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Wyze and Xiaomi suffer major cloud hosted blunders, so Alex tells us about his new fully offline camera security system, tied into Shinobi. Plus Chris gets ready for Project Off-Grid's solar upgrade, our new favorite self-hosted speed test app, and a Ring alternative.Support Self-HostedLinks:Employee error to blame for massive data leak, Wyze says — The database in question was basically a copy of the production database that Wyze created to work withWhen I load the Xiaomi camera in my Google home hub I get stills from other people's homes!Alex Kretzschmar on Twitter — "Another item off the Todo list. Self-hosted cameras using @AmcrestSecurity 4k IP8M-T2499EWSelf-hosted Speedtest — Self-hosted Speedtest for HTML5 and more. Easy setup, examples, configurable, mobile friendly. Supports PHP, Node, Multiple servers, and moreAlex's docker-compose snippet for LibreSpeedTestStatping: Status Page for monitoring your websites — An easy to use Status Page for your websites and applications. Statping will automatically fetch the application and render a beautiful status page with tons of features for you to build an even better status page. This Status Page generator allows you to use MySQL, Postgres, or SQLite on multiple operating systems.Amazon.com : Nelly's Security 3MP WiFi Video Doorbell Camera — W/ 2 Way Audio, Onvif Compliant, PIR Motion Sensor, Night Vision, 16GB SD Card Pre-Installed.Smart Power Strip TECKIN WiFi Surge Protector

Master of details, open source advocate and YouTuber, Quindor from Intermittent.Tech joins us for a chat about tuya-convert to avoid planned hardware obsolescence, his new 100TB server build, highly available home setups, and his DIY LED project.Special Guest: Andries Faassen.Support Self-HostedLinks:Intermit.Tech - YouTubeIntermittent Technology - My personal blogHome Assistant: Cheap multi-room Temperature SensorsHome Networking: 100TB 10Gbit Server - Last server bitsQuinLED.info - WiFi controllable DIY LED dimmerTuya-convert: A collection of scripts to flash Tuya IoT devices to alternative firmwaresTasmota Device Templates Repository — Tasmota Device Templates Repository

Sometimes one project can lead to a hundred more. We celebrate Home Assistant's new release, the inclusion of the WLED integration and fall down the DIY project rabbit hole. Plus some clever power solutions, cheap LED light strips, and a test drive of Project Off-Grid. We recorded our first ever live stream to accompany this where we flash an ESP8266 board in seconds using WLED and esptool. This can be found on YouTube.Support Self-HostedLinks:Hass.io - Home Assistant — Hass.io turns your Raspberry Pi (or another device) into the ultimate home automation hub powered by Home Assistant. With Hass.io you can focus on integrating your devices and writing automations.Home Assistant Community Store — HACS gives you a powerful UI to handle downloads of custom needs.Omni 20c+ 100W USB-C/Wireless Charging — Portable Power Bank with USB HubESPHome — ESPHome is a system to control your ESP8266/ESP32 by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems.Home Assistant Smart LEDs using WLED and ESP8266 — A platinum level Home Assistant integration for the WLED project was released with version 0.120 on Nov 20th 2019. I'm going to walk you through flashing a D1 Mini (though the same steps apply for a NodeMCU too) using Linux. You can probably expect this process to take about 5-10 minutes.WLED: Control WS2812B RGB LEDs with an ESP8266 over WiFi! — A fast and feature-rich implementation of an ESP8266/ESP32 webserver to control NeoPixel (WS2812B, WS2811, SK6812, APA102) LEDs!LED strips - Google Sheets0.102: Official Android App, Almond, Scene editorSelf-Hosted Live Hack Livestream Recording — DIY ESP device based LEDs just got a whole lot easier.

Home Assistant has changed our families' lives for the better. We share tips for getting started, implementing automation, devices we use, and our favorite integrations. Plus Alex's thoughts on automating his new LG TV and be sure to check the links!Support Self-HostedLinks:Hard Drive Sales Telegram GroupNabu Casa — No longer worry if you left the garage door open. Quickly access your Home Assistant instance from your phone, your favorite coffeeshop or at work. All data is fully encrypted between your device and your Home Assistant instance. No snoopingHome Assistant CloudChris' Z-Wave USB Dongle — Z-Wave Plus certified for wide compatibilityChris' White Noise Makers — The Original White Noise Machine - Marpac Dohm Chris' Fav sensor: Aeotec Multisensor 6 — Z-Wave Plus 6-in1 motion, temperature, humidity, light, UV, vibration sensorChris' Outdoor Z-Wave Power Plugs — GE Enbrighten Z-Wave Plus Smart Plug, 1 On/Off Outlet, Weather-Resistant, Built-in Repeater/Range Extender500-Watt Ceramic Small Space Personal Mini Heater — Compact personal space heater design that is small enough for tables or desktopsChris' Portable Oil-Filled Radiator — 1200 watts of heating power, silent operation, Best for small to medium rooms that need constant heat in the colder seasons. TP-Link Smart Plug two Pack — Smart WiFi Plug Mini by TP-LinkHome Assistant Integrations DirectoryAlex's Fav Smart Plug — Teckin Mini Smart Socket with Schedule and Timer FunctionSmart RGB LED strips with Home Assistant — This article will detail how to build a fully open source, 3D printable smart LED strip for $16.38.Mosquitto - An open source MQTT broker — The MQTT protocol provides a lightweight method of carrying out messaging using a publish/subscribe model. This makes it suitable for Internet of Things messaging such as with low power sensors or mobile devices such as phones, embedded computers or microcontrollers.Complete guide on setting up Grafana/InfluxDB with Home Assistant

