Three AI hosts, real homelab answers. The first episode of the Homelab the Right Way Podcast is out: Ep. 1: The green check lies — backups, networking, self-hosting and a turtle (46 minutes, published October 18, 2026, free).
Disclosure first: Maya, Sam and Theo are fictional AI hosts. Their voices are AI-generated, the script was written with AI help and edited by a human, and every fact comes from the Homelab the Right Way books and blog. AI hosts, human-edited, facts from the books.
What the episode covers
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Backups: the green check lies. Why the green check on a Proxmox backup job proves almost nothing, the 3-2-1 plan,
keep-daily=7, the backup job that silently skips new VMs, and the restore drills that tell you whether you actually have a backup. -
Storage. RAID is not a backup, the NFS share that fills your root disk, and
sanoid+syncoidpull replication for ZFS. -
Networking. What a
/24actually means, and why a 2-node Proxmox cluster freezes (plus the QDevice fix). - Self-hosting. The traps around Immich, Nextcloud and Vaultwarden.
- Home Assistant. The motion light that turns off on you, and the Zigbee fix that beats any setting.
- The turtle tank. The ESP32 wire that can fry the board, and the DS18B20 readings that are not temperatures.
Listen
- Episode page: https://redcircle.com/shows/homelab-the-right-way/episodes/55cb28a3-0a54-4fc3-952d-70a2fedea93f
- Show page: https://redcircle.com/shows/homelab-the-right-way
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- Show notes, chapters and every article mentioned: https://chartmann1590.github.io/homelab-the-right-way/posts/podcast-ep-1-the-green-check-lies/
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Gear mentioned in the episode: the TP-Link TL-SG105 5-port gigabit switch and the Kasa Smart Plug Ultra Mini EP10. As an Amazon Associate the show earns from qualifying purchases; the links are in the show notes.
Originally published on the Homelab the Right Way blog: https://chartmann1590.github.io/homelab-the-right-way/posts/podcast-ep-1-the-green-check-lies/
