…The Pi 5 starts to make more sense when the home automation hub becomes part of a wider home lab rather than a single-purpose appliance. The Raspberry Pi 5 starts to…
…censorship sense. Asking it to code a cheat for Minecraft, the bones of which are quite old, didn't get me very far initially, but the swap to a local AI removed…
…Use the Tensor chips' TPU via Termux and OpenCore to run local lightweight LLMs for home automation without hitting a cloud API. Your old Pixel can actually run offline voice processing locally…
…Sign in to your XDA account Summary Canonical will add AI to Ubuntu — but only cautiously and when it truly makes sense. AI features must be mature, open-source, and run locally…
…a bunch of sensors and smart devices that run on batteries, you’ll find the Maintenance dashboard to be a worthy addition to the HASS ecosystem. Related Local LLMs changed how I…
…Assistant lets me create triggers from sensor entities and use them to force the IoT paraphernalia to perform specific operations. There are even community-created automation blueprints on the Home Assistant Community…
…It handles all the local communication between my smart sensors, switches, and automation tools. MQTT is great because it's fast and uses minimal bandwidth and processing power. The Pi Zero 2W…
…I’m also fond of Node-RED, as its node-based automation tools are the perfect alternative to Home Assistant's trigger-action rules for complex workflows involving multiple sensors. But even…
…0 0 * * 0 rm -rf /mnt/c/Users/Username/AppData/Local/Temp/* Yes, I know Storage Sense is already supposed to cover routine cache cleanup. I use it, too. But there's…
…For many browser extensions, key features can be recreated using a local LLM, browser automation, scripts, and workflow tools such as n8n. If you get this right, the result is actually more…