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We react to Home Assistant password shaming us and then reflect on the OVH fire while attempting to solve a "growing" cloud problem.Sponsored By:A Cloud Guru: Looking to make a high-paying career move into the cloud? Get going: acloudguru.comDatadog: Try Datadog today by starting a free 14-day trial and receive a Datadog t-shirt after creating just one dashboard.Linode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/sshSupport Self-HostedLinks:Millions of websites offline after fire at French cloud services firm — The fire, which broke out on Wednesday shortly after midnight at OVHcloud, destroyed one of four data centres in Strasbourg, in eastern France, and damaged another, the company said.Pwned passwords and secrets - Home Assistant — We are using the Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) service for detecting leaked or compromised secrets, like passwords. Troy Hunt: Home Assistant, Pwned Passwords and Security Misconceptions — Two of my favourite things these days are Have I Been Pwned and Home Assistant. The former is an obvious choice, the latter I've come to love as I've embarked on my home automation journey. So, it was with great pleasure that I saw the two integrated recently.Validating Leaked Passwords with k-Anonymity — Cloudflare continues to support Pwned Passwords by providing CDN and security functionality such that the data can easily be made available for download in raw form to organisations to protect their customers. crt.sh — Certificate Search.Shelly 2.5 — No HUB required – Connect Shelly 2.5 directly to your Wi-Fi at home.filebrowser: 📂 Web File Browser — filebrowser provides a file managing interface within a specified directory and it can be used to upload, delete, preview, rename and edit your files. Tandoor Recipes — Today i am happy to announce that I have released a new version which finally gives the application its well deserved name and logo: Tandoor Recipes.

Our favorite LastPass alternative, why more boxes might be better than one, and we confess to an undying love.Sponsored By:A Cloud Guru: Grow your skills — and your career. Get 20% off access to the most effective, hands-on cloud learning. Promo Code: springintocloud21Linode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/sshSupport Self-HostedLinks:Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust — This is a Bitwarden server API implementation written in Rust compatible with upstream Bitwarden clients*, perfect for self-hosted deployment where running the official resource-heavy service might not be ideal.bitwardenrs server DockerChanges to LastPass Free — As a Free user, your first login on or after March 16th will set your active device type. You’ll have three opportunities to switch your active device type to explore what’s right for you.How to Self-Host the bitwarden_rs Password Manager | LinodeDDoSers are abusing the Plex Media Server to make attacks more potent — Plex Media servers using SSDP let DDoSers amplify attacks by a factor of 5.Intel GVT-g — Intel GVT-g is a technology that provides mediated device passthrough for Intel GPUs (Broadwell and newer). It can be used to virtualize the GPU for multiple guest virtual machines, effectively providing near-native graphics performance in the virtual machine and still letting your host use the virtualized GPU normally.Ghost Membership Software: Sustainable revenue for publishersGhost Docs — The Docker image for Ghost is an unofficial community package maintained by people within the Ghost developer community.systemd-homed — systemd-homed is a systemd service providing portable human-user accounts that are not dependent on current system configuration.3D Printing a custom Vantrue S1 dash cam bracket for a Golf RPrusa3D - Open-Source 3D printers by Josef PrusaThingiverse - Digital Designs for Physical Objects

