Category: Smart Home
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Stereo HomePod Pair in Music Assistant
Took me a little while to get this sorted out so I thought I’d document it here: Music Assistant supports grouping speakers so, briefly put what you’re doing here is just creating a group with two HomePods, one playing the left channel, the other the right channel. Key here is configuring the individual HomePods to…
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Tailscale, iOS, self-hosting and Home Assistant
It feels like magic to have no open ports on my router and still be able to access all of myself hosted services. Jotting down a few notes here on how I approached this. First off, my primary server that I self-host all of my services on is always running a VPN so I don’t…
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Personal Tech/Self-hosted wins.
A few weeks ago I worked with Claude.ai to generate some journaling prompts that were unique to me and my goals. It’s made for some great journaling this month so far. Today’s prompt and response is one worth sharing as I think it’s something a lot of folks like me would benefit from thinking about…
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Aqara Hub and Home Assistant
The Aqara sensors and such have been super reliable in my HomeKit environment, highly recommend. But, as I’m currently trying to solve what should be a simple use case, I’m getting into the weeds of Home Assistant. I’ve spent a grand total of about 4 hours in Home Assistant so far and I’m sure it…
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Re-listening
The shift to hosting a personal Navidrome server has shifted my listening habits, fostering more repeated listening contrasted with Apple Music’s constant novelty aspect.