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… Related I turned my old laptop into a dedicated Home Assistant hub in under an hour Turns out, a decade old laptop has enough juice to control my smart home gadgets I use my phone-powered Home Assistant satellite all the time It’s even more effective with an AI-powered voice assistant pipeline If y… …
… Naturally, I got curious to try it out with my Home Assistant setup. Here’s what I found about the Hue Bridge Emulator. Related I finally set up Home Assistant with Zigbee, and my entire home changed I had heard about Zigbee for a long time, but I finally took the plunge. …
… While we’re on this subject… Raspberry Pi isn’t ideal for a DIY Home Assistant setup If anything, it’s way too overpriced and lacks sheer performance As someone who began his smart home journey on a Raspberry Pi 5, it pains me to admit that the all-popular single-board computer family is no longer … …
… Related My old phones replaced three smart devices in my Home Assistant setup And it's all thanks to the cool sensors included in modern smartphones MCP servers add more nuanced controls for my Home Assistant hub And they let me manage HASS from LLM-powered clients If I want to check device statist… …
I finally got around to getting all the equipment out of my attic and into my office for the most part. Some of the kit is 3d printed while the rest was ordered on Amazon.com. The Dell PC is my Proxmox host for HAOS. The…
Hey everyone, i have an issue that I've been dealing with for quite a while now. My setup is a docker swarm with 3 nodes (.141,.142,.143), one is a manager with the public IP (.160) I am using the included ingress networ…
Since last year i’ve wanted to get my own home server after seeing so many people making their own. I couldn’t get one my self though since most were kinda expensive. That changed when I heard about these cheap wyse seri…
**UPDATE** I have went through tediously and re-checked everything including fixing some mistakes that were still left in version 1. I went over everything and all the feedback recieved, the second edition includes both …
Hey everyone, decided to share my current homelab/network setup. The last was 3 years ago. It’s a mix of high-performance gear and some "recycled" hardware that I's rescued from the trash. Power draw at idle - 350W (yes,…
… My smart home is better when brands compete for usefulness A smart home should make daily life smoother, not turn every hardware purchase into a loyalty test. Home Assistant gets closer to that ideal by reducing the power of individual brands over the entire setup. …
… Home Assistant can make remote printing much safer, but it shouldn’t be treated as permission to ignore basic 3D printer safety. Automations, smart plugs, and alerts can fail just like anything else in a smart home setup. …
… So even if my ISP rotates the public IP or my router reboots, my MagicDNS address stays the same, keeping Home Assistant accessible. That’s what replaced DuckDNS and freed me from any tracking and updating chores. Note that Tailscale’s free tier covers everything for a typical home setup. …
… Related I revived my old Android phone by turning it into a better voice assistant than any smart speaker I've owned This free Home Assistant setup finally made my old Android phone useful again HACS includes hundreds of integrations for seemingly dumb devices Including gizmos that don’t technicall… …
… Here’s an example: cd /home/frank/docker/homeassistant If you need help getting Home Assistant running in Docker first, my setup guides for Home Assistant on Proxmox and Home Assistant on a Synology NAS both cover volume mapping in detail. …
… Related I run my entire smart home from a single mini PC with Home Assistant If you'd have told me my smart home would be controlled from one box I wouldn't have believed you My smart home setup with Home Assistant The minimalist approach I didn’t want to rebuild my smart home from scratch. …