Show Notes
Chris reviews the Aqara G4 Video Doorbell, Brent frees his Garmin from the cloud, and we discuss getting iMessages on Android. Special Guest: Brent Gervais. Sponsored By: Grist: Grist - the open-source alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets.
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Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.
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🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.
Aqara G4 Smart Wireless Video Doorbell — Always around, even when you're not.
go2rtc: Ultimate camera streaming application with support RTSP, RTMP, HTTP-FLV, WebRTC, MSE, HLS, MP4, MJPEG, HomeKit, FFmpeg, etc. — You can use HomeKit Cameras without Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, etc.), it's just a yet another protocol
Gadgetbridge — Gadgetbridge is a free and open source Android application that allows you to pair and manage various gadgets such as smart watches, bands, headphones, and more without the need for the vendor application. So in short, you can use Gadgetbridge instead of relying on your gadget's own proprietary app.
Garmin Protocol
home-assistant-garmin_connect — The Garmin Connect integration allows you to expose data from Garmin Connect to Home Assistant.
iMessage on PC and Android - BlueBubbles — Bringing iMessage to Windows, Linux, and Android.
Install BlueBubbles on Linux
Estate planning lawyer here — please don't use a safe deposit — Courts require the original will, and if that's in a safe deposit box that the executor doesn't have access to, then the executor is in a tough spot.
Emergency Access | Bitwarden Help Center — Emergency access allows users to designate and manage trusted emergency contacts, who can request access to their vault in cases of emergency.
End-of-life disaster response — If you are reading this, I, like Tommy, have disappeared to Froopyland and I miss you already. There's a lot here, but the first order of business is telling people.
Nix Nextcloud
keymaster — Home Assistant keymaster integration for Z-Wave enabled locks.
Minisforum UM690 Pro — MD Ryzen™ 9 6900HX features 8 Cores and 16 Threads based on the highly-reputed Zen 3+ Architecture.
No Boilerplate - YouTube
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Linux Workstations - YouTube — We live in an incredible age, computers have never been so fast, nor storage so cheap, but it doesn't feel like it, right? It's not you, computing has been getting worse. And the problem is LAPTOPS.
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