Alex shocks Chris with his latest project, then lays down some quick-fire picks. Plus what's wrong with OPNsense's Wireguard setup?Sponsored By:A Cloud Guru: This course will provide you the fundamentals, tools, techniques, and use case examples to configure, manage and troubleshoot Linux networkingLinode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/sshSupport Self-HostedLinks:VZW TTL Trick Alex Found on Reddit — By default, Android and iOS (probably) have IP TTL's of 64. The ISPs can use this knowledge to decide whether or not a packet originated from the Android device or if it was only routed through the Android device. For example, Linux distributions typically have a default TTL of 64. FileRun - File Manager — Just like you do with an FTP server, point FileRun to where you keep the files on your server and you will get instant web access to them.termpad — Just an empty terminal, in your browser.Tinypin — A self-hosted, minimalistic image collection board. OPNsense 21.1 Released — For those wondering, the WireGuard plugin has been available since 2019 and receives continuous improvements by its maintainer and various users alike.  And that is unlikey to change in the future.  Setting up linuxserver/wireguard — Putting your docker stack behind a VPN.linuxserver.io: WireGuard — Docker container to run WireGuard. Passthrough Intel iGPU with GVT-g to a VM and use Quick Sync with Plex in docker on Proxmox — Passing through an entire GPU is very useful for specific tasks but isn't a very efficient use of resources. Wouldn't it be nice if we could slice up 1 GPU and use it with multiple VMs at once?Hassio-google-drive-backup — A complete and easy way to back up your Home Assistant snapshots to Google Drive.Duplicati — Backup files and folders with strong AES-256 encryption. Save space with incremental backups and data deduplication. Run backups on any machine through the web-based interface or via command line interface. Duplicati has a built-in scheduler and auto-updater.

We discuss recent Home Assistant security news, and how we think the project could improve. Plus a bunch of follow up, emails, and more! Note: This episode was recorded before the recent second Home Assistant vulnerabilitySponsored By:A Cloud Guru: Looking to make a high-paying career move into the cloud? Get going: acloudguru.comCloudFree.shop: CloudFree Smart Plug – Runs Tasmota for $9. Use code SELFHOSTED and support the show. Promo Code: SELFHOSTEDLinode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/sshSupport Self-HostedLinks:Security Bulletin 1- Home Assistant — It has come to our attention that certain custom integrations have security issues and could potentially leak sensitive information.Security Disclosure 2: vulnerabilities in custom integrations HACS, Font Awesome and others - Home Assistant — . The conclusion is that some custom integrations are still vulnerable to a directory traversal attack while not being authenticated with Home Assistant. It allows an attacker to access any file without having to log in. This access includes any credentials that you might have stored to allow Home Assistant to access other services. Generic Thermostat - Home Assistant — The generic_thermostat climate platform is a thermostat implemented in Home Assistant. It uses a sensor and a switch connected to a heater or air conditioning under the hood. ATC_MiThermometer — Custom firmware for the Xiaomi Thermometer LYWSD03MMC and Telink Flasher via USB to Serial converter.ESPHome — ESPHome is a system to control your ESP8266/ESP32 by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems.Xiaomi Mijia BLE Temperature and Humidity Sensor - Home Assistant — The mitemp_bt sensor platform allows one to monitor room temperature and humidity. The Xiaomi Mijia BLE Temperature and Humidity sensor with LCD is a small Bluetooth Low Energy device that monitors the room temperature and humidity. Xiaomi Mijia Bluetooth Thermometer — New Xiaomi Mijia Bluetooth Thermometer 2 Wireless Smart Electric Digital Hygrometer ThermometerGoogle-drive-backup: Automatically create and sync Hass.io snapshots into Google Drive — A complete and easy way to back up your Home Assistant snapshots to Google Drive.Troubleshooting your configuration - Home Assistant

Our favorite Google Docs killer with markdown support has a big update. We explain how we host it and why we love it. Plus Chris reviews the Home Assistant Blue.Sponsored By:CloudFree.shop: CloudFree Smart Plug – Runs Tasmota for $9. Use code SELFHOSTED and support the show. Promo Code: SELFHOSTEDLinode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/sshA Cloud Guru: Go through a series of hands-on labs picked to showcase Docker and gain experience with it.Support Self-HostedLinks:HedgeDoc - The best platform to write and share markdown. — HedgeDoc (formerly known as CodiMD) is an open-source collaborative markdown editor. With HedgeDoc you can easily collaborate on notes, graphs and even presentations in real-time. All you need to do is to share your note-link to your co-workers, and they’re ready to go.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.Actiontec MoCA 2.5 Network Adapter for Ethernet Over Coax — With the reliability of a wired network, MoCA 2.5 technology upgrades your network for latency, reliability, and more. MoCA adapters use the same coaxial cables as your cable TV or fiber-optic service.

