5 home networking choices I regret making
…Sign in to your XDA account As I've begun to build up my home network with more and more devices, I've needed to take careful considerations in the deployment of…
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Home Assistant finally has an AI tool worth the complexity, if you can get past the onboarding
1d agoClaude Code found the quiet problems hiding in my Home Assistant setup, and I've been ignoring them for months
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Home Assistant's ePaper ecosystem finally has an open standard worth building around
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n8n, Dify, and Ollama might be the best self-hosted AI automation stack right now
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Running OpenClaw in Proxmox taught me that elegance doesn't always beat reliability
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Your ISP router is the biggest bottleneck in your home network, and you know it
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I replaced my smart home hub with a $120 mini PC, and my smart home finally feels responsive
…Building a custom smart home hub with a mini PC An attempt to make the right smart home I briefly considered the $130 Aqara Hub and the $300 Homey Pro, but both…
I moved everything to Proxmox and learned that fewer boxes doesn't mean more reliable
…A home lab isn’t a data center, and most of us are building one in a bedroom, office, closet, or apartment corner. A dedicated box can be reassuring because it behaves…