The AIO Energy Management has finally received the feature planned all along – it only took me few years to finally figure it out. And…
Welcome back, smart home tinkerers! If you’re on a mission to ditch cloud-dependent voice assistants and bring your smart home control strictly local, you are…
AIO Energy Management has got a few updates in the last half a month without having the ‘what’s new’ post written up. Nothing major, but…
LLMs are here to stay, and they are fundamentally changing how we interact with machines—especially when it comes to smart homes and Home Assistant. In…
If you’re anything like me, your relationship with houseplants fluctuates between “botanical sanctuary” and “accidental desert.” We all start with the best intentions, but life…
Another year has circled the sun, and looking back, 2025 wasn’t just another year of incremental updates—it was a year of transformation. If I had to…
As smart home enthusiasts, we often focus on sensors, lights, and automation logic. But what about aesthetics? What about bringing art into the digital age…
A few years ago, I embarked on a project to build a dedicated e-ink dashboard for Home Assistant using the LilyGo 4.7” display. It was…
Choosing a home security system is a minefield, especially when thinking of smart home. Do you go with modern, subscription-based cloud cameras, or a traditional,…
The smart doorbell market is crowded, with options from giants like Ring and Google Nest. But SwitchBot, a brand known for its clever and quirky…