Home Assistant's local LLM support outperforms Gemini for Home, and Google knows it
…Related I don't pay for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or Claude – I stick to my self-hosted LLMs instead There's no point in relying on AI tools when my local LLMs…
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…Related I don't pay for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or Claude – I stick to my self-hosted LLMs instead There's no point in relying on AI tools when my local LLMs…
…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…
…After all, they tend to have weak user credentials and often rely on unencrypted networks to communicate with the cloud platform. That alone is a recipe for man-in-the-middle attacks…
…Sure, the DIY community often comes up with unofficial integrations for pairing unsupported, seemingly dead devices with local control platforms such as Home Assistant. But you should always choose IoT gadgets that…
…Heck, Bubble Card has its own companion utility (called Bubble Card Tools) that lets me add JS modules to my dashboard cards. Related 4 Home Assistant cards that actually make dashboards usable…
…In fact, I’ve built a couple of dashboards specifically for my smartphones via the Bubble Card integration from the Home Assistant Community Store. Bubble Card lets me condense all the sensors…
…However, the software still needs a Zigbee coordinator to communicate with Zigbee devices. I didn’t have a Hue Bridge. So, I used Zigbee2MQTT to connect diyHue with Home Assistant. Configuring Zigbee2MQTT…
…I searched for and installed the Tailscale Add-on from the Home Assistant Community Store . After I started the add-on, I launched its web UI to authenticate it with my Tailscale…
…I installed Zigbee2MQTT integration, followed by a Mosquitto server , and HACS to access more community-developed integrations. ESPHome integration lets me build and flash custom firmware on ESP32-based sensors directly in…
…Once the containers are booted, Home Assistant should automatically discover them using the Wyoming integration, an ultra-lightweight communication protocol designed to pass raw audio buffers between local servers. And now you…