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Towards a smarter home, part 4: That was easy (kinda)

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I finally installed Home Assistant. As you may have noted, I encounter a number of reasonably complicated problems beforehand, but may or may not have solved them. Now, with the help of a helper script, I have installed Home Assistant on my server, and it worked like gangbusters. Using this guide (previously linked for installing Proxmox), and specifically the linked helper scripts, I now have a working instance of Home Assistant operating on my local network. It’s pretty cool! It automatically brought in a couple of my devices (specifically for some reason, my Google Chromecast, my Google...

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