I monitor my PC with Home Assistant, and it's a bigger deal than I realized
…Sign in to your XDA account I used to think my PC was just a tool, but after integrating it into my home lab, I’ve realized it’s actually the heart…
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Claude Code taught me ESP32 development, and my smart home projects got way faster
…I use that reading with the BH1750 to improve my lighting automation. Home Assistant can turn on the light when the room is occupied and the ambient light drops below 40 lux…
I installed Immich Power Tools to fix my 170,000-photo library, and it saved me weeks of work
…It doesn't handle creative editing like style transfer or Lightroom integration — those are outside its scope entirely. 05 / 8 Photoshop What was the original name of the software that eventually became…
5 boring Home Assistant automations I’d set up before trying AI control
…Living room lights, porch lights, bedroom lamps — whatever your lighting setup is — you can tie them to sunset hours. Use Home Assistant’s Sun integration and forget about it. With AI control…
Most smart home gear gets worse once you connect it to the cloud
…Being able to control everything from your lighting system to thermostats and security cameras from mobile apps makes them pretty convenient, and you can integrate them with voice-control hubs to manage…
This PowerToys feature is the Windows Search upgrade I've always wanted
…as switching between dark and light modes, or creating a blank Word document, to something more advanced like a color picker, a video downloader, or an integration with Visual Studio so you…
Your PC's reset button is dead, but your motherboard can give it a second life
…With a single press of the button, the lights go off. Pressed again, the lights are re-enabled. But if you're not a fan of lighting effects, the reset button could…
Your Home Assistant dashboard is probably showing you too much — here's how Figma helped me fix mine
…I tapped the office light control in the new interface, and the light responded. Once the rest of the controls appeared to be wired correctly, it stopped feeling like a mockup exercise…
Home Assistant finally has an AI tool worth the complexity, if you can get past the onboarding
…The best use case isn’t asking it to turn on a light. It’s asking why a light keeps turning on, why an automation behaves differently after a restart, or whether…
My security cameras now describe what they see, and not a single frame leaves the house
…Sign in to your XDA account Over the past couple of months, I’ve integrated all sorts of cool gizmos into my smart home setup, and these range from smart plugs monitoring…