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If you’re planning a new Home Assistant setup, one of the first decisions you’ll face has nothing to do with Zigbee, automations, or dashboards. It’s this: Should you run Home Assistant on …
If you’re building a serious home network, at some point you’ll run into this question: Should I use pfSense or OPNsense? Both are powerful, free (or mostly free), and capable of running …
I have been interested in multi-gig networking for a while. It is starting to feel like the next obvious upgrade. You see 2.5GbE ports on routers, switches, NAS devices, and even desktops. …
It has been a while since I’ve written about streaming services and cord cutting on HomeTechHacker. Recently, though, I found myself taking another hard look at the streaming services my family actually …
If you’ve been researching home networking upgrades lately, you’ve probably seen 2.5GbE everywhere. Routers, switches, NAS devices, mini PCs, and desktops are increasingly shipping with 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet ports. What used to …
I’ve become increasingly convinced that most people don’t have a spending problem as much as they have a systems problem. Costs rise gradually, subscriptions renew unnoticed, and utilities fluctuate with the seasons …
Outages are a nuisance for all homes, but they are especially problematic for smart homes. Your router, modem, smart home hub, cameras, and network switches are small devices that sip electricity. But …