Meetings and calendar

Agenda

1. 6.30 pm - Welcome
2. 6.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
3. 6.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
4. 6.45 pm - Authentik - @iTemmy
5. 7.15 pm -
6. 7.45 pm - Recent (Discourse) Threads
7. 8.15 pm - Next meeting - 17 September
8. 8.30 pm - Close

Agenda

1. 7.30 pm - Welcome
2. 7.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
3. 7.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
4. 7.45 pm - Monitoring Weather & AIS Marine Traffic with @GregY
5. 8.15 pm -
6. 8.45 pm - Recent (Discourse) Threads
7. 9.00 pm - Next meeting - 20 October 2026
8. 8.15 pm - Close

Agenda

1. 7.30 pm - Welcome
2. 7.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
3. 7.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
   1. ?HLB attendance at Everything Open 2007
   2. Carindale and Chermside are inviting Expressions of Interest for 2027 Meetings
4. 7.45 pm - Homelab Skills - Cat 6 Crimping and Punching down - @Bryan
5. 8.15 pm - Giving my Homelab a Brain - @matthew919
6. 8.45 pm - Recent (Discourse) Threads
   1. Infrared cameras
   2. Vibe coding your shopping and finances
   3. Presenter Privacy & Consent Process
7. 8.55 pm - Next meeting - online on 8 October 2026
8. 9.00 pm - Close

Agenda

1. 7.30 pm - Welcome
2. 7.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
3. 7.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
4. 7.45 pm - Boat Monitoring & automation with Signalk/RP - @GregY
5. 8.15 pm -A voice driven blog - @techman
6. 8.45 pm - Recent (Discourse) Threads
7. 9.15 pm - Next meeting - 17 September
8. 9.30 pm - Close

Agenda

1. 6.30 pm - Welcome
2. 6.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
3. 6.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
   1. Website discussion / future topics
4. 6.45 pm - Presentations as above - Repair Cafe
5. 7.15 pm - Repair Cafe - Arjen Lentz
6. 8.15 pm - Next meeting - online on 3 September 2026
7. 8.30 pm - Close

Agenda

1. 7.30 pm - Welcome
2. 7.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
3. 7.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
4. 7.45 pm - Local fuel price monitoring - @Belfry
5. 8.15 pm - Troubleshooting your online apps - @jdownie
6. 8.45 pm - Recent (Discourse) Threads
7. 9.15 pm - Next meeting - 20 August, Everton Park Library - Repair Cafe with Arjen Lentz
8. 9.30 pm - Close

Agenda

1. 6.30 pm - Welcome
2. 6.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
3. 6.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
4. 6.45 pm - Bitcoin at Home - with Baz from Brisbane BitDevs
5. 7.45 pm - Next meeting - online on 3 August 2026
6. 8.00 pm - Close

Agenda

1. 7.30 pm - Welcome
2. 7.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
3. 7.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
4. 7.45 pm - On board at HLB - Xerxes Pi, Raspberry Pi, Lattepanda and Jetson Nano - @XerxesPi
5. 8.15 pm - PRAG - Podcast Retrieval-Augmented Generation - @techman
6. 8.45 pm - Recent (Discourse) Threads
   1. What's HLB all about
7. 9.15 pm - Next meeting - Carindale 23 July
   1. Bitcoin@Home with Baz from Brisbane BitDevs
8. 9.30 pm - Close

Agenda

1. 6.30 pm - Welcome
2. 6.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
3. 6.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
   1. Website discussion / future topics
4. 6.45 pm - Agentic coding with opencode
5. 7.15 pm - Home Assistant - Show and Tell
6. 8.15 pm - Next meeting - online on 9 July 2026
7. 8.30 pm - Close

Minutes

1. 7.30 pm - Welcome
2. 7.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
3. 7.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
   1. Website discussion / future topics
4. 7.45 pm - Presentations as above - Remote Obsidian / OpenRouter HowTo
5. 8.45 pm - Recent (Discourse) Threads
   1. Obsidian Web Interface with Coding Agent
   2. Podcasting as Documentation
6. 9.15 pm - Next meeting - online on 25 June 2026
7. 9.30 pm - Close

Agenda

1. 7.30 pm - Welcome
2. 7.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
3. 7.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
   1. Website discussion / future topics
4. 7.45 pm - Repair Cafe with Arjen Lentz
5. 8.15 pm - Presentations
6. 8.45 pm - Recent (Discourse) Thread
   1. Proposed
7. 8.55 pm - Next meeting - online on 3 September 2026
8. 9.00 pm - Close

Agenda

1. 7.30 pm - Welcome
2. 7.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
3. 7.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
   • Future Meeting Dates (rough date planning)
4. 7.45 pm - Presentation 1
5. 8.15 pm - Presentation 2
6. 8.45 pm - Recent Discourse Threads
   1. Proposed
      1. Pending
7. 9.30 pm - Close

