Picks of the Week
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257 picks from 254 episodes
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257 picks across 254 episodes
reframe: Independent experimental Home screen and playback sidebar for Samsung The Frame TVs
Canadian YouTuber builds 'Flock-like' camera to exclusively track police vehicles — officers visit his home to express privacy concerns
A YouTuber has received an unexpected visit from the police over an automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) camera he built to specifically track police cars, using the same technology law enforcement has infamously used to track ordinary citizens.
Sweet Spot – Speaker Balance Card for Home Assistant
A Home Assistant community member, T0N1, has posted a custom dashboard card called Sweet Spot for balancing multi-speaker audio in a room.
EchoMuse: Alexa replacement for the Echo Dot Gen2
A very DIY voice-assistant project called EchoMuse, and it turns a second-generation Echo Dot into a fully local Home Assistant voice satellite.
Every Restaurant in the World
'Matthew Andrews' via Feedback Good morning guys, this is one of two panels that we have at work, I thought you’d appreciate it. I’m not in the slack channel yet, I’ll join soon it’s just been a rough few months. Thanks for always having such a great show!
From the Ubiquiti community on Reddit: PoE Chimes retrofitted in old intercom system
Morten's SideKick Project
A Windows worker app that drives an e-paper dashboard showing calendar events, tasks, Home Assistant data, stocks, and system status.
The MVP Box
A mount designed to pair with a Ring doorbell to watch over a parked vehicle and send real-time alerts.
GitHub - WHISTLER-Arc/Greg: My name is Greg. I'm a coffee table. I have 50,000 times more processing power than necessary and the emotional burden to match. Tap me. I'll say something regrettable. Your coffee table will be a cynic and have feelings. Mostly bad ones.
Here’s a very Home Assistant kind of project: Greg is a custom integration that turns a coffee table into a sarcastic, depressed character using a vibration sensor and text-to-speech.
⚽️ World Cup Dashboard by 8-year old
Home Assistant co-founder Paulus shared a fun little maker story on Mastodon: his 8-year-old used AI and a spare dev board to build a touchscreen scoreboard for a game.
