I’m a big fan of Home Assistant, and until now I only had it accessible from inside my own network. Outside access was only possible through a WireGuard VPN. This works, but isn’t very practical - definitely when I quickly want to check something, or need to diagnose something while on the road, having to toggle the VPN & hope that the DNS resolution works (which sometimes it doesn’t) - the...
For some obscure reason the Home Assistant folks decided to add fallback DNS functionality to the Homeassistant Supervisor. This meant that it would fall back to using Cloudflare’s DNS servers if/when the DNS servers you regularly use weren’t responding or acting weird. That was done with good intent, but it is a breach of privacy, trust and giving up a part of local control - something Home As...
We’ve had an iRobot Roomba 625 roving the house doing the vacuuming now for over two years and have been happy with having it around. It definitely helps keeping up the vacuuming, but it doesn’t do anything else.
Building further on my CC Radio, I wanted to integrate this with my Logitech Harmony Elite (+hub) remote, so that no interaction is needed with Home Assistant itself to work the radio.
Telenet, our local cable provider, decided that analog cable radio is dead and everyone should switch to either DAB (Digital Radio over the air) or DVB-C (Digital Radio via coaxial cable). For me, that’s a bit of an issue: DAB radio is fine, but requires good reception. Our house is rather well insulated so radio reception is crap at best DVB-C radio would require buying yet another device...
I recently started using Plex, and since I’m also using Home Assistant, and Home Assistant can do stuff with Plex, I wanted to combine the two.