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.

247 picks from 244 episodes

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247 picks across 244 episodes

Building an Open-Source Robot Vacuum - Meet OOMWOO

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Too Many Switches

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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.

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⚽️ 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.

Building an Open-Source Robot Vacuum - Meet OOMWOO

Too Many Switches

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.

⚽️ World Cup Dashboard by 8-year old

Stupid Ass Robot Vacuum For Sale

Relax with Coax

TV to Right?

Toronto, the Blue Jays, and a Pool Pressure Sensor

Release RoomRelay v1.0.4 · guicn555/RoomRelay · GitHub - github.com

Illumibot - House of Glass - TikTok

GitHub - piitaya/ha95: Home Assistant 95 · GitHub - github.com

GitHub - danielwoz/ubiquiti-protect-onvif-event-listener: A binary that listens to the configured third party cameras for detection events and sets up ubiquiti protect events with thumbnails. · GitHub - github.com

Can Home Assistant Run Doom?

GitHub - ugomeda/home-assistant-epaper-remote: An e-ink remote for Home-Assistant built with FastEPD - GitHub

I built a theater in a toilet. - Youtube

Surprise Birthday Delivery Surprise Gone Wrong

100 years since the 'birth' of television took place in Soho | ITV News - ITV News

fiio.com

Apollo H-2 Annual Holiday Ornament For Charity

GitHub - francescopace/espectre: 🛜 ESPectre 👻 - Motion detection system based on Wi-Fi spectre analysis (CSI), with Home Assistant integration. - GitHub

Billy Bassistant AI fish | v2.0.0 feature: Improved MQTT say command with support for follow-ups

#thehub - Patron Pick of the Week

"House on Fire"

Zillow - 232 Condado Cres, Ottawa, ON

A Wide-Ranging Home Assistant Integration for Crestron - Residential Tech Today

TikTok - automated_house Robot mower stress testing 😅 #smarthome #technology #robots

Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s

I gave my Real-time Conversation Billy Bass AI - Reddit

OBBOTO: Your Desktop Sphere Buddy with Endless Fun

WeatherStar 4000+

Greg in Patron's Slack - Automator of the Month!

Mower Gate - Reddit

Stop a neighbours barking dog

How to Assemble and Install the SmartWings Pergola Flexar Q3 | Setup & Remote Control Guide

The Screamer

The Serial Port

Someone hacked Silicon Valley crosswalks to spoof Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk

Apollo’s First Industrial Sensor Installation at LOTTE Aluminium USA i – Apollo Automation

An electrical panel that works so hard it needs a smoke break

Does anyone know where I can find a 3 gang plate with the plug on the right side not the left??

Montreal's Snow Dump

Josh AI Winter Event

Aqara G5 Pro's also for sale?

Weird Estate (@weirdestate@eigenmagic.net)

Using an Aqara Window Contact Sensor to Detect Toilet Flushes

This is my wood case for a home assistant touch display, the cover is made from an old t-shirt and the wood is machined from oak

TV too... Big?

This tiny robot cat will blow on your coffee to cool it off

Robot on the run!

Guernsey - Wikipedia

MagSafe-like detachable Ethernet cable debuts — Cat6 cables available up to 10 GbE

Ping Clock

Bidet Follow Up Review

Robot Leaf Blower

A new Home Controls screensaver turns the Pixel tablet into a smart home control panel - The Verge

Light Bulb DB - Find the Best Smart Lights

AFRAID - Movie Trailer

Brian Jackson on Threads - $20 on eBay and now I have a fully functioning 10” in-wall touch panel for my home automation and it’s powered over Ethernet. Thanks Crestron!

Aqua Flower- Smart Flower Watering System

Put the DVD logo in the Corner

Elite HTS Assists Spider-Man Fanatic on Amazing $2.5M Home Theater

Using ChatGPT In Your Smart Home for $0.01 a MONTH?! #homeassistant #chatgpt #openai

Own a Weather Station? We Want Your Data!

here's an animation emulating what it's like to see motion on high-framerate monitors

Virtual Assistants

Cinco MIDI Organiser

10.1″ QUAD CORE TABLET, CASE AND KEYBOARD, ANDROID 7.1 1G/8GB, CAMERA | Proscan

GitHub - dotMorten/MiniSmartDisplay: An ePaper device powered by .NET

Paint Ball Security Cam

Tom's Takeover | The home cinema design podcast

Automatic Lawn Treatment & Smart Sprinkler System | OtO Lawn

Mowrator S1: Smart Remote Control Slope Vacuum Mower

TJ's Dying Doorbell

World Server Throwing Championship (WSTC) 2024

Genius Garage Door Sensor

ASCII Theater

Davolink Minions Kevin Wi-Fi 6E Router - Elevate Your Connectivity Experience in 2023 with High-Speed Performance Gaming Router - Secure Travel WiFi Router

(Video) Hiding the Robot Vacuum with Ikea Furniture

A Remote with All the Buttons!

Clark Griswold Christmas Vacation decoration dummy