My smart home was a mess until I gave it a brain
…It was a great way to reuse an unused machine and turn it into the brain of my smart home. My setup includes smart lights, smart plugs, motion sensors, and a few…
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I turned off this HDMI setting, and my TV finally stopped glitching
…That's exactly what started happening to my setup a while ago. The moment I added some complexity to the setup, HDMI-CEC completely dropped the ball. Phantom input switching and audio…
I replaced Claude Code with a team of tiny specialists, and the boring setup worked better
…The architecture is much simpler than it sounds And also much easier to set up I built the entire setup around n8n and Ollama because I wanted to see every step instead…
I over-engineered my home lab on purpose, and it's the best decision I've made
…Sure, most consumers don’t need to go this far, but few things are as satisfying as building a secure, automated, and over-engineered high-availability setup. Related 5 common Proxmox mistakes…
4 HDMI gadgets I wish I’d discovered a lot sooner
…That mindset started changing once I began upgrading my gaming and work setup with multiple monitors, streaming devices, gaming consoles, and newer gadgets that all needed to work together seamlessly. The more…
Home Assistant is way more than a smart home dashboard, and here's what I actually run on it
…and process wake words, I can use them to chat with my LLMs about every aspect of my HASS setup, be it checking an entity’s stats or triggering an automation chain…
The Raspberry Pi price hikes pushed me to ESP32s, and honestly my smart home runs better now
…It ran Home Assistant , a couple of automation scripts, and a USB Zigbee dongle for the sensors. All shared the same CPU and a microSD card. That was a single point of…
I automated my 3D printer with Home Assistant, and now I don’t need to monitor my prints all the time
…And as you may have guessed, the real utility of this setup lies in the cool (and somewhat wacky) automations I’ve designed with Home Assistant’s trigger action rules. For example…
I automated my entire read-it-later workflow with a local LLM so every article I save gets summarized overnight
…How it all actually works Here are the nuts and bolts of the process The setup I deployed relies on Ollama, Python, and a plain text file of URLs called reading_list…
6 projects I’ve already built with my $15 Raspberry Pi Zero 2W
…It handles all the local communication between my smart sensors, switches, and automation tools. MQTT is great because it's fast and uses minimal bandwidth and processing power. The Pi Zero 2W…