Brian Moses, a guest on the show, shares his recent NAS build and love for 3D printers. They discuss DIY NAS, offsite backup, TrueNAS, and the evolution of consumer-grade hardware. They also talk about 3D printing and drone racing, frustrations with Zigbee smart plugs, and the benefits of trigger ideas for home automation. The chapter concludes with discussions about upcoming events and conferences related to Scale and Linux Fest North West.
Scott shares his experience of installing Inner Valley smart switches, which offer advanced features such as rocker switch design and LED strips.
Brian Moses discusses his DIY NAS setup for offsite backup, using a Raspberry Pi and an external hard drive synced with C-file.
Deep dives
Using Inner Valley smart switches for home automation
Scott shares his experience of installing Inner Valley smart switches, which offer advanced features such as rocker switch design and LED strips.
Setting up a 20 terabyte DIY NAS for offsite backup
Brian Moses discusses his DIY NAS setup for offsite backup, using a Raspberry Pi and an external hard drive synced with C-file.
Exploring the benefits of TailScale for networking
The hosts discuss TailScale, a secure networking solution that allows easy connectivity between devices and services across complex infrastructure.
The rise of affordable 3D printers
The hosts share their experiences with 3D printing, focusing on how companies like Bamboo Labs are making high-quality 3D printers accessible and affordable.
Brian Moses joins us and shares his most recent NAS build and love for 3D printers. Then Alex gets into the hardware he's deploying around the house, and why we don't see eye-to-eye on ZigBee.
🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.
The Bambu A1 Mini — It is the $299 price tag that pushes the Bambu A1 Mini ever so slightly closer to being the best beginner 3D printer than its more expensive siblings.
Blue Series Smart Fan/Light Canopy Module | Inovelli — Control your fan speed and light dim levels individually remotely. Combining the features of our 2-1 and Fan Switch, this canopy module is the most advanced on the market. With the ability to adjust the dimming and fan speed, ramp rate, min/max levels, default light and fan levels, and more.
Automation Trigger - Home Assistant — Triggers are what starts the processing of an automation
rule. When any of the automation’s triggers becomes true (trigger fires), Home Assistant will validate the conditions, if any, and call the action.
Using Tailscale with Docker — The following docker-compose.yml file demonstrates one approach, essentially setting up a Tailscale sidecar container for our service
StevenBlack/hosts: 🔒 — Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories.
Sovereign Stack — Sovereign Stack is a complete network solution enabling you to deploy Bitcoin-only website infrastructure. It consists of this website which documents the project, and the Sovereign Stack code. Together these contain all the information you might need to create and operate your own Value4Value websites based on Bitcoin/Lightning.