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Home Assistant 2024.6: Dipping our toes in the world of AI using LLMs (www.home-assistant.io)

Apple put a Thread smart home radio into its newest Macs and iPads - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

Release v1.38.0-1 · zigbee2mqtt/hassio-zigbee2mqtt · GitHub (github.com)

Based on https://github.com/Koenkk/zigbee2mqtt/releases/tag/1.38.0

Easy Way To Install Home Assistant on Proxmox 8 - SmartHomeScene (smarthomescene.com)

what's a good ip camera for home assistant?

I don't have yet any preferences. Cheap, easy to set up, secure. What do you use and can recommend?

I Create Better Automations Using These Hidden Principles - YouTube (youtube.com)

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Finally figured out why Espresence was so shit

I woke up this morning at 6 am with IBS cramps. I tried to go back to bed but I'd woken fully up so by half 7 I was sat at my PC with a brew for some uninterrupted tinkering....

Using Home Assistant to protect from missile and drone attacks (denysdovhan.com)

Best Local Smart Lock for Privacy/Security

I’m solidly leaning towards a Schlage Connect Lock due to its local only Zwave capabilities (which has the benefit of also extending battery life). I was strongly considering the Aqara U100 for its many features, but based on what I’ve seen I can foresee it being a nightmare to get working locally with home assistant and the...

Adding multiple buttons to ESPHome YAML (slrpnk.net)

I'm trying to automate my dumb roomba. For this I ideally need a couple of buttons. I'm lost at how to add another button, that would have a different name and a different sent byte....

I'm still having fun with esphome

Since my air fryer notification I've bought 2 more Esp32 Dev boards from The Greal Mall of China- AliExpress. A couple days later I'd read about MMwave sensors and purchased a couple of those too....

My friends and family don't understand why I'm so happy with my air fryer notification.

"Hur Hur that's what a timer on your phone is for dude"...

I built a smart mailbox

It was a long running project, but I finally did it. I built what I'm calling a smart mailbox that communicates the presence of mail locally with Home Assistant via ESPHome....

Ohhh that's why you run actions in Parallel

This is surely common knowledge for some of you but I thought I'd share a story, as this just made me cringe...

Smart-ening Window Blinds

I've got some decent window blinds at my house (tilt as well as roll-up and -down), but I didn't want to shell out another couple hundred per-window to make them "smart", let alone being tied to a cloud service that could spontaneous combust any day now......

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