… That’s why it’s best to turn those tablets into a control panel, like a smart home hub, Home Assistant dashboard , or a controller for smart devices. It’ll leverage the same hardware, making it perfectly suited for the job. …
… Sign in to your XDA account Home Assistant is the backbone of our smart home. It manages everything, allows us to track our energy usage, and interacts with all our smart home hardware. It's brilliant, but depending on how it's configured, Home Assistant can quickly become quite the beast to tame. …
… A slight downer remains: although the update is generally available, due to limited hardware capabilities, only the X2 3 dashboards , X2i 3 dashboards , and XL 5 dashboards models currently support the additional views. …
… The device supports MQTT, which allows Home Assistant to control backlight brightness, dimming timeouts, and sleep behavior, while also reporting hardware diagnostics, such as undervoltage events, directly to the dashboard. …
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… 44 45 In September 2021, Home Assistant developers at Nabu Casa announced a crowdfunding campaign on Crowd Supply for pre-orders of "Home Assistant Yellow" initially called "Home Assistant Amber" , a new official home automation controller hardware platform with Home Assistant pre-installed, a spir… …
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…
Lurked here for a while, learned a ton from posts like the one I'm hoping this becomes. Time to give back. Quick context: I'm IT support by trade. Not a developer, not a sysadmin. Everything in this post I figured out by…
… While most people will likely install UmbrelOS on their own hardware, the company also released two hardware devices, the Umbrel Home and Umbrel Pro, which run the same software but offer priority support. …
Google’s Nest app is down for many in widespread outage Ben Schoon | May 15 2026 - 9:20 am PT | May 15 2026 - 9:20 am PT The Google Home app has largely taken over for most Nest users, but if you still prefer to access older hardware via the Nest app, a widespread outage has broken functionality fo… …
… Homey Bridge, the Homey Energy Dongle, the Ethernet Adapter, Homey Cloud, and the self-hosted server option will all keep their current pricing. Homey says those products do not rely on the same high-memory hardware components affected by the recent price increases. …
