A thorough guide to Home Assistant OS: the add-on ecosystem, automations and blueprints, Zigbee2MQTT, Z-Wave JS, ESPHome device integration, local voice assistants with Whisper and Piper, the energy dashboard, and remote access options.
Self-Hosted
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Home Assistant OS Deep Dive -
Forgejo and Gitea: Self-Hosted Git Deploying Forgejo or Gitea as a self-hosted Git platform: SSH and HTTPS access, Forgejo Actions for CI/CD with runners, migrating repositories from GitHub, webhooks, organization and team permissions, the built-in container registry, and backup and restore.
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Immich: Self-Hosted Google Photos Deploying and running Immich as a self-hosted photo and video library: Docker Compose setup, PostgreSQL with pgvecto.rs, machine learning face recognition and CLIP semantic search, hardware transcoding, external library mounting, and a solid backup strategy.