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Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform that integrates with various smart home devices through local and cloud services.
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…His expertise broadly covers computers, smartphones, game consoles, headphones, smart home products, browsers, and apps. Sign in to your XDA account I ran Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 4 for over…
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…Sign in to your XDA account Summary The Cydintosh is an ESP32 CYD that runs a 240×320 Macintosh Plus emulator with touchscreen. It adds modern features: Wi‑Fi, Home Assistant weather…
…What it actually does Light automation and a smart home that finally feels smart I started with the obvious setup: installing Docker to isolate services, then setting up Home Assistant for automation…
…this with services like Google Home. An app that has gained vastly powerful levels of capabilities with AI integration. That said, the Assistant was a no-fuss operator. When it works, it…
…But when combined over four months, they changed what the assistant could handle without custom workarounds. As of May 2026, Gemini for Home is on early access. The basic voice assistant is…
…s car” only works if the assistant knows who and what you mean. Still, Google appears to be moving in the right direction, with the latest Google Home updates aimed squarely at…
Hi all. I'm running Proxmox on a Beelink in my homelab. Currently have an Adguard LXC, Home Assistant VM and an Ubuntu VM (media, gpu passthrough) running on my Beelink. I'm looking to scrap my Ubuntu VM and start fresh …
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…
I've been running a Proxmox lab with around 40 services for a while now. Over the past year I ended up building an AI agent platform that manages my infrastructure and handles business operations — documents, phone calls…
Hi HN, I'm Antoine Zambelli, AI Director at Texas Instruments.I built Forge, an open-source reliability layer for self-hosted LLM tool-calling.What it does:- Adds domain-and-tool-agnostic guardrails (retry nudges, step e…
Ended up doing some plumbing, high and low voltage work, over 10 Cat 6 runs for APs, switches, cameras, and doorbell. Been very happy with my UDM pro SE and U7 pros. I moved all my hubs above the server cabinet and mostl…
…I built a reliable room-level presence detection sensor , a private assistant that works with a local LLM , a multi-sensor node with several components wired together, and a YAML file to…
…Besides, Home Assistant and ESPHome aren’t sunsetting any of their features or suddenly introducing subscriptions. My first ESP32 project with a reed switch worked for several weeks before I repurposed the…
…ESP32 links with the smart home’s protocols easily No dongles, no drivers Running a smart home platform with Home Assistant, which supports various protocols, makes it easy to connect different ESP32…