Ask Noah Show 356

This week Noah and Steve dig into motion detectors for Home Assistant, some exciting new features for Matrix 2.0 that have landed, and of course your questions!

-- During The Show --

Enjoying Tech

• Personal bleeding over to professional


• Communication Skills

04:36 Cloning SSDs - Kris

• Why did snapshots not work?


• Immutable OS


• Automate environment rebuild


• Ansible


• Snowflakes


• Work out of VMs


• Clonezilla

16:19 Can you save Ring locally? - HJ

• Ring warrant-less access


• Do Not Buy Ring


• Axis A8105


• Amcrest Doorbell (Amazon)

21:00 Plug for Gathering - Steve

• Netreo Nugget

22:40 Penguin Prince

• Open Source "V Tubing" software


• Vpuppr

26:42 Old Sticky Tablet - Twobit

• 70% or higher Isopropol Aclchol

28:40 News Wire

• Gnome 45 - Gnome




• Nano Pro Gen 12 - Tuxedo Computers




• Fedora 39 Beta - Beta News




• Cairo 1.18 - Gitlab FreeDesktop.org




• LTS Linux Support - ZDnet




• OpenTofu - SDX Central




• Red Hat & Oracel Announcement - Wral Tech Wire




• Red Hat & Intel Collaboration - Business Wire




• CentOS Integration SIG - CentOS




• Gitness - Tech Crunch




• NVIDIA InfiniBand Driver - Phoronix




• BlindChat - Mark Tech Post




• MAmmoth LLMs - Mark Tech Post




• 40th Anniversary of GNU - FSF.org

31:36 Radar vs Photon Detection

• Home Assistant first


• Three Classes of devices
  
  
  • Science Project
  
  
  • Higher end, designed for Home Assistant
  
  
  • Kinda cloudy, able to to work Home Assistant
  
  


• Inovelli Red


• Temperature change vs microwaves


• PIR vs Microwave Sensors


• Aqara Presence Sensor
  
  
  • Mapping the room
  
  
  • Tracking multiple occupants
  
  
  • 20 lbs dog vs 200 lbs human
  
  
  • Ghost mode
  
  
  • Requires app to setup
  
  


• Cost


• Placement


• Sonoff PIR


• Powering sensors

45:48 Element 2.0

• Element X


• Sliding sync


• Syncing room list


• MSC3401


• Live Kit


• MSC3861


• Open ID Connect


• Correct response to criticism


• Eating their own dog food


• EU inter-operable chat mandate


• Minimal Matrix/Linearized Matrix


• Compete Youtube Stream


• Matrix Blog Post

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