222: Coming Home to Self‑Hosted Fun | Linux Out Loud 124

About this episode

Matt returns to discuss self-hosting, home automation upgrades, and gaming solutions with Wendy and Nate.

Matt is back in the driver’s seat, and it feels like coming home to a homelab with a few extra blinking lights. In this episode of Linux Out Loud, he, Wendy, and Nate catch up on VDO.Ninja recording experiments, robotics‑world travel plans, and why old Surface hardware is happier running openSUSE than “almost‑retired” Windows. Nate walks through upgrading Home Assistant from an overworked Raspberry Pi 3 to a Lenovo ThinkCentre with over 115 devices, plus his plans for fully local smart‑home control and a Star Trek‑style “red alert” scene. Matt dives into CasaOS for easy containerized media hosting, GameVault as a self‑hosted Steam‑like library for GOG and DRM‑free games, and Pegasus Frontend for building your own living‑room console UI—then talks about reviving Game Sphere with a focus on digital ownership and realistic budget gaming. Show Links: VDO.Ninja – browser‑based P2P video rooms – https://vdo.ninja/ FIRST Tech Challenge World Championship venue – George R. Brown Convention Center – https://www.grbhouston.com/ openSUSE Tumbleweed – rolling release Linux – https://get.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/ Home Assistant – open‑source home automation – https://www.home-assistant.io/…

People in this episode

Hosts: Matt, Wendy, Nate

Topics covered

• self-hosting
• home automation
• open-source software
• technology upgrades
• gaming
• digital ownership

Keywords

• self-hosted
• openSUSE
• Home Assistant
• GameVault
• CasaOS
• smart home
• VDO.Ninja
• Raspberry Pi

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: VDO.Ninja, openSUSE, Home Assistant, HACS, Tasmota, Framework

Products: CasaOS, GameVault, Pegasus Frontend, Game Sphere, Raspberry Pi 3, Lenovo ThinkCentre, Star Trek

Places: George R. Brown Convention Center

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