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…Even when you run Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi, it’s still a computer running your smart home hub. Meanwhile, ESP32 is exactly what you need to build a device layer…
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…His expertise broadly covers computers, smartphones, game consoles, headphones, smart home products, browsers, and apps. Sign in to your XDA account I regularly build ESP32 projects for my smart home. Yet most…
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Show HN: Smart Vornado 660 Fan – reversible ESP32 button injection for HomeKit
I've had this Vornado 660 for years and didn't want to swap out a working fan just to control it from my phone. So I wired transistors across each of the physical buttons and let an ESP32 tap them. The fan's own controll…
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Update: OpenNMC, an open-source APC SmartSlot network card, now has a Crowd Supply pre-launch page
Hey r/homelab, A while ago I posted about OpenNMC, my open-source replacement for APC SmartSlot network management cards. The short version: I got tired of APC network cards being closed and expensive, so I started build…
First rack build for my new house.
18 months ago I had an ISP router, a smart thermostat and a Pihole on a Pi Zero… moved to a new house and thought it was about time to build a proper lab. Built it in a TecMojo 12U 450mm rack as wife wanted white, really…
My first 10 inch rack with local LLM! No more Spotify, Google Home, Netflix, ChatGPT...
I'm pretty new to homelabbing and this is my first mini rack! Started with the Beelink ME Mini and then just kinda grew from there (it's always the way hey haha). It idles at 70 watts (not too shabby for how much is goin…
How realistic is it to make a long-term career out of travel/network deployment contracts?
Hey Everyone - 32M, ~10 years in IT (5–6 in networking/network engineering specifically). Recently started a network deployment contract through TEKsystems and honestly realizing this type of work fits me WAY better than…
Home Assistant freed me from the smart home brand wars, and now I buy whatever works
…XDA account Smart home gear used to feel less like buying useful devices and more like choosing sides. Every brand wanted me inside its own app, account system, automation builder, and ecosystem…
Google TV Streamer update unlocks a major hidden upgrade for your smart home setup
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Home Assistant finally replaced Google Home when I stopped trusting the cloud with my smart home
…I skipped adding cloud-only devices to avoid messy integration since I was building a locally responsive smart home. I installed Zigbee2MQTT integration, followed by a Mosquitto server , and HACS to access…
Network segmentation is the smart home security step nobody talks about
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I spent an afternoon building custom Google Home routines and finally fixed my broken smart automation setup
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Come to IKEA for new Matter smart home devices, stay for this trendy $10 Bluetooth speaker
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