Self-Hosted - 48: A Solution Looking for a Problem

48: A Solution Looking for a Problem

07/02/21 • 36 min

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.

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

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

Previous Episode

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.

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CloudFree.shop: CloudFree Smart Plug – Runs Tasmota for $9. Use code SELFHOSTED and support the show. Promo Code: SELFHOSTED

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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.”
ESPHome - Version 1.19.0 — Wow. Ok, so this release may not look big, but there are a number of new features that are not new components.
ESP Web Tools — ESP Web Tools is a set of open source tools to allow working with ESP devices in the browser
Tasmota v9.5.0 Release
Monica - Personal CRM done right — Monica helps you organize the social interactions with your loved ones.
tinyhome: Static homepage generator — tinyhome generates a static HTML homepage via shell script.

Next Episode

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.

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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.
Proxmox VE 7.0 Released — Based on Debian Bullseye (11)
SHIELD TV users are mad as hell — Irate users are storming the Android TV Home app listing in the Play Store by the hundred, leaving pissed-off reviews invariably scoring the app with one star.
Union Pacific Steam Schedule — Big Boy No. 4014 will depart Cheyenne, Wyoming, Thursday, Aug. 5, traveling through Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas and Wyoming. Along the way, the Big Boy will be on display in the following cities during the tour.