.com Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh CloudFree.shop : CloudFree Smart Plug – Runs Tasmota for $9. Use code SELFHOSTED and support the show. Promo Code: SELFHOSTED Support Self-Hosted Links: Plexamp Release — This probably deserves a bigger version bump than just 0.0.1 as it encompasses a whole lot of upgrades under the hood which greatly improve performance 58 and unlock a lot of stuff for the future. Plex Plans To Place All Legal Streaming Options (and Piracy) Into One Interface — After completing a growth equity round of $50m, Plex has announced plans to become a one-stop-shop for movies and TV. The goal is to at least partially solve one of the most annoying problems in today's legal streaming market by placing all content in a single searchable interface. By default, this will also include users' 'pirate' libraries, an interesting proposition that could yield results. Infuse 7 - An Elegant Video Player — Infuse's powerful, super-efficient playback engine supports just about every video file ever created including: MKV, MP4, AVI, ISO, DVD, BDMV, and many, many others. How to install install LineageOS on a 2015 7" Amazon Fire tablet — This is a guide for getting LineageOS (an older and unofficial version) onto an Amazon Fire 2015 7" tablet (also known as the 5th generation 7" Amazon Fire or under the internal codename "ford"). LineageOS – LineageOS Android Distribution <a title="Prometheus" rel="nof
Fri, April 23, 2021
43: A New Solution for Backups
Alex has a new trick for local and remote backups, and shares his thoughts on Synology's DS series NAS. Plus Chris' master plan to save everyone's batteries. Sponsored By: A Cloud Guru : This intermediate-level course teaches the concepts of using PowerShell Core with Linux. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Synology : DSM is like using a desktop session inside your browser. Visit selfhosted.show/synology for a live demo. Support Self-Hosted Links: Home Assistant Mac App — Home Assistant Companion is a new application for Mac to control your Home Assistant instance, exposing your Mac sensors to Home Assistant and to receive notifications. AlDente — MacOS tool to limit maximum charging percentage Free Cron Job Monitoring - Healthchecks.io — We notify you when your nightly backups, weekly reports, cron jobs, and scheduled tasks don't run on time. linuxserver/healthchecks - LinuxServer.io — Healthchecks is a watchdog for your cron jobs. It's a web server that listens for pings from your cron jobs, plus a web interface. docker stats — Display a live stream of container(s) resource usage statistics zfs.rent — Simple cloud service to store ZFS snapshots. DS1621+ | Synology Inc. — Synology DS1621+ is a powerful and compact 6-bay network attached storage solution designed to store and protect critical data assets. NAS Selector | Synology Inc. autorestic — A
Fri, April 09, 2021
42: Don't Panic
A record is broken, a life goal is achieved, and why we are going long on Linksys. Special Guest: Jake Howard 🍊. Sponsored By: A Cloud Guru : This intermediate-level course teaches the concepts of using PowerShell Core with Linux. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Support Self-Hosted Links: Buffer overruns, license violations, and bad code: FreeBSD 13’s close call — 40,000 lines of flawed code almost made it into FreeBSD's kernel—we examine how. How to achieve smart home nirvana (or, home automation without subscription) — With some work and planning, Home Assistant sets your smart home. GeForce GPU Passthrough for Windows Virtual Machine LINUX Unplugged 308: The One About GPU Passthrough — Our crew walks you through their PCI Passthrough setups that let them run Windows, macOS, and distro-hop all from one Linux machine. Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic” — Now a source who participated in the response to that breach alleges Ubiquiti massively downplayed a “catastrophic” incident to minimize the hit to its stock price, and that the third-party cloud provider claim was a fabrication. A USB Fan Controller that now works under Linux Linode on Twitter — This episode of Top Docs talks about the benefits
Fri, March 26, 2021
41: The One with Jeff Geerling
Special guest Jeff Geerling tells us how he got 16 drives connected to one Pi. Plus his thoughts on automation, self-hosting, and more. Special Guest: Jeff Geerling. Sponsored By: A Cloud Guru : Looking to make a high-paying career move into the cloud? Get going: acloudguru.com Datadog : Try Datadog today by starting a free 14-day trial and receive a Datadog t-shirt after creating just one dashboard. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Support Self-Hosted Links: Nabu Casa has acquired ESPHome — Today I’m happy to announce that ESPHome is from now on under the Nabu Casa umbrella. ESPHome Jeff Geerling - YouTube — K8s, Ansible, Raspberry Pi, photography, tech, DIY, tools, etc. Most anything has the potential for showing up on this channel. I might focus on one thing someday, but it's more fun to do ALL THE THINGS! Hardware RAID on the Raspberry Pi CM4 | Jeff Geerling — Now I have actual enterprise SAS drives running on a hardware RAID controller on a Raspberry Pi, and it's faster than the 'fastest' SATA RAID array I set up in that other video. Enterprise SAS RAID ...on a RASPBERRY PI?! - YouTube I built the fastest Raspberry Pi SATA RAID NAS! - YouTube IT WORKED! - 16 Hard Drives on the Raspberry Pi (Pi Day Special) - YouTube Building the fastest Raspberry Pi NAS, with SATA RAID
Fri, March 12, 2021
40: Password Shaming
We react to Home Assistant password shaming us and then reflect on the OVH fire while attempting to solve a "growing" cloud problem. Sponsored By: A Cloud Guru : Looking to make a high-paying career move into the cloud? Get going: acloudguru.com Datadog : Try Datadog today by starting a free 14-day trial and receive a Datadog t-shirt after creating just one dashboard. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Support Self-Hosted Links: 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. <a title="filebrowser: 📂 Web File
