Ask Noah Show 349

This week Home Assistant accidentally takes over Noah's house, and Micah Pendleton returns to dig into specifics about professional video production on Linux.

-- During The Show --

00:58 Steve's Luddite Week

• Amazon return with no phone
• Society is going to requiring phones

05:00 VLANs - Norm

• Steve's VLANs
• VLANs
  • 10 Admin
  • 20 Guest
  • 30 Production/Servers
  • 40 Critical
• VPN back in
• Write back in!

07:00 Gary from Grand Forks

• Home Assistant news broadcast plugin
• Firefox video popout

12:00 X1 Carbon Issues - JJ4884

• Set "Linux option" in UEFI
• Noah's is 6th Gen X1 Carbon

14:00 News Wire

• Asahi Linux's Flagshiop Distro - ARS Technica

• Rhino Linux 1.0 - Rhino Linux

• Zorin OS 16.3 - ZDnet

• Nitrix 2.9.1 - nxos.org

• CBL-Mariner 2.0 - Phoronix

• Vulkan Driver Merged - Gaming On Linux

• CORE-V MCU DevKit - CNX Software

• Reptile Root Kit - The Hacker News

• IBM & NASA AI Model - News Room IBM

15:28 Noah's HASSIO Adventure

• Automate around something
  • Security
  • Lights
  • Home Controller (Home Assistant)
• X10 horrible experience
• Lutron RadioRA System
  • behind training course
  • learned other things during the course
• Home Assistant accidentally promoted to production
• Upgrading HASSIO extremely smooth
• Rebuilt light scenes in Home Assistant
• What is the best "dimmer"?
• What is the best way to run Home Assistant?
  • In a VM
• In wall screens?
  • No mics or camera's
  • 5" Low res touch screen
  • Pi's, Nucs, POE Hat?
• Best LED Controller
  • Shelly?
  • Depends on the desired protocol
• Tasmota vs ESPHome?
• ESP32 vs ESP8266 vs others like RP2040?

30:15 Special Guest Micah Pendleton

• How would you build Caution Glass Studio differently?
• What Distro did you standardize on?
  • Kubuntu
  • PopOS
• How would you capture live video?
  • ATEM Mini
  • DeckLink
  • STI and HDMI capture
  • HDMI outdoors is a nightmare
  • Not all STI camera's are the same
  • HDMI to STI converter
• Inkscape replaces Adobe Illustrator
• Best Camera under $500
  • Go used
  • Sony A6400
  • No reason to upgrade today
• Best Camera under $1000
  • Still consider used
  • Black Magic Pocket 4K
  • Shoots Braw (Black Magic Raw)
  • Great lens mount
• Best Camera under $10,000
  • Black Magic URSA Mini Pro 4.6K G2
  • Original Ursa Mini doesn't support BRAW
• What doesn't work well under Linux
  • Awareness is the problem
  • DaVinci Resolve issues
  • Plugins
• What specs do you look for?
  • Asus TUF Book
  • Dedicated GPU

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