Home Assistant's new dashboard editor cuts setup time from 20 minutes to seconds
…Sign in to your XDA account Home Assistant has been nailing each release, and the team doesn't look as though it plans to slow down with the June update taking shape…
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I gave Home Assistant access to my NAS, and it became the dashboard my smart home was missing
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I thought VLC was unbeatable until I tried this open-source media player
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Anthropic just publically released its Mythos-grade AI at no extra cost for a limited time
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I blamed a firmware update for bricking my laptop, but I couldn't have been more wrong
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I went back to Google TV after the Fire TV let me down, and I haven't looked back
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