Displaying Episode 1 - 10 of 16 in total of LINUX Unplugged with the tag “home assistant”.
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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.
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613: Packets, Power, and Paulus
May 4th, 2025 | 1 hr 13 mins
big juicy van, dad hat, dodge ram b250, home assistant, home assistant interview, jeff's industrial trash bin rescue special, jupiter broadcasting, jupiter garage, linux automation, linux community, linux in excel, linux podcast, linux unplugged, open home, open home foundation, open source, paulus schoutsen, self-hosted, self-hosted swag, ssh swag, state of the open home, the launch, van rescue, works with home assistant
We chat with the founder of Home Assistant and then fire up Brent’s Linux-powered rig.
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590: Self-Host Before You're Toast
November 24th, 2024 | 1 hr 20 mins
alby, alby go, alby hub, anker, backups, banana pi, bluebubbles, boosties, breez, davx5, discount bandit, e-smith server, fossify, fountain, futo keyboard, garmin, grapheneos, home assistant, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, linux unplugged, lubelogger, lup 600, mealie.io, nas, nextcloud, nextcloud aio, obtainium, ohio linuxfest, oss document scanner, pinchflat, simplemobiletools, soundcore motion 300, streamyfin, syncthing, tubular, turboscribe, tuxies, 🍌🥧, 🦒
Two years ago, we took a small step toward digital privacy. Today, we’re rethinking everything about our online lives, and we'll give you the tools to do the same.
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584: Captain Meshtastic and the Solar Cowboy
October 13th, 2024 | 1 hr 14 mins
decentralized, derivationdingus, esp32, esp32 s3, fcc, framework, heltec v3, home assistant, jefftastic, jupiter broadcasting, kdeconnect, lillygo tdeck, lilygo, linux podcast, linux unplugged, mesh network, meshbbs, meshmap, meshtastic, mqtt, nix-ld, nixos, nostrastic, off-grid, poop mcdinglefart, producer jeff, t-watch s3
After building nodes, climbing roofs, swapping antennas, and even some war driving, it's time for our Meshtastic deep dive!
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559: Linux is Bigger in Texas
April 21st, 2024 | 1 hr 30 mins
adam curry, atuin, bbq, boostagram ball, brent's ergonomic interest, buc-ees, carl george, delta rpm, docker, fedora 40, frank karlitschek, gentoo week, gl-inet, gnome, great a’tuin, home assistant, honeywell, iss, jovian nixos, jupiter broadcasting, jupiter extras, linux podcast, linux unplugged, logseq, longhorn cavern state park, mac mini m1, nixos, nixos gui editor, plasma, qubes on nixos, qubesos, scinary, self, shortwave, steam deck, system76, ted gould, tex shinobi keyboard, texas linuxfest, txlf, v4v, wireshark
We're back from Austin, with interviews and stories to share. Plus, it's Gentoo week and we take our first look at Fedora 40.
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557: Crouching kexec, Hidden Linux
April 7th, 2024 | 59 mins 17 secs
btrfs, core rope memory, dns, encryption, floppy disk, hiddenvm, home assistant, homekit, jupiter broadcasting, kexec, lightning network, lightspark, linux podcast, linux unplugged, nixos, nostr, nvdimm, persistent memory, plausible deniability, pmem, ram disk, security, shufflecake, subvolumes, tails, truecrypt, veracrypt, virtualbox, xz
We're building a completely hidden Linux OS inside an existing system—with no trace left behind.
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542: 2023 Tuxies
December 24th, 2023 | 47 mins 19 secs
2023 boosties, asahi linux, best desktop de, best desktop distro, best desktop environment, best linux server distro, best newcomer project, best self-hosted app, best server distro, best text editor, boost experiment, community, community chat platform, devices, home assistant, hyprland, immich, jellyfin, jupiter broadcasting, linux hardware, linux podcast, linux unplugged, networking software, nextcloud, open source project, private, radical transparency, remote access, results, secure, self-hosted app, services, stabledif, tuxies, umbrel, votes
It’s the fourth annual Unplugged Tuxies; our community votes on the best projects, distros, and desktops of 2023.
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522: Practical Privacy
August 6th, 2023 | 1 hr 17 mins
2fa, adguard home, aegis authenticator, built-in monitoring software, cloud storage, content filtering, davx5, dns, doorbell button, element, email, encryption, esp32 smart doorbell, esphome, etesync, file sync, freetube, frontends, gl.inet routers, grapheneos, home assistant, libredirect, linux, local integration, mass surveillance, mesh vpn, messaging services, nextcloud, nextdns, nitter, notifications, online safety bill, open source, pi-hole, privacy, privacy friendly, privacy resources, privacy rights, privacy tips, privacy tools, privacyguides.org, privacytools.io, proton calendar, proton drive, real-time chat, self-hosting, send, signal, simplelogin, simplex chat, starlink, storage, surveillance self-defense, syncthing, tailscale, uk government, vendors, vpns, wireguard
Why Linux reigns for privacy; our recommendations for secure tools from chat to DNS.
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490: 2022 Tuxies
December 25th, 2022 | 50 mins 17 secs
arch, asahi linux, best desktop environment, best linux distro of the year, best text editor, cosmic, debian, emacs, framework laptop, home assistant, hp devone, immich, jellyfin, jupiter broadcasting, kate, kde, linux podcast, linux unplugged, lunarvim, mastodon, nano, nextcloud, nixos, plasma, pop!_os, proton, stable diffusion, steam deck, sway, tuxies, ubuntu, umbrel, vi, vim, vscode, xfce
It's the third annual Unplugged Tuxies; our community votes on the best projects, distros, desktops, and services of 2022.