Pushing Home Assistant to New Heights with LLM Vision Integration
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been deep in the trenches with LLM Vision Integration in Home Assistant, paired with XAI’s Grok and Google Gemini, to supercharge my smart home’s […]
AI and Smart Homes: Current State, Concerns, and a Glimpse into the Future
We’ve talked before about how AI can be a powerful tool for your Smart Home. But what about AI within our smart devices themselves? Where are we now, and where are we […]
Your Home’s Inner Voice: Bringing Local AI to Your Living Room
The allure of artificial intelligence in our homes has come with a significant privacy trade-off. Voice commands sent to cloud servers, video feeds analyzed by remote algorithms – the convenience […]
Meet the Liberators: Tasmota and ESPHome for True Device Ownership
We’ve talked a lot about the importance of Local Control for your smart home’s central brain (your hub). But what about the individual devices themselves? The market is flooded with […]
VLANs for Your Home: How to Build a Digital Fortress for Your Devices
In a Thinking Home, privacy and security are paramount. While local control is the bedrock, even the most private smart hub can be vulnerable if its network foundation isn’t fortified. […]