My smart home was a mess until I gave it a brain
…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…
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Node-RED unlocks smart home automations that Home Assistant's UI was never designed to handle
4d agoStop treating the Raspberry Pi 5 as a smart home hub — it's actually built for something bigger
5d agoHome Assistant on bare metal works great — until it becomes your entire home's infrastructure
6d agoI gave Claude Cowork access to my Home Assistant config, and it unlocked automations I didn't know were possible
1w agoHome Assistant's intimidating reputation is completely undeserved once you survive the first week
…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…
I almost threw away my old laptop and now It’s my most reliable Home Assistant server
…What it actually does Light automation and a smart home that finally feels smart I started with the obvious setup: installing Docker to isolate services, then setting up Home Assistant for automation…
Home Assistant's local LLM support outperforms Gemini for Home, and Google knows it
…Google’s resources For anyone running Home Assistant, a local LLM is the most meaningful upgrade available right now. The setup friction is real. But once it is running, there’s no…
Gemini for Home sounds impressive until you realize Home Assistant already does it better
…Its assist pipeline doesn't need to go to the cloud to understand you. While Gemini is passing your intent into a data center, a local Home Assistant setup is toggling your…
Most smart home gear gets worse once you connect it to the cloud
…But as a proud member of this community, let me assure you that building a completely local smart home setup has become more beginner-friendly than ever. Deploying Home Assistant, either as…
I revived my old Android phone by turning it into a better voice assistant than any smart speaker I've owned
…completely self-hosted setup As a Home Assistant tinkerer with a couple of years under my belt, I’ve already set up my own assistants inside the smart home platform. I’ve…
I moved my Zigbee coordinator off a Raspberry Pi after a year and everything got better
…setup Until you wake up to reality I started my home lab as a textbook enthusiast, using a Raspberry Pi 4 for everything possible. Initially, I r an the Home Assistant Supervised…
Google Home and Alexa can't do what I built in Home Assistant, and that's the whole point
…Since I can also use my LLM-powered setup to control smart devices and trigger automations, it brings Home Assistant to an even footing with its rivals as far as AI assistants…
I paired a GPU with a Coral TPU, and it ended up handling my home security system far better than I expected
…Related With a cheap IP camera, I can monitor my "dumb" devices in Home Assistant A simple IP camera unlocks a world of possibilities in this smart home setup.