I gave Home Assistant access to my NAS, and it became the dashboard my smart home was missing
Ayush Pande Jun 2, 2026, 10:01 AM EDT Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with…
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Network segmentation is the smart home security step nobody talks about
…To enjoy this feature, make sure you check the custom firmware’s hardware support before flashing it on your router. The part where you don’t break everything Fixing your network Move…
I connected my dumb appliances to Home Assistant, and it felt like upgrading my whole house
Jasmine Mannan Jun 7, 2026, 10:01 AM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…
Home Assistant on bare metal works great — until it becomes your entire home's infrastructure
Rich Edmonds May 21, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building…
10 quality-of-life services I self-host on my home lab
Ayush Pande Apr 12, 2026, 9:30 AM EDT Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with…
Home Assistant's ePaper ecosystem finally has an open standard worth building around
…Sign in to your XDA account ePaper smart displays in the Home Assistant world have never had a hardware problem. The reTerminal E-series, Waveshare's ESP32 ePaper boards, M5Paper, and the…
Home Assistant's local LLM support outperforms Gemini for Home, and Google knows it
…Gemini for Home is backed by Google’s AI research and server hardware. Yet, it still gets outpaced in its own arena by community-nurtured open-weight models running on consumer hardware…
Home Assistant's new infrared support turns your smart home into a universal remote
Rich Edmonds Mar 29, 2026, 10:00 AM EDT Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building…
My DIY router has been my DNS, VPN, and ad-blocker for a year, and I'd never use an ISP router again
Ayush Pande Apr 28, 2026, 1:31 PM EDT Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with…
My entire smart home runs on a single Docker container now, and I'm never going back
…By migrating my entire ecosystem into a single Docker container, I didn’t just strip away the hardware clutter; I unlocked a level of automation and privacy that out-of-the-box…