Displaying Episode 1 - 10 of 24 in total of LINUX Unplugged with the tag “home assistant”.
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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.
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636: Engineering the Future
October 12th, 2025 | 1 hr 27 mins
alby hub, arch linux, benchmarking, canonical, carl richell, cosmic, desktop environment, dracut, flatpak, gasp, gnome, go, google’s android source project, home assistant, hyperfine, hyprland, initramfs-tools, jeremy soller, jon seager, jupiter broadcasting, kde plasma, kernel development, linux podcast, linux unplugged, meshtastic, ncspot, ncurses, nixos, omarchy, open source, open source engineering, performance optimizer observation platform, phoronix, phoronix test suite, poop, road-trip stories, rust, snap, spotify tui, sudo-rs, system76, techdev, texas linux fest, texas tracker, texsats, tpm, txlf, ubuntu, ubuntu 25.10, ubuntu 25.10 questing quokka, ubuntu engineering, ubuntu for developers, ubuntu lts, ubuntu server, uutils coreutils, wayland
We're back from Texas just in time to chat with Jon Seager, Canonical’s VP of Engineering, and their new era with Ubuntu 25.10. On the way, we visit System76 in Denver where the COSMIC team has surprises waiting for us.
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631: Offline By Default
September 7th, 2025 | 1 hr 6 mins
alby hub, archive, audiobookshelf, bcachefs, brother ads-1800w, coral, date privacy, document management system, document scanner, ersatztv, fake boost, home assistant, immich, ipod, jellyfin, jupiter broadcasting, karakeep, kvaesitso, linux podcast, linux unplugged, natural language document search, network monitoring tool, nix, nix module, nixos, offline, offline data, open source, paperless, paperless-ai, paperless-ngx, pinchflat, podcast 2.0, podcastguru, rockbox, rustnet, scanning, self-hosted, starlink, texas linux fest, txlf, viva las texas, youtube media manager, 🎂
Chris managed to turn low bandwidth into a lifestyle, and curated a batch of self-hosted apps that make near-offline living possible.
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628: Don't Call it a Christro
August 17th, 2025 | 1 hr 31 mins
alby hub, bcachefs, bitchat, bluefin, bpf, brunchos, btrfs, canonical, canonical spikes, dangerous desktop images, document archiving, ebook reader, epub, ffshare, filesystem drama, flatpak, gameboy locker, home assistant, home assistant connect zwa-2, hyprland, hyprland nixos, hyprvibe, jb events, jupiter broadcasting, kent overstreet, kernel, librenms, linux 6.17, linux kernel, linux podcast, linux politics, linux unplugged, lue, matter, nixos, nixos configs, omarchy, open source, opencode, papra, performance tuning, register, snap, snap testing, soltrosos, steam, syncthing, syncthing 2.0, syncthing update, terminal ebook reader, texas meetup, text-to-speech, toronto meetup, tts, txlf, ubuntu, ubuntu 25.10, ubuntu dangerous, waybar, wayland gameboy locker, wlgblock, z-wave, z-wave alliance, z-wave revival, zen kernel
When personalities clash, the users come last. Meanwhile, Chris’ hyper-tuned setup stops being a toy and starts looking like a daily driver.
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626: The Btrfs Blues
August 3rd, 2025 | 1 hr 9 mins
academic publishing, airplay, airplay support, boot failure, btrfs, btrfs corruption, btrfs rescue, bug reports, chawan, chromecast, data loss, duckstation, esp32, file deletion, file system, filesystem log tree, flatpak, fossy, fsync failure, heliumos, home assistant, home assistant gradual volume control, home assistant voice, homepods, inode handling, journal mismatch, jupiter broadcasting, kde-control-station, kernel bug, lightning, linux kernel, linux podcast, linux unplugged, log replay, log tree, mount failure, music assistant, note-taking, notes, open source, plausible slop, plex, plex media downloader, plexripper, rust-motd, rustdress, silverbullet, sonos, speaker sync, stable kernel, streaming tips, symfonisk, todo, unclean shutdown, zero links, zfs, zotero
A Btrfs bug that bites is in the wild, and we discover whole home audio that works like a charm.
