Here's my new Home Assistant Tutorial video!

Local Voice Assistance with Wake Word in Home Assistant! Bye Bye Google Home and Alexa!

https://youtu.be/VAFDgib95Ls

#homeassistant #esphome #wakeword #voiceassistant

IKEA sells this now. Looks familiar... 🤔🤔🤔

#homeassistant

For over a decade Philips Hue offered lights that work without sharing your data to the cloud. This is changing soon and we need your help to make some noise to convince them to revert this decision.

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/09/22/philips-hue-force-users-upload-data-to-cloud/

#homeassistant

Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud

To control your lights you soon need to create an account and share your data with the Hue cloud.

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To everyone following my Gonk adventures. Inside this little fella is a @Raspberry_Pi PicoW, a mmWave presence sensor from @seeedstudio , a small mono OLED screen, a pair of green LEDs and a single Neopixel. The whole arrangement is hooked up to #homeassistant using the MiniMQTT library in @circuitpython (#CircuitPython also controls all the hardware too).

#starwars #raspberrypi #RaspberryPiPico #maker #project

If you hadn't posted this on Mastodon, I wouldn't have driven up from Surrey to Cambridge to get hold of a CM4 module that I really needed for #HomeAssistant project. But since I had driven up, I bought a few more things, including a mug and a Pi 4 for my son.

Also special mention to the guys in store, really helpful and friendly. Loved the experience, wish I could of stayed longer, but had to drive back for school pickup.

Thank you all as I now have what I needed and more.