Episode 403
Ask Noah Show 403 | Orbit Panels with Thomas Kvamme
August 13th, 2024
57 mins 52 secs
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What if you could control your lights, music, and other Home Assistant things from a panel on your wall? Do you run tech at your church and need the ability to deliver controls in a way, in a location, and with a budget that's approachable for everyone? This week, Thomas Kvamme from Orbit Panels joins Noah and Steve to discuss his new in wall PoE control panels based on the Raspberry Pi, Streamdeck, and Bitfocus Companion!
-- During The Show --
00:50 Intro
- Nice weather
- Little projects
01:45 Orbit Panels
- Thomas Kvamme - Owner and founder
- Why are you in ministry?
- Life before the stream deck
- StreamDeck
- Bitfocus Companion
- List of Bitfocus Companion Integrations
- Bitfocus Companion Satellite
- Proprietary alternatives
- Origin of Orbit Panels
- Orbit Panels
- Drop in replacement
- Design of the Orbit Panel
- Building an Orbit Panel
- How people use the Orbit Panels
- Home Assistant Integration
- Feedback on the panel
- Whats next?
- Available for sale!
- Use promo code LAUNCH for 10% off
45:00 News Wire
Firefox 129 - mozilla.org
Wine 9.15 - gitlab.winehq.org
KDE Frameworks 6.5.0 - kde.org
Gnome 46.4 - discourse.gnome.org
PopOS! 24.04 - omgubuntu.co.uk
OpenZFS 2.2.5 - github.com
ZLUDA Take Down - wccftech.com
DHS & White House $11M Partnership - therecord.media
TUXEDO Infinity Flex 14 - tuxedocomputers.com
CA AI Bill - reason.com
Kernel Patch Boots Linux Faster - tomshardware.com
46:32 SimpleHelp - Brandon
- Tailscale/Headscale
- WireGuard
- RDP + VPN
- Simple Help instant support
- Proprietary is a place holder
- Mesh Central
49:09 Linphone SMS & VPN Question - Kris
- Google requirement is to support RCS
- Steve holding on 2.22.31
- JMP.chat
- Matrix and SMS
- Route back to home
- OpenVPN
- TailScale
- WireGuard
- SurfShark
- Private Internet Access
- Host your own VPN on a VPS
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