Episode Archive
141 episodes of Self-Hosted since the first episode, which aired on August 27th, 2019.
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92: Rip it all Out
March 10th, 2023 | 58 mins 38 secs
10gb network upgrade, attic time, bellingham technical college, cable analyzer, cve-2023-27482, fiber strands, home assistant cve, jupiter broadcasting, lenovo m720q, lightning node, linuxfest northwest 2023, multi-site dns tricks, opnsense, pikvm, remotely exploitable vulnerability, self-hosting podcast, server relocation, sff homelab pcs, split dns setup, tailscale
Find out why Alex ripped out everything installed last episode and is starting fresh with new gear, wires, and a new goal.
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91: Total Network Rebuild
February 24th, 2023 | 57 mins 9 secs
asrock ipmi, audiobookshelf, blue iris box, cpu upgrade, flex mini, igpu benchmarking, intel igpus, jupiter broadcasting, kickstarter, network latency, pikvm v4, self-hosted, self-hosting podcast, smokeping, unifi switches poe, vlan, wireshark
Alex has been swapping hardware and standing-up services. It's a network rebuild episode and more!
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90: Proxmox ClusterF
February 10th, 2023 | 47 mins 35 secs
address conflict error, dhcp/dns server, jellyfin, jupiter broadcasting, mac address conflict, new network gear, reolink poe doorbell, self-hosting podcast, smart wired doorbell with chime, swapping adguard home for pi-hole, tailscale, ubiquiti
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.
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89: Jellyfans
January 27th, 2023 | 58 mins 9 secs
audio books, hard drive giveaway, jellyfin, jupiter broadcasting, live tv, metadata plugin, plex, self-hosting podcast, storage, streaming, tailscale reverse tunnel, youtube with jellyfin, ytdl-sub
Join us for the surprising conclusion to our month-long challenge.
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88: Great Scott!
January 13th, 2023 | 57 mins 40 secs
hdhomerun, home assistant skyconnect, intro skipping, jellyfin, jellyfin challenge, jellyfin january, jupiter broadcasting, matrix funding, matrix holiday update, matter, ntfy, openwrt, plex, self-hosting podcast, swiftfin, tp-link eap245, unifiedpush
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.
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87: Jellyfin January
December 30th, 2022 | 1 hr 3 mins
hdhomerun, home assistant skyconnect, intro skipping, jellyfin, jellyfin challenge, jellyfin january, jupiter broadcasting, matrix funding, matrix holiday update, matter, ntfy, openwrt, plex, self-hosting podcast, swiftfin, tp-link eap245, unifiedpush
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.
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86: Disqus-ting Tracking
December 16th, 2022 | 48 mins 49 secs
alby, apprise, drive home auotmation, giscus, github actions, hdhomerun, hdmi over ip, home automation, infinity, joplin, jupiter broadcasting, mkdocs, newpipe, obsidian, plex live tv, self-hosting podcast
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.
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85: Wendell's Hot Pi
December 2nd, 2022 | 52 mins 16 secs
home assistant, jupiter broadcasting, level one techs, level1techs, nas, o2 sensor, odroid, petabyte, power efficient, quicksync, reliable automation, ryzen, self-hosting podcast, water leak, wendell, x86 vs arm, z-wave, zigbee
Wendell from Level One Techs joins us to catch up on low-power hardware, his home automation setup, and thoughts on so much more.
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84: Hidden NAS
November 18th, 2022 | 34 mins 16 secs
bending spoons, evernote buyout, hardware decoding, jupiter broadcasting, kodi, nas, notes, obsidian, ocr, plex, quicksync, self-hosting podcast, uptime monitor, uptimerobot, wifi speed test, workstation as a nas, z-wave vs zigbee
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.
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83: Unintended Upgrades
November 4th, 2022 | 1 hr 3 mins
all things open, cm4, compute module 4, custom component, flash esphome over the air, generic thermostat, home assistant yellow, jay the linux guy, jellyfin, jupiter broadcasting, lacroix, mycroft, nextcloud backup, nix, nixos, openssl, scheduler card, self-hosting podcast, shelly, ubuntu, wsl2, z-wave, zfs, zimaboard
Sometimes your best upgrades are unplanned; Chris just got his Home Assistant Yellow fully deployed.
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82: Roon Ready Ruh-Roh
October 21st, 2022 | 56 mins 42 secs
apple ships matter, audiophile, docker, docker vs lxc, flac, funkwhale, matter, metadata, rclone, roon, roon arc, roon core, tidal, vm vs docker, whole home audio, zigbee binding, zigbee2mqtt
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.
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81: The Badger Stack
October 7th, 2022 | 1 hr 5 mins
bitwarden, calyx, can't buy pi, conbee, expanse, fastmail, home assitant, invoice ninja, jupiter broadcasting, matter, netbird, proxmox, pulseaudio, rapberry pi home server, reddit automatic archiver, runeaudio, self-hosting podcast, slaesh, snapcast, tailscale, volumio, wireguard, yubico, z-wave, zigbee
Chris' Raspberry Pi server is dead, and Alex has a few ideas for his next build.
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80: Solving Whole Home Audio
September 23rd, 2022 | 52 mins 26 secs
a2dp, automations, broadlink rm4, esphome, fwupd, google home, home assistant, ipod, jupiter broadcasting, light switches, logitech media server, matter, paulus, picoreplayer, podverse, rosewill lsv4500, rpi-audio-receiver, self-hosting podcast, spotify connect, thunderbolt dock, unraid, z-wave, zooz
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.
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79: Google is a Hostile Actor
September 9th, 2022 | 1 hr 1 min
android ip webcam, asrock a380, canceling google fi, esp32 bluetooth proxy, fastmail, google photos altnerative, home assistant core 2022.9, immich, intel arc gpu, jellyamp, jellyfin-audio-player, jellyseerr, jupiter broadcasting, self-hosting podcast, switching to firefox, tailscale, zigbee
We've made some changes since the last episode, and share why we have doubled down on Self-Hosting as much as possible.
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78: We Should Know Better
August 26th, 2022 | 48 mins 51 secs
aqara temperature humidity sensor, battery life, compromised, csam scanning, gmail backup script, gmail backups, google account access, google photos, got your back, gyb, hubitat, immich, jellyfin, jupiter broadcasting, overseerr, plex leak, self-hosting podcast, zigbee
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.
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77: Automations Gone Wrong
August 12th, 2022 | 58 mins 56 secs
adguard, automation, bedtime automation, bitwarden emergency contact, eink, energy monitoring, h&t sensor, home assitant, jupiter broadcasting, motion, mqtt, opensense, power plug, self-hosting podcast, sensor, shelly, wireless smart temperature humidity sensor, z-wave, zigbee button
What is it like to live with another man's automations? Brent spills all.