112: Red Light, Green Light

December 15th, 2023  |  58 mins 3 secs

amazon, amd ryzen, apple, chromecasts, connector, controller, couchdb, data signal, designers, developers, domestic automation, door/window sensor, end users, esphome, foss leaders, framework, google, home assistant, iot networks, jellyfin, jupiter broadcasting, justice department, led, leds, linuxfest northwest, livesync plugin, obsidian, obsidian sync, plex, plug, post, power, push notifications, raspberry pi satellites, relay, remote satellites, s3-box-3, scale, self-hosting podcast, southern california linux expo, sysadmins, texas linux fest, tizen, track, washington post, water leak sensor, websocket api, wled, wyoming integration, zigbee

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.

104: Name-Not-So-Cheap

August 25th, 2023  |  56 mins 5 secs

$13 voice remote for home assistant, .com domain renewals, .com domains, atom echo smart speaker development kit, chicago meetup recap, home assistant, home assistant cloud, icann, jupiter broadcasting, lfnw, linuxfest northwest, m5stack, namecheap, perfectmediaserver.com update, self-hosting podcast, tutorial atom echo, usb-c, verisign

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.