Home Assistant's best upgrade costs nothing, but it changes everything
… Since Home Assistant includes a bunch of toggles, usage stats, and buttons, adding every entity and its associated services to the main dashboard would clog everything up. …
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I stopped using motion sensors after my smart home learned to read my PC's state
… This will take you just a few minutes to set up if you haven't already done so, and it is an essential part of preparing before installing any services. Next, you have to install the background service itself. Download the lightweight HASS Workstation Service Installer on your PC. …
5 self-hosted tools I prefer to install on every new PC
… When you start self-hosting multiple services, things can silently break, and you don’t always notice until you need them. I use Uptime Kuma to monitor all my services like local apps, Docker containers, and even a few external endpoints. …
Home Assistant's best integrations aren't the obvious ones – here's what actually changed my setup
… Likewise, I’ve also created trigger-action chains that boot complementary services in my home lab as soon as either LXC goes online. …
I connected my local LLM to Home Assistant through MCP, and now my smart home manages itself
… Plus, it supports a ton of handy admin tools for Home Assistant, and doesn’t require extra integrations or proxy services to hook my LM Studio models to my HASS instance. …
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 finally replaced Google Home when I stopped trusting the cloud with my smart home
… No cloud services. …
Tailscale replaced my dynamic DNS setup, and I stopped worrying about IP addresses entirely
… While a dynamic DNS service and port forwarding did solve that problem, maintaining the entire chain became a problem in itself. …
10 quality-of-life services I self-host on my home lab
… Here are five gaming-oriented services you can run on your local hardware Then you’ve got applications that can serve a wide demographic with their QoL features. So, here’s my curated list of the best self-hosted services that can make your life easier. …
Stop treating the Raspberry Pi 5 as a smart home hub — it's actually built for something bigger
… The Pi 5 makes more sense as a service hub It handles the small extras that make automation better The Raspberry Pi 5 works best when it’s treated as a compact service hub rather than a dedicated switchboard for smart devices. …