Most smart home failures start with DNS, and nobody notices until everything breaks
… Today, I actively monitor DNS performance. …
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Home Assistant OS 18.0 is out, and it'll stop devouring your RAM on low-end devices
… It's worth noting that this isn't the Home Assistant app getting an update; it's the OS that keeps everything working. As such, you won't see this update appear for your regular Home Assistant app. …
I revived my old Android phone by turning it into a better voice assistant than any smart speaker I've owned
… Home Assistant receives new updates every month, with each release adding more quality-of-life tweaks and cool features to tinker with. …
Home Assistant 2026.7 just killed the steep learning curve for building automations
… The addition of an "update all" button. Enough said. Other changes include new integrations; the quality of existing integrations; and improved frontend performance, especially with graphs, which is something I found lacking with the Energy Dashboard, for instance. …
I use n8n to handle the automations Home Assistant quietly can't, and my house runs itself now
… An email can start a workflow that updates something inside Home Assistant. …
ESPHome turned my junk drawer into a smart home
… Using it now feels like a major performance flex. The 2026.4 performance boost has improved it tenfold: ESPHome now uses zero-copy APO scores, making sensor updates up to 46 times faster. …
Home Assistant's new infrared support turns your smart home into a universal remote
… Better Assist customization, expanded integration support, and performance optimizations. …
Home Assistant can now see when you use the physical remote, and it changes everything
… Whereas April's Home Assistant update added support for sending IR commands, this latest release changes the game. …
Stop buying networking gear for your smart home that looks good on paper but fails in practice
… It claimed fast dual-band performance, broad coverage, and easy smart-home support, which is exactly the kind of language that gets you at checkout. Once I actually put it to work, performance dipped every time more devices came online. …
Local LLMs changed how I use Home Assistant, and now my smart devices actually listen
… That way, the LLM would be denied access any time it tries to update the Core Home Assistant packages, delete devices, or write new data to specific config files. …