…Smart fridges with cameras inside them, smart ovens with companion apps, smart thermostats, you name it. The dream of a fully connected home is just a few purchases away, some big, some…
…Related 4 reasons an ESP32 display beats an old tablet for a smart home dashboard Learn about the unexpected advantages of choosing an ESP32 display over a tablet for your smart home…
…Smart Home Turns out, size does matter Smart Home CES 2026 The Varmblixt smart lamp was just the start - here are the 5 best things IKEA unveiled at CES 2026. CES 2026…
…Or, you could take the easy path as I did by turning an old smartphone into a Home Assistant satellite . Thanks to a recent update to the Home Assistant Companion app, smartphones…
18 months ago I had an ISP router, a smart thermostat and a Pihole on a Pi Zero… moved to a new house and thought it was about time to build a proper lab. Built it in a TecMojo 12U 450mm rack as wife wanted white, really…
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 - 32M, ~10 years in IT (5–6 in networking/network engineering specifically). Recently started a network deployment contract through TEKsystems and honestly realizing this type of work fits me WAY better than…
I decided to straighten things up a little and put my stack in a cabinet, plus implement a few upgrades like switching the original router (TP-Link Archer BE800) for a Firewalla Gold Pro and a TP-Link Omada EAP783 AP. I …
Hey HN, Henry here from Cactus. We open-sourced Needle, a 26M parameter function-calling (tool use) model. It runs at 6000 tok/s prefill and 1200 tok/s decode on consumer devices.We were always frustrated by the little e…
…Naming these devices on the smart home platforms themselves is another good practice: Home Assistant, Google Home, and Apple Home all support rooms, groups, and custom device names. Using them and staying…
…but Home Assistant is building an architecture. Until Gemini can run entirely offline and control every obscure Zigbee device in my drawer, Home Assistant remains the king of the true smart home.
…There is a real appeal to deeper automation Complex setups can unlock genuinely impressive smart home behavior To be fair, there’s a reason people keep building elaborate smart home systems. When…
…build incredible Home Assistant automations without any extra hardware by leveraging the sensors already in your phone, weather services, or your Wi-Fi router. The minimalist smart home Simplifying my smart home…
…As I got familiar with the ESP32 microcontrollers , building devices became fun. Yet I wondered if Pi was still needed in the smart home loop. Slowly, I moved my Raspberry Pi projects…
…inside the Google Home app to create these automations. Just describe what you want in natural language, and AI will build the automation for you. For now, the smarter camera-based automation…
