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**Self-Hosted**

Discover new software and hardware to get the best out of your network, control smart devices, and secure your data on cloud services. Self-Hosted is a chat show between Chris and Alex two long-time “self-hosters” who share their lessons and take you along for the journey as they learn new ones. A Jupiter Broadcasting podcast showcasing free and open source technologies you can host yourself.

Latest Episodes:

50: Perfect Plex Setup Jul 30, 2021

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We discuss Chris's latest wall-mounted tablet solution for Home Assistant and several scripts to pimp your Plex setup.

Join us for a very special birthday episode as we celebrate our 50th.

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Chris and The Badger T-Shirt — A limited edition "Chris and The Badger" t-shirt to commemorate the Self-Hosted podcasts 50th episode. Get yours whilst supplies last!
Chris and The Badger Sticker — To celebrate the 50th episode of Self-Hosted we're launching a new Chris and The Badger sticker!
Self-Hosted T-Shirt — We challenge you to tell the world you are nerd without saying a word. This new t-shirt is sure to be a conversation starter! Available for a limited time.
Self-Hosted Square Sticker — We love this one because it's our MP3 album art turned into a sticker. And we think that makes it pretty darn special.
WallPanel — WallPanel is an Android application for Web Based Dashboards and Home Automation Platforms. You can either side load the application to your Android device from the release section, install the application from Google Play or get WallPanel from the Amazon Appstore.
Amazon Fire Toolbox — Now, thanks to XDA Senior Member Datastream33, owners of Amazon Fire/Fire HD tablets can more easily sideload Google Play Store, replace the stock launcher, and remove all Amazon bloatware apps with an easy-to-use application.
[WINDOWS][TOOL]Fire Toolbox V20.0 — The Fire Toolbox is a collection of useful ADB (Android Debug Bridge) tweaks that can be applied to Amazon's Fire Tablets. The Toolbox project aims to help users fully customize and unlock the full potential of their tablets by putting all the power into their hands.
Jupiter Broadcasting - Show Notes — Alex and TheOrangeOne's latest project
Shaw in Canada thinks plex is suspicious — Shaw Protected Browsing uses Zvelo, which flags app.plex.tv.
Plex-Meta-Manager — Plex Meta Manager is a Python 3 script that can be continuously run using YAML configuration files to update on a schedule the metadata of the movies, shows, and collections in your libraries as well as automatically build collections based on various methods all detailed in the wiki.
MovieMatch for Plex — Have you ever spent longer deciding on a movie than it'd take to just watch a random movie? This is an app that helps you and your friends pick a movie to watch from a Plex server.
Hide Spoilers Plex Script
Infuse 7 — Browse and play videos stored on a Mac, PC, NAS, media servers like Plex, Emby, Jellyfin, or cloud service like Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Box, MEGA, and others. Plus, videos from multiple sources can all be displayed neatly together in one central library.
Arlo (VMS4330P) Pro 2 - Wireless Home Security Camera System with Siren — Arlo Pro 2 is the most powerful and easy to use wire-free security camera ever thanks to its 1080P video, wire-free simplicity and the option to plug it in to a power outlet whenever needed, all in a small weather-resistant design. Additional features include Alexa voice commands and rechargeable batteries. Requirements: High-speed Internet connection, Available Ethernet port on your router. Wireless: 2.4 GHz & 802.11n. Operating temperature: 32° to 122° F (0° to 50° C). Battery - 2440mAh rechargeable battery. Battery life varies based on settings, usage, & temperature.
Wyze Cam RTSP
Does the v3 support RTSP?
Shinobi — Shinobi is Open Source, written in Node.js, and real easy to use. It is the future of CCTV and NVR for developers and end-users alike.
Denver and SLC Meetups Soon!

49: Update Roulette Jul 16, 2021

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Updates gone wrong, surprise hardware failures, and flooding out all our electronics in a single go. We've got a lot to catch you up on.

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Authelia — Protect your applications with Single Sign-On and 2 Factor.
2 Factor Auth and Single Sign On with Authelia - YouTube — Authelia is an open source Single Sign On and 2FA companion for reverse proxies. It helps you secure your endpoints with single factor and 2 factor auth. It works with nginx, traefik, and HA proxy. Today, we'll configure Authelia with Portainer and Traefik and have 2 Factor up and running with brute force protection!
infra/roles/ktz-authelia at master · IronicBadger/infra
Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup
owntracks/recorder — We developed the Recorder as a one-stop solution to storing location data published by our OwnTracks apps
Valetudo
Roborock S5 Zoned Cleanup for Valetudo 2021.06 — Here's how to configure segment based cleanup for Valetudo based Robovacs.
Proxmox VE 7.0 Released — Based on Debian Bullseye (11)
SHIELD TV users are mad as hell — Irate users are storming the Android TV Home app listing in the Play Store by the hundred, leaving pissed-off reviews invariably scoring the app with one star.
Union Pacific Steam Schedule — Big Boy No. 4014 will depart Cheyenne, Wyoming, Thursday, Aug. 5, traveling through Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas and Wyoming. Along the way, the Big Boy will be on display in the following cities during the tour.