Alex reveals the culmination of five years of work into the Perfect Media Server. And we respond to a ton of feedback.Sponsored By:A Cloud Guru: Develop the skills you need to write effective, powerful scripts and create command line tools using Python 3.Linode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/sshCloudFree.shop: CloudFree Smart Plug – Runs Tasmota for $9. Use code SELFHOSTED and support the show. Promo Code: SELFHOSTEDSupport Self-HostedLinks:Perfect Media Server — Alex's new site for the Perfect Media server.Serverbuilds.netMkDocs — MkDocs is a fast, simple and downright gorgeous static site generator that's geared towards building project documentation. Documentation source files are written in Markdown, and configured with a single YAML configuration fileTP-Link AV1000 Powerline Starter Kitgroceri.esASRock J5040-ITX — QuickSync supporting Intel Quad-Core Pentium Silver Processor J5040 (up to 3.2 GHz) Mini ITX Motherboard / CPU Combo - Newegg.comvabene1111/recipes — Recipes is a Django application to manage, tag and search recipes using either built in models or external storage providers hosting PDF's, Images or other files.

Chris discovers a networking miracle, Alex has been playing with electrics, and we review the Wyze Cam 3.Sponsored By:A Cloud Guru: Looking to make a high-paying career move into the cloud? Get going: acloudguru.comCloudFree.shop: CloudFree Smart Plug – Runs Tasmota for $9. Use code SELFHOSTED and support the show. Promo Code: SELFHOSTEDLinode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/sshSupport Self-HostedLinks:Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs and other services go down in multiple countries — Google experienced an authentication system outage for approximately 45 minutes due to an internal storage quota issue. Pictures of Chris' new Server Cupboard — Just finished my new spot for networking equipment in my RV Lady Jupiter.Aeotec Multisensor 6 — 6-in-1 Z-Wave Plus MultiSensor: motion, humidity, temperature, light lux, UV, vibration sensor.TP-Link AV1000 Powerline Starter Kit — HomePlug AV2 Standard - high-speed data transfer rates of up to 1000 Mbps, supporting all your online needsPCI(e) Passthrough - Proxmox VE — PCI(e) passthrough is a mechanism to give a virtual machine control over a PCI device from the host. This can have some advantages over using virtualized hardware, for example lower latency, higher performance, or more features (e.g., offloading).Home Assistant Conference 2020 - Home Assistant — The Home Assistant Conference is an online event to celebrate the community. It’s where the Home Assistant community will share their ideas, creations and major milestones. The event will take place on December 13, 2020.Home Assistant Blue! — We challenged ourselves: what would the perfect home automation hub look like. Not just software, but also hardware and looks.Automate with Blueprints! — Say hello; to the major new feature of Home Assistant 2020.12: Blueprints!Latest Blueprints Exchange topics - Home Assistant CommunityWyze Cam v3iGD/GPU Passthrough with Intel - GPU HANG: ecode, hang on vecs0Mini ITX Motherboard with Intel QuickSync Support — ASRock J5040-ITX Intel Quad-Core Pentium Silver Processor J5040 OpenYourMouth — Open Source Recipes from the Jupiter Broadcasting communityChowdown — Chowdown is my attempt at fixing recipe app burnout, by moving my recipes out of closed services and into plain text.groceri.es — groceri.es is a web-based application to manage your recipes and plan your meals ahead. groceri.es keeps track of your menu plans and generates a groceries list for you.

Alex puts the fantastic-looking, ARM-powered NAS known as the Helios64 to the test. Plus feedback, and more.Sponsored By:A Cloud Guru: Take advantage of your last chance to get a discount this year.Linode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/sshSupport Self-HostedLinks:Kobol - Helios64 Open Source NAS — The Ultimate ARM Powered NAS.Kobol Wiki — Kobol Network Attached Storage (NAS) are open source projects, therefore any technical data related to these projects will be published on this Wiki.Helios64 Product Limitation Notification — Recently we have discovered that when Helios64 2.5G Ethernet interface is connected at 1000Mb/s Link Speed (e.g. Connected to a Gigabit switch), the performance is really degraded, around 10 - 100 Mbps.Listen Audiobook PlayerVoice Audiobook PlayerOdysseyAudioAnchorPhotoSync – Photo Transfer and Backup App — Transfer and backup photos & videosHome Assistant Conference 2020 — The Home Assistant Conference is an online event to celebrate the community. It’s where the Home Assistant community will share their ideas, creations and major milestones. The event will take place on December 13, 2020.

