…The new updated integration lets Home Assistant pull the device states reliably and send commands without troubleshooting the Amazon Skills or wrestling with the Alexa app’s interface. Now you can craft…
…That said, even though I was able to connect my LLM with HASS, I ended up making a grave mistake that took me a while to troubleshoot. Up until now, I’d…
…It told me which devices were connected, how much bandwidth was used, and most importantly to me, if the internet was up , and I thought that was all there was to it…
…Somehow, a handful of devices on my network were bypassing Pi-hole altogether. After doing some digging, I found that some devices were using encrypted DNS. It's a privacy feature now…
…If you still want voice control via Siri or Alexa, don't let them own the device. Use Home Assistant as a local bridge to expose selected devices to Apple, Google, or…
…devices working locally. The steps to build my own smart home took several weeks of reading documentation, scouring community forums, ordering components, and soldering them to the ESP32. In the end, troubleshooting…
…Over the last decade he's written hundreds of articles about Linux configuration, troubleshooting weird problems, and using open-source tools in the real world. He also works a lot with Windows…
…Devices using NAT are invisible to the outside world by default, since unsolicited inbound traffic hits the router and gets dropped before touching any internal devices. It's not the same as…
…All that data makes it simpler to troubleshoot annoyances, too. Instead of trying the standard "turn it off and on again" approach, if you can see one device is saturating your bandwidth…
…But I really recommend splitting all your devices across a couple of dashboards, as it will make managing everything as a beginner a lot simpler. Got specific devices in the kitchen? They…
