Home Assistant's best upgrade costs nothing, but it changes everything
Ayush Pande Mar 21, 2026, 10:00 AM EDT Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with…
Search
Filtered by topic: Home Assistant Clear ✕
I connected my dumb appliances to Home Assistant, and it felt like upgrading my whole house
…Don't get rid of your dumb appliances Turn them into smart devices instead Upgrading your home and implementing smart home products doesn't require sending functional appliances to the landfill. By…
I found the best Home Assistant dashboard for my iPad
… More than just a control plane Get the Pro for quality of life upgrades When I originally set up DimDash on the iPad, I expected to just use it like a mounted dashboard for controlling things around the house, things like lights, activating scenes, checking cameras, and more. …
A modern NAS replaced my smart home hub, backup solution, and media server
…Sign in to your XDA account I recently upgraded and got myself a new four-bay NAS, and the reason wasn't storage. That might sound odd, considering the biggest reason to…
Home Assistant's local LLM support outperforms Gemini for Home, and Google knows it
…upgrade to a decade-old voice assistant, it’s touted as a more conversational AI. But most people gloss over a key detail: all work happens on Google’s servers, and an…
Home Assistant kept wasting power on my home lab, and this tiny change fixed it
…The problem and the fix DNS causes more trouble than you'd think Home Assistant ships with a tool called hassio_dns, a plug-in for CoreDNS that should help ensure your…
Node-RED unlocks smart home automations that Home Assistant's UI was never designed to handle
…Related I automated my home with Home Assistant and Node-RED, and it was so worth it Node-RED is an upgrade, flow-style option to create nifty automations without overloading the…
I almost threw away my old laptop and now It’s my most reliable Home Assistant server
… Obviously, it needed a few upgrades, and that’s where adding some extra RAM came in. …
Home Assistant finally replaced Google Home when I stopped trusting the cloud with my smart home
…on for text-to-speech, and an M5Stack Atom Echo smart speaker to support it. Installing Ollama to run a smaller Qwen 3.5 model with tool calling so that it can…
I revived a cheap Android tablet by turning it into a Home Assistant control panel
…On a barebones setup, saying the hot word simply pulls up the Assist tool, and I’d have to type everything manually. But since I wanted a full-on voice assistant, I…