I had one of those homelab maintenance tasks that started as a simple disk space check and turned into a useful reminder about how virtual disks actually behave. The first VM was a self-hosted GitHub Actions runner on Ubuntu. It had accumulated a pile of CI debris: old workspaces, pip…
Everyone wants to add AI to their products right now. Very few teams stop to ask whether they can actually support it once the proof of concept is over. Can we afford it? Can we observe it? Can we control costs? Can we prevent abuse? Can we improve it over…
Last year, I wrote about accelerating speech-to-text for Home Assistant using Wyoming, Whisper, and TensorRT. The goal was simple: Make local voice assistants fast enough that people would actually want to use them. At the time, getting a fully local voice pipeline working well required compromises. You traded speed for…
If you’re using the Veeam Backup & Replication Integration for Home Assistant and the Veeam Software Appliance (VSA), it is highly recommended you connect the two using a dedicated service account. This improves security, avoids MFA conflicts, and aligns with best practices for automation and API access. This guide walks…
Hi everyone 👋 Following the release of the Veeam Backup & Replication Home Assistant integration, @mkevenaar and I excited to share a new open-source project: 👉 https://github.com/Cenvora/ha-veeam-365 A native Home Assistant integration for Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 that brings full SaaS backup visibility, job control, and license monitoring directly into your dashboards…