Agenda

1. 6.30 pm - Welcome
2. 6.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
3. 6.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
4. 6.45 pm - Presentation 1
5. 7.15 pm - Presentation 2
6. 7.45 pm - Recent (Discourse) Threads
   1. Proposed
      1. Pending
7. 8.15 pm - Next meeting - online on 7 May 2026
8. 8.30 pm - Close

Agenda

1. 7.30 pm - Welcome
2. 7.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
3. 7.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
   • Future Meeting Dates (rough date planning)
4. 7.45 pm - Presentation 1
5. 8.15 pm - Presentation 2
6. 8.45 pm - Recent Discourse Threads
   1. Proposed
      1. Cool Remote Control
      2. Sway with StreamDeck
      3. Forgejo - the open source purists CVS
7. 9.30 pm - Close

Agenda

1. 6.30 pm - Welcome
2. 6.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
3. 6.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
4. 6.45 pm - Presentation 1
5. 7.15 pm - Presentation 2
6. 7.45 pm - Recent (Discourse) Threads
   1. Proposed
      1. Linux Remote Desktop
      2. Solar, solar, solar
      3. Paperless-ngx
      4. Note taking apps
      5. Low cost VPS - BinaryLane vs OVH
7. 8.15 pm - Next meeting - online on 9 April 2026
8. 8.30 pm - Close

Agenda

1. 7.30 pm - Welcome
2. 7.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
3. 7.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
   • Future Meeting Dates (rough date planning)
4. 7.45 pm - Presentation 1
5. 8.15 pm - Presentation 2
6. 8.45 pm - Recent Discourse Threads
   1. Proposed
      1. Audio Bookshelf
      2. Anti-gravity
7. 9.30 pm - Close

Minutes

1. 6.30 pm - Welcome
2. 6.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
3. 6.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
4. 6.45 pm - Presentation 1 - Sway customisation - @jdownie (held over from last meeting)
5. 7.15 pm - Recent (Discourse) Threads
   1. Proposed
      1. Antigravity & Claude Opus 4.6
      2. OpenRouter - the unified interface for LLMs
      3. Recycling, e-waste, repair, etc. resources and discussion
      4. GitLab or GitHub Actions
      5. HLB in the age of Online Safety Age‑Restricted Social Media Platforms Rules 2025
      6. More home assistant goodies
      7. Proxmox backup server
6. 8.15 pm - Next meeting - online on 10 March 2026
7. 8.30 pm - Close

Agenda

1. 7.30 pm - Welcome
2. 7.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
3. 7.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
   • Future Meeting Dates (rough date planning)
4. 7.45 pm - Presentation 1
5. 8.15 pm - Presentation 2
6. 8.45 pm - Recent Discourse Threads
   1. Proposed
      1. Fabric
      2. Anti-gravity
      3. Home Assistant Toys
      4. Home Assistant controlling Amber solar
      5. GitOps
7. 9.30 pm - Close

Minutes

1. 6.30 pm - Welcome
2. 6.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
3. 6.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
4. 6.45 pm - Presentation 1 - Git best practices - @AB
5. 7.15 pm - Presentation 2 - Customising the home page menu - @jdownie
6. 7.45 pm - Recent (Discourse) Threads
   1. Proposed
      1. Solar solutions with Home Assistant
      2. Organsing files with Claude
      3. Configuring sway
      4. ipv6 @ home
7. 8.15 pm - Next meeting - online on 10 February 2026
8. 8.30 pm - Close

Agenda

1. 7.30 pm - Welcome
2. 7.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
3. 7.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
4. 7.45 pm - Presentation 1
5. 8.15 pm - Presentation 2
6. 8.45 pm - Recent Discourse Threads
   1. Proposed
      1. HA Goodies
      2. The solar home
      3. OCI containers in Proxmox
      4. Container of the month - phpipam
7. 9.30 pm - Close

Agenda

1. 7.30 pm - Welcome
2. 7.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
3. 7.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
4. 7.45 pm - Presentation 1
5. 8.15 pm - NixOS v freeBSD v15 on Starlink Standby
6. 8.45 pm - Recent Discourse Threads
   1. Proposed
      1. Going Solar in Brisbane in 2026
      2. UPS in the homelab
7. 9.30 pm - Close

Agenda

1. 6.30 pm - Welcome
2. 6.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
3. 6.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
4. 6.45 pm - Presentation 1
5. 7.15 pm - Presentation 2
6. 7.45 pm - Recent (Discourse) Threads
   1. Proposed
      1. Managed switches
      2. Auto Wireless Adapters
      3. LLMs / MCPs
      4. Ntfy
7. 8.15 pm - Next meeting - online on 9 December.
8. 8.30 pm - Close

Agenda

1. 7.30 pm - Welcome
2. 7.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
3. 7.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
4. 7.45 pm - Presentation 1
5. 8.15 pm - Recent Discourse Threads
   1. Proposed
      1. Proxmox GUI monitors
      2. vLANs and Proxmox
      3. RSS readers - FreshRSS
      4. Note taking apps - Blinko
6. 9.30 pm - Close

