I moved my Zigbee coordinator off a Raspberry Pi after a year and everything got better
… The troubleshooting sessions stopped, and everything felt zippier. …
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The new Maintenance dashboard is the Home Assistant feature I did not know I needed
… I’ve pinned the Maintenance dashboard to the navigation bar on my HASS instance, but if you’ve just installed the May 2026 update, you’ll find it within the Built-in section of the Dashboards tab inside the Home Assistant Settings page. …
Stop assuming smart switches are a plug-and-play upgrade for light switches in your home
… So a $15 smart switch might end up costing north of $75 installed. …
I gave Claude Cowork access to my Home Assistant config, and it unlocked automations I didn't know were possible
… After the short installation was done, and the MCP tools HACS app was added, Claude could read and write inside my Home Assistant virtual machine. …
I connected my local LLM to Home Assistant through MCP, and now my smart home manages itself
… Then, I ran the winget install astral-sh.uv command in the Terminal PowerShell, of course on my Windows 11 PC. …
I stopped buying smart home gadgets and started building them for a fraction of the price
… Then I installed Proxmox on it and ran Home Assistant as my smart home platform. …
I replaced my smart home hub with a $120 mini PC, and my smart home finally feels responsive
… I installed Proxmox on the mini PC and ran Home Assistant OS as one of the VMs. …
Home Assistant's intimidating reputation is completely undeserved once you survive the first week
… Adding devices to Home Assistant is as simple as locating their integrations or installing the right apps, if they aren’t available by default and filling in their connection details. …