Fri, February 26, 2021
39: We run Arch BTW
Our favorite LastPass alternative, why more boxes might be better than one, and we confess to an undying love. Sponsored By: A Cloud Guru : Grow your skills — and your career. Get 20% off access to the most effective, hands-on cloud learning. Promo Code: springintocloud21 Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Support Self-Hosted Links: Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust — This is a Bitwarden server API implementation written in Rust compatible with upstream Bitwarden clients*, perfect for self-hosted deployment where running the official resource-heavy service might not be ideal. bitwardenrs server Docker Changes to LastPass Free — As a Free user, your first login on or after March 16th will set your active device type. You’ll have three opportunities to switch your active device type to explore what’s right for you. How to Self-Host the bitwarden_rs Password Manager | Linode DDoSers are abusing the Plex Media Server to make attacks more potent — Plex Media servers using SSDP let DDoSers amplify attacks by a factor of 5. Intel GVT-g — Intel GVT-g is a technology that provides mediated device passthrough for Intel GPUs (Broadwell and newer). It can be used to virtualize the GPU for multiple guest virtual machines, effectively providing near-native graphics performance in the virtual machine and still letting your host use the virtualized GPU normally. Gho
Fri, February 12, 2021
38: Crouching Pi, Hidden Server
Alex shocks Chris with his latest project, then lays down some quick-fire picks. Plus what's wrong with OPNsense's Wireguard setup? Sponsored By: A Cloud Guru : This course will provide you the fundamentals, tools, techniques, and use case examples to configure, manage and troubleshoot Linux networking Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Support Self-Hosted Links: VZW TTL Trick Alex Found on Reddit — By default, Android and iOS (probably) have IP TTL's of 64. The ISPs can use this knowledge to decide whether or not a packet originated from the Android device or if it was only routed through the Android device. For example, Linux distributions typically have a default TTL of 64. FileRun - File Manager — Just like you do with an FTP server, point FileRun to where you keep the files on your server and you will get instant web access to them. termpad — Just an empty terminal, in your browser. Tinypin — A self-hosted, minimalistic image collection board. OPNsense 21.1 Released — For those wondering, the WireGuard plugin has been available since 2019 and receives continuous improvements by its maintainer and various users alike. And that is unlikey to change in the future. Setting up linuxserver/wireguard — Putting your docker stack behind a VPN. linuxserver.io: WireGuard — Docker container to run WireGuard. Passthrough Intel iGPU with GVT-g to a VM and use Quick Sync with Plex in docker on Proxmox — Passing through an
Fri, January 29, 2021
37: Security Growing Pains
We discuss recent Home Assistant security news, and how we think the project could improve. Plus a bunch of follow up, emails, and more! Note: This episode was recorded before the recent second Home Assistant vulnerability Sponsored By: A Cloud Guru : Looking to make a high-paying career move into the cloud? Get going: acloudguru.com CloudFree.shop : CloudFree Smart Plug – Runs Tasmota for $9. Use code SELFHOSTED and support the show. Promo Code: SELFHOSTED Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Support Self-Hosted Links: Security Bulletin 1- Home Assistant — It has come to our attention that certain custom integrations have security issues and could potentially leak sensitive information. Security Disclosure 2: vulnerabilities in custom integrations HACS, Font Awesome and others - Home Assistant — . The conclusion is that some custom integrations are still vulnerable to a directory traversal attack while not being authenticated with Home Assistant. It allows an attacker to access any file without having to log in. This access includes any credentials that you might have stored to allow Home Assistant to access other services. 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. ATC_MiThermometer — Custom firmware for the Xiaomi Thermometer LYWSD03MMC and Telink Flasher via USB to Serial converter. ESPHome — ESPHome is a system to control your ESP8266/ESP32 by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems. <a title="Xiaomi Mijia BLE Temperature and Humidity Sensor - Home Assistant" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.home-assistan
Fri, January 15, 2021
36: Google Docs Replacement
Our favorite Google Docs killer with markdown support has a big update. We explain how we host it and why we love it. Plus Chris reviews the Home Assistant Blue. Sponsored By: CloudFree.shop : CloudFree Smart Plug – Runs Tasmota for $9. Use code SELFHOSTED and support the show. Promo Code: SELFHOSTED Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh A Cloud Guru : Go through a series of hands-on labs picked to showcase Docker and gain experience with it. Support Self-Hosted Links: HedgeDoc - The best platform to write and share markdown. — HedgeDoc (formerly known as CodiMD) is an open-source collaborative markdown editor. With HedgeDoc you can easily collaborate on notes, graphs and even presentations in real-time. All you need to do is to share your note-link to your co-workers, and they’re ready to go. Home Assistant Blue! — Hardware that is affordable and fast, packed in a gorgeous case and powered by the most powerful home automation software on the planet: Home Assistant. Actiontec MoCA 2.5 Network Adapter for Ethernet Over Coax — With the reliability of a wired network, MoCA 2.5 technology upgrades your network for latency, reliability, and more. MoCA adapters use the same coaxial cables as your cable TV or fiber-optic service.
