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Smart Home

Home Assistant, Zigbee2MQTT and Frigate NVR for local, private home automation.

  • Home Assistant Home Assistant

    Home automation hub with Zigbee2MQTT and an authenticated Mosquitto broker (per-client users + ACL).

  • Frigate NVR

    Local NVR on an Intel iGPU (OpenVINO + VAAPI), with an NVIDIA/TensorRT alternative: cameras, YOLOv9, recording, HA integration.

  • Frigate + HA Notifications

    One MQTT-triggered automation: alert notifications with thumbnail, clip and a silence button.

  • Smart Display

    A wall-mounted Home Assistant dashboard with local voice control (Wyoming Whisper, Piper, openWakeWord).

  • Lessons learned

    Frigate masks and tracking gotchas, debugging via the API, testing Zigbee button automations.