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Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform that integrates with various smart home devices through local and cloud services.
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…s car” only works if the assistant knows who and what you mean. Still, Google appears to be moving in the right direction, with the latest Google Home updates aimed squarely at…
…Besides, Home Assistant and ESPHome aren’t sunsetting any of their features or suddenly introducing subscriptions. My first ESP32 project with a reed switch worked for several weeks before I repurposed the…
…Through all of it, the dumb fridges, dumb dishwashers, and dumb lamps in those same homes kept working just fine. A smart home that relies on bridges, sensors, and good Home Assistant…
…ESP32 links with the smart home’s protocols easily No dongles, no drivers Running a smart home platform with Home Assistant, which supports various protocols, makes it easy to connect different ESP32…
…This is built into Home Assistant, making it plug-and-play. This is great for users who want 95% of devices to just work without any extra configurations. Sonoff ZB Dongle-E…
…The same setup with a 7.3-inch Spectra 6 color panel and one update per hour comes out to over six months as well. Home Assistant handles the hard parts BLE…
…by this setup into my Home Assistant hub, and use these readings to force the air purifiers to work their magic. Likewise, arming my ESP32 with motion sensors lets me create trigger…
Hi all. I'm running Proxmox on a Beelink in my homelab. Currently have an Adguard LXC, Home Assistant VM and an Ubuntu VM (media, gpu passthrough) running on my Beelink. I'm looking to scrap my Ubuntu VM and start fresh …
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…
I've been running a Proxmox lab with around 40 services for a while now. Over the past year I ended up building an AI agent platform that manages my infrastructure and handles business operations — documents, phone calls…
Hi HN, I'm Antoine Zambelli, AI Director at Texas Instruments.I built Forge, an open-source reliability layer for self-hosted LLM tool-calling.What it does:- Adds domain-and-tool-agnostic guardrails (retry nudges, step e…
Ended up doing some plumbing, high and low voltage work, over 10 Cat 6 runs for APs, switches, cameras, and doorbell. Been very happy with my UDM pro SE and U7 pros. I moved all my hubs above the server cabinet and mostl…
…a smart home. So, I rebuilt the dashboard from scratch, pointed at Home Assistant instead. The end result is a display with lights, a media player, room temperatures, power monitoring, a wake…
…You can find Andy's portfolio of work on his Authory page . Sign in to your Android Police account I have never been quite as excited about a smart home assistant as…
…This broad support means your FP300 will work with every major smart home ecosystem today (e.g., Alexa, Apple, Google, Home Assistant), and for the foreseeable future. It doesn’t matter if…