Category: Automation
What Should an AI Agent Actually Do in Your Smart Home?
Should AI agents control your smart home? My experience with Jimbot, Home Assistant and Storm Guard shows where AI can observe, explain and recommend—and where rules should stay in control.
Click for more / Podcast Player>Why Do AI Agents Use So Many Tokens? How to Control Automation Costs
Are AI agents burning tokens on routine checks? Here’s what Jimbot taught me about automation costs, deterministic scripts, local models and when an LLM is actually worth using.
Click for more / Podcast Player>OpenClaw vs. Hermes: How to Choose an AI Agent for Your Home Lab
Trying to choose between OpenClaw and Hermes for your home lab? Start with the work, permissions and maintenance you need—not a winner-takes-all feature list.
Click for more / Podcast Player>Home Assistant AI Automation, Tesla FSD and Energy Monitoring with Phil Hawthorne – HGG691
Authority Before Autonomy: Staging OpenClaw Before First Real Access
Before giving OpenClaw access to files, credentials, APIs or local services, I treated it like operational software. Here is how I staged the environment, defined the authority boundary and started with observation before autonomy.
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