Ava turns an old Android tablet into a voice satellite, Qwen 3.5 4B runs on a $56 GPU, and the whole local Home Assistant voice assistant finally works -- wake word included.
Read the post →The Home Assistant Vibecode MCP plus OpenCode turned my espresso machine, sleep tracking, and LLM quota gauges into dashboard cards I never had to write by hand.
Read the post →Brian snagged me a handful of the original CloudFree smart plugs for Christmas. I immediately opened them up, attached them to my network, and I put various lights around my office under the control of Home Assistant.
Read the post →I’ve been contemplating the idea of implementing some home automation for a very long time. The benefits just hadn’t been exciting enough to encourage me to get started. Turning lights on and off didn’t seem all that interesting to me....
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