… Since the migration, I no longer need to bother the Zigbee coordinator or restart Home Assistant. The troubleshooting sessions stopped, and everything felt zippier. …
… Sign in to your XDA account I regularly build ESP32 projects for my smart home. Yet most take a while to work due to hardware wiring and firmware configuration. Besides, fixing the code and troubleshooting the build takes a while. …
… Related I thought Proxmox would overcomplicate my home lab, but it did the opposite Proxmox became my home lab. Breaking my systems makes me a better admin No, really, hear me out They always say you learn more from failures than successes, and that's abundantly true in the home lab. …
… So, having a cheap portable monitor as a troubleshooting tool is an obvious choice when it costs just $40. …
… For a smart home, I’d rather have stable hardware, clear settings, and room to grow than another polished gadget that turns basic troubleshooting into guesswork. …
… Related Local LLMs changed how I use Home Assistant, and now my smart devices actually listen Local LLMs made my Home Assistant setup far more responsive than any app or integration Devices with batteries have always been a pain to troubleshoot As a tinkerer who’s a member of both the home lab and … …
… Watchman For troubleshooting missing entities Considering the sheer number of add-ons and integrations you can arm Home Assistant with, you might end up with hundreds of entities on your HASS control hub. …
… This coincided with me using Gitea with a repository for my entire smart home and home lab setup. …
… Fortunately, Docker Manager solves this problem by offering a solid mobile interface for controlling containers spread across multiple home lab nodes – and it’s the reason I’ve moved on from a Termux + SSH setup when troubleshooting my self-hosted apps from my smartphone. …
… And a lab VLAN for a Raspberry Pi 4 running as a smart home hub and a mini PC as a home lab server. …