Home Assistant My Top 5 For 2026 It is time for my traditional Top 5 blog/video. Each year for the past few years I have compiled a list of my top 5 home automation and smart home related things.
Frigate NVR Create Summaries of Frigate Alerts using Generative AI I show you how to use Ollama with Frigate's new amazing feature that summarizes alerts from your cameras.
Frigate NVR Re-Use Your Old Android Tablet with Frigate If you have Frigate NVR and an old Android tablet, now you can have a live stream of your cameras running on that tablet in just a few minutes using Periscope for Frigate.
Easy Home Assistant Fixing My Lawn with Frigate NVR Yes, you read that correctly. I am going to use Frigate NVR to help me fix my lawn, or at least figure out what is going on. So what is the problem? I have a section of grass that is not growing for whatever reason. My hypothesis is that section
Frigate Frigate NVR Updates It's been a while since I did any videos or blog posts on the Frigate NVR. Someone mentioned to me some new functionality that might be in version 13 (which is in beta as of this writing) so I thought I would check it out.
Automation My Top 5 Automations in Home Assistant Smart homes run on automations. Here are my TOP 5 in Home Assistant and Node-RED
Frigate NVR Frigate NVR Version 0.12. Now with go2rtc. I have been using Frigate for a year or more (I forget how long) and it has been fantastic. I integrate it with Home Assistant so I can get all the smartness of both platforms. The latest version of Frigate NVR is out with new features, including the switch to
Cameras Frigate NVR with Docker and Home Assistant I have been using Frigate for a while now and recently I moved my whole Frigate setup first from Home Assistant as an add-on to a VirtualBox VM, and finally to a Dell Optiplex Micro running Frigate in a Docker Container. This post and related video are at the request
Coral TPU Bringing Back the Coral TPU I have been using Frigate as my daily driver NVR for quite a while now. I've got a whole video series on camera stuff if you are interested. At one point in my Frigate journey, I decided to move the whole setup from my Home Assistant Blue to
