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…The problem with traditional smart home setups There is just not enough context The biggest problem with traditional smart home setups is that they were never actually designed to understand the home…
…free Home Assistant setup finally made my old Android phone useful again I've used the unofficial HA-MCP Server repo But there’s even an official MCP integration for Home Assistant…
…port 1883, I added the MQTT integration inside Home Assistant and confirmed it was connected. Next, I installed HASS.Agent on my Windows PC. The setup was straightforward. I just pointed it…
…A smart plug is no longer a declaration that I’m building my whole setup around one company. A temperature sensor doesn’t need to come from the same brand as my…
…However, the real fun begins once you set up the Home Assistant Community Store and start perusing the sheer number of integrations, cards, and blueprints designed by tinkerers. The TrueNAS integration is…
…I went from relying on integrations and hubs to work alongside Home Assistant to creating my own custom setup with multiple brands and connection types. Going from running a few smart bulbs…
…Then there’s community blueprints, official (and third-party) integrations, and add-ons (or apps, as they’re called in recent releases). The best part? Home Assistant receives new updates every month…
…For a mixed setup with several wireless protocols and devices, there are more ways for things to fall apart. Zigbee coordinators , MQTT broker , local API calls, cloud-polling integrations — every one of…
…The core integration is built into Home Assistant and ships out of the box. There's also a separate custom integration on HACS, with the same name and the same logo, and…
…The fact of the matter is that if you cannot explain your server setup in a single, admittedly long, email, the setup is probably too complicated already. As an added benefit, the…
