Inspirations
My Local AI Agents Are Starting to Grade Their Own Work
In my architecture post I laid out the big picture of how my smart home thinks for itself. This post is a deep dive into one piece of that picture…
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Inspirations
AI-Powered Smart Home Architecture — How My Home Thinks for Itself
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…
Interviews
10 years of smart home and what I’ve learned
It's crazy but I already play around with my smart home to automate my home life since 10 years and I have learned a lot during these years. And who…
Tutorials
Worried of big tech spying on you? Ditch Alexa for a local (no cloud) voice assistant! (Part II – custom PCBA)
In this second video of a video series on how to create a local voice assistant which replaces Amazon Alexa and Google Home, we create a custom PCBA from the…
Tutorials
Worried of big tech spying on you? Ditch Alexa for a local (no cloud) voice assistant! (Part I – prototype)
Have you ever wondered how you can replace your voice assistant such as Amazon Alexa or Google Home with a local voice assistant that does not send your voice data…
Tutorials
Home Assistant & ChatGPT will get your day started!
Being welcomed with an automated, individual smart good morning message every morning before leaving the house to work which includes information gathered by your smart home sounds super awesome to…
Tutorials
Washing machine alert – how to automatically receive email notifications
I guess, you probably know the problem – you turn on your washing machine in the cellar, it tells you the program will run for approx. 2 hours and during…