My Journey to a reliable and enjoyable locally hosted voice assistant (2025)(community.home-assistant.io)

404 points by Vaslo 7 months ago | 128 comments

Home Assistant community forum post describing a user's setup of a fully local voice assistant using Home Assistant Assist and llama.cpp, replacing Google Home.

Year of the Voice – Chapter 2: Let's talk(home-assistant.io)

181 points by balloob 3 years ago | 54 comments

Awk Technical Notes(maximullaris.com)

141 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 27 comments

GitHub Copilot CLI downloads and executes malware(promptarmor.com)

43 points by sarelta 8 months ago | 12 comments

Setting up a home VPN server with WireGuard (2019)(mikkel.hoegh.org)

46 points by kayaroberts 1 year ago | 35 comments

Custom doorbell app with Home Assistant and WebRTC(naps62.com)

9 points by naps62 11 months ago | 2 comments

Using Home Assistant, adguard home and an $8 smart outlet to avoid brain rot(romanklasen.com)

350 points by remuskaos 1 year ago | 183 comments

Blog post describing how the author uses Home Assistant, AdGuard Home and a cheap Zigbee smart outlet as a physical button to block distracting internet sites.

The era of open voice assistants(home-assistant.io)

856 points by _Microft 1 year ago | 266 comments

Home Assistant blog announcement of Voice Preview Edition, an open voice assistant hardware device for local smart home control.

How we hacked McKinsey's AI platform(codewall.ai)

420 points by mycroft_4221 7 months ago | 168 comments

CodeWall blog post describing how its autonomous offensive agent found vulnerabilities in McKinsey's internal AI platform Lilli.

The midwit home(dynomight.substack.com)

367 points by stacktrust 3 years ago | 254 comments

A Dynomight newsletter essay arguing for a simpler smart home with less automation, after the frustrations of protocols like Z-Wave, Zigbee and MQTT.

Apple's smart home camera reportedly won't record video(theapplepost.com)

21 points by mikelgan 24 days ago | 37 comments

News article from The Apple Post reporting that Apple's upcoming smart home camera reportedly will not record video.

My Homelab AI Dev Platform(rsgm.dev)

347 points by rsgm 4 months ago | 54 comments

A personal blog post describing the author's homelab platform where AI coding agents like opencode push branches and open pull requests to a self-hosted git forge.