I turned my dusty Chromecast into a $250 smart home hub replacement
…07 / 8 Software Which Home Assistant add-on is most commonly used to run automations using a visual, Node-RED-style flow editor? A AppDaemon B Node-RED C Grafana D ESPHome…
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The Pi Zero 2 W is the only Raspberry Pi that makes sense right now
…ESP32 , as it’s a lot cheaper than even a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. ESPHome and Home Assistant are a terrific combo for everything from simple automations involving different sensors to…
Your next "Raspberry Pi project" doesn't actually need a Raspberry Pi
…to hook it up to an ESP32, flash a quick YAML config to it via ESPHome, and have it pull statistics directly to Home Assistant. The same holds true for building vibration…
Home Assistant's ePaper ecosystem finally has an open standard worth building around
…OpenEpaperLink got the closest, but you were still flashing an access point, dealing with vendor-specific Arduino sketches in some instances, or writing your own ESPHome configuration and skipping a "standard" entirely…
Home Assistant's best upgrade costs nothing, but it changes everything
…Throw in the entire Proxmox cluster, TrueNAS server , NetAlertX statistics , ESPHome projects, and other wacky services to the mix, and my Home Assistant interface would look like a monstrosity from the Cthulhu…
Network segmentation is the smart home security step nobody talks about
…His expertise broadly covers computers, smartphones, game consoles, headphones, smart home products, browsers, and apps. Sign in to your XDA account You spend hours following guides to set up Home Assistant , ESPHome…
5 boring Home Assistant automations I’d set up before trying AI control
…Doors and windows auto-locking routines Check if any are left open A magnetic reed switch can be directly connected to Home Assistant via an ESP32 board and ESPHome firmware. Your automation…
My Raspberry Pi 4 still has a job in my homelab, and it isn't Home Assistant
…Though the Pi booted from an NVMe SSD , the Pi's 4GB memory limit became difficult to ignore as I built ESPHome devices. Recently, I moved Home Assistant to a mini PC…
I built a local voice assistant that doesn't need the internet, and it actually understands me
…Devices like the Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition or even custom M5 Stack ATOM Echo boards run entirely on cheap ESP32-S3 microcontrollers via ESPHome. By pairing an ESP32-S3 microcontroller with…
Most DIY smart home buttons are terrible, so I built one that actually feels good
…For firmware, you can use ESPHome, which is a great option because it integrates natively with Home Assistant. You just write a few lines of YAML to define the button as a…