POC Radios for Kids, Off-Site Backups, Remote Gaming and Frigate 0.18 with Mike Wieger – HGG689
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POC Radios for Kids, Off-Site Backups, Remote Gaming and Frigate 0.18 with Mike Wieger – HGG689

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 19, 20261 hr 31 min
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Do kids need a full smartphone just to stay in touch? Mike Wieger joins me for HGG689 with a different answer: push-to-talk-over-cellular radios built around simple family communication. We also dig into practical off-site backups with Unraid, TrueNAS, ZFS and Tailscale, Apollo and Moonlight for using one gaming PC from almost anywhere, and Frigate 0.18 for a much easier local-camera and NVR setup. Chapters / Timestamps Guest Context Mike Wieger returns to Home Gadget Geeks with three practical technology topics aimed at parents, gamers and homelab enthusiasts. Mike has been a longtime HGG guest and brings a hands-on perspective from

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And this is again talking to you dads out there. If you're like me, I am waiting until the very last moment to get my kids cell phones, right? They're eight and nine year old boys.

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They do not need cell phones. And I would argue they don't need cell phones for a very long time. So Hannah and I are trying to avoid it. However, they are at an age where they are going to sporting events, they're going with

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friends to go to movies and those sort of things. They're away from us a lot and it would be nice to be able to communicate with them. Now a lot of the other parents in our area are going with the watches, right? getting them either an Apple watch, there's a lot of brands

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