Displaying items 1-10 of 32 in total of LINUX Unplugged with the tag "home assistant".
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671: Windows Without Windows
June 14th, 2026 | 55 mins 16 secs
ai agent, ai desktop control, argunix, awtrix3, bitcoin, car diagnostic ai agent, codeberg, declarative configuration, desktop automation, esp32-s3, esphome, file organization, forgejo, forscan, ha connect zwa-2, hermes, home assistant, home automation, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, linux unplugged, mcp, meatpi wican-pro, mouzi, netgate sg-5100, nixos, nixos configuration, nixos-router, obd-ii adapter, open source, password manager, pearpass, podcasting 2.0, remote windows management, self-hosted, smart pixel clock, ulanzi tc001, vehicle diagnostics, web boost, windows automation, windows without windows, windows-mcp, zooz
We found the best way for a Linux user to manage Windows: keep it remote, keep it contained, and touch the desktop as little as possible.
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670: There's Chickens in that Nebula
June 7th, 2026 | 1 hr 6 mins
air quality, amcrest, amcrest 5mp turret poe camera, amcrest 8-port poe+ switch, apollo automation, bitwarden, chicken coop, chicken lan, connecten fortress router, connecten internet, coral tpu, decentralized vpn, declarative configuration, elasticsearch, environmental monitoring, farm automation, frigate, go2rtc, home assistant, home automation, homelab, homestead, hyperdht, iot, ip camera, ip-kvm, jupiter broadcasting, kibana, linux podcast, linux unplugged, logstash, mesh network, nebula, netgear, network automation, network edge, network failover, network monitoring, nixos, nixos router, object detection, odroid-h3+, omlet, open source, peplink, poe camera, rsync, rv, self hosting, self-hosted, sipeed, sipeed nanokvm, smart home, starlink, vacation automation, vaultwarden, vpn, wled, wled project, z-wave, zooz, zooz z-wave long range power strip zen20 800lr, zooz z-wave long range q sensor zse11 800lr, zooz zen05 outdoor smart plug, 🐔
Leave the farm without killing the chickens, or losing remote access? We dig into how we pulled it off: Frigate, local automation, sun-tracking coop doors, and a network that shrugged off an ISP outage.
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662: The GitHub Diet
April 12th, 2026 | 1 hr 24 mins
ai agents, apollo automation, async io, big tech criticism, bpf, btrfs, centralized platforms, ci/cd, code hosting, codeberg, configuration as code, copilot criticism, cv resume, data sovereignty, declarative configuration, embedded firmware, environmental sensor, esp32, esphome, esphome starter kit, ext4, federation, filesystem, forgejo, foss, fountain, git, git up offa that thang, gitea, give up github, government tech, hardware security, home assistant, homelab, homelab storage, i486 deprecation, iot, job search, jupiter broadcasting, kernel tracing, linux 7.0, linux desktop, linux kernel, linux podcast, linux unplugged, microsoft, motion sensor, nas, network automation, network-aware ssh router, networking, nixos, open home foundation, open source, open source license, opencode, opengist, phoronix, physical computing, practical ai, process scheduler, proprietary software, rendercv, resume generation, rust in linux, scheduler, self hosted git, self hosting, self-healing filesystem, sfc, smart home, smart lighting, software freedom, software freedom conservancy, ssh, sshroute, storage, systems programming, sécurix, version control, visual programming, xfs, yaml
Is it time to replace GitHub in our workflow? We git into it. Plus, our favorite features in the new Linux 7.0 release.
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656: Why KDE Linux Surprised Us
March 1st, 2026 | 1 hr 8 mins
arch, bearded tech, delta updates, distrobox, enhanced read-only file system, erofs, flatpak, flox, hcloud-upload-image, hetzner, home assistant, home assistant mcp, jb dnd, jupiter broadcasting, kapsule, kde linux, kde plasma, launcher studio, linux podcast, linux unplugged, mesh network, mkosi, nebula, nebula commander, nix package manager, nixos, open source, openclaw, opencode, planet nix, plasma 6.6, project banana, raw disk images, socks-to-http-proxy, squashfs, star trek comms badge, systemd, systemd-repart, systemd-sysupdate, tetris, tinyproxy, truenas, unraid
We take KDE Linux for a spin and push it a little too far. Plus, a friend of the show stops by with a fresh tool: Nebula Commander.
