Home Assistant is a fantastic piece of self-hosted software—but it’s not the only one. There is a whole world of self-hosted software that can replace other cloud services, too. Here I will report on any new and interesting products.
Be it Home Assistant, ESPHome, or smart home hardware and software in general, here you will find the best guides for everything.
A lack of contributors and increasing workloads have led the creator and developer of the two popular Android apps WallPanel and MQTT Alarm Panel to look for new maintainers.
In its current state, room-assistant is very much usable, but due to a lack of spare time, the creator is open to finding a new maintainer.
There is a new project attempting to solve room presence detection with ESP32 boards: ESPresense. But can it fulfil its promise?