I ditched cloud smart home devices for local control, and my house finally works
… It keeps the local automation intact while also allowing regular manual operation too. …
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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 . Related Curtain automation is fun, but the weird smart home projects are where things get really useful Make your smart home work for you. …
I fine-tuned a 7B model to write my Home Assistant automations, and it actually works
… Stage two saved this project Synthesizing conversations using a local LLM For the second stage, I put together roughly 1,400 training pairs that specifically targeted YAML automation generation, mostly pulled from Home Assistant's own documentation, and automated it using my local LLM . …
Home Assistant's local LLM support outperforms Gemini for Home, and Google knows it
… Related I don't pay for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or Claude – I stick to my self-hosted LLMs instead There's no point in relying on AI tools when my local LLMs can handle everything Home Assistant with a local LLM is already doing what Gemini for Home promises Run your stack with your rules You … …
The AI automation tool nobody talks about just replaced my entire workflow setup
… But a local installation of Dify, that's powered by a local LLM? …
Home Assistant's best integrations aren't the obvious ones – here's what actually changed my setup
… Ollama Yes, I use my local LLMs with Home Assistant As much as I like dissing cloud-based AI tools, I’ve started growing fond of the reasoning capabilities of local LLMs. …
I built a Home Assistant automation that saves power daily, and nobody in my family even knows it exists
… The idea was to stop relying on manufacturers’ apps and cloud services to build an automation that runs locally within Home Assistant . …
Google Home and Alexa can't do what I built in Home Assistant, and that's the whole point
… Of course, designing automation chains on Home Assistant requires a little bit of elbow grease. But its simple UI is more than enough for beginners to get accustomed to designing trigger-action rules, and you don’t really need to learn YAML scripting to build functioning automation chains. …
Home Assistant is way more than a smart home dashboard, and here's what I actually run on it
… Related Local LLMs changed how I use Home Assistant, and now my smart devices actually listen Local LLMs made my Home Assistant setup far more responsive than any app or integration I’ve paired unconventional devices and services with Home Assistant And it’s all thanks to HACS integrations Even in … …
I replaced my smart home hub with a $120 mini PC, and my smart home finally feels responsive
… Automations and actions feel instant. My routines and scenes work without a hiccup. My smart home has over 12 different smart devices connected — a mix of Zigbee, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. I trimmed down automations to under 20 and have a large majority of devices working locally. …