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A wall-mounted HA dashboard on a Raspberry Pi
A Pi 4 and a 10-inch touch panel running a Home Assistant dashboard in Chromium kiosk mode: autostart, a hidden cursor, no pinch-zoom, and a screen you can turn off from HA.
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NetworkingHome Assistant on Tailscale: drop the cloud remote
Reach Home Assistant from your phone anywhere over Tailscale, with no port forwarding and no cloud remote, plus the one setting that trips everyone up.
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AILocal AI camera sensors with VisionState
Turn a camera frame into a Home Assistant sensor (garage door open or closed, car in the driveway, a meter reading) with models that run on your own CPU. No cloud, no GPU.
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SensorsmmWave presence sensors, explained
LD2410 vs PIR: what each one sees, ESPHome wiring, gate tuning, and when to add a door contact or a camera as a second vote.
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ESP32The ESP32 boards we actually use
C3 and C6 Super Mini, S3 N16R8 and the Cheap Yellow Display: which board for which job, and the pins to leave alone.
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