… 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… …
… Related HACS is an underrated tool for Home Assistant lovers The Home Assistant Community Store is a treasure trove of useful integrations and dashboards Remote Home Assistant Control entities on different networks via a single UI As a smart home fanatic, I’ve stacked my family home and my current … …
… Naturally, I got curious to try it out with my Home Assistant setup. Here’s what I found about the Hue Bridge Emulator. Related I finally set up Home Assistant with Zigbee, and my entire home changed I had heard about Zigbee for a long time, but I finally took the plunge. …
… I've been spending some time experimenting with it myself, and I think Home Assistant is the part that most people underestimate. The LLM is not the actual foundation of the setup; it's Home Assistant. …
… 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 … …
… Related My old phones replaced three smart devices in my Home Assistant setup And it's all thanks to the cool sensors included in modern smartphones MCP servers add more nuanced controls for my Home Assistant hub And they let me manage HASS from LLM-powered clients If I want to check device statist… …
… Just a few tools connected together, and the setup is done. Related This lightweight program is a must-have for Home Assistant users like myself This Windows-based companion app lets you monitor your PC and perform actions without opening Home Assistant. …
… My smart home is better when brands compete for usefulness A smart home should make daily life smoother, not turn every hardware purchase into a loyalty test. Home Assistant gets closer to that ideal by reducing the power of individual brands over the entire setup. …
… Home Assistant can make remote printing much safer, but it shouldn’t be treated as permission to ignore basic 3D printer safety. Automations, smart plugs, and alerts can fail just like anything else in a smart home setup. …
… So even if my ISP rotates the public IP or my router reboots, my MagicDNS address stays the same, keeping Home Assistant accessible. That’s what replaced DuckDNS and freed me from any tracking and updating chores. Note that Tailscale’s free tier covers everything for a typical home setup. …