What if you could control your lights, music, and other Home Assistant things from a panel on your wall? Do you run tech at your church and need the ability to deliver controls in a way, in a location, and with a budget that's approachable for everyone? This week, Thomas Kvamme from Orbit Panels joins Noah and Steve to discuss his new in wall PoE control panels based on the Raspberry Pi, Streamdeck, and Bitfocus Companion!
-- During The Show --
00:50 Intro
- Nice weather
- Little projects
01:45 Orbit Panels
- Thomas Kvamme - Owner and founder
- Why are you in ministry?
- Life before the stream deck
- StreamDeck
- Bitfocus Companion
- List of Bitfocus Companion Integrations
- Bitfocus Companion Satellite
- Proprietary alternatives
- Origin of Orbit Panels
- Orbit Panels
- Drop in replacement
- Design of the Orbit Panel
- Building an Orbit Panel
- How people use the Orbit Panels
- Home Assistant Integration
- Feedback on the panel
- Whats next?
- Available for sale!
- Use promo code LAUNCH for 10% off
45:00 News Wire
- Firefox 129 - mozilla.org
- Wine 9.15 - gitlab.winehq.org
- KDE Frameworks 6.5.0 - kde.org
- Gnome 46.4 - discourse.gnome.org
- PopOS! 24.04 - omgubuntu.co.uk
- OpenZFS 2.2.5 - github.com
- ZLUDA Take Down - wccftech.com
- DHS & White House $11M Partnership - therecord.media
- TUXEDO Infinity Flex 14 - tuxedocomputers.com
- CA AI Bill - reason.com
- Kernel Patch Boots Linux Faster - tomshardware.com
46:32 SimpleHelp - Brandon
- Tailscale/Headscale
- WireGuard
- RDP + VPN
- Simple Help instant support
- Proprietary is a place holder
- Mesh Central
49:09 Linphone SMS & VPN Question - Kris
- Google requirement is to support RCS
- Steve holding on 2.22.31
- JMP.chat
- Matrix and SMS
- Route back to home
- OpenVPN
- TailScale
- WireGuard
- SurfShark
- Private Internet Access
- Host your own VPN on a VPS
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