Hands on with Home Assistant’s new ‘smart home multi-tool’

Nabu Casa — the commercial side of the Open Home Foundation, which runs Home Assistant — just launched the Home Assistant ...

This tiny box gives your older tech smart home superpowers – and it’s only $69

Home Assistant gets new equipment to battle planned obsolescence and abandoned cloud services.

Home Assistant Connect AUX-2 Launches for $59 with PoE and RS232

Control AVRs and classic speakers with the Home Assistant AUX-2 module. The $69 device supports digital audio, analog sound, ...
CNBC

Should I pay off my credit card debt with a home equity loan?

If you're stuck in a cycle of high-interest debt, you may be tempted to pay down large credit card balances by borrowing against your home since home equity loans and home equity lines of credit ...
XDA Developers on MSN

I connected my 3D printer to Home Assistant and Spoolman, and my self-hosted apps now track every gram of filament I use

My spool inventory manager can finally get real-time filament metrics from my 3D printers ...
XDA Developers on MSN

NFC tags are the simplest smart home automation I actually use every day

And they cost pennies.
CNX Software

LocalDot – Open-source PCB for 3rd-gen Amazon Echo Dot enables Home Assistant support (Crowdfunding)

AAElectronics' LocalDot is an open-source replacement mainboard that converts a 3rd-generation Amazon Echo Dot into a local ...
GitHub

esp32-s3

Let an AI model use a real iPhone with a $7 ESP32: AirPlay eyes, USB HID hands, any OpenAI-compatible vision model. No Mac, no developer account, no jailbreak. An Adafruit GFX Compatible Library for ...
GitHub

smart-home

Alternative firmware for ESP8266 and ESP32 based devices with easy configuration using webUI, OTA updates, automation using timers or rules, expandability and entirely local control over MQTT, HTTP, ...