When most people think of Home Assistant, they think of smart bulbs, thermostats, and Zigbee sensors. I spend my days working with enterprise infrastructure, so naturally, I wanted my network switches in Home Assistant too. The problem? Arista EOS has no official integration and very little community support. The usual…
One of the things I've noticed when talking to people about local voice assistants is that we tend to focus on the wrong metrics. We compare model benchmarks. We debate which speech-to-text engine is more accurate. We argue over whether a particular language model is smarter than another. We obsess…
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…