The Best Choices For Home Assistant Hardware
I’m a big fan of Home Assistant. There are many reasons it is the perfect smart home hub for me, among many smart home hub choices. If you are reading this article, …
What’s In My Home Office?
2020 changed the world in large, obvious ways and in some smaller ways. One of the ways it changed my world is that I needed to focus more on the comfort and …
The Best Chromebooks You Can Buy Now (2021)
Chromebooks have risen quite a bit in popularity over the years and for good reason. They started off as low-powered glorified web browsing machines. Now they run all kinds of web apps, Linux …
How to Make a Smart Home Test Bench
Sometimes we DIY smart home people install smart devices and they don’t work. At first, we scratch our heads wondering what went wrong. Did I install it wrong? Is there a loose …
11 Great Choices for pfSense Hardware
If you have read a few of my articles, you know I think running pfSense router software is a great idea. I rebuilt my home lab and bought new hardware to run …
MQTT With Home Assistant Using Docker & Mosquitto
MQTT is a great protocol to have in your automation arsenal. I previously wrote a similar article about using the Toke Mosquitto container with Home Assistant and Docker. I have since switched …
My Smart Home by Home Assistant: 3 Years Later
Three years ago I was frustrated with my home automation controller, the veralite. In search of a replacement, I stumbled upon Home Assistant. Two hours into trying Home Assistant I was sold. …