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.

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• 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 Charging USB C Cable with LED Display.
• HDMI Dummy Plug — Headless Ghost, Display Emulator
• Splitscreen brings a multimonitor setup to Apple’s Vision Pro — new app called Splitscreen takes things a step further, by allowing you to add a second macOS display to your Vision Pro — even if it uses a different Apple ID.
• Splitscreen App — Right now Splitscreen only allows you to create one extra virtual display. If you also use Mac Virtual Display that means you can have up to two Mac displays on your Apple Vision Pro.

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.

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• 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.

Alex rolls back a major server upgrade, and we have fun playing with local large language models.

Special Guest: Wes Payne.

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• 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 bread with the Unplugged crew during the lunch break on Saturday!

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 .

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• 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.
• Contributing Scrutiny to nixpkgs · Jon Seager
• Packaging a go app for NixOS — When I found that one of the apps I use daily on my servers was not available in nixpkgs, I thought I'd take a stab at packaging it.
• KTZ Systems YouTube - An Epyc Homelab Monster: the Perfect Media Server mega upgrade — With 24 cores and 48 threads, the EPYC 7402 is a monster of a CPU. Paired with the Supermicro H12SSL-i motherboard, and more PCIe devices than you can shake a stick at. Today, Alex builds the homelab box to end all boxes.
• KTZ Systems YouTube - My Perfect Media Server isn't so perfect anymore... — I gave a consumer platform the old college try, but it just didn't work out. Find out why in part 1 of a new series on the channel about upgrading the servers at Badger Labs.
• ansible-role-docker-compose-generator — An Ansible role which procedurally generates docker-compose.yml files
• Automatic Ripping Machine (ARM) Scripts — Insert an optical disc (Blu-ray, DVD, CD) and checks to see if it's audio, video (Movie or TV), or data, then rips it.
• 🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM — 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!
• 2024.3: Drag 'n Drop it like it's hot! 🎉 - Home Assistant — A first experimental version of the section dashboard that supports drag ’n drop. A tremendous step forward and an even bigger milestone for Home Assistant!

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.

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

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

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?

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• 🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM | Meetup — Let's put an official time down on the calendar to get together. The Yardhouse has always been a solid go-to, so sit down and break bread with the Unplugged crew during the lunch break on Saturday!
• SCALE 21x
• Yard House Menu
• SCaLE Chat Room on our Matrix Server — Join our room dedicated to organizing around SCaLE each year.
• Contain your excitement: A deep dive into using Tailscale with Docker — By putting containers directly onto your tailnet (our term for a Tailscale network), you're able to connect these isolated things together no matter the networking topology that stands in your way.
• Tailscale for Docker Container - Chris' Note — The basic idea is to create a tailscale service container, that runs along side the main app container. You then set the main app container to use the tailscale container for networking.
• audiobookshelf-docker-compose.yml — Chris' docker-compose.yml for audiobookshelf that uses a Tailscale service container for networking.
• 2024.2: More voice, more icons, more integrations, more... everything! — In general, contributions to our open-source project have been amazing this month. I’ve never seen so many contributed bug fixes, improvements, and new features in a single release. Like… 21 new integrations! This is, without a doubt, the largest release we’ve ever put out. A big shout-out to everyone who helped! ❤️
• Companion app for iOS 2024.1: CarPlay is here! — CarPlay support now gives Home Assistant users easy access to their devices and areas and the ability to create custom actions.
• home-assistant-assist-desktop — Use Home Assistant Assist on the desktop. Compatible with Windows, MacOS, and Linux
• Plex launches its rental service with some award-winning movies — The new movie rental marketplace from the streaming service gives users 30-day access to premium titles.

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.

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• 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 dimming and fan speed, ramp rate, min/max levels, default light and fan levels, and more.
• Automation Trigger - Home Assistant — Triggers are what starts the processing of an automation rule. When any of the automation’s triggers becomes true (trigger fires), Home Assistant will validate the conditions, if any, and call the action.
• How to use Trigger IDs in Home Assistant - Tutorial - YouTube
• NixCon NA 2024 — March 14 – 15, 2024
• Introducing the Tailscale Universal Docker Mod - Xe Iaso — Imagine a world where you could add applications to your tailnet the same way you add machines to it.
• Using Tailscale with Docker — The fol­low­ing docker-compose.yml file demon­strates one ap­proach, es­sen­tially set­ting up a Tailscale side­car con­tainer for our ser­vice
• StevenBlack/hosts: 🔒 — Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories.
• Sovereign Stack — Sovereign Stack is a complete network solution enabling you to deploy Bitcoin-only website infrastructure. It consists of this website which documents the project, and the Sovereign Stack code. Together these contain all the information you might need to create and operate your own Value4Value websites based on Bitcoin/Lightning.
• Chris Fisher - Nostr Profile

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.

