Exploring Connection Plugins, Unraid OS Ad, Updating Smart Home Devices, and Comparing Z-Wave and Zigbee Networks

Alex's mini-PC surprise, why we're trying Tube Archivist, Alex's Nextcloud update, and how Chris stacks automations with Bitfocus Companion.

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• ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries.
• 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.
• Lenovo Thinkcentre/ThinkStation Tiny (Project TinyMiniMicro) Reference Thread — 179 x 183 x 34.5 / 37 mm with rubber feet (7.05 x 7.2 x 1.36 / 1.5 inches with rubber feet) (around 1 litre)
• Lenovo ThinkCentre M720q Project TinyMiniMicro Feature
• CloudFree - Own Your Smart Home — Providing tinkerers with the cloud-free gadgets they need.
• Dell Refurbished
• Tubearchivist: Your self hosted YouTube media server — By indexing your video collection with metadata from YouTube, you can organize, search and enjoy your archived YouTube videos without hassle offline through a convenient web interface.
• Bitfocus - Companion — Bitfocus Companion enables the reasonably priced Elgato Streamdeck to be a professional shotbox surface for a huge amount of different presentation switchers, video playback software and broadcast equipment.
• Meshtastic — An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices
• tubearchivist-jf-plugin: Metadata for your TubeArchivist library on Jellyfin. — This plugin adds the metadata provider for TubeArchivist, offering improved flexibility and native integration with Jellyfin compared to previous solutions.
• Spokane Meetup, Sat, Jul 13, 2024, 4:00 PM | Meetup — We owe our Spokane crew a meetup!