There are so many tips for monitoring your servers or raspberries through Home Assistant. Some involve Prometheus and the Grafana Add-on, some involve the RPi Reporter MQTT2HA Daemon, and others suggest Glances in various flavors.
Pick the easy (although maybe bloated) way out - and just install G...
Do you want to monitor disk, CPU, memory and network throughput for your Raspberry? A nice way to do gather these metrics is using Prometheus, and visualize the data with Grafana. With Grafana, you can also set up alerts when the disk space runs low or the network traffic is too high for too long.
...While it's easy to make a local assist pipeline, and get away from Google Assistant or Alexa, it's not really that easy to go all local and still have decent performance. I'll show you how you can go completely local on all stages - and still have blazing fast performance.
With the introduction o...
This tutorial will guide you towards setting up fully local text-to-speech and speecth-to-text with Wyoming Whisper and Piper. We'll be doing this on a Proxmox 8.1.4 virtual environment, within an Ubuntu 22.04 LXC. Thanks to CUDA, this will be blazing fast, but it requires you to have a compatible G...
Considering the ongoing energy crisis, you may feel the need to limit your energy consumption. With PowerWiz for Home Assistant, I have implemented a basic approach to limiting your peak hourly energy consumption and cutting power during peak price hours. PowerWiz doesn’t have dependencies like Node...
I prefer planning chores to actually doing chores. So naturally, I created a super simple system for keeping track of repeating household chores. The goal of this article is to show you how you can make your own simple chore tracking system with a few, simple steps.
I see people complicating chore...