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…in your home and then pass them on to Home Assistant, effectively extending your smart home's range for free. You can even perform signal-over-the-air updates, meaning your junk…
…O'Brien Jan 5 How AI broke the smart home in 2025 The arrival of generative AI assistants in our smart homes held such promise; instead, they struggle to turn on the…
…it is Amazon's smart home control device, serving as a way to control smart home products. According to... Amazon Launches First Kindle With Color Display [Updated] Amazon today refreshed its popular…
I'm relatively new to Proxmox. I'm using unattended-upgrades for Debian security updates. It seems like there are Debian/Proxmox package updates available several times a week, if not almost daily. I'm more used to Home …
I'm pretty new to homelabbing and this is my first mini rack! Started with the Beelink ME Mini and then just kinda grew from there (it's always the way hey haha). It idles at 70 watts (not too shabby for how much is goin…
Hey everyone, decided to share my current homelab/network setup. The last was 3 years ago. It’s a mix of high-performance gear and some "recycled" hardware that I's rescued from the trash. Power draw at idle - 350W (yes,…
**UPDATE** I have went through tediously and re-checked everything including fixing some mistakes that were still left in version 1. I went over everything and all the feedback recieved, the second edition includes both …
Note to mods: sorry if this is disallowed, I recognize this is only loosely related to the sub, but I figured it's worth making a post as more people will see this in their logs. A couple days ago I saw this post about s…
…Sign in to your XDA account With each monthly update, Home Assistant receives new and intriguing features. Some are useful from the get-go, while others often go unappreciated, despite their convenience…
…Whereas April's Home Assistant update added support for sending IR commands, this latest release changes the game. Home Assistant will now be able to detect when a physical remote is used…
…announced a series of May / Spring 2026 updates for the Home app. Besides Nest Cam and automation improvements , the Gemini for Home voice assistant is getting an “intelligence upgrade” with Gemini 3…
…Home Assistant’s 2026.4 update adds native Infrared (IR) support. The appliances you own were not dumb — they lacked the right software layer. With a small, affordable IR blaster acting as…
…There's no worrying about keeping an underlying OS updated or other software that needs to run in between layers. It's the hardware, Home Assistant OS, and the familiar web UI…
…Voice Assistant There are a number of updates to the Gemini for Home voice assistant today. Google has improved the latency of everyday commands, like “Turn on the lights,” by 40%. The…
