Here's the dirty secret nobody selling you smart home stuff will admit: a smart home slowly falls apart. Not in a dramatic way. Quietly. A battery dies in a door…
The problem Bin day always sneaked up on me. Miss the pickup of any of the four bins and you're stuck with overflowing waste for another two weeks — bio,…
Lukas (hobbyblogging.de) and I have known each other for a while. Two builders, two smart homes, two evenings spent under similar AI rabbit holes. So when we sat down to…
Some days are loud and short, everyone’s head is full – and you only realize at dinner that the house was running at 180 the whole afternoon. For exactly those…
I’m going to say something that might get me kicked out of the community: The traditional Home Assistant dashboard is dead. We’ve spent years YAML-hacking and fighting with grid layouts…
Those of you who follow my channel know that I already had Frigate NVR running on Proxmox until my Mini PC crashed. I had 5 Reolink cameras but no recording,…
If you're anything like me, you've got drawers full of resistors, ESP32 boards, sensors, and connectors — and you never know what you actually have. My AI assistant Nova now manages my…
My smart home is powered by two AI pillars: an AI DevOps pipeline that builds and maintains everything — and an AI automation layer the whole family uses every day. In this post, I'll…
That's exactly why I built the Smart Home Advisor – an interactive tool right here on the website that gives you an overview and personalized recommendations in just a few…
Have you ever wondered if you actually need a smart coffee mug? Recently, I received one as a gift from my colleagues, and I dove into exploring its potential. ☕…