Fri, January 01, 2021
35: The Perfect Media Server
Alex reveals the culmination of five years of work into the Perfect Media Server. And we respond to a ton of feedback. Sponsored By: A Cloud Guru : Develop the skills you need to write effective, powerful scripts and create command line tools using Python 3. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh CloudFree.shop : CloudFree Smart Plug – Runs Tasmota for $9. Use code SELFHOSTED and support the show. Promo Code: SELFHOSTED Support Self-Hosted Links: 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.
Fri, December 18, 2020
34: Take Powerline Seriously
Chris discovers a networking miracle, Alex has been playing with electrics, and we review the Wyze Cam 3. Sponsored By: A Cloud Guru : Looking to make a high-paying career move into the cloud? Get going: acloudguru.com CloudFree.shop : CloudFree Smart Plug – Runs Tasmota for $9. Use code SELFHOSTED and support the show. Promo Code: SELFHOSTED Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Support Self-Hosted Links: Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs and other services go down in multiple countries — Google experienced an authentication system outage for approximately 45 minutes due to an internal storage quota issue. Pictures of Chris' new Server Cupboard — Just finished my new spot for networking equipment in my RV Lady Jupiter. Aeotec Multisensor 6 — 6-in-1 Z-Wave Plus MultiSensor: motion, humidity, temperature, light lux, UV, vibration sensor. TP-Link AV1000 Powerline Starter Kit — HomePlug AV2 Standard - high-speed data transfer rates of up to 1000 Mbps, supporting all your online needs PCI(e) Passthrough - Proxmox VE — PCI(e) passthrough is a mechanism to give a virtual machine control over a PCI device from the host. This can have some advantages over using virtualized hardware, for example lower latency, higher performance, or more features (e.g., offloading). Home Assistant Conference 2020 - Home Assistant — The Home Assistant Conference is an online event to celebrate the community. It’s where the Home Assistant community will share their ideas, creations and major milestones. The event will take place
Fri, December 04, 2020
33: Helios64 Review
Alex puts the fantastic-looking, ARM-powered NAS known as the Helios64 to the test. Plus feedback, and more. Sponsored By: A Cloud Guru : Take advantage of your last chance to get a discount this year. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Support Self-Hosted Links: Kobol - Helios64 Open Source NAS — The Ultimate ARM Powered NAS. Kobol Wiki — Kobol Network Attached Storage (NAS) are open source projects, therefore any technical data related to these projects will be published on this Wiki. Helios64 Product Limitation Notification — Recently we have discovered that when Helios64 2.5G Ethernet interface is connected at 1000Mb/s Link Speed (e.g. Connected to a Gigabit switch), the performance is really degraded, around 10 - 100 Mbps. Listen Audiobook Player Voice Audiobook Player Odyssey AudioAnchor PhotoSync – Photo Transfer and Backup App — Transfer and backup photos & videos Home Assistant Conference 2020 — The Home Assistant Conference is an online event to celebrate the community. It’s where the Home Assistant community will share their ideas, creations and major milestones. The event will take place on December 13, 2020.
Fri, November 20, 2020
32: Google Turning the Screw
With rage in our hearts, we proclaim a Self-Hosted Google Photos replacement, and the only way to self-host your email. Plus our tips to manage and stream audiobooks. Sponsored By: A Cloud Guru : Looking to make a high-paying career move into the cloud? Get going: acloudguru.com A Cloud Guru : Looking to make a high-paying career move into the cloud? Get going: acloudguru.com Datadog : Try Datadog today by starting a free 14-day trial and receive a Datadog t-shirt after creating just one dashboard. Support Self-Hosted Links: OpenAudible - Audio Book Manager — OpenAudible is a cross-platform audiobook manager designed for Audible users. Download, view, convert to MP3 or M4A, and manage all your audio books with our easy-to-use desktop application. Booksonic — The selfhosted audiobook server Prologue on the App Store — Prologue is the best (and possibly only) audiobook app for Plex. BookPlayer on the App Store — A wonderful player for your M4B/M4A/MP3 based audiobooks. Cozy—Linux Apps on Flathub — Cozy is a modern audio book player for Linux. MQTT - Home Assistant — MQTT (aka MQ Telemetry Transport) is a machine-to-machine or “Internet of Things” connectivity protocol on top of TCP/IP. It allows extremely lightweight publish/subscribe messaging transport. AdGuard Home — Network-wide software for blocking ads & tracking Using Pihole with pfsense or opnsense — Pihole is a network wide ad blocker. Using DHCP we can tell every device on your network to automatically and transparently use Pihole for DNS. <a title="PhotoPrism" rel="nofollow" href="https://
Fri, November 06, 2020
31: Industrial Grade Mobile Internet
