Home Assistant

Frigate vs Blue Iris for Home Security Cameras: Free Local AI Detection or a Paid Windows NVR

Felix Braun

October 17, 2026

Shelly Plug vs Tapo P110 for Measuring Homelab Power Use: Local API or Cloud App

Evan Pierce

October 15, 2026

Can Home Assistant voice run on the same box as the Zigbee coordinator without missing button presses?

Drew Morrison

October 7, 2026

Can one Raspberry Pi run Pi-hole and Home Assistant without DNS dying during an update?

Benito Ruiz

October 7, 2026

Is ESPHome worth flashing if the plug already runs Tasmota?

Ravi Patel

October 7, 2026

Do Matter-over-Thread bulbs still toggle if the border router reboots?

Ethan Cole

October 7, 2026

What still runs in Home Assistant when the internet drops?

Drew Morrison

October 7, 2026

Can I Run My Home Server and Local AI on the Same Mini PC?

Tobias Mensah

September 27, 2026

What Happens to Your Self-Hosted Services When Your Internet Goes Down?

Tobias Mensah

September 27, 2026

Should You Run One Big Home Server or Several Small Ones?

Nate Holbrook

September 27, 2026

An n8n "I got home" webhook vs an iOS Shortcut for the same lights: which one survives the next phone update

Callum Park

September 23, 2026

Phone presence in Home Assistant vs a mmWave sensor at the desk: the lights that turn off while you sit there

Drew Morrison

September 23, 2026

Home Assistant's automation editor vs Node-RED for one Zigbee button: which flow you can still read next year

Drew Morrison

September 23, 2026

A Used Mini PC vs a Raspberry Pi for Home Assistant Only: When the Board Is the Bottleneck

Drew Morrison

September 22, 2026

Zigbee Parent Aging: End Devices Stuck on a Coordinator Across the House

Ines Volk

September 21, 2026

A Zigbee Router That Is a Bulb You Turn Off at the Switch

Paul Riker

September 21, 2026

Changing a Zigbee Channel Without Re-Pairing the Whole House

Ines Volk

September 21, 2026

Home Assistant vs Hubitat When the Mesh Misbehaves: Local Automations That Still Call Home

Drew Morrison

September 18, 2026

ZHA vs Zigbee2MQTT After a Coordinator Swap: The Backup That Doesn't Restore the Mesh

Ines Volk

September 18, 2026

Hue Bridge vs Zigbee2MQTT: When Philips' Mesh Fights Your Coordinator

Helena Vos

August 25, 2026

OpenWrt Dumb AP vs Mesh Nodes: When Roaming Drops the IoT VLAN

Grace Lin

August 25, 2026

Zigbee Groups vs Home Assistant Scenes: When the Hub Makes Lights Lag

Paul Riker

August 25, 2026

IoT VLAN vs a Flat LAN with Pi-hole: What Isolation Actually Breaks in Home Assistant

Ruth Calloway

August 25, 2026

Matter over Thread vs Matter over Wi-Fi: When the Border Router Isn't the Weak Link

Amina Colette

August 25, 2026

Zigbee2MQTT vs ZHA: When the Coordinator Isn't the Thing That's Broken

Ines Volk

August 25, 2026

Why Most Smart Home Devices Still Require Too Much Maintenance

Tom Reeves

July 7, 2026

Why Most Smart Home Devices Will Outlast the Companies That Made Them

Sage Collier

July 7, 2026

The Real Problem With Smart Home Fragmentation—And Whether Matter Actually Fixed It

Caleb Whitmore

July 7, 2026

Building a Whole-Home Air Quality Monitor: What Sensors Are Worth the Effort

Paul Eriksson

July 7, 2026

How Home Automation Setups Break When You Move—And How to Build for Portability

Drew Morrison

July 7, 2026