Tag: home-assistant

Home Assistant ships two MCP integrations, not one. One turns your house into a server for Claude and ChatGPT. The other is narrower than its name suggests.

Wire local Nominatim into Home Assistant for reverse geocoding without leaking GPS coords to Google or Mapbox. Privacy-respecting smart home in 30 lines.

Store years of sensor data with InfluxDB. Skip the 10-day limit, query historical trends, build Grafana dashboards for your home lab.

Power monitoring with Shelly EM/Pro/3EM, Home Assistant energy dashboard, circuit-level metering, solar+grid tracking, and wiring sanity checks.

Home Assistant disaster recovery: off-site backups, secrets handling, Z2M coordinator, restore drills that catch missing pieces.

Ditch Alexa and Google Home. Build a fully local voice assistant with Whisper STT, Piper TTS, and Home Assistant using the Wyoming protocol.

Homebridge bridges devices into Apple Home. Home Assistant is the full local automation platform. Here's which one to pick, or why you'd run both.

Particle Photon 2 vs ESPHome for ESP32 projects: cloud lock-in, OTA updates, Home Assistant integration, and which firmware wins for self-hosters long-term.

Track which room you're in with cheap ESP32 nodes and BLE signal distance, real room-level presence for Home Assistant automations that actually work.

HACS custom integrations can brick your Home Assistant setup overnight. Here's how to use them safely, recover when they don't, and know when to skip them.

HAOS Add-Ons vs bare Docker Compose for Mosquitto, ESPHome, Frigate, when the Supervisor magic is worth it and when it just gets in your way.

Wyoming protocol vs Rhasspy for local Home Assistant voice, which offline stack actually works in 2026, hardware requirements, and when to choose each one.