Home Assistant is way more than a smart home dashboard, and here's what I actually run on it
… However, the real fun begins once you configure the Home Assistant Community Store, which houses thousands of quirky integrations. …
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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. …
You can turn "dumb" devices smart without replacing anything; just Home Assistant integrations will suffice
… Better yet, the talented Home Assistant community has created integrations for practically every utility imaginable, including typical self-hosted services. …
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. …
Home Assistant's intimidating reputation is completely undeserved once you survive the first week
… The Home Assistant Community Store is a great place for these integrations. …
Home Assistant's best integrations aren't the obvious ones – here's what actually changed my setup
… But it didn’t take me a lot of time to jump headfirst into the seemingly never-ending list of third-party integrations on the Home Assistant Community Store. …
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. …
Local LLMs changed how I use Home Assistant, and now my smart devices actually listen
… Sign in to your XDA account As a Home Assistant aficionado, I’ve got dozens of apps and integrations set up for my IoT management hub, and that’s before you include all the community offerings I’ve grabbed from HACS. …
Node-RED unlocks smart home automations that Home Assistant's UI was never designed to handle
… The route I recommend, however, is through the Home Assistant Community Store. …
Proxmox gave me Home Assistant plus a NAS, media server, and backup system on one PC
… While you can find community scripts and guides to help you set up all kinds of services directly in Proxmox, TrueNAS has an app hub that makes it easy to find most of the services you'd want, and you can use something like Dockge to perform a one-click set up using just a compose file. …