Writing tagged "home-assistant"
AI entity detection with Hailo accelerator for containerized Frigate on Debian Trixie in 2026
Frigate is probably the most comprehensive FOSS video surveillance solution out there. It comes with rich entity detection support using relatively small neural nets, and supports various hardware acceleration strategies out of the box, as well as sporting first-class support of energy efficient single board PCs like the Raspberry Pi.
Getting my pollen forecast into Home Assistant
As someone who is affected by various plants’ pollen, knowing in advance how bad it’s going to be helps planning the day and anticipate allergy-related malady.
My country’s meteorological service publishes pollen forecasts on their website, including per-state maps. It has become a ritual to visit their site every morning to check out the updated forecast, which is slightly inconvenient.
Switching PoE devices attached to a Linksys switch with Home Assistant
Some recent office space restructuring enabled employees to take home certain now-unused pieces of equipment that the company would otherwise have to sell off or trash. I was lucky to get a Linksys LGS124 PoE-capable managed switch to simplify wiring in my rack at home.
Being able to power cycle devices remotely is really useful to get crashed/locked-up stuff to work again, but the switch web UI is a nightmare and borderline unusable on touch devices, which are sometimes the only available option on the go, so I looked into API options.
Putting to sleep and waking up Windows machines with Home Assistant
I begrudgingly tolerate some Windows machines on my network, because some games’ anti cheat malsoftware consider virtual environments cheating. While VMs do make it easier to manipulate the state of a video game to one’s advantage, it’s annoying.
Balancing between power saving and convenience, I want these machines up as quickly as possible when I need them, so I keep them in sleep and wake them up with Wake-on-LAN. Putting them back to sleep via remote desktop is mightily annoying, so I searched for remedies.