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The start of my home network portal built on Home Assistant

Creating a Home Intranet Site with Home Assistant

Posted on July 18, 2026July 18, 2026

For a while, I thought it would be great to create a local intranet website to assist in managing all of the services and devices which exist in my house….

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Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform designed to be a central control system for smart home devices

Migrating to Home Assistant OS

Posted on March 24, 2026March 25, 2026

A while ago, I discovered and learned to love the opensource project Home Assistant. Home Assistant at its core is a home automation system which allows to link multiple home…

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Workaround for USB detection issue on AllStarLink Radio Node

Posted on November 4, 2025January 6, 2026

After a few weeks of reorganization in my Homelab, I finally have my Allstarlink node running on a clean, dedicated Debian 13 Linux server. Allstarlink is a a software technology…

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A firmware update for my thermometer

An unexpected update for Home Assistant

Posted on June 29, 2025March 24, 2026

As someone who works with electronics and computer systems virtually my whole life, I understand the firmware and the importance it places in modern life. Firmware updates are common theses…

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Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform designed to be a central control system for smart home devices

Introduction to Home Assistant

Posted on June 29, 2025June 29, 2025

Due to the variety of devices which are installed in my house, I thought I would take the plunge and learn to automate and monitor all of them with Home…

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