We have a philosophical debate on cloud vs local and Alex experiences full-blown Americana this Halloween. Plus how Chris built the most reliable and high-performance mobile internet setup possible in his RV. Sponsored By: A Cloud Guru : Looking to make a high-paying career move into the cloud? Get going: acloudguru.com Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Datadog : Try Datadog today by starting a free 14-day trial and receive a Datadog t-shirt after creating just one dashboard. Support Self-Hosted Links: Review: Pepwave MAX Transit by Peplink (Mobile Router) - Mobile Internet Resource Center — Peplink is also a key provider of bonding technology that allows a router to combine multiple network connections together for increased performance, or extreme redundancy and reliability. Poynting 7-in-1 4xLTE, 2xWIFI & 1xGPS Roof Antenna — 7-in-1 Roof Mountable Cellular Wifi GPS antenna Perfect for Dual Cell Modem Applications Dual 4G LTE Router for Public Transportation MAX Transit Duo — With a compact form factor, simultaneous dual-band 11ac Wi-Fi, and two embedded LTE modems, the MAX Transit DUO is ready to deliver fast, reliable connectivity in transportation and public safety deployments SpeedFusion Cloud - Peplink — From video streaming to online collaboration, everything depends on consistent Internet. LTE UE Category & Class Definitions — LTE utilises the LTE UE Category or User Equipment categories or classes to define the performance specifications of LTE devices <a title="Ethernet Adapter for Chromecast with Google TV" rel="nofollow" href="https://store.google.com
Fri, October 23, 2020
30: Automation Entropy Factor
Chris gets left out in the cold after a Home Assistant glitch, and Alex puts a big batch of USB hard drives to the test Plus a great pick for you pack rats, feedback, and more. Sponsored By: CloudFree.shop : CloudFree Smart Plug – Runs Tasmota for $9. Use code SELFHOSTED and support the show. Promo Code: SELFHOSTED A Cloud Guru : Demystify the sometimes difficult and deep topic of systemd, the most widely used service management scheme in Linux today. Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Support Self-Hosted Links: Amazon price tracker Google study on disk temps — A 2007 study by Google showed the reverse to be true. Hard drives with average temperatures below 27 °C had a failure rate worse than hard drives with the highest reported average temperature of 50 °C, and a failure rate at least twice as high as the optimum temperature range of 37 °C to 46 °C. 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 using a tool called badblocks selfhostedshow/infra: Infrastructure as Code Using 'sun' as condition fails to allow automation to trigger. — I've been using the Automation UI from the web to create the automation's and so for the conditoin I selected "Sun" and then 'after sunset' and 'before sunrise' but the automation stopped working. I had to use a 'state' condition and use 'sun.sun' and use the state 'below_horizon' NFS Auto Mount with systemd —
Fri, October 09, 2020
29: Perils of Self-Hosting
We speak to Kevin and Patricia from Traefik, discuss Alex's recent ZFS snafu and we wonder if the new Chromecasts can match up to the Nvidia Shield. Sponsored By: A Cloud Guru : Looking to make a high-paying career move into the cloud? Get going: acloudguru.com CloudFree.shop : CloudFree Smart Plug – Runs Tasmota for $9. Use code SELFHOSTED and support the show. Promo Code: SELFHOSTED Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Support Self-Hosted Links: Diun — Diun provides automatically updated Docker images within Docker Hub. It is possible to always use the latest stable tag or to use another service that handles updating Docker images. Houston, we have Plugins! Traefik 2.3 Announcement — Traefik now supports the ability to add custom middleware functionality to your environment easily. Introducing Traefik Pilot 1.0 — Traefik Pilot provides visibility into cloud-native architectures Traefik Labs: Makes Networking Boring Traefik Labs on Twitter Traefik Ambassador Program — The Traefik Ambassador program is built to support and reward contributors of code, content, and community building. Traefik Plugin Hackaethon 2020 — Join the team of engineers who maintain Traefik and the Traefik Ambassadors for a week of virtual hacking and collaboration on the open-source projects Traefik and Traefik Mesh. Traefik Hello World by Jake Howard — Here’s a complete getting stated guide for Traefik, to complement and extend my previous Traefik basic
Fri, September 25, 2020
28: Directing Traefik
We get fancy with Traefik labels, and gush over some new Home Assistant features while saving our data from inevitable future failure. Sponsored By: A Cloud Guru : Looking to make a high-paying career move into the cloud? Get going: acloudguru.com CloudFree.shop : CloudFree Smart Plug – Runs Tasmota for $9. Use code SELFHOSTED and support the show. Promo Code: SELFHOSTED Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Support Self-Hosted Links: Introducing SWAG - Secure Web-server And Gateway — SWAG is a rebirth of our letsencrypt docker image, a full fledged web server and reverse proxy that includes Nginx, Php7, Certbot (Let's Encrypt client) and Fail2ban. Lychee v4 - Albums Alex's docker-compose file with Traefik lables Traefik, The Cloud Native Edge Router — Simplify networking complexity while designing, deploying, and operating applications. 0.115: B-Day release! - Home Assistant — There's a party goin' on right here 🕺 A dedication to last throughout the years 🥳 So bring your good times, and your laughter too 😂 We gonna celebrate our party with you 🎁 It's a celebration! 🎉 One more thing… - Home Assistant — Home Assistant Companion is a new application for Mac to control your Home Assistant instance, exposing your Mac sensors to Home Assistant and to receive notifications. Add card by entities — Are you a bit overwhelmed by all the different types of cards Lovelace has? You can now just select the entities you want to use for a card, and have Lovelace suggest a card for you. <a title="Hard Drive S.M.
