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Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform that integrates with various smart home devices through local and cloud services.
… DIY and self-hosting is the way to go There's something about deploying your own hardware, be it custom devices with an SBC or ESP32 or something like Home Assistant's own speaker. Finally getting rid of Alexa meant we were able to actually control everything we have installed within the home. …
… Related I turned my old laptop into a dedicated Home Assistant hub in under an hour Turns out, a decade old laptop has enough juice to control my smart home gadgets I use my phone-powered Home Assistant satellite all the time It’s even more effective with an AI-powered voice assistant pipeline If y… …
… NetBox , for starters, provides enterprise-grade IPAM and DCIM provisions, making it the perfect documentation tool for my chaotic home lab. I’ve also got a NetAlertX instance hooked up to my Home Assistant hub for some wacky automations, while Authentik is my go-to SSO server. …
… While we’re on this subject… Raspberry Pi isn’t ideal for a DIY Home Assistant setup If anything, it’s way too overpriced and lacks sheer performance As someone who began his smart home journey on a Raspberry Pi 5, it pains me to admit that the all-popular single-board computer family is no longer … …
… Between their solid connectivity options, rock solid integration pun intended with Home Assistant , and support for all sorts of wacky IoT accessories, my smart home would be incomplete without my ESP32-powered DIY sensors. …
… Smaller devices to help Home Assistant Manage a part of a smart home My Raspberry Pi case includes a built-in IR module for IoT projects. But I could never get it to work properly. Besides, it was just one IR receiver module and nothing else. So I decided to put together a DIY Infrared blaster node. …
… Creating the ultimate Home Assistant It's all in the name which makes this the best self-hosted app Home Assistant really is the best assistant for the home . …
… But there’s still a lot more you can do with an old Android tablet If you’re not a fan of Home Assistant, you can use your tablet in different DIY projects. …
… Installing it was fairly simple, as I typed the IP address of the machine hosting the Frigate server and added a colon : and port 5000. Once I’d entered my user credentials, Home Assistant was able to connect to my Frigate instance. …
… Frigate serves as the NVR server for my setup But you can also use the MotionEye app on Home Assistant or even add the cameras directly to HASS Since Home Assistant controls all the smart home and even certain home lab paraphernalia devices in my arsenal, I planned to base my security setup around … …