A personal German blog covering IT, smart home and travel, with a sample of hands-on write-ups on Google's Find My Device tracker network, Home Assistant with Proxmox, and replacing Raspberry Pis with a mini PC. Readers get concrete, practical setup details drawn from the author's own experience.
Website: https://mherbst.de/
Personal essays and guides from the Home Assistant lead on smart home automation, open source maintenance and building reliable software. Readers get practical explanations of Home Assistant features alongside reflections on how open source practices change as projects scale.
Practical build notes on putting AI layers on top of real systems, including a smart home run through Home Assistant and Claude, a Cloudflare Worker proxy over closed commerce platforms, and brand-specific AI assistants. Each issue walks through the problem, the architecture chosen and the tradeoffs.
Décryptage Tech explains news and technology topics in plain language, with a practical focus on how devices and services actually behave. Recent issues cover how video-call recordings are really encoded, the rollout of the Matter 1.6 smart-home standard, and how multiple AI tools can be split between design and build work.
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