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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

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…

Home Assistant Holiday Decorations

My earliest memories of Christmas at home of coarse is the gifts, the family, the food. The other memory was the chore of running around…

Workaround for USB detection issue on AllStarLink Radio Node

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…
Node 42527 running away with the radio and URI secured to the rack rail with some good ole Velcro.

Running Allstar Node with a DMK URI and a Baofeng 888 Radio

Several years ago, I read an article about creating a Ham Radio Repeater for the Allstarlink network running on a Raspberry Pi single board computer.…
A firmware update for my thermometer

An unexpected update for Home Assistant

A firmware update for my thermometer As someone who works with electronics and computer systems virtually my whole life, I understand the firmware and the…

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