Most smart home gear gets worse once you connect it to the cloud
… But in most cases, you’ll end up relying on cloud platforms for your gizmos. …
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I gave Home Assistant access to my NAS, and it became the dashboard my smart home was missing
… After all, you’ve got hundreds of integrations built into HASS, alongside plenty of apps or add-ons, as we veterans call them that can connect more services to the smart home platform. …
Home Assistant can now see when you use the physical remote, and it changes everything
… ESPHome supporting this new feature from the gate is vital for the platform since it's relied upon by many tinkerers who create their own smart home devices with single-board computers SBCs . …
Home Assistant's intimidating reputation is completely undeserved once you survive the first week
… Integrations and apps are your best friends They can connect even seemingly “dumb” devices to Home Assistant If your Home Assistant experience has been marred by cheap devices that refuse to connect to the smart home management platform, you can always check the unofficial community repos for integ… …
Proxmox gave me Home Assistant plus a NAS, media server, and backup system on one PC
… My Proxmox home lab is fantastic Regardless of whether my services live directly in Proxmox or in TrueNAS under it, it's all still powered by the same platform at its core, and it's incredible that a single platform can be home to so many useful tools. …
4 unique integrations you never thought of using with Home Assistant
… When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. …
Node-RED unlocks smart home automations that Home Assistant's UI was never designed to handle
… That's not me bashing the smart home platform, by the way. It's a good thing since Home Assistant could already be viewed as a complicated concoction of views and menus, putting newcomers off. …
Most smart home failures start with DNS, and nobody notices until everything breaks
… Beyond that, he enjoys experimenting with new gadgets as an enthusisast and expressing his views through writing. …
I built a Home Assistant automation that saves power daily, and nobody in my family even knows it exists
… He has written news, features, and gadget reviews for national technology media publications. …
I set up a Tailscale exit node at home, and it's more useful than just exposing services
… When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. …