My local LLM finally understands my house better than Google ever did
… A local LLM becomes significantly more useful once it has access to motion sensors, mmWave presence sensors, door sensors, temperature sensors, and more. …
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I replaced my smart home hub with a $120 mini PC, and my smart home finally feels responsive
… My builds weren’t as compact as the commercial sensors, but they kept all the data local, worked reliably, and cost much less. …
I stopped using motion sensors after my smart home learned to read my PC's state
… Stop buying additional standalone IoT sensors to fix room-tracking bugs. Spend 20 minutes installing a local service wrapper on your rig tonight. …
I stopped buying smart home gadgets and started building them for a fraction of the price
… Then, I flashed another custom firmware for the new sensor and built another device in less than an hour. What sold me was that every ESP32 device I built worked locally, without a cloud dependency. …
ESPHome turned my junk drawer into a smart home
… It's the ultimate digital glue that turns a drawer full of old dev boards and sensors into a high-end, local-only smart home system . …
My entire smart home runs on a single Docker container now, and I'm never going back
… I was finally able to do complex tasks, like having an IKEA motion sensor trigger a Philips Hue light that sends a notification to my iPhone, and dimming my Plex media player. With Home Assistant, most of my devices now communicate over the local network. …
Home Assistant finally replaced Google Home when I stopped trusting the cloud with my smart home
… Replacing Google Assistant with a local LLM A private voice assistant that works locally With the help of a local LLM and Home Assistant’s voice pipeline, I built a private voice assistant that works locally. …
My old phones replaced three smart devices in my Home Assistant setup
… Considering that typical phones pack a lot of sensors, they can double as makeshift smart devices. …
Stop buying networking gear for your smart home that looks good on paper but fails in practice
… Local devices should keep doing useful work even when the wider internet stumbles, especially in a home filled with automations and sensors. Instead, I had a networking device that treated local reliability like an optional feature. …
The best new Home Assistant feature in 2026 isn't AI, it's a 433MHz transmitter
… Build local automations by connecting your newly smart 433 MHz devices directly to your standard ZigBee sensors or local dashboards, bypassing the original physical plastic remotes. …