Ask Noah Show 472
Ask Noah Show
Steve's programmable Christmas tree setup
Steve describes his Raspberry Pi, solid-state relay and addressable LEDs used to sequence songs on the Christmas tree.
This week Noah and Steve work on Steve's house, a new automated lock system goes in, some new structured wiring goes in, and we talk about automating your Christmas tree.
-- During The Show --
00:48 Intro
- Happy Christmas
- Kids and presents
- Quests at Steve's
- Steve's Christmas tree
- Steve on a Mac
16:20 Feedback
- You start the conversation
- Send in an email
- success stories
- problems you can't solve
- suggest a topic
18:00 Switch Bot
- A room to keep dogs and kids out of
- Why Switch Bot?
- Gold tier certified by Home Assistant
- Value of talking with others
- How to evaluate "the line"
- The "delta"
- Gratitude
36:17 Structured Wiring
- 2 Recessed outlets with Ethernet
- 2 Projector rooms
- The Smart Home Hookup
- The Smart Home Hookup Youtube
- Playing D&D with the family
- Lay of the land
- Running Cat6
- SDI Video/Audio
- Belden Cables
- Vertical Cables
- HDMI Decimators
- Keystones
55:57 News Wire
Darktable 5.4 - darktable.org
Kdenlive 25.12 - kdenlive.org
OpenShot 3.4 - openshot.org
OpenZFS 2.4 - github.com
GNUCash 5.14 - gnucash.org
Nvidia Linux 590.48 - phoronix.com
Linux 6.17 EOL - 9to5linux.com
RELIANOID 7.8.0 - relianoid.com
SparkyLinux 2025.12 - sparkylinux.org
Easy OS Excalibur 7.1 - puppylinux.com
Emmabuntus Debian Edition 6 - emmabuntus.org
Solaris 11.4 - blogs.oracle.com
FreeBSD 15.0 - freebsd.org
Rust CVE in Linux - itsfoss.com
Senate Intel Chair - cyberscoop.com
Beavertail Malware - scworld.com
Open-Source Protein Co-Folding Model - nvidia.com
Bloom - siliconangle.com
CUGA - infoq.com
Nemotron AI Models - finance.yahoo.com
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