Fri, September 11, 2020
27: Picture Perfect
Some big news for Jupiter Broadcasting and a picture perfect app-pick with Lychee. Chris politely suggests Alex reconsider his Syncthing doubts. Plus some power monitoring updates, and more from the community. Sponsored By: A Cloud Guru : Looking to make a high-paying career move into the cloud? Get going: acloudguru.com Linode : Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/ssh Support Self-Hosted Links: Lychee: A great looking and easy-to-use photo-manager — Lychee is a free photo-management tool, which runs on your server or web-space. Syncthing — Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, whether it is shared with some third party, and how it's transmitted over the internet. Syncthing | Security Syncthing Discovery Server Syncthing Relay Server Introducer Configuration CloudFree Smart Plug – Runs Tasmota — This product runs Tasmota, which requires some technical skill to set up. The Tasmota project will not provide technical support. Raspberry Pi Power Monitor — This project is an extremely affordable, yet highly capable “build-your-own” energy monitoring solution. With up to six total inputs, you can monitor many different consumption and production sources. blog.ktz.me - Send a Pushover notification from Linux — How can you make a Linux system notify your phone when it reboots? <a title="Apprise
Thu, August 27, 2020
26: The Trouble with Docker
Mike and Wes join us to discuss the recent Docker news, freeing your Robovac from the cloud, and why Alex really loves Terraform. Special Guests: Michael Dominick and Wes Payne. Sponsored By: A Cloud Guru : Looking to make a high-paying career move into the cloud? Get going: acloudguru.com Support Self-Hosted Links: Valetudo — Cloud-free control webinterface for vacuum robots. Roborock S5 zoned cleanup with Valetudo + Home Assistant — And with that you should be able to hit the button on the Lovelace card and dispatch the Robovac to wherever you please! Clean-up on Aisle 5. Docker at 4: Milestones in Docker History How to use count with modules in Terraform 0.13 — The upcoming 0.13 release of Terraform adds many new features. In my opinion none are more exciting than finally being able using count when calling a module Helios64 – Full Bundle (Pre-Order) – Kobol Shop — Helios64 the Ultimate ARM Powered NAS. Docker could be set to delete all your files if you haven't accessed them for a while — Free tier users have until November to push or pull their inactive container images
Thu, August 13, 2020
25: The Future of Unraid
Jonathan Panozzo, aka Johnp join us to talk all things Unraid. He hints at future subscription plans, details performance features coming soon, shares the story of how Docker came to Unraid, and much more. Special Guest: Jonathan Panozzo. Support Self-Hosted Links: 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
Thu, July 30, 2020
24: OPNsense Makes Sense
Chris figures out how hot is too hot, Alex performs an extreme remote firewall install, and we share some of our favorite SSH tricks. Support Self-Hosted Links: 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 dedicat
Thu, July 16, 2020
23: 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. Support Self-Hosted Links: 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.
Thu, July 02, 2020
22: Slow Cooked Servers
Chris is slow cooking some servers, Alex has self-hosted AI with a nasty gotcha and a damp basement. Support Self-Hosted Links: Build The BEST Security Camera NVR — Free Locally Processed AI Computer Vision with Blue Iris. Free AI Person Detection for Blue Iris — This program analyzes motion in Blue Iris cameras in real-time using Artificial Intelligence. Deep Stack AI — This system uses Docker containers to run DeepStack AI and process images from a watch folder, then fires a set of registered triggers to make web request calls, send MQTT events, and send Telegram messages when specified objects are detected in the images. Aeotec Multisensor 6 — Z-Wave Plus 6-in1 motion, temperature, humidity, light, UV, vibration sensor Gitea — Gitea is a community managed lightweight code hosting solution written in Go. It is published under the MIT license.
