Self-Hosted

We discuss Chris's latest wall-mounted tablet solution for Home Assistant and several scripts to pimp your Plex setup. Join us for a very special birthday episode as we celebrate our 50th.

Updates gone wrong, surprise hardware failures, and flooding out all our electronics in a single go. We've got a lot to catch you up on.

Tuya shocks us by announcing native Home Assistant support, we have an update on a smart doorbell Ring alternative, and we tell all about how PiKVM just leveled up in awesome. Special Guest: Morgan Peterman.

We take a look at a self-hosted TeamViewer alternative, give you our take on some Home Assistant drama and discuss the effects of a new crypto coin on hard drive prices.

We'll share how we deployed a painless, Self-Hosted Pastebin replacement, and what we like the most about it. Plus Chris enters the "No Change Zone" with a Project Off-Grid Update.

Join us for a chat with Paulus, the founder of Home Assistant, as we look to the project's future, hardware devices, new standards, and more. Special Guest: Paulus Schoutsen.

Plex announces some big plans that make us a little nervous, Alex solves Chris's tablet performance woes, and we chat about Prometheus. Plus, our thoughts on Duplicati alternatives and more.

Alex has a new trick for local and remote backups, and shares his thoughts on Synology's DS series NAS. Plus Chris' master plan to save everyone's batteries.

A record is broken, a life goal is achieved, and why we are going long on Linksys. Special Guest: Jake Howard 🍊.

Special guest Jeff Geerling tells us how he got 16 drives connected to one Pi. Plus his thoughts on automation, self-hosting, and more. Special Guest: Jeff Geerling.

We react to Home Assistant password shaming us and then reflect on the OVH fire while attempting to solve a "growing" cloud problem.

Our favorite LastPass alternative, why more boxes might be better than one, and we confess to an undying love.

Alex shocks Chris with his latest project, then lays down some quick-fire picks. Plus what's wrong with OPNsense's Wireguard setup?

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 vulnerability

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.

Alex reveals the culmination of five years of work into the Perfect Media Server. And we respond to a ton of feedback.

Chris discovers a networking miracle, Alex has been playing with electrics, and we review the Wyze Cam 3.

Alex puts the fantastic-looking, ARM-powered NAS known as the Helios64 to the test. Plus feedback, and more.

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.

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.

Chris gets left out in the cold after a Home Assistant glitch, and Alex puts a big batch of USB hard drives to the test Plus a great pick for you pack rats, feedback, and more.

We speak to Kevin and Patricia from Traefik, discuss Alex's recent ZFS snafu and we wonder if the new Chromecasts can match up to the Nvidia Shield.

We get fancy with Traefik labels, and gush over some new Home Assistant features while saving our data from inevitable future failure.

Some big news for Jupiter Broadcasting and a picture perfect app-pick with Lychee. Chris politely suggests Alex reconsider his Syncthing doubts. Plus some power monitoring updates, and more from the community.

Mike and Wes join us to discuss the recent Docker news, freeing your Robovac from the cloud, and why Alex really loves Terraform. Special Guests: Michael Dominick and Wes Payne.

Jonathan Panozzo, aka Johnp join us to talk all things Unraid. He hints at future subscription plans, details performance features coming soon, shares the story of how Docker came to Unraid, and much more. Special Guest: Jonathan Panozzo.

Chris figures out how hot is too hot, Alex performs an extreme remote firewall install, and we share some of our favorite SSH tricks.

We've spent thousands of dollars and over a decade refining the perfect home media setup. We get nostalgic and share what worked and what REALLY didn't.

Chris is slow cooking some servers, Alex has self-hosted AI with a nasty gotcha and a damp basement.

Serverbuilds.net’s founder JDM joins us to discuss the perfect sever for low or high-end needs, and Alex stages a Pi intervention. Special Guest: JDM_WAAAT.

You're not a true self-hoster until you've lost your entire configuration at least once. Alex does a deep dive into cloud backup, plus we need your help to find the right Wifi solution for a listener.

We react to recently proposed Home Assistant changes, Alex attempts an extreme remote install, and we take a look at HomelabOS. Plus why Chris continues to collect Raspberry Pi's at an alarming rate.

We were almost outsmarted by a not so smart doorbell, Jellyfin makes Alex's prediction dreams come true and Chris tries QOwnNotes again. Links HeaterMeter, the open-source barbecue controller - Raspberry Pi (https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/heatermeter-open-source-barbecue-controller/) 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, Includes 3 Face Plates : Camera & Photo (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07XZMQZXW/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1) Plexamp - Love your music! (https://plexamp.com/) linuxserver/beets | fleet (https://fleet.linuxserver.io/image?name=linuxserver/beets) linuxserver/musicbrainz | fleet (https://fleet.linuxserver.io/image?name=linuxserver/musicbrainz) Clients | Documentation - Jellyfin Project (https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/index.html) QOwnNotes - cross-platform open source plain-text file notepad (https://www.qownnotes.org/) Special Guest: Morgan Peterman.

Knowing which hardware to buy or which apps to run on that shiny new hardware can be hard. Chris and Alex discuss networking gear and where to find some of the best getting started documentation on the net. Plex have been busy and launched two new apps, we cover that and more in this episode of Self-Hosted.

We share some WiFi tips and essential network ideas. And discuss one of our most significant compromises in the show so far.

We have a neat self-hosted home inventory management system for preppers of any type, plus Chris' simple Home Assistant trick and Alex's valiant battle with the WebSockets daemon of the reverse proxies. Also - we answer listener questions, and share updates.

Wendell Wilson is back, and he and Chris are struggling with their automation setups. Also, we chat about ideal home server hardware for a server or a pfSense box. Plus Wendell's home-rolled presence detection rig, some 3D printing chat, and more. Special Guest: Wendell Wilson.

Self-Hosted IRC solutions are better than ever. Alan Pope joins us to make a case for the classic way to communicate online and tells us about a modern client for the web, mobile, and desktop you run on your server. Plus, follow up on the new Self-Hosted wiki, and more. Special Guest: Alan Pope.

We try out the top self-hosted Wikis and tell you which we like best, and Chris has a major project off-grid update. Plus Alex tells us about his robot vacuum that runs Ubuntu.

We each like different blogging platforms, and share why. Then our tips for keeping your server secure. Plus a great way to score cheap drives, a Project Off-Grid update, making your household light switches smart, and Alex's review of the HDHomeRun.

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.

Master of details, open source advocate and YouTuber, Quindor from Intermittent.Tech (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv7UOhZ2XuPwm9SN5oJsCjA) joins us for a chat about tuya-convert (https://github.com/ct-Open-Source/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.

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 (https://youtu.be/aQyigSkcjMQ).

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

We visit Wendell Wilson of Level1Techs (https://level1techs.com/) 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.

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.