…Eventually, I had to admit that I wasn't building a clever alternative to a dedicated box. I was building around the Raspberry Pi's limits and pretending that counted as progress…
…It does feel like Matter tried to simplify the smart home for the masses, but in doing so it breaks the stability that power users spent a decade building. I'm ripping…
…The most common mesh setup consists of a primary node connected to one or more satellite nodes to create an uninterrupted Wi-Fi net around the home. While a mesh network is…
…With a laptop serving as your home server (pun intended), you're not going to be dealing with headless boot issues, missing peripherals, or obscure setup quirks that send you digging through…
…Outside of these examples, there are countless other projects you can undergo based on what your needs are and what your smart home setup is. If you're striving for more automation…
…That said, if you’ve got a spare Raspberry Pi lying around, but don’t have the money to build a dedicated 3-2-1 backup pipeline, this setup can act as…
…Sounds like a great deal until you realize your setup literally can’t take advantage of it, because most home networks are still limited to gigabit speeds. In reality, if you’re…
…You have gone out of your way to build a local smart home setup , and that’s the right call — no cloud dependency and your data stays at home. But nobody mentioned…
…Related Wi-Fi 7 will not fix what's actually wrong with your home network A new router alone won't upgrade your network to Wi-Fi 7 A new setup became…
…The ESP32 display is just one more way to view data that already exists in my smart home setup. I've been running this for a few weeks now, and I find…