Tag: Home Assistant

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POC Radios for Kids, Off-Site Backups, Remote Gaming and Frigate 0.18 with Mike Wieger – HGG689

Do kids need a full smartphone just to stay in touch? Mike Wieger joins me for HGG689 with a different answer: push-to-talk-over-cellular radios built around simple family communication. We also dig into practical off-site backups with Unraid, TrueNAS, ZFS and Tailscale, Apollo and Moonlight for using one gaming PC from almost anywhere, and Frigate 0.18… Click for more / Podcast Player>
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Pixel Lights, Robot Mowers, Maslow CNC and Home Automation – HGG687

Seth Johnson from HomeTech.fm joins Jim Collison to talk about programmable pixel lights, holiday displays and the hardware behind thousands of individually addressable LEDs. They cover HolidayCoro, QuinLED, WLED, Xlights, Home Assistant and why electrical calculations still need more than a confident AI answer. Click for more / Podcast Player>
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Smaller Keys, Clearer Lanes: How I Split Work Across My AI Managers

HGG682 was the first time my AI operations model started to feel less like an experiment and more like a production workflow. ChatGPT helped shape the writing, OpenClaw handled the guarded WordPress work, Hermes managed the YouTube side, and I stayed in the approval and publishing seat. It was not one AI assistant doing everything. It was a set of narrower managers working in clearer lanes.

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