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.
Before you start config...
This article will explain how to set up Traefik as a web proxy for Home Assistant. You will also get instructions on how to set up a secure connection over HTTPS; with free SSL-certificates from Letsencrypt, and finally, a way to solve dynamic IP provisioning from your ISP.
Pre-requisites
For th...
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...
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...