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651: Uptime Funk
January 25th, 2026 | 1 hr 2 mins
acme for nebula pki, actual budget, ad-blocking, automatic hostname resolution, dns, docker, enterprise-grade monitoring stack, flox, furilabs, grafana, home assistant, jupiter broadcasting, librem 5, linux phone, linux podcast, linux unplugged, local dns, magicdns, meetup, mesh network, mesh vpn, metrics, monitoring, nacme, nebula, nixos-router, ntfy, open source, pi-hole, pinephone, planet nix, prometheus, purism, richarch hyprvibe spin, scale, self-hosted, switchyard, tailscale, technitium, uptime-kuma, van automation, vpn, vps, wifiman, ynab
When your self-hosted services become infrastructure, breakage matters. We tackle monitoring that actually helps, alerts you won’t ignore, and DNS for local, and multi-mesh network setups.
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650: This Old Network
January 18th, 2026 | 1 hr 3 mins
1l pc, actual, actualbudget, bluevault, computer upcycle project, coral tpu, coral usb accelerator, frigate, geekom, home assistant, hp prodesk 600 g5 mini, ikea, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, linux unplugged, mesh network, mini pc, nas, nebula, network makeover, nixbook, nixos, nixos router, oidc, open source, open source ai coding agent, open source budgeting, opencode, openwrt, openwrt one, planet nix, pocket tts, pocket-id, printing issues, scale, sff pc, sonoff, sonos, swag, symfonisk, text-to-speech, tts, unplugged pivot, vpn, webview-kiosk, wifi, wifi speaker, ynab, z-wave, zbt-2, zigbee
We rebuild a small office network around Linux, with an Unplugged twist and real-world constraints. Things don't go quite as expected...
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648: I See Live People
January 4th, 2026 | 1 hr 1 min
dns, enterprise-d boost, foss license, holiday homelab, home assistant, home automation, home lab, iot, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, linux unplugged, mosquitto mqtt, mqtt, mqtt5 explorer, mqttx, netalertx, network monitoring, nixbook, nixos, ntfy, open source, open source license, pi-hole, podverse, presence awareness, presence detection, self-hosted, unify, web app aggregator, web app hub
We unleash a networking monitoring tool to spot new devices, track changes in real time, and fire alerts straight into Home Assistant, MQTT, and your phone.
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646: The Great Holiday Homelab Special 🎄
December 21st, 2025 | 1 hr 28 mins
1l pc, boosties, energy efficiency, great holiday homelab special, ham radio, home assistant, homelab, iot, jellyfin, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, linux unplugged, mini pc, n100, nas, nixos, open source, overkill budget blowout, personal cloud, pihole, proxmox, raspberry pi, self-hosted, server, server rack, servers, sff pc, the glorious disaster, the sipping sage, thinkcentre m720s, tiny titan, trashbin treasures, truenas
The Great Holiday Homelab Special! Where our community brought their absolute best, from budget busters to beautiful disasters. Plus, a boosties celebration! Grab an eggnog and join us as we attempt to choose this year’s winners.
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642: Tunneling Home for the Holidays
November 23rd, 2025 | 56 mins 16 secs
api gateway, cloudflare, declarative configuration, declarative-jellyfin, dns, emby, embytolocalplayer, ephemeral tunnel, git, great holiday homelab, home assistant, home automation, ingress-as-a-service, jellyfin, jellyhub, jellyman, jellyroller, jellyswarrm, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, linux unplugged, media playback dashboard, ngrok, nixos, old fart, open source, pew!, plex, proxmox-nixos, proxy, python, remote access, remote media server, reverse proxy, rust, secret port boost, subgen, subtitles, syncthing, systemd, vpn, vps, watchstate, whisper
Chris cooks up a remote-access trick for Jellyfin that skips VPNs entirely. One simple toggle: absurd, yet shockingly effective.
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637: Chris’ Smart Home Disaster
October 19th, 2025 | 58 mins 25 secs
device conflict, firmware update, future planning, hardware debugging, home assistant, home automation, integration risks, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, linux unplugged, low power, open source, protocol migration, serial conflict, smart home, software recovery, storage limits, system failure, x86 build, yellow radio adapter, zigbee issue, zwave adoption
The biggest failure in seven years, right before a trip. What broke, how Chris pulled it back together, and how Wes would fix it right.