48: A Solution Looking for a Problem Jul 02, 2021

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Tuya shocks us by announcing native Home Assistant support, we have an update on a smart doorbell Ring alternative, and we tell all about how PiKVM just leveled up in awesome.

Special Guest: Morgan Peterman.

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Wyze Doorbell
Home Assistant on Twitter announces Tuya partnership — "We had a call with @tuyasmart this morning. They are working on an official Home Assistant integration maintained by them. The beta is already available as a custom component at https://t.co/71bjKySm4X It connects to their official cloud API. But local access will follow.
mergerfs-tools
PiKVM
PiKVM - 4 servers 1 Pi - blog.ktz.me — This is every homelabbers dream isn't it? Controlling multiple systems that don't have IPMI natively, remotely. Thanks to PiKVM, we now can.
Mailrise
Apprise
Feedback - Docker skeptic with some questions
Feedback - Let's talk VLANs

47: Whose License Is It Anyway? Jun 18, 2021

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We take a look at a self-hosted TeamViewer alternative, give you our take on some Home Assistant drama and discuss the effects of a new crypto coin on hard drive prices.

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A Cloud Guru: You will learn what containers are and why use them; how to manage containers, pods, and images using Podman.
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RustDesk - Yet another remote desktop software — A great alternative to TeamViewer and AnyDesk! You have full control of your data, with no concerns about security. You can use our rendezvous/relay server, set up your own, or write your own rendezvous/relay server.
RustDesk-server
rustdesk-server-demo: A working demo of RustDesk server implementation
Home Assistant drama
“Please don't add any of my stuff to this project” | Hacker News
Home Assistant Forum Thread
Shuck 'em if you got 'em — WD external drive price tracker.
Chia Network — Chia Network develops a blockchain and smart transaction platform created by the inventor of BitTorrent, Bram Cohen. It implements the first new Nakamoto consensus algorithm since Bitcoin in 2008. Proofs of Space and Time replace energy intensive “proofs of work.”
ESPHome - Version 1.19.0 — Wow. Ok, so this release may not look big, but there are a number of new features that are not new components.
ESP Web Tools — ESP Web Tools is a set of open source tools to allow working with ESP devices in the browser
Tasmota v9.5.0 Release
Monica - Personal CRM done right — Monica helps you organize the social interactions with your loved ones.
tinyhome: Static homepage generator — tinyhome generates a static HTML homepage via shell script.

46: Pastebin Alternative Jun 04, 2021

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We'll share how we deployed a painless, Self-Hosted Pastebin replacement, and what we like the most about it.

Plus Chris enters the "No Change Zone" with a Project Off-Grid Update.

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Alex's Loop Buster
Exbin: A pastebin clone written in Elixir/Phoenix. — Post pastes publicly and privatley List of all public pastes Use nc to pipe text and get the URL. (e.g., cat file.txt | nc exbin.call-cc.be 9999) "Raw View" where text is presented as is, ideally to share code for copy and pasting. Syntax highlighted view. "Reader View" where text is presented in a more readable manner. Better suited to share prose text.
ExBin Demo
awesome-selfhosted — A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers
Greyhole — An application that uses Samba to create a storage pool of all your available hard drives, and allows you to create redundant copies of the files you store, in order to prevent data loss when part of your hardware fails.
Perfect Media Server
FolderSync
LINUX Unplugged 408: Linux Road Warrior — 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.

45: The Future of Home Assistant May 21, 2021

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Join us for a chat with Paulus, the founder of Home Assistant, as we look to the project's future, hardware devices, new standards, and more.

Special Guest: Paulus Schoutsen.

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No Privacy Compromise Home Automation - YouTube — Chris' YouTube interview with Paulus in 2017.
Home Assistant Blue! — Hardware that is affordable and fast, packed in a gorgeous case and powered by the most powerful home automation software on the planet: Home Assistant
ESPHome 1.17
Upgrade to Lit 2.0
ESPHome on Twitter @esphome_ — ESPHome is the easiest way to use ESP8266/ESP32 via simple configuration files and control them remotely via home automation systems like @home_assistant.
Nabu Casa on Twitter @NabuCasa — The missing cloud piece for @home_assistant, by the founder of Home Assistant. Control your Home Assistant from anywhere. Fully encrypted.
Nabu Casa

44: Plex Skeptics May 07, 2021

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Plex announces some big plans that make us a little nervous, Alex solves Chris's tablet performance woes, and we chat about Prometheus.

