HomeAssistant

A smart home captures a lot of data. Visualizing that data can help you see long term trends in how your smart home is used.

I love the idea of everything in my home being able to communicate with each other. Thanks to Home Assistant I already have a lot of things talking to each other.

Home Assistant is a free, open source program for Home Automation. In this guide, I'm going to show you how to install it using Docker on a Synology NAS, with full compatibility with z-wave and network discovery.

I used CastleOS in my apartment for about three months. After constant crashing, my morning weather script not speaking every morning, and an extremely slow development timeframe, it was time to move somewhere else. So where does one go from here? The CastleHUB Kickstarter set me back $400. Not to