A growing collection of articles to help you build and maintain a reliable smart home. We tend to focus on Home Assistant, local control and automations but love everything smart home related.
Guides
Step-by-step walkthroughs covering Home Assistant, ESPHome, dashboards, and automations, designed to help you set things up correctly and confidently.
Smart Home Basics
Learn the core concepts behind smart home systems, including protocols, networks, and how different devices and platforms work together.
Fixes
Clear, practical solutions to common problems with smart home devices, integrations, and connectivity issues, focused on getting things working quickly.
Latest Articles
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LuckFox PicoKVM: Remote Access When Your Server Stops Responding
Explore how the LuckFox PicoKVM can make Home Assistant, Proxmox and other mini PC servers easier to manage, troubleshoot and recover remotely—without needing a monitor, keyboard or mouse on hand.
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ESPHome Device Builder 1.0: What’s New
ESPHome’s new Device Builder introduces a redesigned interface for creating, organising and updating ESPHome devices. This guide explores the biggest changes, including visual configuration tools, improved device management, firmware job queues and easier hardware setup.
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Turning an Android Panel into a Home Assistant Display
This guide walks you through converting an Android panel into a reliable, single-purpose smart home display.
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