Plus, our thoughts on Duplicati alternatives and more.

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Plexamp Release — This probably deserves a bigger version bump than just 0.0.1 as it encompasses a whole lot of upgrades under the hood which greatly improve performance 58 and unlock a lot of stuff for the future.
Plex Plans To Place All Legal Streaming Options (and Piracy) Into One Interface — After completing a growth equity round of $50m, Plex has announced plans to become a one-stop-shop for movies and TV. The goal is to at least partially solve one of the most annoying problems in today's legal streaming market by placing all content in a single searchable interface. By default, this will also include users' 'pirate' libraries, an interesting proposition that could yield results.
Infuse 7 - An Elegant Video Player — Infuse's powerful, super-efficient playback engine supports just about every video file ever created including: MKV, MP4, AVI, ISO, DVD, BDMV, and many, many others.
How to install install LineageOS on a 2015 7" Amazon Fire tablet — This is a guide for getting LineageOS (an older and unofficial version) onto an Amazon Fire 2015 7" tablet (also known as the 5th generation 7" Amazon Fire or under the internal codename "ford").
LineageOS – LineageOS Android Distribution
Prometheus — Power your metrics and alerting with a leading open-source monitoring solution.
Healthchecks.io — We notify you when your nightly backups, weekly reports, cron jobs, and scheduled tasks don't run on time.
Monitoring VMware clusters using Prometheus and Grafana | by Michael Kotelnikov — rometheus and Grafana have always been great opensource tools to monitor every aspect of your environment no matter how detailed you want your information, and no matter the scale of your environment. Prometheus will be gathering the metrics, and Grafana will be presenting the graphs and details you would like to see.

43: A New Solution for Backups Apr 23, 2021

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Alex has a new trick for local and remote backups, and shares his thoughts on Synology's DS series NAS.

Plus Chris' master plan to save everyone's batteries.

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Home Assistant Mac App — Home Assistant Companion is a new application for Mac to control your Home Assistant instance, exposing your Mac sensors to Home Assistant and to receive notifications.
AlDente — MacOS tool to limit maximum charging percentage
Free Cron Job Monitoring - Healthchecks.io — We notify you when your nightly backups, weekly reports, cron jobs, and scheduled tasks don't run on time.
linuxserver/healthchecks - LinuxServer.io — Healthchecks is a watchdog for your cron jobs. It's a web server that listens for pings from your cron jobs, plus a web interface.
docker stats — Display a live stream of container(s) resource usage statistics
zfs.rent — Simple cloud service to store ZFS snapshots.
DS1621+ | Synology Inc. — Synology DS1621+ is a powerful and compact 6-bay network attached storage solution designed to store and protect critical data assets.
NAS Selector | Synology Inc.
autorestic — Autorestic is a wrapper around the amazing restic.
Jupiter Broadcasting Garage Sale
Youtube - BlueIris + Deepstack <3

42: Don't Panic Apr 09, 2021

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A record is broken, a life goal is achieved, and why we are going long on Linksys.

Special Guest: Jake Howard 🍊.

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Buffer overruns, license violations, and bad code: FreeBSD 13’s close call — 40,000 lines of flawed code almost made it into FreeBSD's kernel—we examine how.
How to achieve smart home nirvana (or, home automation without subscription) — With some work and planning, Home Assistant sets your smart home.
GeForce GPU Passthrough for Windows Virtual Machine
LINUX Unplugged 308: The One About GPU Passthrough — Our crew walks you through their PCI Passthrough setups that let them run Windows, macOS, and distro-hop all from one Linux machine.
Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic” — Now a source who participated in the response to that breach alleges Ubiquiti massively downplayed a “catastrophic” incident to minimize the hit to its stock price, and that the third-party cloud provider claim was a fabrication.
A USB Fan Controller that now works under Linux
Linode on Twitter — This episode of Top Docs talks about the benefits of using Infrastructure as Code.
Plausible Analytics — Plausible is a lightweight and open-source website analytics tool. No cookies and fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA and PECR. Made and hosted in the EU 🇪🇺
Guest Blog - TheOrangeOne
Jake Howard 🍊 (@RealOrangeOne) on Twitter
Tiny Tiny RSS — Tiny Tiny RSS is a free and open source web-based news feed (RSS/Atom) reader and aggregator