…Google started replacing Assistant with Gemini on Google TV, but the transition hasn't been painless. Users across devices have reported that triggering voice search opens the Gemini setup flow instead of…
…Claude is an overkill for smart home setups Qwen 2.5 strikes a balance I could easily connect Claude to my Home Assistant setup and start using it. It would probably deliver…
…Cloudflare tunnels seemed perfect until it didn’t Hitting limits of the free-tier Like many homelab beginners, I started by exposing my Pi-hole dashboard. Soon, I had Home Assistant, Jellyfin…
…Related How I use Node-RED and Home Assistant together for the ultimate smart home With the right setup, Node-RED and Home Assistant can make for a killer smart home combo…
…time to create these automations, Home Assistant allows you to do more than many other smart home apps, like Google Home. Convenience does depend on your setup, though Hosted solutions may be…
…Sign in to your XDA account My home lab has never suffered from a lack of dashboards. I have separate pages for Proxmox, Pi-hole, Home Assistant, Jellyfin, Uptime Kuma, and whatever…
…All data it collects gets recorded on flash storage or forwarded to Home Assistant. That relieves me from SD card corruption anxiety, as I face in Pi-based setups. Honestly, I rarely…
…a smart home. So, I rebuilt the dashboard from scratch, pointed at Home Assistant instead. The end result is a display with lights, a media player, room temperatures, power monitoring, a wake…
…Stage one combined some Home Assistant documentation, Blueprints I found on the Home Assistant forums, and some open repositories on GitHub. Alongside all of this, I also used the acon96 Home-Assistant…
…But as someone who manages everything from 3-2-1 backup nodes to Home Assistant instances in my family home, I consider my remote access tools just as important as my dashboards…