Flatpak Stats vs. Snap Stats
Summary
Martin shares his recent adoption of Home Assistant, detailing how he uses a TP-Link camera and ntfy to receive doorbell alerts on his phone. He also discusses new personal projects, including web dashboards for tracking Snap and Flathub updates, and updates to his GitHub configuration tool, Taylor, which now automates project landing pages, wiki management, and development environment setup.
Topics discussed
Setting up a doorbell camera with Home Assistant
Configuring motion detection and phone notifications
Tracking streaming service usage via Roku integration
Automating Yoto player and Octopus Energy sessions
Home Assistant usability and video capture capabilities
Introducing new Snap Store dashboard websites
Snapcharts: Visualizing snap user statistics
Deciding whether to maintain published snaps
Flathub Updates: Tracking Linux app releases
Taylor: Managing GitHub project configurations
Automating GitHub Pages landing sites with Taylor
Integrating project wikis as submodules
Applying security and code quality defaults
Promoting Taylor and adding attribution footers
Language-specific dev tooling and Nix support
MCP servers and final thoughts on Taylor
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