LUP 637: Chris' Smart Home Disaster¶
- Air Date: 2025-10-19
- Duration: 58 mins 25 secs
About this episode¶
The biggest failure in seven years, right before a trip. What broke, how Chris pulled it back together, and how Wes would fix it right.
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Episode links¶
- 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
- 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
- Home Assistant Community Add-on: SSH & Web Terminal
- HomeAssistent Yellow: EmberZNet Zigbee: failed to flash firmware · Issue #146293
- HA Yellow/Zigbee Issue - Home Assistant Community
- Home Assistant Yellow Radio firmware - Home Assistant Community
- Home Assistant on X: "⚠️ WE'RE ENDING PRODUCTION OF THE HOME ASSISTANT YELLOW ⚠️
- READ: CrowdHealth - HedgeDoc
- Lenovo ThinkCentre M720q 10T7 Tiny Desktop
- Dell OptiPlex 3070 Desktop Computer
- Beelink Mini S13 Pro Mini PC,13 Generation Intel N150
- Minisforum MS-01 Work Station
- Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2
- Home Assistant - NixOS Wiki
- home-assistant/component-packages.nix at nixos-25.05
- READ: Unraid - HedgeDoc
- Pick: Hexecute 🪄 — Launch apps by casting spells!
- Pick: Lenspect
- Lenspect on Flathub — A lightweight security threat scanner intended to make malware detection more accessible and efficient.
Tags¶
device conflict, firmware update, future planning, hardware debugging, home assistant, home automation, integration risks, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, linux unplugged, low power, open source, protocol migration, serial conflict, smart home, software recovery, storage limits, system failure, x86 build, yellow radio adapter, zigbee issue, zwave adoption