I used an old router as a dedicated smart home network, and it solved two problems at once
…Before I fired up Home Assistant for the first time, my home already had a smart TV, a Fire TV, an Apple TV, a HomePod, Philips Hue bulbs, and a couple of…
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Claude Code found the quiet problems hiding in my Home Assistant setup, and I've been ignoring them for months
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…For me, less automation didn’t mean a less capable home. It meant a better one. Home Assistant OS Windows, macOS, Linux iOS compatible Yes With Home Assistant, you can automate your…
The AI automation tool nobody talks about just replaced my entire workflow setup
…Related This visual editor is the tool your Home Assistant install needs for automations Take the pain out of creating automations by covering the YAML up What is Dify, and why would…
I stopped using motion sensors after my smart home learned to read my PC's state
…Related I deployed a network scanner that feeds my LAN statistics into Home Assistant It's perfect for building Home Assistant automations using LAN data There are a range of benefits Your…
This self-hosted Office 365 alternative is fine, but here's how I turned it into my private cloud setup
…Besides the Immich integration, Nextcloud can access a couple of other services in my home lab to varying degrees. The Home Assistant integration lets me save selective YAML code from my HASS…
I replaced my Raspberry Pis with $5 ESP32s for smart home projects, and they do everything I need
…For example, I can connect some air quality detectors to my ESP32, feed the metrics collected by this setup into my Home Assistant hub, and use these readings to force the air…
Belkin bricked my Wemo plugs, and it was the best thing that ever happened to my smart home
…plan to use the smart plugs with the Google Home app and Google Assistant. The best part of my new smart plug setup is that it's actually reliable. One of my…
Your home lab is probably messier than it needs to be, and a Raspberry Pi can fix it
…Even a modest setup can back up configuration files, container data, Home Assistant snapshots, and other essentials that would be painful to rebuild from scratch. That makes it a perfect spring refresh…
These 5 small tweaks made my self-hosted LLM setup way more productive
…I connected my local LLM setup with tools like Logseq , Home Assistant, Paperless-ngx, and Visual Studio Code. That meant I could search notes, summarize documents, trigger automations, and even assist coding…
The ESP32 makes more sense than a Raspberry Pi for your smart home
…ESP32 links with the smart home’s protocols easily No dongles, no drivers Running a smart home platform with Home Assistant, which supports various protocols, makes it easy to connect different ESP32…