Inspirations
The Self-Healing Smart Home: How AI Keeps My House Running (So I Don’t Have To)
A smart home slowly falls apart. Instead of me watching the house, the house watches itself — and…
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Inspirations
How I taught my garage camera to remember bin day
A Reolink camera, a GPT-4o vision call, the local pickup calendar, and a Telegram bot with photo proof…
Inspirations
AI Is a Magic Box: How Two Smart-Home Builders Actually Use It
Lukas (hobbyblogging.de) and I have known each other for a while. Two builders, two smart homes, two evenings…
Inspirations
Family Stress Score — one number from six honest signals
Some days are loud and short, everyone’s head is full – and you only realize at dinner that…
Tutorials
Is This the END of Home Assistant Dashboards?
AI coding agents like Cursor and Claude can now build custom smart home UIs in hours. Is the…
Tutorials
How I Set Up Frigate NVR with Face Recognition on an Intel N100 Mini PC
Discover how to transform an Intel N100 mini PC into a powerful, custom surveillance system using Frigate and…
Inspirations
AI-Powered Inventory System — How Nova Tracks Every Component in My Smart Home
If you’re anything like me, you’ve got drawers full of resistors, ESP32 boards, sensors, and connectors — and…
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…
Tutorials
Want to make your home smart but don’t know where to start? Which platform is right for you? Zigbee, WiFi, Matter – what does it all mean?
That’s exactly why I built the Smart Home Advisor – an interactive tool right here on the website…
Inspirations
Smart Coffee Mug: Useful or Just a Gimmick?
Have you ever wondered if you actually need a smart coffee mug? Recently, I received one as a…
Interviews
Local First vs. Cloud in Smart Homes: Which Strategy Is Right for You?
🏠 Local First Strategy: Taking Control Into Your Own Hands When thinking about smart homes, a Local First…
Inspirations
Upgrade Your Home Network with UniFi: A Personal Experience
Have you ever felt that your home network setup is holding you back? For quite some time, I…