ESPHome turned my junk drawer into a smart home
…notification if someone enters your room while you're on a video call. There are so many great uses for a room occupancy sensor that allow for countless forms of home automation…
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I turned my Pixel into a payment machine by ditching these default Google Wallet settings
…The benefit is that this lets your Pixel automatically pull loyalty cards from Gmail or notify you about a flight delay directly on the Wallet pass. This makes your wallet feel much…
I gave my NAS a job Synology never advertises, and now it runs my house
…automation that alerts me when the washing machine is done. Guess what? It's not because the washing machine is smart; a smart plug tracks its power draw and sends that notification…
The Linux desktop's biggest upgrade was learning when not to ask the user
…Wi-Fi, printers, power profiles, and notifications all feel less like independent projects than they used to. That sounds small until you live with it for a while. The less often the…
Curtain automation is fun, but the weird smart home projects are where things get really useful
…Smart homes should be smart Stop making them funny It's time to stop automating the things that are easy and feel more like party tricks, like curtains, and start automating the…
The best smart home upgrade I ever made cost $5 and required zero apps
…This means you don't even need to limit this automation to just people who live in your home. Guests can use these automations too, as long as they've got a…
I gave my home lab self-healing powers using Prometheus, Grafana, and one free monitoring stack
…Using free tools, I managed to map, monitor, and configure my home lab to automatically heal itself. That sounds like quite the achievement, but it was easier to configure than I initially…
I gave Home Assistant access to my NAS, and it became the dashboard my smart home was missing
…you can use the entities imported from TrueNAS to design automation chains. No, I’m not just talking about the notification workflows where you’ll get pinged on the Home Assistant companion…
KDE Plasma 6.7 will make managing your clipboard a lot less annoying
…specific items to prevent them from being automatically deleted. However, if you tell KDE Plasma to clear your clipboard, it will show a notification asking whether you also want to clear the…
I monitor my PC with Home Assistant, and it's a bigger deal than I realized
…If something unusual is happening in the background, I get notified instantly. Earlier, I would only notice after things slowed down. These small automations added convenience to my daily routine without me…