Home Assistant's ePaper ecosystem finally has an open standard worth building around
…The same setup with a 7.3-inch Spectra 6 color panel and one update per hour comes out to over six months as well. Home Assistant handles the hard parts BLE…
…The same setup with a 7.3-inch Spectra 6 color panel and one update per hour comes out to over six months as well. Home Assistant handles the hard parts BLE…
…You treat your configuration like a delicate house of cards, terrified that updating Home Assistant Core will permanently shatter your automations. The nuclear option here is downloading a clean config backup. Hit…
…Voice assistants do better with direct home-safety commands. Bottom line, Google's voice assistant had the slight edge for home-safety and security questions, but all the voice assistants occasionally got…
…With support for Matter (version 1.4) , Thread, and Zigbee, the W200 can manage over 50 types of devices across platforms such as Amazon Alexa, Google Home , Apple Home, Home Assistant, and…
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…
…Google just confirmed the Home upgrade to Gemini 3.1 in a press release , alongside its latest release notes . The update has been fully rolled out to Gemini for Home voice assistant…
…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…
On this week's episode of the Smart Home Insider podcast, Daniel Moneta joins to talk about the latest updates to both Samsung SmartThings and Matter. Smart Home Insider Podcast A…
…This means they ping your local MQTT broker (like Mosquitto running inside Home Assistant) with state updates every few seconds. This consumes virtually zero CPU overhead, so you don't have to…
Google Home update adds ‘Pet Memory’ for Nest Cam, expands ‘Ask Home’ Ben Schoon | Jun 2 2026 - 1:05 pm PT | Jun 2 2026 - 1:05 pm PT Yet another Google Home…
…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…