August 2026 - HLB Events - lists.homelabbrisbane.com.au

HLB online 7.30 pm, 3 September on Jitsi - A voice driven blog /
by David Guest 31 Aug '26

31 Aug '26

This Thursday Homelab Brisbane is meeting online <https://homelabbrisbane.com.au/events.php> on our Jitsi server <https://meet.homelabbrisbane.com.au/hlb> at 7.30 p.m. The @techman and @GregY are presenting. The @techman writes: *A voice driven blog* I have been building a personal system where I can literally *talk* to my blog. Press a button, speak a thought, press stop — and it's transcribed, filed, and committed. The voice interface simply announces what's happening ("press to record, stop to commit"), so it stays out of your way; it doesn't dictate or edit; just captures the raw thought faithfully and keeps the history safe in version control. It all runs on local hardware — no cloud dependency for the core work flow. It's very much a live demo, and an honest look at what's practical with local AI today: where it's genuinely useful, and where the limits still are. Questions are welcome and we can take the conversation wherever attendees want to go. Blogher @GregY is speaking on:- *Boat Monitoring & Automation with Signalk/RPi* We live on our Flybridge Motor Yacht for 3+ months each year, and travel overseas multiple times a year for extended periods (with the boat at home) & hence remotely monitoring critical systems provides peace of mind and actionable intelligence. With dedicated navigational and electronic systems on board that support dedicated marine data protocols, it requires a specialised automation and monitoring system that can ingest this data. The “signalk” system of open source software provides this exact environment and can run on low powered hardware with a large and growing support for marine hardware and software applications.

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HLB in-person meeting, Thursday August 20, 2026 6.30 pm - Everton Park Library
by David Guest 18 Aug '26

18 Aug '26

This coming Thursday we are meeting at Everton Park library <https://homelabbrisbane.com.au/events.php>. Arjen Lentz is speaking on a couple of topics. Repair cafe Repair Cafes <https://www.repaircafe.org> are a global initiative whose purpose is keep computer and appliance hardware out of landfill while also saving people money. Capable volunteers fix a variety of things, from kitchen appliances to bicycles, clocks to laptops. Everything Open Everything Open 2027 is an open technologies conference that is held in a different city each year, next January it will come to Brisbane at QUT Gardens Point. The call for sessions is currently open, and early bird tickets still be available from next week.

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HLB online 7.30 pm, 6 August on Jitsi - Local fuel price monitoring / Troubleshooting your apps
by David Guest 06 Aug '26

06 Aug '26

This Thursday Homelab Brisbane is meeting online <https://homelabbrisbane.com.au/events.php> on our Jitsi server <https://meet.homelabbrisbane.com.au/hlb> at 7.30 p.m. @Belfry is covering local fuel price monitoring in home assistant and @jdownie is discussing ways to troubleshoot your web based apps. The meeting is not restricted to members and those interested in following Homelab Brisbane activities can register on our Discourse server <https://discourse.homelabbrisbane.com.au>. David

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