HeyJaredAdam Davidson
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4 open-source smart home devices that belong in your car (opens the original)
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The term "smart home" can often be something of a misnomer. I have plenty of automations in Home Assistant that work when I'm outside of my home. There are several open-source smart home devices that you can use to extend your smart home to your car. Modern cars collect a huge amount of data. Computers throughout your car track things such as how fast the wheels are turning, the temperature of the engine, the current battery voltage, how much fuel is left, and even whether the doors are open. Di
How I self-hosted my way out of Amazon's Kindle ecosystem without losing my mind (opens the original)
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Amazon's Kindle ecosystem offers a lot of convenience. You can browse, purchase, borrow, and download books directly from your Kindle eReader, and sync progress across your devices. This convenience relies on Amazon's cloud services, and when Amazon stopped providing them to my Kindle, I decided to replace them with self-hosted services running on my own hardware. Calibre is a free, open-source application for managing eBook collections. If you have a collection of eBooks, Calibre allows you to
The hidden costs of running a Home Assistant smart home (and why they're worse than you'd expect) (opens the original)
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Home Assistant is free, open-source software that costs nothing to download and install. But the software is only the beginning. Running Home Assistant involves plenty of costs, many of which can be higher than you think. By creating an account, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. You also agree to receive our newsletters; you can unsubscribe any time. *Required: 8 chars, 1 capital letter, 1 number By creating an account, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. You also a
Stop buying a new ESP32 for every sensor — your Bluetooth proxy has spare pins (opens the original)
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ESP32 boards can be incredibly cheap. They're so cheap that it's easy to fall into the habit of using a new board for each project that you build. Doing so may be wasting the capabilities of your ESP32s, which can handle more than one job at a time. By creating an account, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. You also agree to receive our newsletters; you can unsubscribe any time. *Required: 8 chars, 1 capital letter, 1 number By creating an account, you agree to our Terms of Use an
I built a Tamagotchi that dies when my homelab goes down (opens the original)
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My Mini PC hosts several homelab services, including Home Assistant, Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf, Calibre, Uptime Kuma, and more. It also hosts some local LLMs, and in recent weeks, one of these has been hogging so much RAM that it's brought down other services. I decided to set up a fun way to monitor my homelab using a cheap ESP32 board. My Cheap Yellow Display (CYD) may be one of the most useful devices in my home, especially for the price. It's an ESP32 board with a built-in color touchscreen d
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