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625: They're Doing it Wrong!
July 27th, 2025 | 1 hr 15 mins
a-a-ron, app packaging, atomic write support, bcachefs, bluefin, bootc, btrfs, distro packaging, etesync-knotes, ext4, fedora, fedora flatpaks, fedora workstation, flathub, flatpak, flatpak-centric desktop, greg kroah-hartman, home assistant, homelab, immutable, io_uring, jupiter broadcasting, kent overstreet, kinoite, linkwarden, linux 6.16, linux kernel, linux podcast, linux unplugged, lwn, macintosh ii, managing nixos configs, michael catanzaro, nebula, netbird, nixos, open source, phoronix, rhel, rust, self-hosted, silverblue, snapdragon x1 elite, toney, ubuntu concept iso, wireguard, xfs, zigbee, zigbee dongle
A radical rethink of what a Linux distro should do, and what it should stop doing. Plus, we dig into what's great about Linux 6.16.
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624: Tiny PC, Huge Problems
July 20th, 2025 | 1 hr 22 mins
aeon, bazzite, bluefin, bluenix, bookmark manager, bootc, btrfs, cachy os, cachyos, decentralized vpn, endurain, esphome, git, health tracking software, home assistant, home assistant yellow, intel n100, intel n150, jupiter broadcasting, linkwarden, linux podcast, linux unplugged, mesh vpn, mini pc, miniflux, minisforum, nebula, neko, nixos, odroid, odroid h4, open source, overlay network, raspberry pi, raspberry pi cm4, remote backup, remote desktop, sbc, sff pc, single-board computer, small form factor pc, soltros-os, syncthing, tiny pc, universal blue, virtual browser, vpn, webrtc, winapps, zotero
Everything wrong with our homelabs, and how we're finally fixing them. Plus: two self-hosted apps you didn't know you needed.
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620: Brent Loves Building Things
June 22nd, 2025 | 57 mins 19 secs
automation, battery cooling, bsd challenge, buildfhsenv, castamatic, dc power, diy electronics, docker, embedded device, esp32 projects, esp8266, esp8266 nodemcu, esphome, esphome firmware, espressif systems, fhs-compatible sandboxes, freertos, gpio, grapheneos, high tide, home assistant, home automation, humidity sensor, internet of things, iot, junction, jupiter broadcasting, lady jupes, linux podcast, linux unplugged, lit, microcontrollers, micropython, nixos, offline tech, open hardware, open source, openshift, platformio, podcasting 2.0, real-time operating system, relay, rv, soc, temperature sensor, tidal, tui challenge, tuitickler, victron
Off-the-shelf didn’t cut it, so we built what we needed using open hardware and open source.
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614: Self-Hosted Location Tracking
May 11th, 2025 | 1 hr 16 mins
bcachefs, cb radio, coreutils, dawarich, degoogle, element.fm, filesystem, gmrs radio, gnome, gnome foundation, golden grot award, google location history, grafanacon, home assistant, immich, jeff's industrial trash bin rescue special, jupiter broadcasting, launch, libcaca, linux podcast, linux unplugged, live meep, location history, location tracking, maps, meshsidecar, mq-7, nixos, nixos hardware team, nixos steering committee, nixos-hardware, phoronix, photoprism, podcasting 2.0, privacy, road trip tracker, rust, self-hosted, steven deobald, sudo-rs, tailscale, tailscale meetup, tui challenge, ubuntu, ubuntu 25.10, uutils, van rescue, youtube, ytviewer
We test-drive a self-hosted alternative to Google Location History. Plus, we cover the week’s Linux news highlights, then spill the beans on our upcoming TUI challenge.