The Thinking Home Gets a Brain
Your Guide to Private AI Home Automation From Model Selection to Hardware, Your Blueprint for Private AI in the Home The philosophy of The Thinking Home is built on the […]
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 […]
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 […]
DIY Powerhouse: Why Home Assistant is More Than Just a Smart Hub
When you envision the brain of your smart home, many popular brands come to mind. But for those truly committed to building a reliable, private, and endlessly customizable intelligent environment, […]
My Smart Home Journey: From Frustration to “The Panorama” (And How You Can Do It Too)
For years, like many of you, the promise of a smart home felt more like a frustrating collection of disconnected gadgets. My own journey into home automation began not with […]