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The last time I bought Hard Drives for a NAS I bought Western Digital 16TB Gold drives for $300 each, now they are $400 direct from Western Digital. I saw a post somewhere today about Western Digital saying they sold their entire 2026 production already. AI Data Centers are making a mess of...

I run CumulusMX on a Pi getting data from a Vantage Vue, I have my Davis Vantage Pro 2 weather station directly connected to Home Assistant. My Home Assistant PC is a micro form factor i5-12500t Dell Optiplex 5000. I want to run a local AI with Home Assistant but haven't done it yet, I have been...

I remember when you built the Silverstone case NAS, I commented on it many years ago and if I remember correctly the 3D printed deflector was designed by the guy I bought the motherboard from. I had problems with temps on the drives until I did the deflectors and I moved the side 120mm fans to...

I have been using the Unfolded Circle remotes for awhile now, I have both the Remote 2 and the Remote 3, they have been working well for me and even the microphone is now working for voice commands to Home Assistant. I ripped out all my old URC stuff and only ever use one MX-990 if I need to...

I am upgrading one of my old NAS systems to new hardware, getting rid of the badly designed Silverstone 8 bay case and replacing it with a generic 8 bay case i found on EBAY, it is very similar in size but it pulls air though the drive bays. I got an 8 bay n150 based motherboard to go with the...

Maybe it's just me but I am not putting a tablet on the wall that has fire in the name.

The Crestron panel takes too long to open the Home Assistant dashboard out of the screensaver, my URC mini touchscreen was ready the second you touched the display, it was cheap so I didn't lose much. I will replace it when I finish my other projects. I most likely will put my URC KP-4000 back...

I saw where some people were using a Raspberry Pi with a POE hat, I did install one of the Crestron panels today, it was an easy swap for my old URC touchscreen.

While looking on Youtube for In-wall touchscreens I saw a video on someone using a Crestron TSS-1060 B S touchscreen for Home Assistant. I found someone selling them on Ebay for $45 with the surface mount mounting bracket, I order a couple to play with and they came yesterday, it seems to be...

The URC KP-4000 touchscreens I have now are even smaller than the NS Panel Pro, they do have Hard buttons surrounding the screen though. I am looking for an around 10"- 12" screen that sets in flush with the wall. I see people recommending Fully Kiosk to run on Android for automation use.

I have been using URC remotes for a very long time, they are not too hard to program but the world is passing by IR only type remotes, they have some newer models but I am no longer interested. I have a couple of the URC MX-6000 remotes with wifi but the screens are low resolution and the...

I am not sure what ones I will go with, they are not normal consumer items so finding lists of available models is harder. I am thinking about contacting this site https://geekland.co/?gad_source=5 to make sure the POE models don't have a battery, right now I am working on some other projects so...

I doubt many people will read this but I received my Remote 2 remote from Unfolded Circle, it was formerly the YIO Remote 2. It has a few quirks right now but it is still being developed, it can do things my URC remotes can't, like integrate with Home Assistant for an example. I also plan on...

 I am surprised that no one has updated this thread to "Insteon is now back", with new owners. I imagine it will take awhile to get any product in the pipeline, the ongoing chip shortage issues are still a problem but it is a start.

 Read the comments by Michel Kohanim in this thread from the Universal Devices forum. https://forum.universal-devices.com/topic/35839-insteon-smarthome-rob-lilleness-shameful-legacy-and-how-he-killed-insteon/ All hope is not lost.