Home Assistant's best integrations aren't the obvious ones – here's what actually changed my setup
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I gave Home Assistant access to my NAS, and it became the dashboard my smart home was missing
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Home Assistant's ePaper ecosystem finally has an open standard worth building around
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My old phones replaced three smart devices in my Home Assistant setup
Ayush Pande Apr 18, 2026, 11:00 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 is way more than a smart home dashboard, and here's what I actually run on it
Ayush Pande Jun 12, 2026, 1:30 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…
I connected my local LLM to Home Assistant through MCP, and now my smart home manages itself
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I built a local voice assistant that doesn't need the internet, and it actually understands me
Jasmine Mannan May 30, 2026, 3:30 PM 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's new dashboard editor cuts setup time from 20 minutes to seconds
…That's all changed in 2026.6 as Home Assistant now listens on the same channel, using the same hardware. ESPHome is the first transmitter integration, so any ESPHome device with an…
Node-RED unlocks smart home automations that Home Assistant's UI was never designed to handle
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