…automation, and larger article-adjacent projects. The mental context switch is real, and I don’t always want to rebuild it before asking for a small fix. When the hook setup already…
…Assistant setup, pair it with a few trigger-action rules, and control your smart home by brushing your teeth! Speaking of automations… Smart plugs are perfect for wattage-based automations Recording power…
…It also connects easily with tools like n8n and AnythingLLM. Open WebUI makes my local AI setup feel simple, practical, and ready to use every day. n8n The automation layer n8n is…
…assumptions, I go through the system menus and make the device feel like it actually belongs in my setup. Match video to your TV Automatic display settings still deserve a second look…
…Once you have the basic appliances and the setup ready, you can then consider adding sensors to the mix. They allow your automations to respond to what is happening around the house…
…right setup easy enough that I actually stuck with it. ACME stands for Automated Certificate Management Environment. It’s the protocol used by services like Let’s Encrypt to issue and renew…
…It solves the uptime problem that kills most Pi-based setups. Your home automations and server controls need to be always available, or it's just a neat trick. Since a NAS…
…A dashboard project forces those choices, and that’s useful in itself. Spring refreshes are often about reducing visual and mental noise, and this project does both at once. Home automation that…
…That said, I still wanted to integrate AI features into this setup. To be more specific, I wanted automated notifications whenever motion is detected on certain cameras and a short summary describing…
…automation provisions and bring some extra statistics to my dashboards. Thanks to their affordable prices, I can nab quite a few ESP32 boards and use them to prototype different sensor setups for…