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Home Assistant's May update finally makes Alexa devices worth integrating, but there's a catch
11h agoClaude Code found the quiet problems hiding in my Home Assistant setup, and I've been ignoring them for months
1d agoI revived a cheap Android tablet by turning it into a Home Assistant control panel
2d agoHome Assistant is way more than a smart home dashboard, and here's what I actually run on it
3d agoI thought self-hosting would make software less convenient, but the opposite happened
…time to create these automations, Home Assistant allows you to do more than many other smart home apps, like Google Home. Convenience does depend on your setup, though Hosted solutions may be…
My home lab dashboards were a mess until I let ChatGPT tie them together
…Sign in to your XDA account My home lab has never suffered from a lack of dashboards. I have separate pages for Proxmox, Pi-hole, Home Assistant, Jellyfin, Uptime Kuma, and whatever…
Apple, Google, and Amazon are deliberately fracturing your smart home mesh
…Factory reset your battery-powered Thread sensors, and instead of using the default Apple or Google setup prompts, commission them directly into Home Assistant via a local SkyConnect or native Thread stick…
Plugins made Claude Code feel less like a chat window and more like a command center
…Claude Code feels bigger when it understands the system around it Claude Code plugins did not make my setup perfect, nor did they turn my home lab into a self-healing marvel…
The ESP32 quietly became the most important chip in my smart home
…All data it collects gets recorded on flash storage or forwarded to Home Assistant. That relieves me from SD card corruption anxiety, as I face in Pi-based setups. Honestly, I rarely…
I fine-tuned a 7B model to write my Home Assistant automations, and it actually works
…Stage one combined some Home Assistant documentation, Blueprints I found on the Home Assistant forums, and some open repositories on GitHub. Alongside all of this, I also used the acon96 Home-Assistant…
I built a touch-enabled ePaper Home Assistant dashboard, and it's better than any tablet
…a smart home. So, I rebuilt the dashboard from scratch, pointed at Home Assistant instead. The end result is a display with lights, a media player, room temperatures, power monitoring, a wake…
Your NAS is wasted if it is just a dumb storage box — you can do a lot more with it
…See at Immich Home Assistant OS Windows, macOS, Linux iOS compatible Yes Android compatible Yes See at Home Assistant Related I stopped treating my NAS like a file box, and it became…
N100 mini PCs quietly killed the Raspberry Pi for home servers
…Likewise, the N100 is resilient enough to handle hardcore Home Assistant setups involving dozens of automation chains, smart gizmos, and integrations. Of course, a Raspberry Pi 5 could serve as a decent…