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blog: home assistant is the brain, homekit is the face

Home Assistant runs my house. Every integration, every automation, every weird sensor and every bit of logic lives there. But almost nobody in my house ever opens Home Assistant, and that includes me most days.

blog: why i self-host the boring stuff

There's a version of self-hosting that shows up on Reddit and Hacker News: someone running their own mail server, their own password manager, their own photo library, their own everything, all behind a rack that hums in…