Picks of the Week
The best hardware, software, and smart home services curated by the HomeTech.fm hosts. Updated every episode to help you build a smarter home.
251 picks from 248 episodes
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251 picks across 248 episodes
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.
