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…Got an old microphone? Pair it with some add-ons, and you’ve got a voice-controlled setup for managing your smart home. Me? My biggest addition to Home Assistant wasn’t…
…While the community often points beginners toward Home Assistant OS, I wanted the lean, mean efficiency of a containerized setup. I didn’t want a dedicated operating system; I wanted a single…
…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…
…Ollama and Local LLMs are the brain of my AI stack Building a private brain without the subscription fees Ollama is the core of my AI setup. It gives my home server…
I finally got around to getting all the equipment out of my attic and into my office for the most part. Some of the kit is 3d printed while the rest was ordered on Amazon.com. The Dell PC is my Proxmox host for HAOS. The…
Hey everyone, i have an issue that I've been dealing with for quite a while now. My setup is a docker swarm with 3 nodes (.141,.142,.143), one is a manager with the public IP (.160) I am using the included ingress networ…
I had been thinking about converting my old desktop PC into a home server for a while. I have written a more detailed post on my blog here I used Gemini to guide me through the process and learn as I went. Within around …
Since last year i’ve wanted to get my own home server after seeing so many people making their own. I couldn’t get one my self though since most were kinda expensive. That changed when I heard about these cheap wyse seri…
**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 …
…room setup for pointing at target devices. Secondly, infrared is a one-way protocol where an IR blaster just sends the command but can’t record the response. The Home Assistant can…
…I’ve also got a NetAlertX instance hooked up to my Home Assistant hub for some wacky automations, while Authentik is my go-to SSO server. Then there’s the Pulse container…
…media and photo backups, and maybe Home Assistant to build out a smart home. But once you start going down the rabbit hole, the setup grows fairly quickly. More services get added…
…Picking Home Assistant to support the majority of switches requires additional controller hardware. In reality, you set yourself up for countless hours of setup, troubleshooting, and maintenance. That’s how the plug…
…His expertise broadly covers computers, smartphones, game consoles, headphones, smart home products, browsers, and apps. Sign in to your XDA account I used Raspberry Pi 4 as my Home Assistant hub and…
…The Ava app is primarily a voice assistant that turns an Android device into a voice satellite for Home Assistant. By default, it lets me control smart home devices with my voice…