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• 🎉 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 — Because nobody should have to deal with a homemade spreadsheet or a shoebox full of receipts when it comes to vehicle maintainence.
• memos: An open source, lightweight note-taking Apple Notes killer — A privacy-first, lightweight note-taking service. Easily capture and share your great thoughts.
• How to setup a reverse proxy with LetsEncrypt SSL for all your Docker apps — The reverse proxy. One of those projects you put off for years but when you finally get to it you find that it was relatively simple all along.
• Traefik 101 Guide - Perfect Media Server — In this article we will be discussing reverse proxies, how they will enable you to securely expose webapps running on your LAN to the outside world, and how to automate issuing TLS (the artist formerly known as SSL) certificates using Let's Encrypt, Traefik, Cloudflare and Namecheap.
• Sengled Smart Plugs — Work as Zigbee Repeater
• SSH 114 Boost Barn! — Thank you to everyone who supports the show with a Boost!

We look back at what has changed, what's failed us, and what's sticking around in our homelabs.

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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• Healthchecks.io — We notify you when your nightly backups, weekly reports, cron jobs, and scheduled tasks don't run on time.
• BorgBackup — Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption
• Projectivy Launcher - Apps on Google Play — Projectivy Launcher is an alternative launcher for Android TV, tailored for your TVs and projectors needs : smooth, neat, customizable and bundled with unique features. It's Projectivy Tools on steroids !
• TubesZB – TubesZB Coordinators and Router

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.

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• ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 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 LED to display a different color at the same time. Hundreds of animated effects can be displayed such as: “Android”, “Rainbow Runner”,“Twinklefox” and over a hundred more.
• Domestic Automation LLC — Want to light up your home and wow your guests? Brighten up your space with some dazzling lights in a variety of colors and entertaining effects!
• Home of the QuinLED LED Controllers — This website is about DIY WiFi controllable LED dimmers (Analog) and controllers (Digital) combined with lots of general information about LEDs and LED strip!
• Push notifications can be used to track who you contact - The Washington Post — Government investigators in the United States use push notification data to track individuals, according to Sen. Ron Wyden. Apple and Google are prohibited from discussing this surveillance technique by the Justice Department.
• Apple Requires Only a Subpoena to Turn Over Push Notification Tokens to Law Enforcement; Google Requires a Court Order — Update, 11 December 2023: Apple has updated its guidelines and now requires a court order as well.
• Year of the Voice - Chapter 5 - Home Assistant — The ESPHome team has been hard at work adding support for the S3-BOX-3, including the ability to customize the display! Check out the S3-BOX-3 tutorial to get started.
• ESP32-S3-BOX-3 voice assistant - tutorial — This tutorial will guide you to turn an ESP32-S3-BOX-3 into a Home Assistant voice assistant.
• ESP32-POE - Open Source Hardware Board — ESP32-PoE is an ESP32-powered WIFI/BLE/Ethernet development board with Power-Over-Ethernet feature. It is the perfect addition to any project that requires connectivity.
• Announcing - First NixCon North America! — Date: March 14th and 15th
• SCALE 21x
• Texas Linux Festival 2024
• LinuxFest Northwest 2024: Ready or not
• SSH 112 Boost Barn — Thank you to everyone who supports the show!

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.

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• ⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go.
• ⚡ Self-Hosted on the Podcastindex.org — Send a Boost into the show via the web. First, top-up Alby, then head over to our entry on the Podcast Index.
• 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 - OPNsense.org — WIPO decides in favour of OPNsense
• pfSense Plus and pfSense CE: Dev Insights and Direction
• pfSense 2.5.0 Development Snapshots Now Available
• New license types pfSense CE & Plus
• pfSense Plus Home+Lab is no longer available as a free download. TAC Subscription now required for CE upgrades.
• Addressing Changes to pfSense Plus Home+Lab — Today, we are announcing that the Home+Lab version of pfSense Plus, the commercial fork of the popular open-source firewall pfSense, is no longer available for free download.
• Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and Family — "I can see that one of my friends is apparently watching a ton of cheesy, soft porn stuff," a user said of Plex's Week in Review email and Discover Together feature.
• wESP32 — Wired ESP32 with PoE — The wESP32™ is an ESP32-based core board with wired Ethernet connectivity and power over Ethernet (PoE)
• ESP32-S3-BOX-3 Espressif Systems AIoT — The future Home Assistant voice hardware is shipping.
• Unifi Network - Setup Chromecast between VLANs
• Chromecast casting support across IP networks
• Inter-VLAN Casting with Chromecasts
• Jovian-NixOS — A set of packages and configurations for running NixOS on the Steam Deck.
• SSH 111 Boost Barn! — Thank you Boosters!
• Post-Show: Using NixOS as a router