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Why use Home Assistant

Why Home Assistant?

Posted on July 28, 2026July 28, 2026

Why use Home Assistant? That is a really good question these days. The answer at the end of the day is personal. Do you need Home Assistant, or any device…

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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 26, 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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AllScan ANF101 with two Retevis RT85 handhelds

A much needed Allstar Node Upgrade

Posted on April 8, 2026April 9, 2026

For a long while, I operated an Allstar Link radio node 42527, which is hand built using an instructions from the internet. The node worked, but I was never really…

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The I need more space Artemis 2 Tracker from YouTube.com

Following the Artemis II Flight on Allstar Radio

Posted on April 6, 2026April 7, 2026

One of my favorite subjects is the study of our solar system and man explorations of the moon. For my lifetime, I would wonder about when we would return to…

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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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