Stop automating your smart home, it's making things worse
…For me, less automation didn’t mean a less capable home. It meant a better one. Home Assistant OS Windows, macOS, Linux iOS compatible Yes With Home Assistant, you can automate your…
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I replaced my Raspberry Pis with $5 ESP32s for smart home projects, and they do everything I need
…For example, I can connect some air quality detectors to my ESP32, feed the metrics collected by this setup into my Home Assistant hub, and use these readings to force the air…
Your home lab is probably messier than it needs to be, and a Raspberry Pi can fix it
…Even a modest setup can back up configuration files, container data, Home Assistant snapshots, and other essentials that would be painful to rebuild from scratch. That makes it a perfect spring refresh…
The ESP32 makes more sense than a Raspberry Pi for your smart home
…ESP32 links with the smart home’s protocols easily No dongles, no drivers Running a smart home platform with Home Assistant, which supports various protocols, makes it easy to connect different ESP32…
My old Google Pixel has replaced half of my smart home products without costing me a penny
…Related My old phones replaced three smart devices in my Home Assistant setup And it's all thanks to the cool sensors included in modern smartphones Get rid of your Google Nest…
Home Assistant's best upgrade costs nothing, but it changes everything
…Got an old microphone? Pair it with some add-ons, and you’ve got a voice-controlled setup for managing your smart home. Me? My biggest addition to Home Assistant wasn’t…
My entire smart home runs on a single Docker container now, and I'm never going back
…While the community often points beginners toward Home Assistant OS, I wanted the lean, mean efficiency of a containerized setup. I didn’t want a dedicated operating system; I wanted a single…
Home Assistant's ePaper ecosystem finally has an open standard worth building around
…The same setup with a 7.3-inch Spectra 6 color panel and one update per hour comes out to over six months as well. Home Assistant handles the hard parts BLE…
I turned my home server into an AI appliance, and this is the stack that actually stuck
…Ollama and Local LLMs are the brain of my AI stack Building a private brain without the subscription fees Ollama is the core of my AI setup. It gives my home server…