Agenda

1. 6.30 pm - Welcome
2. 6.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
3. 6.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
4. 6.45 pm - Presentation 1
5. 7.15 pm - Presentation 2
6. 7.45 pm - Loose (Discourse) Threads
   1. Proposed
      1. DNS - "It's always DNS."
      2. Asahi Linux
      3. Blinko - container of the month
7. 8.15 pm - Next meeting - 11 November
8. 8.30 pm - Close

Minutes

1. 7.00 pm - Welcome
2. 7.05 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
3. 7.10 pm - Administrivia (if any)
   1. Future invited speakers
      1. Dirk to reach out to Shreyans Jain
      2. James to reach out to another speaker
   2. HLB future projects
   3. Online promotion
4. 7:25 pm - Presentation 1 - Grist- @matthew919
5. 7.15 pm - Presentation 2 - DNS part2 - @Belfry
   1. Proposed
      1. Getting started with Docker @jdownie
      2. Routers - openWRT vs OPNsense
      3. Note apps - Evernote to Obsidian migration.
6. Next meeting - Close

Minutes

1. 6.30 pm - Welcome
2. 6.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
3. 6.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
   1. HLB promotion - @jdownie / @zeeclor
4. 6.45 pm - Presentation 1 - The CLI - @jdownie
   1. Some handy tools were offered by @Kangie and AB
      1. black
      2. pre-commit
      3. ripgrep
      4. ruff
5. 7.15 pm - Presentation 2 - Homelab DNS - AdGuard Home / Pi-Hole / Technetium / NextDNS / Bind9 - @Belfry
6. 7.45 pm - Loose (Discourse) Threads
   1. Proposed
      1. OpenWRT / OPNSense / ?pfSense
      2. PXE booting
      3. Software of the month - DNS resolving reverse proxies - caddy and traefik
7. 8.15 pm - Next meeting
8. 8.30 pm - Close

Minutes

1. 7.30 pm - Welcome
2. 7.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
3. 7.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
4. 7.45 pm - Presentation 1 - WSL @kangie
5. 8.15 pm - Presentation 2 - NixOS - The Curly Bits - @techman
6. 8.45 pm - Loose (Discourse) Threads
   1. Proposed
      1. Docker app of the month - IT Tools / Tandoor
      2. Distro of the month - The immutables - Vanilla OS / Silverblue
      3. Sharing is caring - Finding what and who on HLB
7. Next meeting - Close

Minutes

1. 6.30 pm - Welcome We welcomed and introduced some new faces and heard briefly about their somelabl experiences.
2. 6.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
3. 7.05 pm - Administrivia JD is closing in on completing the HLB logo.
4. 7.10 pm - Presentation 1 - Homelab Certificate Management - @Belfry
5. 8.00 pm - Presentation 2 - n8n - @shirbo
6. 8.45 pm - Next meeting
7. 9.00 pm - Close

Agenda

1. 7.30 pm - Welcome
2. 7.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
3. 7.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
   1. HLB Logo
4. 7.45 pm - Presentation 1
5. 8.15 pm - Presentation 2
6. 8.45 pm - Loose (Discourse) Threads
   1. Proposed
      1. OpenPGP
      2. n8n
      3. NotebookLM and gist.ai
      4. Docker mail servers
7. Next meeting - Close

Minutes

1. 6:30 pm - Meshtastic Workshop
2. 7.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
3. 8.20 pm - Loose (Discourse) Threads - Proposed topics
   1. Fossil - We've started playing with it. We talked about how we could use a repo to share NixOS configs (for example). Fossil and Git are still both candidates.
   2. PGP - Our key signing party will have to wait for another catch up.
   3. Cryptpad - There is an instance up and running that David and Dirk are playing with. JD raised the importance of backup,, because traditional repository is not an option.
   4. Logos: JD is still mucking around with image ideas. Matt suggested letters ("HLB") instead of images.
4. Next meeting - Close
   1. next meetings at Carindale Library

Minutes

1. 7.30 pm - Welcome
2. 7.35 pm - Agreement on Agenda Items
3. 7.40 pm - Administrivia (if any)
   1. OK with default Privacy Policy and Terms of Service
   2. Logos: JD to use images supplied to attempt producing something in Gimp
4. 7.45 pm - Presentation 1 - James: Git
5. 8.15 pm - Presentation 2 - Terry: Fossil
6. 8.45 pm - Loose (Discourse) Threads
   1. Meshtastic: Dirk has seen JD's node, but we haven't successfully exchanged messages yet.
   2. Next meeting
      1. JD to book next three months of meetings. One more at Chermside, then two at Carindale.

Minutes

• Admin
  • ToS and Privacy Policy doesn't need to be hosted on the main page. It's already got a publicly accessible presence in Discourse.
  • James to formalise agenda procedure
  • James to render cal.php on main page
  • James to publish "subscribe" link for calendar
• Recap from Last Month
  • Hardware Donations for Education
    • Substation 33, in Kingston or Logan?
    • Dirk has a carload of stuff to offload
• Discourse Themes
  • LLMs
  • Hardware for LLMs
  • Tiny11
• Agenda
  • Motioneye
  • Meshtastic
• Next Month
  • Location Requests