Thu, June 18, 2020
21: The Perfect Server Build
Serverbuilds.net’s founder JDM joins us to discuss the perfect sever for low or high-end needs, and Alex stages a Pi intervention. Special Guest: JDM_WAAAT. Support Self-Hosted Links: Serverbuilds.net CPU comparison — Intel Xeon CPU Comparison Spreadsheet Useful tools — Serverbuilds.net JDM_WAAAT - YouTube serverbuilds.net Discord serverbuilds.net Forums [Guide] Create a mobile media server setup with Plex's new app - Resources / General Information
Thu, June 04, 2020
20: One is None
You're not a true self-hoster until you've lost your entire configuration at least once. Alex does a deep dive into cloud backup, plus we need your help to find the right Wifi solution for a listener. Support Self-Hosted Links: LINUX Unplugged 355: Chris' Data Crisis — Chris' tale of woe after a recent data loss, and Wes' adventure after he finds a rogue device on his network. Jupiter Extras: A Chat with mergerfs Developer Antonio Musumeci — mergerfs makes JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Drives) appear like an ‘array’ of drives. mergerfs transparently translates read/write commands to the underlying drives from a single mount point, such as /mnt/storage. Duplicati — Duplicati works with standard protocols like FTP, SSH, WebDAV as well as popular services like Backblaze B2, Microsoft OneDrive, Amazon S3, Google Drive, box.com, Mega, hubiC and many others. restic · Backups done right! — Backing up your data with restic should only be limited by your network or hard disk bandwidth so that you can backup your files every day. Backblaze — Cloud storage that's astonishingly easy and low-cost. How does Backblaze support Linux Users? — There are a variety of options for using Linux with B2. These include open-source (free) and commercial applications, command-line (CLI) and graphical interface (GUI) tools, and tools that include encryption, automation, hybrid NAS/B2 support, mounting remote archives as volumes, and other capabilities. How to configure Backblaze B2 with Duplicity on Linux — Duplicity can store backup data in many destinations, including Backblaze B2. This guide will help you get setup and give you the commands to do a full backup and restore of a specific folder. duplicity — Duplicity backs directories by producing encrypted tar-format volumes and uploading them to a remote or local file server. rsync.net — W
Thu, May 21, 2020
19: The Open Source Catch-22
We react to recently proposed Home Assistant changes, Alex attempts an extreme remote install, and we take a look at HomelabOS. Plus why Chris continues to collect Raspberry Pi's at an alarming rate. Support Self-Hosted Links: Raspberry Pi 4 Storage Benchmarks Home Assistant on Twitter — "We're deprecating the Home Assistant Supervised installation on Generic Linux. Alternatives are to run Home Assistant Core in a Docker container or run our OS in a VM." [On hold] Deprecating Home Assistant Supervised on generic Linux — We’re going to put the deprecation plan on hold for now. Anyone running this installation method today can continue running this. We will offer more clear information in the future. traefik host mode example HomelabOS — Your offline-first privacy-centric personal data center. HomelabOS - Syncing Settings via Git — HomelabOS will automatically keep the settings/ folder in sync with a git repo if it has one. So you can create a private repo on your Gitea instance for example, then clone that repo over the settings folder. Now any changes you make to settings/ files will be commited and pushed to that git repo whenever you run make, make update or make config. Introduction - HomelabOS — Ansible templates out the HomelabOS config file using Jinja2 templating, which is then used to deploy HomelabOS itself. sanoid for ZFS Snapshots — Policy-driven snapshot management and replication tools. Using ZFS for underlying next-gen storage.
Thu, May 07, 2020
18: Ring Doorbell Alternative
We were almost outsmarted by a not so smart doorbell, Jellyfin makes Alex's prediction dreams come true and Chris tries QOwnNotes again. Links HeaterMeter, the open-source barbecue controller - Raspberry Pi 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, Includes 3 Face Plates : Camera & Photo Plexamp - Love your music! linuxserver/beets | fleet linuxserver/musicbrainz | fleet Clients | Documentation - Jellyfin Project QOwnNotes - cross-platform open source plain-text file notepad Special Guest: Morgan Peterman. Support Self-Hosted
Thu, April 23, 2020
17: Where Do I Start?
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. Support Self-Hosted Links: 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? <a title="How to transfer accounts for a SmartHome when you sell up"
Thu, April 09, 2020
16: Compromised Networking
We share some WiFi tips and essential network ideas. And discuss one of our most significant compromises in the show so far. Support Self-Hosted Links: Self-Hosted Discord Server Rationale for using Discord — Let's grow a community around being the best place to discuss Self-Hosting. Barcodebuddy — Barcode system for Grocy Quarantine-o-meter Home Assistant Dashboard Apple acquires popular weather app Dark Sky and will shut down the Android version — The Android and Wear OS apps will work until July 1st Wyze firmware update lets you turn its security cameras into webcams — To solve webcam shortage issues if you’re stuck working from home
Thu, March 26, 2020
15: Keeping Track of Stuff
We have a neat self-hosted home inventory management system for preppers of any type, plus Chris' simple Home Assistant trick and Alex's valiant battle with the WebSockets daemon of the reverse proxies. Also - we answer listener questions, and share updates. Support Self-Hosted Links: Grocy — ERP beyond your fridge - grocy is a web-based self-hosted groceries & household management solution for your home Home Assistant Community Add-on: Grocy Home Assistant External Reverse Proxy Setup with nginx — I was running into an issue for a while tonight where I could get Home Assistant itself working just fine but any add-ons that used web sockets wouldn't load properly. Let's Encrypt, Nginx & Reverse Proxy Starter Guide Picture Elements Card - Home Assistant — The Picture Elements card is one of the most versatile types of cards. Screenshot of Chris' HA Watchful Eye Genmon — Generac Generator Monitoring using a Raspberry Pi and WiFi Salt-Level — Checks level of salt in water softner brine tank ChrisLAS - Chris W. Fisher — Check out the ChrisLAS Cast
