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I had smartless awnings installed to make them smart the right way.

These days smart doorbells are all the rage, a significant portion of houses in my neighborhood are adorned with Ring camera doorbells, while our house has a simple button that goes ding-dong and sends me a push notification. Let me tell you why and how.

Thank you all so much for your interest and patience — it’s been a phenomenal adventure bringing Sentinel Core to life. We're working hard to deliver the best product we can, and we wanted to take a moment to share the latest updates.

Setting up a powerful, local AI voice assistant using the Sanctuary Systems Sentinel Core

A journey from Kennedy's moon speech to local AI hardware

What do a 3D printer and a smart bassinet have in common? The answer may or may not surprise you, and you'll find out by the end of this article.

After living with the Ecovacs Deebot N8 Pro for quite a while now, I felt it was time to share my honest thoughts about this robot vacuum. Spoiler alert: I'm not impressed, and here's why.

If you've spent any time browsing AliExpress for cheap smart devices you've probably come across Tuya devices, but what is Tuya, and how can you use them with Home Assistant in a private manner?

In the previous video I set up a Kubuntu media center with Kodi, Steam, and Retroarch, and tied it all together with Plasma Bigscreen. While doing that I found out I wasn't very happy with my options for the big streaming platforms. They kinda have third party Kodi add-ons, but the experience ranges from passable for Twitch to completely broken for Netflix.

Now that my home office is no longer in the living room, I'm looking for a new way to consume media from the couch. So I've been exploring various options such as a Raspberry Pi, Amazon Fire TV Stick, or a second hand thin client. In this table I have rated the capabilities of each approach.

The C200 is a pretty run of the mill pan/tilt indoor security camera with detection features for motion, people, and crying babies. In the box you get the camera, a power adapter, some paperwork, and some mounting hardware. It comes with an app and cloud subscription, but also supports local recording and ONVIF, more on that later.