Stop Sending Your Door & Window Data to Big Tech — The Case for a Local 433MHz Gateway
🎧 Listen to the 60-Second Audio Recap: The Privacy Problem — What Happens Every Time Your Front Door Opens his guide covers the complete RFX-433EMC Home Assistant MQTT setup with Auto Discovery. Every time a door sensor fires a 433MHz...
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Homarr Dashboard: A Front Door for Your Docker Containers
🎧 Listen to the 60-Second Audio Recap: The Problem Every Homelab Owner Recognizes This guide covers the complete Homarr dashboard Docker Portainer setup. It starts innocently enough. You install Home Assistant. Then Jellyfin. Then Nextcloud, Portainer, Paperless-ngx, and a handful...
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Pair Your First Zigbee Sensor with Home Assistant ZHA — Keep Your Bathroom Data Off Foreign Servers
🎧 Listen to the 60-Second Audio Recap: What’s Actually Happening With Your Sensor Data Right Now This guide covers how to pair Zigbee sensor Home Assistant ZHA without a vendor hub. A Zigbee humidity sensor costs about $8. The hub...
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USB Passthrough in Proxmox: Z-Wave & Zigbee Antennes Koppelen aan Home Assistant
This guide covers USB passthrough Proxmox Home Assistant for dual-chip Z-Wave and Zigbee dongles in your HAOS VM, then configuring both ZHA and Z-Wave JS as active, fully local integrations. This guide assumes you already have a running HAOS VM...
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Install Home Assistant OS HAOS Proxmox VM Guide
🎧 Listen to the 60-Second Audio Recap: This guide covers how to install Home Assistant OS HAOS Proxmox VM using the community helper script. Every time you ask Google Home to dim your lights, that command travels to a server...
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Homepage Dashboard Proxmox LXC: API Setup Guide
🎧 Listen to the 60-Second Audio Recap: What Is Homepage Dashboard and Why Does It Belong on Your Homelab? This guide covers the complete Homepage dashboard Proxmox LXC setup. Homepage is a self-hosted, YAML-configured start page that pulls live data...
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18TB Proxmox Backup: ZFS Pool, SMB Share & Rsync LXC
🎧 Listen to the 60-Second Audio Recap: This guide covers building a Proxmox backup ZFS pool with automated rsync and SMB. Google One charges roughly €10 per month for 2TB. Dropbox charges more. Over three years, that is €360 or...
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Network Boot Server — Install Netboot.xyz via Docker (And Ditch Rufus Forever)
🎧 Listen to the 60-Second Audio Recap: What Is Netboot.xyz and Why Should You Care? This guide covers the complete Netboot.xyz Docker on Proxmox setup. Netboot.xyz is a PXE boot server that serves operating system installers over your local network...
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Ditch Amazon Kindle & ComiXology — Self-Host Your Entire Library with Kavita on Proxmox
🎧 Listen to the 60-Second Audio Recap: The Privacy Problem — What Big Tech Tracks When You Read This guide covers a complete Kavita on Proxmox deployment via Docker. Every time you turn a page on a Kindle, Amazon logs...
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Your Own Local Spotify: Install Navidrome via Docker on Proxmox
🎧 Listen to the 60-Second Audio Recap: Why Pay Monthly for Music You Don’t Own? This guide covers a complete Navidrome Docker Proxmox deployment. Every month you pay Spotify or Apple Music, you are renting access to a catalog you...
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