Thu, March 12, 2020
14: Embracing Automation
Wendell Wilson is back, and he and Chris are struggling with their automation setups. Also, we chat about ideal home server hardware for a server or a pfSense box. Plus Wendell's home-rolled presence detection rig, some 3D printing chat, and more. Special Guest: Wendell Wilson. Support Self-Hosted Links: sshuttle — Where transparent proxy meets VPN meets ssh Fractal Design — Fractal Design is a leading designer and manufacturer of premium PC hardware including cases, cooling, power supplies and accessories. Tinkercad — Tinkercad is a free, easy-to-use app for 3D design, electronics, and coding. It's used by teachers, kids, hobbyists, and designers to imagine, design, and make anything! Fusion 360 — Integrated CAD, CAM, and CAE software. Pocket Rotary Cellphone — The 3D-printed case contains an ATmega2560V microcontroller and an Adafruit FONA 3G cell module, while a flexible mono eInk display adorns the outside. DeskMini A300 Series" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.asrock.com/nettop/AMD/DeskMini%20A300%20Series/">ASRock > DeskMini A300 Series LanCache.NET — Download your games once and serve them out to many people at your LAN. Level1Techs Forums Bluetooth Presence Detection for Home Automation — You might be here because you heard me mention my Bluetooth presence detection setup on the new SelfHosted podcast, or possibly because you want to subject yourself to an internet-of-things setup in your own home while desperately trying to escape the consequential corporate surveillance as a result of that action (soft chuckles for everyone). Let’s talk about what it is, why you might want it, and how you can minimize the downsides.
Thu, February 27, 2020
13: IRC is Not Dead
Self-Hosted IRC solutions are better than ever. Alan Pope joins us to make a case for the classic way to communicate online and tells us about a modern client for the web, mobile, and desktop you run on your server. Plus, follow up on the new Self-Hosted wiki, and more. Special Guest: Alan Pope. Support Self-Hosted Links: World's Worst Best Drone Retrieval Device - YouTube — Having some fun watching my local flying crew/friends use the World's Worst Best Drone Retrieval Device. You don't need a UI for docker containers — You really don't. Managing small deployments of containers from the command line is easier, faster and 'commit-able'. We're not talking about vast fleets of containers here but in this article I'll cover how I use docker-compose to manage over 30 docker containers in a simple, scalable and faster way than if you were using a UI. awesome-selfhosted: A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted locally. — A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted locally. Selfhosting is the process of hosting and managing applications instead of renting from Software-as-a-Service providers Linux Server Image Status Quasseldroid IRC Client — Quassel makes IRC fun again – open a client anywhere, connect to your core, and have all your favourite channels and networks right there. The Lounge — A web-based IRC client for the modern world! Once configured and started, users can access it from their browser or mobile device. Install theloungeirc for Linux using the Snap Store IRCCloud Self-Hosted Show Wiki — Here you will find an open source, living and breathing repository of resources that we talk about on the Self Hosted podcast.
Thu, February 13, 2020
12: Which Wiki Wins
We try out the top self-hosted Wikis and tell you which we like best, and Chris has a major project off-grid update. Plus Alex tells us about his robot vacuum that runs Ubuntu. Support Self-Hosted Links: Going Solar — Work, Life, and RV Podcast — It's a huge investment! So we lay out our rationale for going solar after four years in our RV. Why we think who and how it gets installed is so critical, exactly HOW MUCH we spent, and how this new set up will keep us working from the road. Chris' Blog: Going Solar Alex's Blog: ktz. Developing on Remote Machines using SSH and Visual Studio Code — The Visual Studio Code Remote - SSH extension allows you to open a remote folder on any remote machine, virtual machine, or container with a running SSH server and take full advantage of VS Code's feature set. Once connected to a server, you can interact with files and folders anywhere on the remote filesystem. Don't blindly trust Docker for the selfhosted stuff — It is my strong belief that you shouldn't go crazy with all-things-docker when deploying selfhosted services at home. Online forums, especially r/selfhosted, seem to foster an opinion that providing a Dockerfile or better yet a docker-compose.yml or even prebuilt public images on Docker Hub is an acceptable way to distribute software targeting the selfhosting crowd. TiddlyWiki — a non-linear personal web notebook — Welcome to TiddlyWiki, a unique non-linear notebook for capturing, organising and sharing complex information. Wiki.js — The most powerful and extensible open source Wiki software. BookStack — BookStack is a simple, self-hosted, easy-to-use platform for organising and storing information. Material for MkDocs — Material is a theme for MkDocs, an excellent static site generator geared towards project documentation. It is built using Google's Material Design guidelines. <a title="R
Thu, January 30, 2020
11: Host Your Blog the Right Way
We each like different blogging platforms, and share why. Then our tips for keeping your server secure. 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. Support Self-Hosted Links: 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.
