Centralize Smart Home Appliances with Raspberry Pi and Homebridge! Challenge Voice Control via Alexa and Google Home

IntroductionRecently, there has been an increase in smart home-compatible appliances such as air conditioners, televisions, ...
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How I gave my smart TV a clean interface and a built-in Claude assistant

CleanYourTV is an open-source project that removes preinstalled software from Android TV and Fire TV devices over Wi-Fi. It needs no root access and uninstalls ...
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Amazon Echo Show 8 (2025) Review: Loud, Clear, and Packed With Alexa+ Power

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I flashed MicroPython onto a $4 board, and it's the easiest way into electronics I've found

One morning isn't a benchmark, but it was enough to change my default.
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Casa voice assistant

Casa: a local voice assistant for Home Assistant. Streaming speech-to-text in about 0.3 s, a wake-word verifier and a local LLM on an Intel iGPU, with the benchmarks behind each choice. - ...
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I added Piper to Home Assistant for local AI voice control, but it turned out to be even more useful

This TTS engine can do more than just voicing my local AI pipeline ...
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README.md

Turn a locked-down Redmi Watch 5 Active into a PC remote through its Music screen: one line of text, three buttons, a Python server. No root, no custom firmware. - canpse/punho ...