With rage in our hearts, we proclaim a Self-Hosted Google Photos replacement, and the only way to self-host your email. Plus our tips to manage and stream audiobooks.Sponsored By:A Cloud Guru: Looking to make a high-paying career move into the cloud? Get going: acloudguru.comA Cloud Guru: Looking to make a high-paying career move into the cloud? Get going: acloudguru.comDatadog: Try Datadog today by starting a free 14-day trial and receive a Datadog t-shirt after creating just one dashboard.Support Self-HostedLinks:OpenAudible - Audio Book Manager — OpenAudible is a cross-platform audiobook manager designed for Audible users. Download, view, convert to MP3 or M4A, and manage all your audio books with our easy-to-use desktop application.Booksonic — The selfhosted audiobook server‎Prologue on the App Store — Prologue is the best (and possibly only) audiobook app for Plex.‎BookPlayer on the App Store — A wonderful player for your M4B/M4A/MP3 based audiobooks.Cozy—Linux Apps on Flathub — Cozy is a modern audio book player for Linux.MQTT - Home Assistant — MQTT (aka MQ Telemetry Transport) is a machine-to-machine or “Internet of Things” connectivity protocol on top of TCP/IP. It allows extremely lightweight publish/subscribe messaging transport.AdGuard Home — Network-wide software for blocking ads & trackingUsing Pihole with pfsense or opnsense — Pihole is a network wide ad blocker. Using DHCP we can tell every device on your network to automatically and transparently use Pihole for DNS.PhotoPrism — PhotoPrism® is a server-based application for browsing, organizing and sharing your personal photo collection. It makes use of the latest technologies to automatically tag and find pictures without getting in your way. Say goodbye to solutions that force you to upload your visual memories to the cloud.PhotoPrism: Try our demoGoogle Photos will end its free unlimited storage on June 1st, 2021 - The Verge — After 15 gigs, you’ll need to pony up for Google One

We have a philosophical debate on cloud vs local and Alex experiences full-blown Americana this Halloween. Plus how Chris built the most reliable and high-performance mobile internet setup possible in his RV.Sponsored By:A Cloud Guru: Looking to make a high-paying career move into the cloud? Get going: acloudguru.comLinode: Receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Promo Code: linode.com/sshDatadog: Try Datadog today by starting a free 14-day trial and receive a Datadog t-shirt after creating just one dashboard.Support Self-HostedLinks:Review: Pepwave MAX Transit by Peplink (Mobile Router) - Mobile Internet Resource Center — Peplink is also a key provider of bonding technology that allows a router to combine multiple network connections together for increased performance, or extreme redundancy and reliability.Poynting 7-in-1 4xLTE, 2xWIFI & 1xGPS Roof Antenna — 7-in-1 Roof Mountable Cellular Wifi GPS antenna Perfect for Dual Cell Modem ApplicationsDual 4G LTE Router for Public Transportation MAX Transit Duo — With a compact form factor, simultaneous dual-band 11ac Wi-Fi, and two embedded LTE modems, the MAX Transit DUO is ready to deliver fast, reliable connectivity in transportation and public safety deploymentsSpeedFusion Cloud - Peplink — From video streaming to online collaboration, everything depends on consistent Internet.LTE UE Category & Class Definitions — LTE utilises the LTE UE Category or User Equipment categories or classes to define the performance specifications of LTE devicesEthernet Adapter for Chromecast with Google TV — Power adapter with Ethernet portNymphCast: Audio and video casting system — NymphCast is a software solution which turns your choice of Linux-capable hardware into an audio and video source for a television or powered speakers. It enables the streaming of audio and video over the network from a wide range of client devices, as well as the streaming of internet media to a NymphCast server, controlled by a client device.