I gave Home Assistant access to my NAS, and it became the dashboard my smart home was missing
… In fact, the Home Assistant community integration for TrueNAS stopped detecting my storage server when I installed the latest beta release. …
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Google Home and Alexa can't do what I built in Home Assistant, and that's the whole point
… There are even community-created automation blueprints on the Home Assistant Community Store. …
I stopped buying smart home gadgets and started building them for a fraction of the price
… Later, the community shared ready sketches that I could flash using Arduino IDE. …
My entire smart home runs on a single Docker container now, and I'm never going back
… I have worked with many software projects, but Home Assistant is the best example of what an open-source community can achieve. …
I revived my old Android phone by turning it into a better voice assistant than any smart speaker I've owned
… Then there’s community blueprints, official and third-party integrations, and add-ons or apps, as they’re called in recent releases . …
Home Assistant's best upgrade costs nothing, but it changes everything
… I sometimes create prototype dashboards with Ultra Card's visual editor, but if that sounds like a lot of effort, you can rely on presets designed by the talented Home Assistant community. …
I replaced my smart home hub with a $120 mini PC, and my smart home finally feels responsive
… The device costs kept climbing, and I was left with a handful of time-specific automations with barely any customizations. …
I built a Home Assistant automation that saves power daily, and nobody in my family even knows it exists
… This choice helped fuel rapid community growth. …
4 unique integrations you never thought of using with Home Assistant
… I’ve been using HACS integrations extensively over the last couple of weeks, and these are some obscure repos that deserve more love from the community. …
I connected my local LLM to Home Assistant through MCP, and now my smart home manages itself
… Now, I’m always cautious about connecting something as vital as my smart home platform with a community repo, but after going through the code and looking at its popularity in the HASS community, the HA-MCP Server doesn’t trigger any red flags in my book. …