Episode Archive
144 episodes of Self-Hosted since the first episode, which aired on August 27th, 2019.
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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.
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76: Solid as a Rock
July 29th, 2022 | 1 hr 11 mins
backblaze drive stats, disk airflow, documenting, ethernet pass-through, flood sensor, home assistant, jupiter broadcasting, leviton, off-site backup, opnsense plugins, push notification, self-hosting podcast, shelly flood, tailscale, wifi sensor, z-wave
Alex runs us through his new and improved off-site backup setup, and Chris is trying out some Shelly devices.
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75: In-Flight Changes
July 15th, 2022 | 59 mins 27 secs
aeotec, flightaware, homepod, jupiter broadcasting, leak detector, linuxcard, mycroft, remote backup, self-hosted todo, self-hosting podcast, siri, smart home, vikunja, works with home assistant program, z-wave, zfs, zigbee, zigbee device compatibility
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.
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74: A Pi For Every Problem
July 1st, 2022 | 59 mins 37 secs
authentik, disk shucking, docker, home assistant, jupiter broadcasting, kubernetes, matrix, nanoleaf, opensense, privacy, raspberry pi server, red hat, security, self-hosting podcast
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.
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73: 100 Days of HomeLab
June 17th, 2022 | 49 mins 1 sec
argocd, awesome-home-kubernetes, ceph, cicd, containers, cybersecurity, docker, e-ink, flux, gitops, homelab, k8s, k8s-at-home, kubernetes, linux, longhorn, nfs, orange pi, pi, raspberry pi, rook, security, self-hosting, storage, technotim, wifi, youtube
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.
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72: First Account is Free
June 3rd, 2022 | 48 mins 13 secs
backblaze drive stats, disk failure, dogsheep, drive staticis, federation, g suite legacy, gitea, jellyfin, killed by google, matrix, olivetin, rocket.chat, scrutiny, self-hosted bookmark management, servas, smart, web based shell commands, web hook
A quick-fire round of projects this week, your feedback, and a discussion about the future of Self-Hosting.
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71: Recipe for Success
May 20th, 2022 | 54 mins 32 secs
alexa, ansible, bcachefs, best buy e-ink, bitwarden, configure dns with ansible, hard drive failure, homepod, jupiter broadcasting, mergerfs, proxmox 7.2, self-hosted recipe manager, self-hosting podcast, siri, tandoor, uk meetup, virtgl, virtual machine, zfs
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.
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70: Plausible Deniability
May 6th, 2022 | 53 mins
community spotlight, containers, fuzzymistborn, google analytics alternative, google anayltics, home assistant, jupiter broadcasting, plausible, security cameras, self-hosting podcast, storage leaderboard, umami, wyze hacks
Alex replaces another Google service; we point the community spotlight at FuzzyMistborn plus your feedback!
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69: Get Off My Lawn, The Robot's Got It
April 22nd, 2022 | 47 mins 14 secs
10gig, 900 mhz, audbile, audiobookshelf, docker stats, home assistant, insteon, jellyfin trakt sync, jupiter broadcasting, networking, openmower, plextraktsync, raleigh, self-hosted audiobook server, self-hosting podcast, trakt, wyze rtsp
Alex shares some handy tools, and some old friends join us for a special edition of the show.
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68: Unwyze Choices
April 8th, 2022 | 54 mins 21 secs
ansible, bitdefender, certificates, cve-2019-12266, cve-2019-9564, dashboards, groups, hide entities, home assistant, jellyfin, jupiter broadcasting, lego, let's encrypt, lovelace, plex discovery, self-hosted, self-hosting podcast, universal watchlist, v1 camera, wyze, z-wave
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.
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67: The No Container Theory
March 25th, 2022 | 48 mins 27 secs
ansible, asahi linux, beardedtek, docker, docker desktop, esphome, f_fullsync, fevr, frigate, fsync, jupiter broadcasting, m1, matter delayed, mqtt, nix home assistant, nixos, node-red, paperless-ngx, self-hosted, self-hosting podcast, zwavejs2mqtt
Why Chris is moving away from using Containers, Alex's new project, and some great follow-up.
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66: Mmm. Pi.
March 10th, 2022 | 47 mins 39 secs
argon eon nas, energy use, heimdall, jupiter broadcasting, matter, performance, raspberry pi, raspbmc, self-hosted, self-hosting podcast, transcoding, z-wave, zigbee
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.
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65: Failing at Scale
February 25th, 2022 | 44 mins 59 secs
22.02, docker, docker-compose, gluster, helm script, home assistant, jupiter broadcasting, kubernetes helm, kvm, nextcloud two-factor, proxmox, python 3.10, self-hosting podcast, truenas scale, unraid, z-wave, zfs, zwave integration
Alex gives the new TrueNAS SCALE a go and hits a snag.
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64: Analysis Paralysis
February 11th, 2022 | 46 mins 56 secs
docker, documentation, gelli, home assistant, jellyfin audio player, jupiter broadcasthing, nabu casa price increase, plexamp, ps3, retronas, self-hosted, self-hosted matrix, self-hosting podcast, steam deck, stickfreaks, what is matrix
Sometimes we get a bit carried away; we dial it back and share some self-hosting long-timer insights.