Bare metal sounds like the best option for anything, really. You wouldn't run your home desktop PC through emulation, would you? The same goes for the smart home with Home Assistant. There's an OS package that runs on just about any hardware that meets the system requirements, and you'll have no trouble hooking up all your smart home devices and other integrations. It all just works. There's no worrying about keeping an underlying OS updated or other software that needs to run in between layers. It's the hardware, Home Assistant OS, and the familiar web UI. For many users of the platform, this
Home Assistant on bare metal works great — until it becomes your entire home's infrastructure…up features in firmware updates. In a month or so, I suspect most of what I've described here will be baked in, and the average Home Assistant user will be able…
…managing my home lab server and building web apps. Most people treat Claude as a smart terminal and focus only on prompts. In a few instances, treating it like a chatbot means…
…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…
…It also happens to be the same place to switch from Gemini back to Google Assistant. Or, you could be like me and ask the assistant to be a little less talkative…
…the next massive model update, it’s to take control of the context ourselves. If you are tired of fighting context drift and want an AI assistant that truly understands your workflows…
…It's not that NAS can't be used for running the home lab, Home Assistant, and everything else you can throw into the local cloud; it's just that there's…
…I went through the same phase, installing every new tool, tweaking endless configurations, and constantly fixing things that broke after updates. Instead of improving my productivity, my home server started demanding more…
…updates are instant. You get a clear, high-contrast label or icon for the current layer. On top of that, if your DIY build is connected via Wi-Fi to Home Assistant…
…However, after finding his home at MakeUseOf in February 2019, he would eventually move on to its sister site, XDA, to bring the latest and greatest in Windows, Linux, and DIY electronics…
…With a single Docker command, I watched a full stack of containers come online — Pi-hole , Immich , Jellyfin , NetAlertX , ownCloud, Home Assistant , and Uptime Kuma . Spinning them down or back up takes…