Home Assistant's best upgrade costs nothing, but it changes everything
…Got an old microphone? Pair it with some add-ons, and you’ve got a voice-controlled setup for managing your smart home. Me? My biggest addition to Home Assistant wasn’t…
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Home Assistant is way more than a smart home dashboard, and here's what I actually run on it
1d agoI used an old router as a dedicated smart home network, and it solved two problems at once
1w agoI gave Home Assistant access to my NAS, and it became the dashboard my smart home was missing
1w agoHome Assistant's new dashboard editor cuts setup time from 20 minutes to seconds
1w agoMy entire smart home runs on a single Docker container now, and I'm never going back
…While the community often points beginners toward Home Assistant OS, I wanted the lean, mean efficiency of a containerized setup. I didn’t want a dedicated operating system; I wanted a single…
Home Assistant users are building smarter homes than Google and Amazon ever will
…Like many, I've got my smart home running through Home Assistant , and while my setup is fairly basic, that's not true for many of the other users. Almost anything can…
I turned my home server into an AI appliance, and this is the stack that actually stuck
…Ollama and Local LLMs are the brain of my AI stack Building a private brain without the subscription fees Ollama is the core of my AI setup. It gives my home server…
Home Assistant just made every infrared device in your house controllable, and you probably already own them
…room setup for pointing at target devices. Secondly, infrared is a one-way protocol where an IR blaster just sends the command but can’t record the response. The Home Assistant can…
I ditched cloud smart home devices for local control, and my house finally works
…Related Please stop relying on the Internet for your smart home devices A completely local smart home setup is perfectly viable for most users Cloud-based smart home devices aren't fun…
Home Assistant's ePaper ecosystem finally has an open standard worth building around
…The same setup with a 7.3-inch Spectra 6 color panel and one update per hour comes out to over six months as well. Home Assistant handles the hard parts BLE…
The new Maintenance dashboard is the Home Assistant feature I did not know I needed
…Related Local LLMs changed how I use Home Assistant, and now my smart devices actually listen Local LLMs made my Home Assistant setup far more responsive than any app or integration Devices…
I replaced Google Home with Home Assistant and a local LLM, and I'm not looking back
…Related 10 of the best add-ons for Home Assistant Boost the capabilities of your smart home with these amazing Home Assistant plugins The Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition has already replaced…
I turned my old phone into a Bluetooth proxy for Home Assistant with this free app
…The Ava app is primarily a voice assistant that turns an Android device into a voice satellite for Home Assistant. By default, it lets me control smart home devices with my voice…