I manage my ESP32 boards with this free self-hosted tool
…But it ain’t the only self-hosted tool for my ESP32 experiments I tend to use my ESPConnect instance in tandem with the ESPHome server running on my Home Assistant node…
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…Meanwhile, Qwen 3.5 and DeepSeek are better for calling tools on external apps (namely, my NAS server , Nextcloud instance , and Home Assistant hub ) via MCP servers. Related I built a local…
I turned my phone into a local LLM server, and it handles vision, voice, and tool calls
…A decent GPU has typically been a minimum requirement, or at least a mini PC like a Mac Studio, Mac Mini, or one of those 128GB DGX-adjacent workstations . What it didn…
I run Snapcast on a Raspberry Pi, and it's a Sonos replacement that cost me nothing
…I mapped the SMB shares from my mini PC to the Raspberry Pi for music files, then configured MPD to load that mount point and send audio output to Snapcast. In the…
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Stop treating the Raspberry Pi 5 as a smart home hub — it's actually built for something bigger
5d agoHome Assistant on bare metal works great — until it becomes your entire home's infrastructure
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You don't need an expensive GPU to run a local LLM that actually works
…As a tool, they're great at offloading mundane tasks, quickly looking something up, or even interacting with other parts of your home. Throw in a smart home platform like Home Assistant…
I replaced ChatGPT with a local model on my gaming PC, and it's beating the cloud where I didn't expect
…Qwen pulled fresh information through SearXNG and produced a walkthrough with citations to ESPHome's docs, the Home Assistant community forum, Reddit, and a handful of beginner guides. Its hardware picks were…
I stopped jumping between monitoring dashboards with one Claude Code command
…NAS, storage solutions, and PC internals to help readers master their tech. Sign in to your XDA account I had built a solid monitoring setup for my homelab. I had visibility for…
I moved everything to Proxmox and learned that fewer boxes doesn't mean more reliable
…Home automation Sometimes Yes, with caveats Home Assistant works great in a VM, but USB radios and critical automations can make a dedicated system feel safer. Dashboards, utilities, and test services No…