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The AI does the upkeep on my smart home now

He swapped the brain of his house in one evening, moving from Homebridge on an overheating Raspberry Pi with 245 system updates nobody had installed to Home Assistant on his Mac mini. The AI does the upkeep now, and a motion sensor finally works.

How it works

  1. He moves his home setup from Homebridge on a Raspberry Pi to Home Assistant on his Mac mini in one evening
  2. The AI takes over the upkeep
  3. His motion sensor finally works

Why it’s worth knowing

His house used to run on a hot little board with 245 updates waiting. Now the AI keeps the whole setup running and even the motion sensor works.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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