Chris follows up on his Shinobi troubles and extols the virtues of $25 Wyze Cams to Alex, who has some exciting house news to share.Support Self-HostedLinks:Wyze Cam | 1080p HD Smart Home Camera With Free AWS CloudWyze Cam RTSP – WyzeShinobi Official Documentation - Get StartedShinobi Official Documentation - Motion DetectionShinobi Articles - How to use Motion DetectionShinobi Articles - How I optimized my RTSP cameraNest camera hacked: Hacker spoke to babyYou should not run your mail server because mail is hard — In this article, I will voluntarily use the term mail because it is vague enough to encompass protocols and software. This is not a very technical article and I don’t want to dive into protocols, I want people who have never worked with mail to understand all of it.12tb Easystore drive for $179.99

Getting your storage setup just right often takes making painful mistakes first. We share ours, our current storage setups, when ZFS is not the tool for the job, and what you should consider when protecting your data. Plus, we share a few recent project mishaps.Support Self-HostedLinks:The Perfect Media Server - 2019 Edition — Reliable means you don't lose data. And that's exactly what the MergerFS + Snapraid combo I first wrote about in 2016 has provided. A solid, boring and reliable way of storing multiple TBs of data with little fuss.Getting started with ZFS on Linux — Here's a short article giving a ZFS 101 intro and list of commands in one place.New Hard Drive rituals — It is for these reasons that I now religiously do not commit any data to a drive until it has undergone at least one full cycleThe 'hidden' cost of using ZFS for your home NAS — With ZFS, you either have to buy all storage you expect to need upfront, or you will be wasting a few hard drives on redundancy you don't need.Mergerfs: a featureful union filesystemA Chat with mergerfs Developer — Alex, Drew from ChooseLinux and Brent (of the Brunch fame) sit down with Antonio Musumeci, the developer of mergerfs during the JB sprint.Alex's one line mergerfs fstab entryMy Photography Workflow

Plex Co-Founder and CTO Elan Feingold shares why he started Plex, its future direction, his home setup, his love for electric cars and the beach. Also Alex convinces Chris to give Ghost (the blogging platform) a try.Special Guest: Elan Feingold.Support Self-HostedLinks:Executive Bios | PlexElan's Twitter @leafmuncherelan (Elan Feingold) · GitHubElan Feingold - CTO, Co-Founder @ Plex | CrunchbasePlex McStreamy T-Shirt - Apparel - Plex StoreAnnouncing Ghost 3.0ktz.Example Ghost Docker-Compose Snippet

How far can you get with a Raspberry Pi 4? We go all in and find out. Plus our favorite travel router with WireGuard built in, and Chris kicks off Project Off-Grid. Meanwhile, Alex adopts proprietary software.Support Self-HostedLinks:5.11 Taclite Trousers — Constructed using premium polyester and cotton mechanical stretch Taclite ripstop fabric with a triple-stitching built, this pair of pants is sturdy and flexible to ensure maximum performance in the field.Amazon.com: Gigabit Travel AC Router OpenWrt — Slate Comes with Pre-installed VPN server and client functions in WireGuard and OpenVPN.GL-AR750S - The SLATE Our favorite travel router — The first dual-band Gigabit AC travel router. We upgrade Ethernet ports (totally 3) to Gigabit ports so that it get faster speed in your travel. We also added 128MB Nand Flash to provide dual flash for more storage and faster operation speed. It has a MicroSD (TF) slot which increase your storage space up to 128GB.Raneto - A free, open, simple Markdown powered Knowledgebase — Raneto is an open source Knowledgebase platform that uses static Markdown files to power your Knowledgebase.raneto - Docker HubSmokePing — SmokePing keeps track of your network latency.smokeping - Docker HubFind the Containers Chris UsesMigrate qcow2 images from KVM to VMWare — I recently switched from Proxmox to ESXI for my primary Hypervisor due to better support for automation tools like Ansible and Terraform plus better integrations with Red Hat Satellite.Gotchas when migrating Fedora qcow2 images to vmware — My issue was that the initramfs didn't contain the necessary drivers for the emulated hardware and as such the VM refused to boot except into emergency mode.

We visit Wendell Wilson of Level1Techs and get a tour of his self-hosted setup, what he does and does not trust in the cloud, and we reminisce about the early days of computing and the internet. Plus we discuss craftsmanship in the Linux Kernel, and address the fundamental question of "why self-host."Special Guest: Wendell Wilson.Support Self-HostedLinks:Level One TechsChatting With Alex and Chris From The Self Hosted Podcast! - YouTubeSelf Hosted Pre-Launch Party | Meetup

You've been wanting to host a Nextcloud instance (or anything else) for your family for a while now. Where on Earth do you start? We share some hard learned lessons about self-hosting, discuss the most important things to consider when building a home server, and Chris gives Alex a hard time about Arch as a Server OS.Support Self-HostedLinks:@SelfHostedShow on TwitterYour preferred Linux "server" OS? — I currently host a bunch of services inside of Docker containers. Had been using Ubuntu Server, but I felt like the OS is kind of bloated and I wanted to try some new things so I switched to Alpine. Alpine is a bit too minimalistic for my tastes and I've run into some compatibility issues with it (even when using it just as a Docker host). At this point I'm planning on staying with a Linux OS and with Docker as the way I run my actual services, just not sure of what I want to actually use next.Wireless Security Camera System - EufyCam E Review — What's the best wireless security camera system? Here's my EufyCam E review, which covers my main criteria for a good camera system: battery-operated, easy to setup, good image quality, no subscription fees, local storage, and integrations with my smart home.Ending Note by TouchRemix