Bare metal sounds like the best option for anything, really. You wouldn't run your home desktop PC through emulation, would you? The same goes for the smart home with Home Assistant. There's an OS package that runs on just about any hardware that meets the system requirements, and you'll have no trouble hooking up all your smart home devices and other integrations. It all just works. There's no worrying about keeping an underlying OS updated or other software that needs to run in between layers. It's the hardware, Home Assistant OS, and the familiar web UI. For many users of the platform, this
Home Assistant on bare metal works great — until it becomes your entire home's infrastructure… This is quite the release for Home Assistant, focusing on standardization, accessibility, and security. Home Assistant OS Windows, macOS, Linux iOS compatible Yes Android compatible Yes See at Apple App Store See at Google Play Store See at Home Assistant
… Home Assistant receives new updates every month, with each release adding more quality-of-life tweaks and cool features to tinker with. …
… And we’d be here all day if I started listing the updates for my favorite integrations. Home Assistant OS Windows, macOS, Linux iOS compatible Yes Android compatible Yes See at Apple App Store See at Google Play Store See at Home Assistant
… Home Assistant OS Windows, macOS, Linux iOS compatible Yes Home Assistant is the best way to connect your smart home systems together. See at Apple App Store See at Google Play Store See at Home Assistant
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… Even the Home Assistant developers have attempted to address this issue with recent updates. For a long time, I treated my Home Assistant dashboard like a dumping ground rather than a finely-tuned control room. …
… Related My old phones replaced three smart devices in my Home Assistant setup And it's all thanks to the cool sensors included in modern smartphones MCP servers add more nuanced controls for my Home Assistant hub And they let me manage HASS from LLM-powered clients If I want to check device statist… …
… But since I use LM Studio, I pasted this code into the mcp.json file to connect the app to the MCP server, and by extension, my Home Assistant instance: { "mcpServers": { "Home Assistant": { "command": "uvx", "args": "ha-mcp@latest" , "env": { "HOMEASSISTANT URL": "IP-address-of-home-assistant", "H… …
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… Related I turned my old laptop into a dedicated Home Assistant hub in under an hour Turns out, a decade old laptop has enough juice to control my smart home gadgets I use my phone-powered Home Assistant satellite all the time It’s even more effective with an AI-powered voice assistant pipeline If y… …