Displaying items 1-10 of 12 in total of LINUX Unplugged with the tag "home automation".
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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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658: Automated Love Crunch
March 15th, 2026 | 1 hr 2 mins
1l pc, acp, agent browser protocol, ai, ai agent, ai benchmark, ai hardware, anti-detection browser, beelink, browser automation, browser fingerprint spoofing, brunch with brent, btrfs, camofox, camoufox, canirun.ai, chinbasto, chinese diesel heater, chinese diesel heater communications protocol, chrome, chrome devtools mcp, diesel heater, esp32, esphome, failing disk, filesystem error, firefox devtools mcp, gpio, headless browser automation, home automation, hunter alpha, jason spisak, jupiter broadcasting, lenovo thinkcentre m720q, lenovo thinkcentre m920q, lfnw, linux podcast, linux unplugged, linuxfest northwest, littlefox-mcp, llmfit, lore, lossless video editing, losslesscut, mcp, mcp client, mcp registry, mcp tools, mcp-server, mini pc, model context protocol, mqtt, nixos, nodemcu, npx, open hardware, open source, open source coding agent, opencode, planet nix, ray jones, reverse engineering, rvbee, scale, self-hosted, self-hosting, ssd, system migration, transistor, tui, uart, video editor, webasto
We each spent the week on our own projects, breaking then fixing things. Now we're back to compare progress, and a few lessons learned.
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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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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.