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…The app claims to integrate with Navidrome and lets you grab fresh music straight from a single unified interface, with no extra dependencies. It's the one feature I was missing in…
…In automation, you can send TTS messages directly to specific devices without adding bloat to your setup with the Alexa Media Player integration. These notify entities become available automatically and integrate seamlessly…
…They control lights, act as voice assistants, or tie into Home Assistant automations that play a part in enabling my smart home to work without me thinking about it. That's a…
…Playwright MCP is a tool I use often with my local LLM, and it's incredibly useful. It's Microsoft's browser automation stack with tools covering the likes of navigation, form…
…UniFi and OPNsense boxes get updated every week as part of routine maintenance. But my current home gateway is an eero Pro 6E, which automatically updates every week or two without asking…
…A MacBook with 16GB or 32GB of unified RAM can load and run LLMs at speeds that rival or exceed systems with discrete GPUs, making Apple laptops surprisingly competitive for local AI…
…Presence detection without coding or extra hardware Improve presence-based automations After a couple of tries, Ava detected the host names of a few stationary smart devices, like my smart TV and…
…While I could still pair my cluster nodes with Proxmox Datacenter Manager in older versions, the latest update also added a unified panel for monitoring high-availability clusters built with Ceph distributed…
…It connects devices from completely different ecosystems and exposes them through one unified dashboard and automation layer. I've been spending some time experimenting with it myself, and I think Home Assistant…
…Zigbee 3.0, on the other hand, is an open low-power mesh protocol that has quietly provided rock-solid local home automation for close to two decades without needing IP routing…