It's not a million dollars, but these are all the Sats I have. I'm currently thinking automating the lighting around my flat, and I'm unable to pick between smart lights or smart switches, what are pros and cons of each one? Thanks Alex, Chris, and Brent for the show!

There’s another option called moode that runs on a pi and says it can do multiroom audio. It’s free and you can get hifi berry amp and put speakers in each room and it’s all controlled by a web interface that’s mobile friendly. I hear it’s better than Volumio. could be the complete solution and worth checking out. https://moodeaudio.org

I've recently gotten into Docker, after refusing to let go of my VM obsession. Any tips on best use case scenarios, or cool projects I can run at my house on my home Ubuntu server? Right now I just have Next cloud, Plex, and a few other odds and ends.

For my last road trip I built a portable Jellyfin server out of an Asus PN41 with a Celeron N5100 in it, 8GB of RAM, an NVME drive for OS, 1TB SSD for storage, and a 26Ah battery pack. I didn't have to transcode at all though since tablets/phones have the capability to transcode client side if you set the Jellyfin client to use an external player like VLC. All this to say that yes a Celeron based mini-PC is a great option for a tiny media server with plenty of extra headroom for things like HA.

Hey guys just listening in on the IPMI conversation & wanted to share-- a lot of branded mini PCs (HP elite mini, Lenovo ThinkCentre Tiny, Dell OptiPlex Micro) already have a simple Intel Active Management IPMI feature built in. AMD chips may have an option too. I'm working on a bigger $99 used unit - HP EliteDesk 800 G3 for a home NAS and the built in AMT (IPMI) is pretty awesome. I can boot from local or remote ISO config BIOS etc. from anywhere that I can hit my Tailscale subnet router.

thanks Alex for sharing your secret sauce :). be safe guys!

the home assistant yellow is the second crowd funded thing? the Atari and this? didn’t you get some fancy arduino keyboard?

Running the stack "bare metal" on proxmox is weird. I use a dedicated Ubuntu LXC for my docker containers. Getting the QuickSync in there is a breeze. Either use a priviliged container or siply edit the conig in /etc/pve/lxc/VMID.conf The best part of seperating it like this s, that you can snapshot backup and migrate your configuration easyly. Using ansible to setup / update the containers I can recovver from a crash in less than 1hr... (tried once while migrating to the new lenovo tiny).

I can highly recommend a tiny PC as a RaspberryPi alternative. I am rocking a Lenovo Tiny with a Intel i5 6500 CPU 1TB SSD / 2TBHDD in the case + external Mybook. The whole setup (without mybook) cost on ebay less than 300€. It runns Proxmox and replaced 4 Pis so far. The best part is the PC uses only 8 Watt idle and rarely jupes above 15W eaven while transcoding (QuickSynk on Jellyfin rocks). The maximum I ever have seen is 60W but only for a couple seconds while photoprism scans new images...

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Comment on the ZigBee USB stick. I've had the opposite experience with the conbee being really bad and the Sonoff being great. the firmware used makes s huge difference and the current ones are rock Solid. 🪨 Thanks for the show!

I’ve know about eternity by jc9108 for awhile for archiving Reddit and it seems like expanse is a more refined thing by the same author? GitHub.com/jc109/eternity I think I’ll play with this too, wonder what a decade of history will do in terms of storage