ESPHome turned my junk drawer into a smart home
…dev boards and sensors into a high-end, local-only smart home system . Related Curtain automation is fun, but the weird smart home projects are where things get really useful Make your…
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If you use a Fitbit or Garmin smartwatch, you need to set up this Grafana dashboard
…This means you can set it up on your local server or even a Raspberry Pi. It's designed to run automatically, so as long as it's connected to a network…
I fine-tuned a 7B model to write my Home Assistant automations, and it actually works
…Stage two saved this project Synthesizing conversations using a local LLM For the second stage, I put together roughly 1,400 training pairs that specifically targeted YAML automation generation, mostly pulled from…
Home Assistant's local LLM support outperforms Gemini for Home, and Google knows it
…time running local LLMs can attest. The ambitious project of running a language model on your own hardware is now a weekend afternoon project. That has permeated smart home automation so swiftly…
Home Assistant's best integrations aren't the obvious ones – here's what actually changed my setup
…TVs and projectors configured as media players in my HASS hub. Then you’ve got the automation benefits from this package. For example, I’ve created workflows that automatically dim my LEDs…
I built a Home Assistant automation that saves power daily, and nobody in my family even knows it exists
…I’m proud of it because it runs locally, reliably, and completely out of sight. Related 5 useful Home Assistant automations I wish I had in my life sooner From energy tracking…
Google Home and Alexa can't do what I built in Home Assistant, and that's the whole point
…complex automations – all without exposing personal data to external servers. I don’t need to hunt for devices from specific brands with Home Assistant Even discontinued products and ESP32 projects are fair…
I replaced my entire AI prompt library with Fabric, and now I can't imagine going back
…The project was originally prototyped in Python but was later rewritten in Go for better performance and cross-platform compatibility. Not quite — while Fabric started as a Python project, it was rewritten…
I gave my local LLM persistent context, and it finally stopped making the same mistakes
…For example, Claude has Projects and Gemini has Gems, which load your background info and instructions into every chat automatically so you never have to re-explain yourself. Local runners don't…
I finally found the best tool to automate Windows and I can't stop raving about it
…projects First thing you should change in Claude Code. What is Claude Cowork, anyway? And what are the requirements To understand why Claude Cowork is such a massive shift in Windows automation…