Displaying all 8 Episode of LINUX Unplugged with the tag “home automation”.
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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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629: Arch Enemies
August 24th, 2025 | 1 hr 18 mins
ai, arch, arch user repository, aur, aurpublish, aurweb, bcachefs, cachyos, caddy, caddy-tailscale, coral, crush, ddos, denial of service, dhh, filesystems, framework, framework desktop, frigate, home automation, hyprland, hyprvibe, jupiter broadcasting, license plate recognition, linux, linux podcast, linux unplugged, llm, malware, mirrors, ml, ml accelerator, music assistant, nebula-manager, networking, nixbook, nixos, nvr, ocr, omarchy, open source, qwen, rat, salvador, security, self-hosted, self-hosting, shuthost, spectacle, spectacle-ocr, spectacle-ocr-screenshot, systemd, task management, tasktrove, trojan, txlf, vibecoding, voy, wake-on-lan, wakemypotato, warp, wifi camera, wol
Arch is under fire, two weeks and counting. We’ll break down the mess, and share a quick fix. Plus, the killer new apps we've just added to our homelabs.
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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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408: Linux Road Warrior
June 1st, 2021 | 47 mins
blue bird, bus, canable, desk pi pro, home assistant, home automation, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, mobile internet, mqtt, node-red, peplink, rv, self hosting, self-hosted, shelly, shelly.cloud, victron, victron venus
We’re joined by a special guest who’s built his very own Linux battle bus. We get the technical details on how Linux is at the core of this open road machine.
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299: Shame as a Service
April 30th, 2019 | 1 hr 13 mins
android, containers, distrohoppers, docker, dockercon, fedora, fedora 30, flicker free boot, free software, geary, gnome, gnome 3.32, home automation, jupiter broadcasting, lfnw, librem one, linux, linux audio, linux conference, linux lite, linuxfest norhtwest, mastodon, mattermost, open source, privacy, purism, red hat, saas, silverblue, software as a service, ubuntu 19.04, unplugged, vpn
Fresh back from LinuxFest Northwest we share a few of our favorite stories and memories.
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292: Cheese on the SCaLE
March 12th, 2019 | 1 hr 12 mins
azure sphere, bug reports, containers, debian, debian elections, developer tooling, ebpf, f5, firefox send, home automation, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, mozilla, nginx, node-red, open source governance, openpower, project leadership, purism, scale, scale 17x, snapcraft, sway, system76, unplugged, wayland, web anniversary, window managers, wlroots, world wide web
A new voice joins the show, and we share stories from our recent adventures at SCaLE 17x.
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290: Proper Pi Pedigree
February 26th, 2019 | 58 mins 46 secs
4.19, alexa, ansible, arm, automation, domoticz, embedded, gnome, google assistant, google home, hardware acceleration, home assistant, home automation, jupiter broadcasting, kde, latency, linux kernel, linux operating system fundamentals, linux podcast, live streaming, lts, mate, mqtt, mutter, obs, open source, openhab, plasma, podcast generator, podcasting, raspberry pi, smart assistant, smart home, smart hub, smart lights, subsync, subtitles, ubuntu, ubuntu 18.04.2, ubuntu mate, unplugged, z-wave
We head to the Raspberry Pi corner and pick the very best open source home automation system.