Thu, January 16, 2020
10: Compromised Cameras
Wyze and Xiaomi suffer major cloud hosted blunders, so Alex tells us about his new fully offline camera security system, tied into Shinobi. Plus Chris gets ready for Project Off-Grid's solar upgrade, our new favorite self-hosted speed test app, and a Ring alternative. Support Self-Hosted Links: 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 </
Thu, January 02, 2020
9: Conquering Planned Obsolescence
Master of details, open source advocate and YouTuber, Quindor from Intermittent.Tech joins us for a chat about tuya-convert to avoid planned hardware obsolescence, his new 100TB server build, highly available home setups, and his DIY LED project. Special Guest: Andries Faassen. Support Self-Hosted Links: Intermit.Tech - YouTube Intermittent Technology - My personal blog Home Assistant: Cheap multi-room Temperature Sensors Home Networking: 100TB 10Gbit Server - Last server bits QuinLED.info - WiFi controllable DIY LED dimmer Tuya-convert: A collection of scripts to flash Tuya IoT devices to alternative firmwares Tasmota Device Templates Repository — Tasmota Device Templates Repository
Thu, December 19, 2019
8: WLED Changes the Game
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 . Support Self-Hosted Links: Hass.io - Home Assistant — Hass.io turns your Raspberry Pi (or another device) into the ultimate home automation hub powered by Home Assistant. With Hass.io you can focus on integrating your devices and writing automations. Home Assistant Community Store — HACS gives you a powerful UI to handle downloads of custom needs. Omni 20c+ 100W USB-C/Wireless Charging — Portable Power Bank with USB Hub ESPHome — ESPHome is a system to control your ESP8266/ESP32 by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems. Home Assistant Smart LEDs using WLED and ESP8266 — A platinum level Home Assistant integration for the WLED project was released with version 0.120 on Nov 20th 2019. I'm going to walk you through flashing a D1 Mini (though the same steps apply for a NodeMCU too) using Linux. You can probably expect this process to take about 5-10 minutes. WLED: Control WS2812B RGB LEDs with an ESP8266 over WiFi! — A fast and feature-rich implementation of an ESP8266/ESP32 webserver to control NeoPixel (WS2812B, WS2811, SK6812, APA102) LEDs! LED strips - Google Sheets 0.102: Official Android App, Almond, Scene editor Self-Hosted Live Hack Liv
Thu, December 05, 2019
7: Why We Love Home Assistant
Home Assistant has changed our families' lives for the better. We share tips for getting started, implementing automation, devices we use, and our favorite integrations. Plus Alex's thoughts on automating his new LG TV and be sure to check the links! Support Self-Hosted Links: 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
Thu, November 21, 2019
6: Low Cost Home Camera System
Chris follows up on his Shinobi troubles and extols the virtues of $25 Wyze Cams to Alex, who has some exciting house news to share. Support Self-Hosted Links: Wyze Cam | 1080p HD Smart Home Camera With Free AWS Cloud Wyze Cam RTSP – Wyze Shinobi Official Documentation - Get Started Shinobi Official Documentation - Motion Detection Shinobi Articles - How to use Motion Detection Shinobi Articles - How I optimized my RTSP camera Nest camera hacked: Hacker spoke to baby You should not run your mail server because mail is hard — In this article, I will voluntarily use the term mail because it is vague enough to encompass protocols and software. This is not a very technical article and I don’t want to dive into protocols, I want people who have never worked with mail to understand all of it. 12tb Easystore drive for $179.99
Thu, November 07, 2019
5: ZFS Isn’t the Only Option
Getting your storage setup just right often takes making painful mistakes first. We share ours, our current storage setups, when ZFS is not the tool for the job, and what you should consider when protecting your data. Plus, we share a few recent project mishaps. Support Self-Hosted Links: 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
Thu, October 24, 2019
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. Also Alex convinces Chris to give Ghost (the blogging platform) a try. Special Guest: Elan Feingold. Support Self-Hosted Links: 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
Thu, October 10, 2019
3: Home Network Under $200
How far can you get with a Raspberry Pi 4? We go all in and find out. Plus our favorite travel router with WireGuard built in, and Chris kicks off Project Off-Grid. Meanwhile, Alex adopts proprietary software. Support Self-Hosted Links: 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 t
Thu, September 26, 2019
2: Why Self-Host? With Wendell from Level1techs
We visit Wendell Wilson of Level1Techs and get a tour of his self-hosted setup, what he does and does not trust in the cloud, and we reminisce about the early days of computing and the internet. Plus we discuss craftsmanship in the Linux Kernel, and address the fundamental question of "why self-host." Special Guest: Wendell Wilson. Support Self-Hosted Links: Level One Techs Chatting With Alex and Chris From The Self Hosted Podcast! - YouTube Self Hosted Pre-Launch Party | Meetup
Thu, September 12, 2019
1: The First One
You've been wanting to host a Nextcloud instance (or anything else) for your family for a while now. Where on Earth do you start? We share some hard learned lessons about self-hosting, discuss the most important things to consider when building a home server, and Chris gives Alex a hard time about Arch as a Server OS. Support Self-Hosted Links: @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
Tue, August 27, 2019
Self-Hosted Coming Soon
A new show that is your gateway to self hosting all the things. 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. Support Self-Hosted
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